Rewriting Excel, PowerPoint, and Word for Agents (getcompound.ai)
If you''ve ever wondered why smart TVs are so cheap, this is why (twitter.com)
Ideas (www.noahzender.com)
What Makes Life Beautiful? (nautil.us)
Cramdle: A game about packing shapes together tightly (cramdle.com)
JPEG XL with WebGPU makes smaller files than libjxl in 150 KB JavaScript (github.com)
Mozilla "Come back to Firefox" video "reunites meme royalty" (blog.mozilla.org)
Anthropic Wanted to Replace Engineers. Instead, They Shot Their Own Customers (techbronerd.substack.com)
Protocols and Relationships (systemsoflife.substack.com)
POSIX Wordexp(3) Is Dangerous (yossarian.net)
If AI Can Copy Photoshop, Why Would Anyone Build the Next Figma? (www.vincentschmalbach.com)
Firecrawl''s Government Index (lexifina.com)
Compression and Concatenation on the Web (theconsensus.dev)
Architectural Decision Records (adr.github.io)
In times of uncertainty, focus on principles (r.ena.to)
MongoDB vs. FerretDB: When Open Source Compatibility Becomes a Patent Risk (shujisado.org)
Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-33B (huggingface.co)
Recent Tailscale Vulnerability Reports (www.reddit.com)
The Climb – Dream Again USA (dreamagainusa.org)
Anthropic sued for allegedly stealing from The King (www.avclub.com)
NoUploadConverter – In-browser file converter running 100% in RAM (nouploadconverter.com)
Honor-Based Value Transfer: A Walk Through Hawala (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
Origin Range Requests: Serving large files without range-request tuning (blog.cloudflare.com)
You could do it alone (karrisaarinen.com)
Subreddit R/opensource banned all AI so we made a subreddit for you to post in (reddit.com)
A Few Thoughts on Intensity (www.tylerhogge.com)
OpenLDK: Bringing the Java World into Common Lisp (atgreen.github.io)
Don''t anthropomorphize big tech companies (www.seangoedecke.com)
elfmudhra: Check for eMudhra CA Certificates in Your Firmware (nrfcloud.nordicsemi.com)
Neon Ghosts with Ggplot2 (drmowinckels.io)
Mozilla reported HTTP2Shell with proof of RCE in April (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
White House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior Staff (www.washingtonsun.com)
iPhone Duo Reports of Faulty Duo Hinges (forums.macrumors.com)
Proton Hosting Map of 300k Surveillance Devices – Flock Can''t Easily Stop It (www.gadgetreview.com)
Salesforce – Part Two (buildingslack.com)
South Korea Account Surplus Surpasses Germany and Japan Due to Chip Boom (en.koreadaily.com)
R/open source bans all solo projects and projects using LLMs (www.reddit.com)
Apollo''s Slok Says AI Has Delivered Zero Payoff Outside of Tech (www.bloomberg.com)
How Much of a Harness Does a Strong Agent Need for Autonomous ML Engineering? (arxiv.org)
MEPs urge EU ministers to act and bring an end to seasonal clock changes (www.thelocal.com)
GitHub Gists Flooded with Spam (gist.github.com)
You Are Losing Weight. Why Are You So Angry? (julienreszka.com)
The One Question I Can''t Stand at Restaurants (www.theatlantic.com)
A Space Startup Is Coming Out of Stealth with Seven-Figure Deals (newsbywire.com)
YousefAbdulHusain – The Dune Movies Erase Islam [video] (www.youtube.com)
Give the browser bookmarks a second life (addons.mozilla.org)
US inequality is getting worse in ways you might not expect (theconversation.com)
Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset (www.dreamhoststatus.com)
Framing the News: Anti-Piracy Press Release Turned a 2016 Raid into a 2026 Story (torrentfreak.com)
Sending Modern Languages Back to 1980s Game Programmers (prog21.dadgum.com)
The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn''t make it (techcrunch.com)
Samsung TVs look for microphones in your house via Bluetooth and then spy events (twitter.com)
Workmux: Tmux workflow for parallel coding agents (workmux.dev)
The Emacs Guru Guide to Key Bindings (2018) (www.wilfred.me.uk)
The Lego group reveals collaboration with Daft Punk (www.lego.com)
Imagine an AI future where being banned means you are now economically useless (twitter.com)
Tool book of a Nuremberg knight from 1505 (loeffelholz-codex.org)
Three things you should know about permafrost (www.technologyreview.com)
LISPy things you can do in 64K bytes of core (t3x.org)
