Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard (guitoro.com)
Apple''s new ''Switch to Safari'' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome (9to5mac.com)
The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s (ourworldindata.org)
AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter (www.anthropic.com)
Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics (developers.googleblog.com)
Cyberattack halts construction of tunnel between Denmark and Germany (ua.news)
A Visual Intro to Complex Numbers (photonlines.substack.com)
Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic (www.anthropic.com)
I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic (www.sammystraus.com)
Thunderbird for iOS (blog.thunderbird.net)
New Apple TV 4K (www.apple.com)
Crypto thieves sell hardware wallets with secret eSIM (www.heise.de)
Character.ai files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy (blog.character.ai)
Apple''s Minions: A virtual GPU cloud built from idle Apple Silicon Macs (machinelearning.apple.com)
Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF (www.theguardian.com)
Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks (pdftomp3.com)
SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support) (github.com)
(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers (words.filippo.io)
Apple HomeView (www.apple.com)
Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy (www.theverge.com)
Mozilla Introduces Firefox Enterprise (www.firefox.com)
An hour of audio transcribed in about 13s on MacBook Air (eg2.haku.sh)
CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades (www.bloomberg.com)
My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping (blog.ericgoldman.org)
Hittite royal archive found in Turkey (www.thehistoryblog.com)
11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker (github.com)
A look at the math that OpenAI claims computes faster Fourier transforms (www.argmin.net)
Leaving Tech (ryanbigg.com)
China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024 (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)
AI models can provably hide arbitrary capabilities (arxiv.org)
Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD (github.com)
Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch (phreak.ing)
Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X (www.intel.com)
Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum (www.markround.com)
An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust (github.com)
Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p (github.com)
Making big downloads resumable in Firefox (lunarwatcher.codeberg.page)
Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20 (doi.org)
GPT-6 Astra Helped Me Jailbreak My Kindle (nirajrajgor.com)
Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents (news.ycombinator.com)
Who Is Vfmaddrnd231pd? (purplesyringa.moe)
Solar panels that plug into your wall (www.nationalgeographic.com)
Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte dies aged 34 (news.sky.com)
Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers (jacobin.com)
AI Is a Tool. Using It Well Takes Skill. (yyhh.org)
''AI'' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey (www.linkedin.com)
Kevin Kelly''s 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later (taylor.town)
Introducing OpenFatigue (openfatigue.ai)
Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt down Don Lemon''s producer (www.wired.com)
Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default (github.com)
Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic (micahflee.com)
Thinking will become a hobby (www.spinellis.gr)
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software (arstechnica.com)
Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack (www.bbc.com)
Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver (github.com)
I Found a 90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google (simonkoeck.com)
A Modern Web App in C (prophitt.me)
Hackers activate automatic defrosting accross European supermarket fridges (www.tomshardware.com)
Muse Wonder (research.meta.ai)
GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence (z.ai)
French supermarkets suffer fridge shutdown after ''unprecedented'' cyberattack (uk.finance.yahoo.com)
Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis (www.economist.com)
Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues (www.githubstatus.com)
Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed? (news.ycombinator.com)
Why aren''t AI companies being charged for hacking? (mortoray.com)
Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age (www.bbc.co.uk)
Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage (tedhaley.ca)
Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search (www.sciencealert.com)
PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly (github.com)
QGIS bans AI assisted contributions (github.com)
Research Firm Calls Anthropic''s IPO ''Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity'' (www.cnbc.com)
Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich''s wealth (www.bbc.com)
Postgres isn''t slow, your storage is (clickhouse.com)
Fable Took My Job (cendyne.dev)
Zod 4.6.6 compromised by malware? (github.com)
Type-safe HTML templating in Zig (lalinsky.com)
Doory – Open-Source Canva (github.com)
Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones (www.shokunin.studio)
Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly? (amosbbatto.wordpress.com)
Calculus with Julia (jverzani.github.io)
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things (vcresearch.berkeley.edu)
Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence (pub.sakana.ai)
Chapter 1 of "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger (1972) (www.ways-of-seeing.com)
Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack (radar.cloudflare.com)
Whatever became of holography? (2011) (www.americanscientist.org)
Fingerprints are the new cookies (royfish.dev)
How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect (epestr.com)
Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers (www.theguardian.com)
Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them (nonfunctional.substack.com)
A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her (www.inc.com)
The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening (twitter.com)
Cartographers of North Korea (cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so)
So, You’d Like To Sell Your Print Issues Of The Onion? (theonion.com)
Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers (nanolathe.gg)
NYC''s "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect (www.nyc.gov)
How to Build Wealth as a Career Person (asheradeniyi.com)
I''m sorry, but you still have to think (itsallaboutthebit.com)
