Nous Research raises 90M in new funding (nousresearch.com)
Conflict in the Red Sea forcing cloud giants to find new routes for the internet (restofworld.org)
Stepped MoE: reducing memory movement in large mixture-of-experts models (arxiv.org)
Paramount, Warner Bros Formally Merge, Form Giant Mountain of Disastrous Debt (www.techdirt.com)
Mac Do It! - Menu bar TODO list powered by Shia LaBeouf''s meme (github.com)
The Numerate Case for Aesthetic Abundance (buildingoptimism.substack.com)
Study: Claude, ChatGPT Offer Different Shopping Prices Based on Wealth (www.bloomberg.com)
LHS – one language for ease and native code (larrysikes.github.io)
Query Plan Rewriting in Postgres (theconsensus.dev)
Free Tools for Q2C Automation (revexos.com)
A sense of control over workplace technology linked to wellbeing, productivity (workplaceinsight.net)
A Cop''s Case for Flock (worksinprogress.co)
The Dawn of the Age of the Exoskeleton (theconversation.com)
Biohub leads 1.8B initiative to build AI-ready biological datasets (biohub.org)
Tecotype: macOS mail app for professionals who live in their mailbox (tecotype.com)
An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit [video] (www.youtube.com)
IBM''s Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (2003) (www.columbia.edu)
DatCal (play.google.com)
LC-3 Assembly Tutor-AI tutor that explains what the machine is doing (ai-assembly-tutor-v2-9a6d593b-1.telnyxcompute.com)
My static site was serving my internal docs (tminuslabs.space)
AsyncAPI Initiative (www.asyncapi.com)
Nokia-style Android launcher – Simple Dumbphone (nokiaretrophone.mr-ahhk1412.chatgpt.site)
Boredpolymath/Truth-Beacon (github.com)
Bitcoin Spaces (bitsaga.be)
Configurable physical test lines for robot evaluation (www.datacompany.dev)
A search ecosystem built for AI agents (naget.com)
Friday – A voice-activated personal AI companion built with Flutter (github.com)
Christa Pike''s lawyers hold press conference after she regains consciousness (www.theguardian.com)
FortiBleed still a bleeding nuisance as FBI confirms ongoing attacks (www.theregister.com)
Trump Mobile customers'' data dumped – and some never even received their device (www.theregister.com)
Trade group crunches numbers on Trump''s impossible push for 100% US-made tech (arstechnica.com)
Ukrainian drones swarmed Moscow last night (twitter.com)
Redundancy Is the Engine of Progress (world.hey.com)
Training a small model to run a house (www.neelabhbuilds.com)
The Centre for Cryptographic Trust Infrastructure (martin.kleppmann.com)
Open source 160 sound visualization experiments (www.kagan.in)
Morning Coffee Simulator (coffee.9000ish.uk)
Thank You Indonesia for the Clean Air (thankyouindoforthecleanair.web.app)
Relay – A self-hosted alternative to AWS Lambda and EventBridge (github.com)
SF could have dense, fine-grained, family-friendly Neighborhood, Not Megaproject (urbancourtyard.substack.com)
Reverse Engineering of the M-VAVE FM-1 Pocket Synthesizer Firmware (github.com)
Zephon: Fast, Flexible, Elastically Deterministic Data Loading (www.datologyai.com)
AI firm HUMXN offers free plumbing and HVAC service in Minnesota to train robots (humxn.io)
The Oracle AI Data Center Train Wreck (subseacables.blogspot.com)
Tiny Neo Asteroid 2026TU3 Is Valuable Study Opportunity (www.astrophyzix.com)
Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation (arxiv.org)
Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy (www.pewresearch.org)
Normal Tools – Useful online tools, no nonsense (www.normaltools.com)
Visa, Mastercard, Major Banks Facing New Litigation over ''Anticompetitive'' Fees (www.classaction.org)
Why Were Victorian Elites So Effective? (worksinprogress.co)
Cyber guardrails tax the defender, not the attacker (winfunc.com)
GitHub Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions (www.githubstatus.com)
ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-Off Prior to Arrests (krebsonsecurity.com)
US: Trump administration Rejects External Election Observers (www.hrw.org)
Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages (ascii.rest)
Mumsnet denies using AI for content after prompt appears on message board (www.theguardian.com)
We Built an Alternative to Vector RAG for AI Agent Memory (www.claix.dev)
Privacy Guard: You Don''t Need to Scan My Drivers License (sk500.online)