We Have Built the Matrix. Now AI Is Learning to Control It (medium.com)
Challenge Is Gone (blog.alxgsv.com)
Lingering While the Agent Runs (seanvoisen.com)
Building a music engraving system from scratch (noteuniverse.com)
Jev-style decisions for IMAGES: Fovea-4B, open 4B, one forward pass (huggingface.co)
Cybersecurity bounty hunter says Samsung TVs use AI to record audio (www.tomshardware.com)
MoltenVK (Vulkan on Metal) was deprecated in favor of KosmicKrisp (github.com)
Report on alpha school, AI-based education (www.nytimes.com)
Buy into the Emacs Platform (2018) (entropicthoughts.com)
We''re heading past 1.5C (pearlsandirritations.com)
Decompiling Fast Food Tycoon 2: Drawing the World (healeycodes.com)
Keploy – an open-source API and integration testing tool (github.com)
Vectors ATC (vectorsatc.com)
Covely – An offline personal finance app for Mac, Windows and Linux (covelyapp.com)
Who to build for, now that vibecoding makes software cheap (eighttrigrams.net)
Posthuman Mimesis (criticalposthumanism.net)
fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine (github.com)
Bye Bye Brotli? Google''s Compression Library Is a Security Mess (www.bugsink.com)
From World-Wide Web to Super-Brain (1995) (pespmc1.vub.ac.be)
Balloting has completed for C26. Unfortunately it was Disapproved (www.linkedin.com)
Researchers identify the main factors in pornography use among adolescents (diaridigital.urv.cat)
New Spencerian Compendium (archive.org)
Brutalist Architecture (en.wikipedia.org)
Lindt got chocolate price hikes wrong, chairman says after CEO''s ouster (www.reuters.com)
"This American Life" Reveals Coca-Cola''s Secret Recipe (Ingredient List) (2011) (www.cbsnews.com)
The Years We Can''t Hire Back (yusufaytas.com)
Samsung running a TensorFlow lite model on 960x540 image to track you (twitter.com)
The Commentapocalypse Is Nigher (lars.ingebrigtsen.no)
The design skill that ends AI slop (github.com)
Be Aware of What''s in Your Logs (fireborn.mataroa.blog)
Musk says SpaceX restricted Ukraine''s Starlink connection as service restored (www.bbc.co.uk)
Heartbreak, hope and human imperfection: Leonard Cohen''s greatest songs (www.theguardian.com)
Generic Containers in C: Result (uecker.codeberg.page)
England, but Dutch (i0.wp.com)
France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms (www.blast-info.fr)
The AI and Steve Strogatz (cultureandcompass.substack.com)
Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI (www.techspot.com)
Active Sonar: Mitigating Hardware CV Aimbots via Kinematics [RFC] (github.com)
An artist''s take on AI in math (3blue1brown.substack.com)
Dump Shock (wiki.c2.com)
Bill Gates warns the ''evolutionary'' age of AI will be brutal for workers (observer.co.uk)
Apple Wants to Fix Safari''s Cramped Layout on iPhone Duo (www.macrumors.com)
Pixel Path – Turn any two places into a pixel-art fly-through of the real road (github.com)
Allocating Off-Heap Memory: Typically 6-18x Faster in JDK 28 (inside.java)
Anthropic Sued for Using Elvis Presley Music to Train AI Models (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
I''ve left Anthropic after more than a year of working on Claude Code (twitter.com)
You Quit What Drained You. Why Do You Feel Worse? (julienreszka.com)
Online censorship is crushing indie webcomics (xtramagazine.com)
Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism (www.panamericandispatch.org)
GPT picks Democrats. Grok picks Republicans (convovo.ai)
We Never Hear About the Countries Where Socialism Works (amieboakye.substack.com)
Against Mathematics (doomslide.substack.com)
CVE-2026-86950: The Great Glyph Grift (calif.io)
Why Are Chinese Trains So Fast, Clean, and Cheap? [video] (www.youtube.com)
The Temporary Pleasure of Conversation (www.theatlantic.com)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) [pdf] (www.un.org)
New Open-Source Cybersecurity Platform Uses AI Agents to Hunt Threats (medium.com)
Scientists rediscover how to make ancient Roman colour-changing glass (www.theguardian.com)
Not Palantir (notpalantir.eu)
Prompt Injection Techniques Every Red Teamer Should Test (fdzdev.medium.com)
AI Is Rotting Your Brain [video] (www.youtube.com)
For Starlink alternative, Ukraine partners with Nokia and satellite maker ICEYE (www.cnbc.com)
UK government sets out 800M of AI security funding (www.reuters.com)
