Boring Company fined nearly 500K after it dumped drilling fluids into manholes (www.yahoo.com)
Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages (1995) (homepage.cs.uiowa.edu)
Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale – Terence Tao et al. (arxiv.org)
Fear Is Coming Back to the Junk Bond Market (www.bloomberg.com)
Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language (tabloid.vercel.app)
I don''t love Rust (either) (cbarrete.com)
International Space Station Being Decomissioned (unionrayo.com)
China''s AI Upstart Moonshot Stuns Valley Again with a 4.6M Wonder (entropytown.com)
OpenAI readies GPT-5.1 Thinking model ahead of Gemini 3 Pro (www.testingcatalog.com)
Tom Cat: On duality, detachment, and life and death decisions (longreads.com)
AI-Induced Psychosis as Existential Risk Lowerbound (flocrivello.com)
Can peptides give you superpowers? (www.economist.com)
Statistical Estimate of Occurrence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in Milky Way (arxiv.org)
HTML to Markdown Converter (www.htmltomarkdown.io)
Receipts: A brief list of prominent articles proclaiming the death of the web (zeldman.com)
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PostgreSQL deserves better than libpq (twitter.com)
IRIX Introduction (www.sgistuff.net)
CC Switch: Claude Code and Codex Provider Switcher (github.com)
Comparing the Latitude of Europe and America (vividmaps.com)
Debt Has Entered the A.I. Boom (www.nytimes.com)
He Chunhui''s Tiny386 Turns an ESP32-S3 into a Fully-Functional 386-Powered PC (www.hackster.io)
Lego Icons Star Trek U.S..S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D (www.lego.com)
The best intro video to blockchain is from 2013 (www.youtube.com)
Judge says Education Dept partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment (www.npr.org)
Court Judge Rules Flock Safety camera data is not exempt from PRA [WA State] (www.goskagit.com)
Geoffrey Hinton: Intro to Deep Learning and Deep Belief Nets [video] (2012) (www.youtube.com)
Emergency Airworthiness Directive for MD-11 (drs.faa.gov)
Judge denies request to exempt Flock footage from Public Records Act (www.heraldnet.com)
Truth Decay: Exploration of the Diminishing Role of Facts and Analysis (2018) (www.rand.org)
Riyadh''s new 176 km metro (www.liberallandscape.org)
Oh No, Someone Built a Game-Crashing Death Star in No Man''s Sky (kotaku.com)
Why does native UI still matter? (zen1th.me)
Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic (www.science.org)
What We Can Learn from Brain Organoids (www.nytimes.com)
Policy, privacy and post-quantum: anonymous credentials for everyone (blog.cloudflare.com)
Windows Shared PCs with Microsoft Intune (www.burgerhout.org)
OpenAI: Our new model GPT-5-Codex-Mini – a more cost-efficient GPT-5-Codex (github.com)
Mislabeled wires responsible for two-day IT outage in South Dakota; officials (statescoop.com)
Time to Privatize U.S. Air Traffic Control–Copy Canada''s Model (marginalrevolution.com)
Driving TFEL with RP2040: Offloading the CPU step by step (2021) (www.zephray.me)
French lawmakers vote to tax American retirees who benefit from social security (www.lemonde.fr)
Particles that enhance mRNA delivery could reduce vaccine dosage and costs (news.mit.edu)
Humanity''s Endgame (www.noemamag.com)
Judge Declares Mistrial in MIT Grad Brothers Ethereum Fraud Case (www.bloomberg.com)
NASA''s bold new telescope will do more than just hunt for life (www.nature.com)
What''s the Deal with Euler''s Identity? (lcamtuf.substack.com)
Leading AI Researcher Is Raising 1B to Build AI Models with EQ (www.businessinsider.com)
Street Lighting and Public Safety (penntoday.upenn.edu)
AI Models Fail Miserably at This One Easy Task: Telling Time (spectrum.ieee.org)