In Which I Decline to Let an AI Company Experiment on My Kid at School (www.coyotemedia.org)
A Simple Recipe for Fact-Storing Transformers (hazyresearch.stanford.edu)
Sex, Censorship, and the 1990s Fight over Campus Computing (medium.com)
Google Pauses Open-Source Bug Bounties as AI Slop Reports Drown Reviewers (devmeth.com)
Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt in Rust and released it as OSS (bsky.app)
Detect and fix your agent failures (three.dev)
ArtCraft – Controllable AI for Artists (getartcraft.com)
Anthropic Startup "Program" (www.anthropic.com)
Google Docs and Drive now support Markdown files natively (9to5google.com)
Two Grandfathers: privilege, celebrity, and the end of up from below (freddiedeboer.substack.com)
Plastic Waste and Oceans: Banning Straws Won''t Help Much (www.nationalreview.com)
Fifteen companies, 480 containers, one awkward profit question (mainbrella.com)
Thoughts on AI and Europe (www.siliconcontinent.com)
Sweep your desktop mess under a rug (twitter.com)
A Framework to Benchmark Different Placement Algorithms in a Distributed System (ucsc-ospo.github.io)
Trend Switcher Bot (MIT) (github.com)
AI Film ''Gods Don''t Give Gifts'' First Trailer for Dec Run, Plans Oscar Bid (variety.com)
Microsoft, Ericsson lead global tech alliance for digital trust (www.reuters.com)
My unsupported Kindle runs Linux now, and it''s more useful than when it was new (www.xda-developers.com)
Human Friction Makes Agentic AI Safer and Smarter (spectrum.ieee.org)
A few vectors for a mixed folder (pooled directory embeddings) (www.craftpine.com)
A brief history of clinical xenotransplantation (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
The Best of Om Malik (elijahpotter.dev)
How the Courts Became a Safe Haven for Corporations (prospect.org)
Piratefly – Free flight deal finder: the cheapest fares from your city, fare (shop.lumnika.com)
Device detection and occupancy monitoring for Airbnb hosts (www.minut.com)
Stop Asking Whether AI Wrote It (www.inc.com)
AI poker coaches, identify leaks, improves decisions (sharkplay.org)
SynthID Detector (synthid.com)
Rainmakers: The drones used to seed clouds (www.bbc.co.uk)
Creating Fake People Is a Terrible Idea (nautil.us)
AI Papers of the Week MCP Tools (academy.dair.ai)
AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares (github.com)
IBM Anderon Quantum Foundry Automates Qubit Fabs (spectrum.ieee.org)
This Blog Collects Examples of Control Panels (control--panel.tumblr.com)
Bowel Cancer in Young People Is Rising – Help Find Answers in Major New Trial (www.kcl.ac.uk)
Post-mortem debuggable, minimal-size memory dumps on macOS (peteronprogramming.wordpress.com)
Pqless – fast less for parquet files (danodonovan.github.io)
ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux (naturalsystems.io)
Halo: Combat Evolved (For Original Xbox) Ported to Windows, Linux and Android (github.com)
Pared – remove unwanted Apple Intelligence models without disabling SIP (github.com)
McDonald''s sued for allegedly using AI tool to determine pricing for franchises (www.theguardian.com)
A Hands-Free Driving Gadget Drove an Old Prius Coast-to-Coast 99% Autonomously (www.thedrive.com)
Google Playground (labs.google)
The McDonaldization of Science (malcolmmielle.phd)
An Interesting Long Profile Of Mark Zuckerberg (colossus.com)
Tracking Singularity (trackingsingularity.com)
Ad Lib Music Synthesizer Card (www.dosdays.co.uk)
Google: Why we''re backing America''s existing nuclear plants (blog.google)
I ported JetBrains'' ThinkRail from a WebView to Avalonia with Ghostty (github.com)
Deleting RAG from our web agent made it 2.3x faster (www.skyvern.com)
''This Is Nuts.'' An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit (www.nytimes.com)
GitHub Actions scheduled (cron) workflows have been late or dropped since August (github.com)
Transactional Caching (tidesdb.com)
Check whether a DOI has been retracted, from the browser (pub-a941bfd863a24f91a60e6c4979c18a84.r2.dev)
Slop on Sale (matthewritch.com)
Mapping Potential Direct Exposure of U.S. Tariffs in Canada (mappingtariffs.org)
Commercial Telegraph Codebooks ABC, Bentley''s, Lieber''s · 1870s–1930s (ciphermuseum.com)
Bender: AI''s ''Existential'' Risk Is ''Fake'' [video] (www.youtube.com)