The Street That Stopped Being Anonymous (medium.com)
Incompleteness and Computability – An Open Introduction to Gödel''s Theorems (ic.openlogicproject.org)
Denmark abandons plans to ditch Microsoft Office after technical problems (www.neowin.net)
What Is an Ass Subtitle File? (subtitleops.com)
Conway''s Game of Life (en.wikipedia.org)
Why popular airplanes are getting scrapped years early (www.cnbc.com)
Making DNS_Erlang Fast: Binary Tricks for the Beam (blog.dnsimple.com)
eMudhra faces a bigger test of public trust after security lapse (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
80% to 90% of women reproduce, but only about 40% of men do (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
DHH''s keynote at Rails World: "The most confusing funeral I''ve ever experienced" (www.globalnerdy.com)
Weight-loss drug reduces sleep apnea in two late-stage trials (medicalxpress.com)
Musk claims Ukraine violated Starlink service agreement (www.cnbc.com)
iPhone apps no better for privacy than Android, Oxford study finds (2021) (www.tomsguide.com)
Kids Are Doomers Now (twitter.com)
A CA key that was the number 4 passed its audit. Nobody was assigned to check it (pilgrima.ge)
Five Qwen3.8-27B models outperform Fable 5 Using GVS5H Harness (github.com)
Gpuix-Svelte · Build native desktop apps with Svelte (gpuix-svelte.stanislav.garden)
Tokens aren''t valuable: No more AI (www.reddit.com)
Tyrian 2000 Engaged version – widescreen, high-refresh rendering, multiplatform [video] (www.youtube.com)
Xbox Turns Down Netflix 500M Offer (www.darkhorizons.com)
Implications of Large-Scale Test-Time Compute (twitter.com)
Spacedrive – Take back your data (github.com)
OneMemory – self-hosted shared memory for AI agents over MCP (github.com)
Claude Mythos 5''s GitHub adventure: The postmortem (www.anthropic.com)
The Slurptop (slurpburgers.com)
My Reolink cameras didn''t have SSH, so I fixed that (inventor7777.github.io)
Meta employees say Lula’s accounts restricted in Brazil election: Report (www.aljazeera.com)
"Sovereign Citizen" Movement (en.wikipedia.org)
Original thoughts have terrible UX (sunilpai.dev)
Elon Musk says he was behind restricting Ukraine''s Starlink speed (www.chicagotribune.com)
Forced to pick, Grok''s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI''s picks Democrats (techcrunch.com)
Talking with strangers is surprisingly informative (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Musk admits SpaceX restricted Ukraine''s Starlink: "That loophole was closed" (www.mediaite.com)
How to Just Do a Thing (www.raptitude.com)
AI Is Planning to Kill You (hanzo.blog)
"Musk" Documentary Pulled from Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week (www.showbiz411.com)
Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models (www.cerebras.ai)
Documentary film ''Bot Love'' exploring AI companionship to debut Oct. 21 (www.thesuburban.com)
Virtual and Real World Combine at LAN Party (1998) (www.latimes.com)
Over 1.4B has been traded on prediction markets for the 2026 midterms (www.cnn.com)
Tailworm – Tailscale Vulnerabilities (tailworm.com)
Power Leveling – One fitness score from lift, sprint and 5K PRs (nolandsoftwarellc.com)
My "Not Degree" – A minimal study tracking system beating ADHD demand resistance (notadegree.au)
Amazon cloud capacity sold out through 2027, CEO Jassy says (www.reuters.com)
How to fix your life in 1 day (twitter.com)
"Performance" Oryon: Qualcomm''s Little Core (chipsandcheese.com)
Stop-motion movie Wildwood is a staggering masterpiece (www.cbc.ca)
FindMyWeb: Apple Find My, reverse enginiered (codeberg.org)
PHP2Shell exploitation observed: packet-to-process RCE evidence (github.com)
Why Gopher in 2026? (gopher.muffinlabs.com)
Your tokens aren''t valuable: No more AI (www.reddit.com)
Google has officially turned these Nest thermostats back into dumb thermostats (www.makeuseof.com)
Chá 茶 and Chán 禅 are one (www.chachan.co)
America Has Lost 200k of Jobs in Media, Film and the Arts. How Much Is AI? (www.apricitas.io)
Ming dynasty statue unearthed in WA returns to China (www.abc.net.au)
Be a Tech Bro (world.hey.com)
AI Generated launch videos are starting to get insane (motioncrackers.com)
Free Software Is a Failure (www.paritybit.ca)