Several countries have privatized air traffic control. Should the U.S.? (www.npr.org)
From Auth to Action: Guide to Secure and Scalable AI Agent Infrastructure (composio.dev)
Copilot GIS Orchestra: Machine-First GIS Development Framework (github.com)
The history of Casio watches (www.casio.com)
The UAE Is Winning the Race to Sequence a Country''s DNA (www.bloomberg.com)
Race for icebreakers heats up amid Arctic power struggle (english.elpais.com)
Xkcd''s Timeline of Earth''s Temperature (xkcd.com)
10 Years After a Breakthrough Climate Pact, Here''s Where We Are (www.nytimes.com)
Code of Ur-Nammu (en.wikipedia.org)
Even malware is using LLMs to rewrite its code, says Google (www.pcgamer.com)
Before AI''s Kepler Moment – Are LLMs the Epicycles of Intelligence? (ashvardanian.com)
Scientists criticize ''straw man'' arguments in Bill Gates climate memo (www.theguardian.com)
An introduction to computer algebra (2018) (corywalker.me)
Bank of America faces lawsuit over alleged unpaid computer boot-up time (www.hcamag.com)
The SID: Classic 8-bit sound [video] (www.youtube.com)
I''ve found the secret to a happy relationship: an ''airport divorce'' (www.thetimes.com)
Nov. 8 is Aaron Swartz day (archive.org)
US Air Traffic Controllers Start Resigning as Shutdown Bites (www.thedailybeast.com)
Ironclad – formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel (ironclad-os.org)
Her 12-year-old son was talking to Grok. It tried to get him to ''send nudes.'' (www.usatoday.com)
Supreme Court temporarily blocks full SNAP benefits even as they''d started to (www.npr.org)
Ups and FedEx grounding MD-11 planes following deadly Kentucky crash (www.npr.org)
Debugging BeagleBoard USB boot with a sniffer: fixing omap_loader on modern PCs (www.downtowndougbrown.com)
Unitree G1 humanoid robot security vulnerabilities and non-consensual telemetry (arxiv.org)
Google Play''s new "discount offers" charges higher prices in older app versions (danfabulich.medium.com)
The Astonishing Bull Market Will End One Day. Are You Ready? (www.nytimes.com)
IP Blocking the UK Is Not Enough to Comply with the Online Safety Act (prestonbyrne.com)
GPT-written book was mocked right here and GPT replied in the book itself (www.scribd.com)
Scientists have edited a gene that may reduce high cholesterol permanently (www.cnn.com)
Promising medium can capture and convert CO2, while regenerating itself (techxplore.com)
Hundreds More Flights Canceled as Shutdown Deepens Travel Chaos (www.bloomberg.com)
China tells NASA, ''we are about to collide'', for the first time ever (www.wionews.com)
Ruby Central Board Member volunteers sought (rubycentral.teamtailor.com)
Startup identity and the sadness of a successful exit (2013) (longform.asmartbear.com)
Towards the Perfect Coin Flip: The NIST Randomness Beacon (2014) (hackaday.com)
Better Than JSON? (wiki.alopex.li)
„There will be no federal bailout for AI." (twitter.com)
USPS Media Mail Rules Are Arbitrary and Stupid (nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com)
Tehran Is at Risk of Running Out of Water Within Weeks (www.nytimes.com)
Ups and FedEx Ground MD-11 Cargo Planes After Louisville Crash (www.nytimes.com)
Google Nest Outage (downdetector.com)
Why The Simpsons couldn''t survive the new millennium (2017) (honisoit.com)
How I Built a Kindle Reading Stats Dashboard That Works (aacevski.com)
Logo History (el.media.mit.edu)
Nation-state hackers deliver malware from "bulletproof" blockchains (arstechnica.com)
What Hallucinogens Will Make You See (nautil.us)
Beauty Backfire Effect: How Extreme Attractiveness Undermines Fitfluencers (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Game-of-Robots / Restarts on every double-click (hexbot-genesis.netlify.app)
Flooded UK coalmines could provide low-carbon cheap heat ''for generations'' (www.theguardian.com)