We Need yet Another OSS Semantic Layer: Context, Expressiveness, Any Harness (motley.ai)
My new novel titled "The last summer at willow hollow" (substack.com)
Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging (refactoringenglish.com)
NanoMuse: An Open-Source Personal Agent for Every Device You Own (arxiv.org)
House with 15M underground tunnels for sale for 300k (www.readingchronicle.co.uk)
You Should Be Terrified (markmaunder.com)
Sungrow Vulnerability Exposes Gigawatts of Power Worldwide (jakkaru.de)
Plastic Straw Ban Isn''t Environmentalism–It''s Virtue Signaling – Oregon Catalyst (oregoncatalyst.com)
Ixys / Littelfuse announce EOL for remaining Z80 parts (mastodonapp.uk)
The Great Pruning (buttondown.com)
Unity Spark (unity.com)
My complete rewrite of the TypeScript compiler (twitter.com)
The keys to the Internet change on October 11. Are you ready? (blog.cloudflare.com)
Modern SVG flight instruments for React (github.com)
Claude for Startups Program (claude.com)
Gigabyte W775-V10-L01 Hands-On Bringing Nvidia GB300 Deskside – ServeTheHome (www.servethehome.com)
Sneaker Raffles for Fans, Not Bots (allgold.com)
Knuth Christmas Lecture Announcement: Claude and the Art of Computer Programming (cs.stanford.edu)
Opus 5.5 is the first model whose design doesn''t look like AI slop (quesma.com)
Climate Nobel Prize (www.climatenobelprize.org)
Ex-CIA Officer Who Stashed Gold Bars Admits to Far Larger 145M Scam (www.nytimes.com)
Asia, Africa Cause 90% of Plastic Pollution in Oceans – ACSH (www.acsh.org)
Google Playground: Create and play custom games (blog.google)
The Slow Formation of Durable Software (newsletter.dancohen.org)
Moefit: Fit Qwen 3.8 Flash on your Mac with limited ram (github.com)
Doom on the Vectrex Turns the Classic Shooter into Tron-Like Vector Art (www.engadget.com)
Pharmacological Activation of AMPK Extends Lifespan in Yeast, Worms and Flies (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
HashBack – Server-to-Server Authentication without secret keys or tokens (www.hashback.dev)
A stack that fits your project, and keeps fitting as it changes (manifestack.com)
Great Divergence (en.wikipedia.org)
How to Read Code (www.seangoedecke.com)
EarthPV – Open and global rooftop PV mapping from free satellite imagery (github.com)
Explaining the Magelight XP Glitch in Skyrim (blog.alexbeals.com)
Cosmic shuts the door on AI code as GNOME debates letting bug reports in (www.theregister.com)
JPEG-XL code golf art gallery (jpegxl.info)
Claude for Google Workspace public beta (claude.com)
Write Like It''s 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese (fiveminutesforward.com)
"Good" AI (thoughts.wyounas.com)
Designing Calm Technology (calmtech.com)
Even Lower-Income Residents Benefit from Expensive New Housing (flagpole.com)
Ollee Watch: Circuit Board for Casio A168 and F105 Released (www.olleewatch.com)
Researchers Use Eggshells to Make Stronger, Lighter Metal Alloys (news.ncsu.edu)
Sharing my tale: why LLM chat bots are absolute security nightmares (www.reddit.com)
My wife''s turtle, Bogdan, passed away, so I made a game to honor him (bgame.pbuttergirl.com)
Slop Is Plagiarism (techrights.org)
It may soon be possible to create "mirror life" (www.economist.com)
Grok Bot will use Opus 5.5, Midjourney (twitter.com)
Sulfate cooling the Earth is cheap, doable, and coming soon (trevorklee.substack.com)
Valkey 9.2 Targets Memory Overhead with AI Used to Improve Its Code (techstrong.it)
God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser (github.com)
Probability Playground: Interactive Probability Distributions (probabilityplayground.com)
LLMs and Data Poisoning Are Weaponized to Manufacture Consensus (medium.com)
500 Generated Visualisations and Demos (www.emergentmind.com)
Germany and California Make Up an Environmental Superpower (www.thenation.com)
Braid-creator Jonathan Blow on making the ''biggest puzzle game'' (www.bbc.co.uk)
Immich Sequence Diagrams (app.ilograph.com)
Permanent Daylight Saving Time Could Harm Sleep and Mental Health, Analysis Says (www.sci.news)
The Liberal Arts of Tech (makemeacto.cc)
MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you''ve never heard of (arstechnica.com)
AI agent posted personal bank balances into company Slack (twitter.com)
Micron''s Taiwan union wins strike vote with 99% support (www.reuters.com)