Why Drug Companies Are Rushing to Market Ketamine Medicines (www.nytimes.com)
What''s It Like Inside a Data Center? (www.thenation.com)
Pencil 4.0 (github.com)
A 1k-mile cloud on Mars may reveal physics never seen in nature (www.wired.cz)
Bambu Lab CLI for slicing and printing 3D models (github.com)
My mother donated her body to science. I wasn''t prepared for what came next (www.theguardian.com)
Zephium Browser – Thoughtfully Built Open Source Arc Replacement (www.youtube.com)
RoboJev: Jev, but to Grade Robot Data (robo-jev.com)
Building an AmigaOS Development Environment in 2026 (turtleware.eu)
Kevlar MCP Firewall for LLM''s (github.com)
The Hackening (thezvi.substack.com)
Club Cobra''s Instagram page returns after 9-month battle with Meta (qvoicenews.com)
Someone Is Bringing Civilisation to the Neo Geo Pocket Color (handheldhideout.neocities.org)
Disposable Tools for Thought (nicholascharriere.com)
Argus – a free, open-source agentic security operations platform – MIT (thomasunise.com)
We should be more ambitious with the software we build (danluu.com)
FBI Explores Espionage Case Against Saudi OpenAI Suspect (www.wsj.com)
Small Programs and Languages (ratfactor.com)
The Importance of Limitations for Creativity and Learning (ratfactor.com)
Forecasting Financial Markets with Timestral (philippdubach.com)
The Experiment review – easily the most disturbing thing on British TV (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli central bank rejects Netanyahu''s plan to use crypto to evade sanctions (www.ft.com)
Interesting properties about the design of the UK 50p piece [pdf] (cdn.ima.org.uk)
The power of having less features (ratfactor.com)
OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet (techcrunch.com)
Bridgeplay: Windows Steam games on your Mac (bridgeplay.dev)
Vaccine generates immune response to KRAS mutations in pancreatic cancer study (newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org)
Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office (www.computerworld.dk)
Chess Arena – Minimal chess vs. Hard AI (vanilla JavaScript, no login) (playgama.ai)
GPU tensor unlock source for RTX 4090 and experimental RTX 4070 Ti SUPER (github.com)
Dream-1 (dreamlabs.ai)
Bbtree: Fastest Ordered Map (bbtree.xiangpeng.systems)
Glymphatic clearance to alleviate traumatic brain edema& Alzheimer''s pathology (www.science.org)
The AI Trade Is Shifting from Chip Stocks to Cybersecurity (www.barrons.com)
I Met Cixin Liu on Three Body day today. New movie is coming (chinastay.org)
Linux''s Early Boot-Time Physical Memory Allocator Big Speed-Up: 268s to 50ms (www.phoronix.com)
An Ancient Virus Explains Why the Human Brain Is Special (www.404media.co)
The first broken iPhone Duos are here (www.theverge.com)
Systemd Merges Support for Rust Programs (www.phoronix.com)
Forget Live Aid, Africa is only a broken continent in the minds of the West (www.theguardian.com)
I Replaced 50 PHP Workers with One Go Process (sentinel.rootstuff.io)
Ricuicui 0.5.7: notes, database and 3D (ricuicui.com)
I Built a SaaS with AI. Two Months Later, I Have Zero Active Users (medium.com)
Don''t Sleep on Single-Agent Systems (www.openhands.dev)
Red-Teaming OpenAI''s Internal Agent Monitoring Systems (metr.org)
What the singer Tems''s rise taught me about careers (coached.com)
Fans swarm San Francisco for BTS star''s art exhibition (www.theguardian.com)
Valve Steam Personal Calendar (store.steampowered.com)
I turn up late to meetings to dodge small talk. Am I wrong? (www.nature.com)
Fermi Poker (www.lesswrong.com)
Israeli soldiers raze neighbourhood in Hebron, driving families from homes (www.theguardian.com)
Bottles creator claims Raven will run windows apps faster than WINE (twitter.com)
A sovereign AI lab on one machine in my apartment – zero cloud (www.shuffle-on.com)
Region: A Lesson in Data Integrity (mydbanotebook.org)
Apple''s iPhone Duo fails JerryRigEverything''s durability test (www.dexerto.com)
Stop Ontology Time (blog.coredump.cx)
Jack Dorsey''s New Voice Model (twitter.com)
Programming Bottom-Up (1993) (paulgraham.com)
The Great Vowel Shift (en.wikipedia.org)
Language Workbenches: The Killer-App for Domain Specific Languages? (2005) (martinfowler.com)
Jack Dorsey''s Bitchat Becomes France''s Top Social App Amid Mobile Network Outage (gizmodo.com)