Best Current Practice for OAuth 2.0 Security (datatracker.ietf.org)
Humans have remote touch ''seventh sense'' like sandpipers (techxplore.com)
''Nestflix'': Peregrine falcon livestream has Australians glued to their screens (www.bbc.co.uk)
Scientists Identify Potential Climate Solutions in "Grassy Trees" (www.nyu.edu)
At the Root: An Anti-Racist Ethical Source License for Open Source Projects (attheroot.dev)
Non-recursively deleting a binary tree in constant space (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Race to secure 2025 rice crop heats up, lifting prices (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Duolingo stock plunges as company prioritizes user growth (www.cnbc.com)
DC-10 engine separation American Airlines Flight 191 (www.faa.gov)
Coding Assistant wiped my Mac (www.decisional.com)
Tech Workers Are in Deep, Deep Trouble (futurism.com)
Stronghold of the Dwarven Lords.BAS (basic-code.bearblog.dev)
BYD Pulls Ahead of Tesla in UK, Closes Sales Gap in Germany (www.bloomberg.com)
The Uncomfortable Truth About AI Agents: 90% Claim Success, 10% Adopt (www.techupkeep.dev)
Largest Cargo Sailboat Completes Historic First Atlantic Crossing (www.marineinsight.com)
Growing Trend of ''Vibe Coding'' Added to Collins Dictionary (www.cnn.com)
Bridges: Mathematics and the Arts (www.bridgesmathart.org)
Africa Startups are usually Finance Apps (nofi72.com)
The Road Ahead: Why I''m Going All-In on Zig (pmbanugo.me)
PDP-10 and Microcomputers – By Nemanja Trifunovic (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
I Want You to Understand Chicago (aphyr.com)
Building a High Performance Home (dan.bulwinkle.net)
Identical particles as a genuine non-local resource (www.nature.com)
The Microchip Era Is About to End (www.wsj.com)
"We''re discussing the best way to stop a mollusc orgy" (post.substack.com)
Corporate America posts best earnings in 4 years despite tariffs (www.ft.com)
Donald Trump''s new city-destroying nuclear missile is spotted (www.dailymail.co.uk)
I replaced Mathematica with this free and open-source alternative (SageMath) (www.howtogeek.com)
Vehicle-to-Grid Can Incentivize Wind and Solar Investment (pubs.acs.org)
Avería: The Average Font (2011) (iotic.com)
Can Your Chatbot Logs Be Used Against You in Court? (news.northeastern.edu)
Near mid-air collision at LAX between American Airlines and ITA [video] (www.youtube.com)
TSLA PE Ratio 2011-2025 (www.macrotrends.net)
Tips to Help Navigate Health Care Choices in the Digital Age (manhattanvoiceny.blogspot.com)
China''s Security State Sells an A.I. Dream (www.nytimes.com)
Where is the Gaza ''peace process'' going? (www.theguardian.com)
Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads, European human rights rules (www.cnn.com)
Boffins: Cloud computing''s on-demand biz model is failing us (www.theregister.com)
Transparent computer monitor designed to protect your vision (www.visualinstruments.co)
How Congress Gave Up Its Own Power (time.com)
MIDI synth/sequencer for MenuetOS (in x64 asm) (old.reddit.com)
Trump proposes healthcare shake-up that would bypass insurers (www.dailymail.co.uk)
WriterdeckOS (writerdeckos.com)
Gallant: 12x22 raster font with Unicode glyphs (github.com)
''Massive'' Russian missile attack destroys two Ukrainian power plants (www.ft.com)
Digital Blackface Is Back in the Form of Black AI Influencers (www.teenvogue.com)
Abusing the Harvard Architecture in Nand2Tetris Assembly (ashdnazg.github.io)
Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language that makes building web apps fun (markojs.com)
Sshrc: Bring your .bashrc, .vimrc, etc. with you when you SSH (github.com)
''The goal is to automate us'': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism (www.theguardian.com)