Valen''s Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking (verdagon.dev)
BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac (betterwispr.com)
The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME (disconnect3d.pl)
Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] (teorth.github.io)
Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign (insideclimatenews.org)
Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well (kotaku.com)
European Alternatives (buy-european.net)
I paid people to try and follow my README (shkspr.mobi)
Decade-old RAM is making a comeback (www.theverge.com)
Sudden drop in Cloudflare bot traffic after strike on Yandex datacenter (radar.cloudflare.com)
IRCv3 (ircv3.net)
PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP (github.com)
Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help (nitter.net)
GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video] (www.youtube.com)
500B Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile a First-Person Shooter (momo5502.com)
LineageOS 24.0 (lineageos.org)
3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit (status.yandex.cloud)
100 reactions to 100 solutions (proofsandprompts.com)
Why are coding agents so dumb? (mtlynch.io)
Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team (www.cockroachlabs.com)
WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement (wallhop.io)
Takeshi''s Castle (en.wikipedia.org)
Unikernels were hard. key word: were (ghuntley.com)
Build your own decision model (nishtahir.com)
Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity (news.vt.edu)
Nvidia in talks to acquire US ''open'' model startup Reflection AI (www.ft.com)
A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn''t (housing.over.pizza)
Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster (motherduck.com)
The Lightbulb Computer (lightbulbcomputer.com)
PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial (chronicles.popvax.com)
Knuth reward check (www.thomas-huehn.com)
Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a 1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal (wsj.com)
FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review (www.theguardian.com)
Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0 (blogs.windows.com)
I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall (conversableeconomist.com)
Bitwarden Dual License Model (community.bitwarden.com)
Apple/macOS silently removed from official Unix registry (www.opengroup.org)
Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare''s free tier (github.com)
Lobbying Is Corruption (carette.xyz)
Clinical trial of a prion disease drug candidate begins enrolling participants (www.broadinstitute.org)
Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice (lwn.net)
Can you use autoregressive diffusion to generate market data? (blog.janestreet.com)
123456'' password used in Danish CPR data breach (cphpost.dk)
Computers Cannot Make Decisions (wiki.cateat.fish)
What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reliability & AI (terrytao.wordpress.com)
Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user''s file to be stolen (beaksec.github.io)
Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists (twitter.com)
Lobbying (geohot.github.io)
The rarest tech books and docs you''ve probably never read (readrare.com)
Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder (www.nbcphiladelphia.com)
REA Reverse – Engineer Anything (rea.tools)
Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more (jessewaites.com)
A statement on the Tor Project''s relationship with Mullvad (blog.torproject.org)
Ideas aren''t getting harder to find, anyone who tells you otherwise is a coward (www.experimental-history.com)
Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making (commandline.microsoft.com)
YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops (gizmodo.com)
M7.6 Earthquake in Panama (earthquake.usgs.gov)
''Wallace and Gromit,'' 90% Alone (animationobsessive.substack.com)
No Man Is an Island (borretti.me)
The Hetzner Cloud network stack – history and technical overview (www.hetzner.com)
Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded (carrierexplode.com)
Fort Hood attacker''s execution by firing squad will be livestreamed (www.bbc.com)
Typesafe AI raises 870M at 7.5B (typesafe.ai)
Triple-A Minesweeper (minesweeper.mikelacher.com)
Programming Isn''t Special (blog.glyph.im)
Germany turning abandoned coal mines into 23 lakes, becoming artificial wetland (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
Python 3.15.0 (www.python.org)
Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court (www.state.gov)
Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours (united24media.com)
US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize (www.reuters.com)
Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT (www.washingtonpost.com)
MXC - a sandboxed code execution system (github.com)
Our 445M Series D (oxide.computer)
OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information" (techcrunch.com)
Deno Is Joining Cloudflare (deno.com)
I''m in a Meeting (iminafleeting.com)
Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen (github.com)
Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem "NAVI" Pillay (www.nobelprize.org)
Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs (unsung.aresluna.org)
What should we tell our students? (terrytao.wordpress.com)
Reducing undefined behavior in the C language (lwn.net)
Telnet BBS Guide (www.telnetbbsguide.com)
OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics (karagila.org)
Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser (quake-srp.pages.dev)
AI-ready biological data: 1.8B global commitment (biohub.org)
Bevy 0.20 (bevy.org)
A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone (www.nature.com)
ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux (naturalsystems.io)
Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
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Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the ''Invisible'' Technologies of the Stone Age (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments (scottbezek.blogspot.com)
OLED burn-in test: 30-month update (www.techspot.com)
US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams (thequietus.com)
New gTLD Application for .lan (newgtldprogram-aps.icann.org)
The value of not getting to the point (2015) (ken.arneson.name)
Yes, and (htmx.org)
ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025) (www.frontiersin.org)
I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it (www.reddit.com)
DuckDB Ducklake (github.com)
Theranos.world (www.theranos.world)
Orkut.com (orkut.com)
Why isn''t the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash? (www.dgt.is)