Data centres could use 15-20% of current US demand by 2030 (www.takingstock.ai)
How much do stocks move after earnings? Evidence from 12,353 S&P 500 reports (equibles.com)
The Trump administration is weaponizing sanctions to silence its critics (this.weekinsecurity.com)
The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise (de.numista.com)
I''m Addicted to Coding the N64''s GPU [video] (www.youtube.com)
Progressive disclosure in agents to make them 2.3x faster (www.skyvern.com)
Is the browser becoming the common gateway for AI agents? (ricuicui.com)
An ancient virus in chimpanzee DNA switches off a gene that is active in humans (phys.org)
We spent 15k and benchmarked 5 DOCX-editing approaches on Harvey LAB (www.vespper.com)
Spin up a GitHub clone locally with one command (jeremy.magland.org)
When hackers become sources: Inside the new craft of reporting on hacked data (www.niemanlab.org)
Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab (blog.roku.com)
Stolen AI Architecture integrated into healthcare startup and defense contractor (rentry.co)
Proton hosts Flock map revealing over 300k cameras, defying cease-and-desist (www.tomshardware.com)
Agent Compute Engine: Building the compute foundation for the agentic era (cloud.google.com)
Quiet Tizen (github.com)
Personal agents need a different kind of harness (kirahowe.com)
Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions (actu.epfl.ch)
An index of named experiences, one at a time (whyyourbrain.thecompound.tech)
Last known sword maker hopes to pass craft on (www.bbc.com)
Politico reconstructs the global scramble after the PHP2Shell leak (www.politico.eu)
The Secret Playbook That Made the Elizabeth Holmes Movie a Smash Hit (www.wsj.com)
DetectorScope: AI text detectors that show their work (github.com)
Thank you, but I prefer it my way (blog.julik.nl)
Connecting ESP-Mosaico Board over ESP-Now to Run Amplifier Models in Parallel (circuitdigest.com)
The 25B Eigenvector – The Linear Algebra Behind Google (2006) [pdf] (sites.cs.ucsb.edu)
Markdown Oriented Programming (blog.gs-101.dev)
Claude did not invent scorpion antivenom (www.theverge.com)
Graphs for Coding Interviews (nokku.localhost)
Proton AG Hosting United States Flock Camera Map (proton.me)
Ice sheet expansion may have started 2k years ago, but we canceled that (arstechnica.com)
Oai-math-revised: a community hub for revising OpenAI''s math write-ups (terrytao.wordpress.com)
Redundancy Is the Engine of Progress (world.hey.com)
Compiling an SOP into a 3B Model (arpitbhayani.me)
lovewarschauerstr.wtf: A love letter to Warschauer Str (and how much I hate it) (lovewarschauerstr.wtf)
How Russia Censors Foreign TV (gijn.org)
FreeDNS (freedns.afraid.org)
From Software Engineering to AI Research or a Tale of 413 "No" (faillearnrepeat.net)
Chinese EVs found back door into Western car markets – at 40% off MSRP (electrek.co)
Malaysian PM Anwar Bans Civil Servants from Using Israel-Developed Mapping App (thediplomat.com)
Glyphh Ada: Decision model that learns from your past decisions, no transformer (glyphh.ai)
AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance (arxiv.org)
BeNice Closing the Inference-Memory Gap of Looped Models with KV-Sharing (sandyresearch.github.io)
The Curse of Soldered RAM (blog.hardill.me.uk)
Computer Security Is About to Get Worse (www.eff.org)
Turn a single illustration into an animated 2D avatar: Mesh Avatar Studio (github.com)
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (Physics Nobel Prize 1997) has died (www.lkb.fr)
We are terminating Chris Degnan for unethical conduct involving Cognition (twitter.com)
The Human Brain Owes Its Existence to a Prehistoric Pandemic (www.psychologytoday.com)
October Counterfeit Block: What Happened and Where Every Coin Went (getbtcz.com)
Farol: The anti-slop workspace for your agents (www.farol.build)
The most important thing today is that Starlink and Starshield operations (twitter.com)
How AI Saved My Company From a 2-Year Litigation Nightmare (tylertringas.com)
Arm comments on jury decision in Qualcomm trial (www.eetimes.com)
Not Invented Here (en.wikipedia.org)
What the U.S. Is Doing in Venezuela (www.theatlantic.com)
Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center (nypost.com)
I created this because I wanted to (avanelsas.github.io)