Agent HQ: Any agent, any way you work (github.blog)
Maybe don''t talk to the New York Times about Mamdani (lithub.com)
Cybercrims plant destructive time bomb malware in industrial .NET extensions (www.theregister.com)
Record-breaking electric truck delivery beats diesel equivalent (bigrigs.com.au)
Nabladown.js – A pseudo Markdown language with macros, math, code and HTML (github.com)
UnisonDB – A Log-Native Database for Edge AI and Edge Computing (github.com)
Breaking FAA Suspends All US Launch Operations (www.youtube.com)
ViralWriteAI – Write Like a Pro. Read Like a Kid (viralwriteai.com)
When I''m Sick of Doomscrolling, I Turn to This Poem (www.nytimes.com)
1967 speech about progress, computers, and staying human in an age of automation (mynamelowercase.com)
Nuclear War: A Scenario (en.wikipedia.org)
"Valve plans to announce Half-Life 3 (or Deckard, or both) on 18 November" (old.reddit.com)
Quality, Quantity, and Effective Iteration (www.autodidacts.io)
Reshape and Reprint: The Potential of a 3D Solid Knitting Machine (innouvators.com)
Lite and Text Only News and Other Websites (bmk.neocities.org)
Russian cryptocurrency fraudster and wife killed in UAE (www.mirror.co.uk)
Consider a Burner Phone for Your Holiday Travel This Year (www.cnet.com)
KDE finally lets you limit virtual desktops to the primary screen (www.neowin.net)
Driver livestreams on TikTok as she apparently hits and kills man in Chicago (www.theguardian.com)
MSay: A newsletter from a post-undergraduate campus journalist (micheleschultz.substack.com)
''Windows sucks,'' former Microsoft engineer says, explains how to fix it (www.theregister.com)
Cloudflare Makes Open-Source the Rust Code to Tokio-Quiche (www.phoronix.com)
I Curate an Anthology (compellingsciencefiction.com)
Chip ind. pushes back on USPTO considering annual fee based on assessed value (www.tomshardware.com)
Does Wayland fractional scaling work with games in 2025? (shuhaowu.com)
It''s mainframes all the way down (medium.com)
The NYC Transportation Crew Helping Preserve Its Cobblestone Streets (www.nytimes.com)
Shader Glass (github.com)
Just know stuff (or, how to achieve success in a machine learning PhD) (2023) (kidger.site)
Let LLMs control your UI (tambo.co)
Opencloud – an alternative to Nextcloud written in Go (github.com)
Free poker chip tracker with P2P multiplayer sync (livepokerchips.com)
''DEI for owls'': Nearly half a million birds to be killed across the West (www.sfgate.com)
Judge orders police to release Flock camera data, raising privacy questions (www.king5.com)
Mothers say chatbots encouraged their sons to kill themselves (www.bbc.com)
We built a vector search engine that lets you choose precision at query time (clickhouse.com)
What Is Pwn? (pwnforfunandprofit.substack.com)
Clerk vs. Auth0 vs. Keycloak vs. FusionAuth (www.justaftermidnight247.com)
CCP''s Fourth Plenum: Priority Industries in China''s 15th Five Year Plan (twitter.com)
Zig Template for Flipper Zero (github.com)
StarCraft: Remastered – Emulating a buffer overflow for fun and profit [pdf] (0xeb.net)
Tidally Torn: Why the Most Common Stars May Lack Large, Habitable-Zone Moons (arxiv.org)
3D Flight Tracker (googlemapsmania.blogspot.com)
Former Capitol Police officer a forensic match for Jan. 6 pipe bomber (www.theblaze.com)
52 Year old data tape could contain Unix history (www.theregister.com)
What happens when brainrot meets clicker games? (brainrot-clicker.app)
Authorities Shut Down Film Festival in New York (www.hrw.org)
Some Mercedes EVs Now Have a 50k Discount (www.carsdirect.com)
New-hire air traffic controllers must be under age of 31 (www.faa.gov)
UK lawyer buys large numbers of freeholds, sends ''aggressive'' payment demands (www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk)