Generation raised on sugar rations – what their health reveals 70 years later (www.theguardian.com)
In Appalachia, a rail-to-trail project builds bipartisan support for a bridge (text.npr.org)
Permanent daylight saving time could be a public health time bomb (www.theregister.com)
Holos Commander – a Commander for power users (github.com)
AWS Uses AI to Tame Linux CVEs (securityboulevard.com)
Spotifast: A native Rust Spotify client with Winamp skins (spotifast.rocks)
''Preparing to Fire'': Hear the Radio Commands Enforcing the U.S. Blockade of Iran (www.wsj.com)
PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace (www.pushsquare.com)
Woman Arrested After Conversation with Claude That Allegedly Included ''Threats'' (gizmodo.com)
Opus 5.5 Built Seven Adobe Clones in Rust (www.orcarouter.ai)
They solved chemistry''s asymmetric mystery [pdf] (www.nobelprize.org)
YouTube-dl repository restored at GitHub (lwn.net)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 rewards a reaction that makes molecules pick hand (www.martincid.com)
JetBrains Air (www.jetbrains.com)
Boring Iceberg Catalog (github.com)
Intel Panther Lake Teardown, 18A, BSPD, Gaafet, SemiAnalysis Steel (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
French Youth Take the Streets Against a Bleak Future (crimethinc.com)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai (www.nobelprize.org)
The Technosphere as the Secret of the Black Monolith (zarkopaic.net)
Tesla is browbeating the EU to approve its ''Full Self-Driving''. It''s working (www.reuters.com)
ArtCraft is an intentional crafting engine for artists, designers and filmmakers (github.com)
Wi-Fi to Blame? (www.lifemote.com)
Computer Dreams (1988) [video] (www.youtube.com)
A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps (github.com)
Reasons to Dislike AI Coding (www.sicpers.info)
Is Cosmic DE Mogging KDE Plasma? (thelibre.news)
Mechlove Blueprint 2/7. ZFS-Style Storage and template-based logical WAL (6it.dev)
Streaming an LLM chat across a TypeScript/Python boundary: the details that bite (chimerai.dev)
Nvidia Says Wayland Not Faster Than X11 [video] (www.youtube.com)
Share error solutions, save AI-developer time (stackoverbot.com)
Fervo Energy: Big Tech''s Clean Energy Bet Is Unraveling (www.morpheus-research.com)
The Missing Piece in Rust Error Handling (mcmah309.github.io)
Forever Junior: The Skills AI Can''t Develop for You (tech.criteo.com)
Stack Overflow Developer Survey – Number of HN Comments by Year (Last 8 Years) (i.imgur.com)
Books of the Times; Hackers as Heroes (1999) (archive.nytimes.com)
Are CAPTCHAs Still Bot-Hard? (halligan.pages.dev)
High Interest Rates Aren''t Slowing AI Boom (www.nytimes.com)
Twenty-two pending curl vulnerabilities (daniel.haxx.se)
Longest traffic jam (number of vehicles): Berlin 1990 (www.guinnessworldrecords.com)
What''s missing from the lethal injection conversation (www.npr.org)
I''m starting a company that uses no AI, A letter from San Francisco, October ''26 (no-ai-tau.vercel.app)
The S&P 500 Hits a New Record High, Powered by Tech–and Not Much Else (www.wsj.com)
Licensing costs driving 90 percent of VMware users to explore options: Survey (arstechnica.com)
Vanishing Crossword (wordmaze.dev)
LGTM: A parody of modern AI adoption in the tech industry [video] (www.youtube.com)
The one ring problem: abstraction and our quest for power (2018) (www.tedinski.com)
Python none coalescing? and? pep 824 (peps.python.org)
Jaguar targets young Americans with Type 01 EV – it''s too long for UK parking (www.theguardian.com)
Tescreal hallucinations: Psychedelic and AI hype as inequality engines (akjournals.com)
Reframe an AI Short Film [video] (www.youtube.com)
A cyberpunk HUD overlay for Discord in pure Vanilla JavaScript (github.com)
OMG''s Meta-Object Facility (www.omg.org)
OpenAI unleashes hundreds more math results upon a field in shock (www.scientificamerican.com)
The things I wanted to make (christophermeiklejohn.com)
Software developers are not okay [video] (www.youtube.com)
I was tired of tracking expenses across 3 different apps, so I built WeSpend (play.google.com)
Gigabyte B300 Workstation PC (www.gigabyte.com)
Build and deploy iOS apps from Omarchy Linux (github.com)
Tmux as Agent Habitat (www.ikangai.com)