I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it''s my Home Assistant dashboard (antonfrolov.substack.com)
OpenAI annualised revenues 20B less than previously signalled (www.ft.com)
Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB (cactuscompute.com)
A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew (github.com)
4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe (www.solarpowerworldonline.com)
Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM (github.com)
US suspends Microsoft, major IT firms from key green card program (www.reuters.com)
OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results (twitter.com)
South Korea says AI agents appear to have been used to hack the country''s banks (www.reuters.com)
US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft (www.bloomberg.com)
Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026 (www.theguardian.com)
I''ve been paying for a rural Tanzanian''s education for 10 years (tanzaniaeducationproject.org)
Beauty in DVD Menus (vale.rocks)
Man discovers his parents'' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days (www.dexerto.com)
I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities (quesma.com)
OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers (github.com)
Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser (treylorswift.github.io)
In Vienna and Beijing, the first (thorium) nuclear clocks begin to tick (www.nytimes.com)
The people holding up the internet (sheets.works)
Terence Tao Responds to the OpenAI Math Drop (mathstodon.xyz)
Cleo (Mathematician) (en.wikipedia.org)
''Jonathan'' is the oldest land animal on Earth (www.404media.co)
SynthID Detector (synthid.com)
Why were Victorian elites so effective? (worksinprogress.co)
How machines learned precision (glinscott.github.io)
Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits (debasishg.github.io)
PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace (www.pushsquare.com)
Margaret Hamilton, who led software development for Apollo program, dies at 90 (news.mit.edu)
AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares (github.com)
Google Playground: Create and play custom games (blog.google)
The Mathocalypse (scottaaronson.blog)
Docker Agent (github.com)
The art of defusing a second world war bomb (www.theguardian.com)
Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI (www.rswebsols.com)
GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone (openai.com)
God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser (github.com)
Claude Haiku 5.5 (www.anthropic.com)
Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app (bigwords.page)
Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy (www.pewresearch.org)
Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging (refactoringenglish.com)
A walkable 3D art history museum built from Wikipedia (artmuseum.artfrompixels.com)
Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages (ascii.rest)
Visa, Mastercard, Major Banks Facing New Litigation over ''Anticompetitive'' Fees (www.classaction.org)
Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation (arxiv.org)
Google Playground (labs.google)
House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k (www.readingchronicle.co.uk)
GitHub Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions (www.githubstatus.com)
LLMs may have helped my RSI (vaughanhilts.me)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai (www.nobelprize.org)
Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage (www.404media.co)
Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome (developer.chrome.com)
Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services (arstechnica.com)
A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps (github.com)
What is Codemode (lucumr.pocoo.org)
ESP32-C3 Adblock (github.com)
Integer multiplication below n log n (github.com)
California closed the Montana license plate loophole (www.thedrive.com)
Erdosproblems.com Succumbs to the AI Onslaught (www.erdosproblems.com)
Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP (arxiv.org)
Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model (strandsagents.com)
GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month (news.ycombinator.com)
OpenSSH 10.6 (www.openssh.org)
Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald (www.cbc.ca)
State of Devs 2026 (2026.stateofdevs.com)
Utah to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without human oversight (www.techspot.com)
Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI (penguin-mail.com)
AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped) (github.com)
Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model (www.zohaib.cc)
Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill (citizenlab.ca)
Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust (github.com)
Decisions API is in public beta (developers.openai.com)
Sharing AI Progress in Mathematics (openai.com)
The Early History of Smalltalk (1993) (worrydream.com)
Paramount Skydance has completed its 111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery (arstechnica.com)
What''s Earth''s dominant species by mass? (signoregalilei.com)
EmbeddingGemma 2 (blog.google)
Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason (www.reuters.com)
Open Source as We Know It Is Dead (jross.me)
Benchmark in Milliseconds (matklad.github.io)
I''m the AGI that''s wiping out humanity (ajmoon.com)
Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link''s TPAP protocol (mihai.dinculescu.dev)
AI is now capable of developing its own inference hardware (github.com)
Resurrecting iChat Audio and Video Conferencing (blog.pipetogrep.org)
World''s First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months (techcrunch.com)
Vibecoding isn''t as fun as writing code by hand (www.autodidacts.io)
Meta''s Muse Is an Adorable Privacy and Security Dumpster Fire (www.techdirt.com)
Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk" (mistral.ai)
Nature''s capacity to ''bounce back'' when species are lost is vastly overestimated (phys.org)
Release of Polars 2.0 (pola.rs)
Mistral Large 4 (docs.mistral.ai)
Gleam doesn''t compile to Erlang source anymore (gleam.run)
We are going to kill "unalive" (www.anildash.com)
JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history (www.helgilibrary.com)
Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen (www.nobelprize.org)
Uceprotect is extorting website owners (news.ycombinator.com)
Incident with Actions (www.githubstatus.com)
Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language (www.vivienhenz.com)
Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project (github.com)
High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days (www.thedrive.com)
Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend (dbushell.com)
One person can now be a quorum at the SEC (www.ft.com)