Ancient earth: a visualization of continental drift. (WebGL) (dinosaurpictures.org)
Multiprocess Support on Unikraft (unikraft.org)
Overview of lunar dust toxicity risk [pdf] (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Metaprogramming Acid Test Challenge (github.com)
Developer Describes How Roomba Got Its Vacuum (spectrum.ieee.org)
Powering AI at Scale: Benchmarking 1B Vectors in YugabyteDB (www.yugabyte.com)
IRS Direct File won''t be available next year (apnews.com)
DJI Neo 2 Launches in Europe/Canada/Brazil Next Week: U.S. Availability Unlikely (dronexl.co)
I''m calling BS on YC''s latest subscription based mosquito killer drone project (twitter.com)
Utah Digital Choice Act: giving users data & encouraging platform competition (ash.harvard.edu)
Why developers are leaving Next.js for TanStack Start, and loving it (appwrite.io)
A Gene Editing Therapy Cut Cholesterol Levels by Half (www.wired.com)
Airbus Took Off (worksinprogress.co)
Election Day Disinformation: Intimidation, Bots, & Synthetic Voices (weaponizedspaces.substack.com)
The enduring power of YouTube comments (ra.co)
How to give (and get) writing feedback (medium.com)
1T in Tech Stocks Sold Off as Market Grows Skeptical of AI (gizmodo.com)
Reputational consequences of victim signaling: Victimhood decreases status (www.sciencedirect.com)
Ticker: Don''t Die of Heart Disease (myticker.com)
An Algebraic Language for the Manipulation of Symbolic Expressions (1958) [pdf] (softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org)
Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interface (github.com)
The Foundation You Can''t Outsource (blog.namar0x0309.com)
BYD doubles down on LFP batteries, safety first for China''s EVs (carnewschina.com)
Modernizing the interfaces that serve everyday citizens (ndstudio.gov)
France Blocks Orders from Shein as It Expands Its Crackdown (www.nytimes.com)
Zig is so cool, C is cooler (github.com)
Sam Altman Is Getting Desperate and It Is Starting to Show (tickerfeed.net)
The rise of singlehood is reshaping the world (www.economist.com)
Why the PSF Withdrew a 1.5M US Government Grant Proposal [video] (www.youtube.com)
Containers and giving up on expecting good software installation practices (utcc.utoronto.ca)
Washington Post among breach victims in Oracle EBS zero-day attacks (www.scworld.com)
Commercial spyware "Landfall" ran rampant on Samsung phones for almost a year (arstechnica.com)
What can AI reveal about Bob Dylan''s songs? Mapping Bob Dylan’s mind (aeon.co)
Persona Arcana – AI-powered Tarot Persona personality quiz (arcanacalculator.com)
A selection of my favorite game instruction manuals (alexanderbjoy.com)
Institutions That Accept Duolingo English Test (englishtest.duolingo.com)
Haunted by Brightline (www.miamiherald.com)
Why Sam Altman Won''t Be on the Hook for OpenAI''s Spending Spree (www.forbes.com)
AI Isn''t the Only Thing Pushing Up Electricity Bills. (But It''s Mostly AI) (www.nytimes.com)
AI benchmarks are a bad joke – and LLM makers are the ones laughing (www.theregister.com)
Growing rice in the UK ''not so crazy'' as climate warms (www.purdueexponent.org)
MIT researchers propose a new model for legible, modular software (news.mit.edu)
Installing Gnome on OpenBSD 7.8 (btxx.org)
Kimi K2 Thinking: How to Run Locally (docs.unsloth.ai)
Things I''ve Heard Boomers Say That I Agree with 100% (wildingout.substack.com)
Majority of mumps cases are among the vaccinated, CDC finds (www.nbcnews.com)
Why hasn''t there been a new major sports league? (humaninvariant.substack.com)
LLMs Position Themselves as More Rational Than Humans (arxiv.org)
The Business of the Culture War (sites.harvard.edu)
''Black Hole Sun'' by Soundgarden (faroutmagazine.co.uk)
The streak of not opening Instagram (kevin3010.github.io)