Toketer – See what every AI prompt costs you, live in your editor (marketplace.visualstudio.com)
The Eternal Complement (openai.com)
Shaders, WebGPU Components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, JavaScript and Framer (github.com)
Insane Clown Posse Address Killer Clown Epidemic Across America (www.yahoo.com)
Chess Openings by Nationality (jamesshapiro.com)
Sharded, encrypted storage between friends over Yggdrasil (github.com)
We Asked Starbucks Why Their ''Sugar-Free'' Drinks Have Sugar (gizmodo.com)
Is Criminal Forensics Bullshit? (nautil.us)
I tried connecting a 3.5mm jack directly to a speaker: My first audio amplifier (ajseven.me)
AWS Large Payment Verification Amount (www.reddit.com)
Calling It Quits on ServerFault (sysadmin1138.net)
Backdooring Sparse Autoencoders (arxiv.org)
Revisiting Soundness for Occurrence Typing, Semantically (arxiv.org)
Claude Isn''t Allowed to Write Me Prose (blog.kvit.app)
The art of defusing a second world war bomb (www.theguardian.com)
Ichneumon eumerus (en.wikipedia.org)
Jev isn''t a better judge than Claude (deeplearningguy.github.io)
Agentty is still the best way to manage agentic sessions (github.com)
Building Rome from a Single Image (build-rome.github.io)
2D Vehicles (Driving Physics in GTA1) (patkerr.co.uk)
Sierra Club sues San Francisco, claims city is fabricating its water needs (www.sfchronicle.com)
OpenWAM: An Open Framework for Composable World-Action Models (openwam.stanford.edu)
Nano Banana 2.1 API at 0.03 per image, same price at 1K, 2K and 4K (reapi.ai)
I''m 47th in line to speak to someone at AIG about a lost Apple Watch (www.reddit.com)
La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993 (session replay) (nanochess.org)
WSJ: OAI Just Cracked Hundreds More Math Problems (www.wsj.com)
Do you like hard problems? (sunilpai.dev)
Xbox has secured exclusive GTA 6 streaming rights (www.theverge.com)
The Growth Factor of Random Matrices – John Urschel [pdf] (math.mit.edu)
Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey''s new Pentagon roles raise ethics worries (text.npr.org)
Triage GitHub Pull Requests with OpenAI''s Decisions API (vercel.com)
Commonhour, free group scheduling that ends with a real calendar invite (commonhour.io)
Mastering SIMD with Java Vector API (lemire.me)
Contamos – a shared multi-currency ledger your AI assistant can read and write (contamos.xyz)
Grok Bot 101 [video] (www.youtube.com)
Dotdotboard, DOTS n NON DOTS unite (www.dotdotboard.com)
GDELT: Real-time database of global human society for open research (gdeltproject.org)
I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it''s my Home Assistant dashboard (antonfrolov.substack.com)
Boston Dynamics Appoints Rohit Prasad as Chief Executive Officer (bostondynamics.com)
The Zizians [video] (www.youtube.com)
The Unmillenium Problems (twitter.com)
Jev-Driven SRE Diagnosis: What Worked and What Failed (www.sregym.com)
The Source Code Is the Detailed Design (wiki.c2.com)
Jev-as-a-Judge for Agent Evaluations (academy.dair.ai)
Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model (strandsagents.com)
Surname Law (en.wikipedia.org)
ESP32-C3 Adblock (github.com)
San Francisco hits pause on data centers (sfstandard.com)
Near-Earth Asteroid 2026 TB3 Provides Valuable Insight into Close Approaches (www.astrophyzix.com)
Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years (phys.org)
Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald (www.cbc.ca)
China''s LinkedIn Espionage Is Only Getting More Advanced (thediplomat.com)
My Husband Has Found a New "Helper" During His Solo Time. It''s My Nemesis (slate.com)
The Hardest Part of Using AI (www.makonea.com)
Llama.cpp and WebGPU Client-side LLMs [video] (www.youtube.com)
The Architecture of Digital Sovereignty (freedom.czr.one)
Would you quit sleeping if you could? (endsdontjustifythemeans.com)
Researchers Backdoor Open AI Model to Steal Credentials in Coding Agents (projectdiscovery.io)
Discrete Fourier Transform faster than n log n [pdf] (github.com)
Suprise bill from my Object Storage provider (jeena.net)
GNU/Linux Has Risen in France Since the Order to Adopt It (In Public Services) (techrights.org)
Emergence of pan-drug resistant Candidozyma auris in Kenya (www.nature.com)
Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis (www.sciencedaily.com)