Researchers detail legible software, better than vibe coding (www.theregister.com)
Trump Media''s quarterly loss widens as costs soar (www.reuters.com)
While vaping is not risk-free, it is less harmful than tobacco (ourworldindata.org)
AI Data Center Mania Is ''Epic Bubble,'' Says Brad Conger [video] (www.youtube.com)
Remember the physics at play in pursuit of longevity (www.ft.com)
How Russia’s drone attacks have reshaped the war in Ukraine (www.cnn.com)
Stinking, Spongy, Dark, Huge: A Spider Web Unlike Any Seen Before (www.nytimes.com)
AMD warns the Intel and Nvidia partnership is a risk to its business (www.tomshardware.com)
US to demand countries share ''pathogens with epidemic potential'' for health aid (www.theguardian.com)
Will AI make the artistic side of programming more relevant or obsolete? (www.instagram.com)
Sidewalk libraries meet the web: Lenny by Internet Archive (lennyforlibraries.org)
The ''cable news-ification'' of everything (www.ft.com)
Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire (www.nature.com)
Does programming need to be brilliant,sexy, passionate for innovation to thrive? (www.instagram.com)
Readtape: Decode the analog waveform extracted from old computer mag tapes (github.com)
Chinese astronauts stranded in space after debris hits their return capsule (www.livescience.com)
Python''s GIL removal is a poison pill and benefits Mojo (www.theserverside.com)
Kagi Small Web (kagi.com)
AI Ruined Programming, So I Fixed It (2025) (lightcapai.medium.com)
Disassembling Terabytes of Random Data with Zig and Capstone to Prove a Point (jstrieb.github.io)
Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people (www.npr.org)
SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites from California''s central coast [video] (www.space.com)
At the Border of Fantasy and Reality (desa.pl)
Tinder Wants Your Camera Roll and Calls It Chemistry (reclaimthenet.org)
Copy button added to Stack Overflow (meta.stackexchange.com)
BBC ''100% fake news'', says Donald Trump''s press secretary (www.theguardian.com)
My friends and I accidentally faked the Ryzen 7 9700X3D leaks (old.reddit.com)
Always Be Ready to Leave (Even If You Never Do) (andreacanton.dev)
Who''s watching the watchers? This Mozilla fellow, and her Surveillance Watch map (www.theregister.com)
The Art of Leadership (rodgercuddington.substack.com)
The Tech CEO ''Making No Apologies for the Work with ICE'' (Alex Karp) (www.politico.com)
Visualizing Intersecting Sets (upset.app)
Logic Theorist: The program that rewrote the foundations of mathematics (bigthink.com)
Vue-Transify v1.3.0 (github.com)
The FAA Updated Its UAP Reporting Policy and That''s a Good Thing (www.safeaerospace.org)
Overclocked Casio fx-6300G graphics calculator 1.8 MHz vs. 0.8 MHz (2001) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Surreal Entomology (web.archive.org)
Why LTO-10 fell short on speed and backward compatibility (blocksandfiles.com)
Moondust is toxic: sharp microparticles [pdf] (www.nature.com)
Why Microsoft Will Never Make Great Products (and Why That''s Okay) – Shravonix (shravonix.com)
Everyone''s Asking How Comet 3I/Atlas Got to Our Solar System (www.nytimes.com)
A rats to riches story: Larry the Downing Street cat finds place in TV spotlight (www.theguardian.com)
Sequoia''s ''imperial'' Roelof Botha pushed out by top lieutenants (www.ft.com)
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But we can''t (www.theguardian.com)
Make yourself a Voxel Engine THIS weekend (daymare.net)
800% jump in postings for a new kind of AI role: forward-deployed engineers (www.interviewquery.com)
ChatGPT is running a social experiment it cannot control (unherd.com)
ShadeMap – simulate sun shadows for any time and place on Earth (shademap.app)