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52 Year old data tape could contain Unix history
theregister.com

: It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C

Authorities Shut Down Film Festival in New York
hrw.org

Chinese authorities harassed several dozen Chinese film directors and producers, as well as their families in China, causing them to pull films from the inaugural IndieChina Film Festival in New York City.

$1T in Tech Stocks Sold Off as Market Grows Skeptical of AI
gizmodo.com

Lucas Ropek - What do bubbles do?

Ticker: Don't Die of Heart Disease
myticker.com

by Jared Hecht (blog, linkedin, twitter)

Zig is so cool, C is cooler
github.com/little-book-of

A concise, structured guide to the C programming language. - little-book-of/c

Sam Altman Is Getting Desperate and It Is Starting to Show
tickerfeed.net
Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interface
github.com/aristocratos

A monitor of resources. Contribute to aristocratos/btop development by creating an account on GitHub.

Why Sam Altman Won't Be on the Hook for OpenAI's Spending Spree
forbes.com

Rashi Shrivastava - OpenAI has gone wild with compute deals this year, committing to spend far more than its balance sheet can currently sustain. So who takes the fall if it can’t pay? It won’t be Altman.

AI benchmarks are a bad joke – and LLM makers are the ones laughing
theregister.com

: Study finds many tests don't measure the right things

Things I've Heard Boomers Say That I Agree with 100%
wildingout.substack.com

Robin Wilding - Come shake your fist at the sky with us…

My friends and I accidentally faked the Ryzen 7 9700X3D leaks
reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace
Making Democracy Work: Fixing and Simplifying Egalitarian Paxos
arxiv.org

Classical state-machine replication protocols, such as Paxos, rely on a distinguished leader process to order commands. Unfortunately, this approach makes the leader a single point of failure and increases the latency for clients that are not co-located with it. As a response to these drawbacks, Egalitarian Paxos introduced an alternative, leaderless approach, that allows replicas to order commands collaboratively. N

Apple's "notarisation" – blocking software freedom of developers and users
fsfe.org

The EU’s Digital Markets Act is supposed to shake up the power of tech giants by giving developers and users more choice. Apple’s “notarisation” of mobile ...

Oddest ChatGPT leaks yet: Cringey chat logs found in Google Analytics tool
arstechnica.com

ChatGPT leaks seem to confirm OpenAI scrapes Google, expert says.

Local First Htmx
elijahm.com

Overview Part 2 is now ready There is a common refrain on the internet that things have gotten worse and are continuing to get worse. There is a proliferation of horrible jumpy loading ads on every website, every search engine throws a crappy AI summary in front of your search result, every site/webapp seems to have gotten slower and slower. I cannot provide a solution for all of that, but I can point to a better par

The Milky Way is probably full of dead civilizations
livescience.com
Why Sam Altman was booted from OpenAI, according to new testimony
theverge.com

Hayden Field - OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever was deposed by Elon Musk’s lawyers.

Sam Altman's pants are on fire
garymarcus.substack.com

Gary Marcus - Even for him, his latest whopper is something

Israel dumps millions into geo targeting evangelicals in churches and ChatGPT
disclose.tv

Breaking news from around the world.

Running a 68060 CPU in Quadra 650
github.com/ZigZagJoe

Running a 68060 CPU in Quadra 650. Contribute to ZigZagJoe/Macintosh-Q650-68060 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Older Adults Outnumber Children in 11 States
census.gov

US Census Bureau - The U.S. population age 65 and older rose by 3.1% (to 61.2 million) while the population under age 18 decreased by 0.2% (to 73.1 million) from 2023 to 2024.

Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta
mullvad.net

On November 27, 2025, we will shut down our search proxy, Leta.

Immutable Software Deploys Using ZFS Jails on FreeBSD
conradresearch.com

Conrad Research -  An article demonstrating immutable software deployments using ZFS snapshots and FreeBSD jails, with Caddy as a health‑checked reverse proxy for zero‑downtime upgrades.

A new threat: Being replaced by someone who knows AI
wsj.com
Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance
github.com/Snapchat

Valdi is a cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance without sacrificing developer velocity. - Snapchat/Valdi

Cerebras Code now supports GLM 4.6 at 1000 tokens/sec
cerebras.ai

Cerebras is the go-to platform for fast and effortless AI training. Learn more at cerebras.ai.

Analysis of Hedy Lamarr's Contribution to Spread-Spectrum Communication
researchers.one
Jensen Huang's Stark Warning: China's 1M AI Workers vs. America's 20k
entropytown.com

entropytown - Nvidia CEO's leaked private dinner remarks in Taipei expose a 50-to-1 talent gap and warn that US export controls are accelerating—not stopping—China's AI race.

Why is Zig so cool?
nilostolte.github.io
FAA to restrict commercial rocket launches to overnight hours
space.com

Restrictions begin just after NASA's upcoming mission to Mars.

AI Capabilities May Be Overhyped on Bogus Benchmarks, Study Finds
gizmodo.com

AJ Dellinger - They're dumber than you think and they might be cheating.

How a devboard works (and how to make your own)
kaipereira.com

This is a really in-depth tutorial on how to make your own Raspberry Pi Pico clone! Learn fundamental PCB design, make a cool project, and learn how to solder!

He Jiankui PhD Thesis: Spontaneous Emergence of Hierarchy in Biological Systems (2010)
repository.rice.edu
Using the Web Monetization API for fun and profit
blog.tomayac.com

The personal blog of Thomas Steiner

Becoming a compiler engineer
rona.substack.com

Rona Wang - I got a job!

AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service
christianheilmann.com
YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'
news.itsfoss.com

When will these Big Tech platforms learn?

VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025
fsfe.org

The FSFE and LUGBZ have recognized VLC president and core developer with this European award for his long-term dedication to the project. What began as a s...

Ribir: Non-intrusive GUI framework for Rust/WASM
github.com/RibirX

Non-intrusive GUI framework for Rust/WASM. Contribute to RibirX/Ribir development by creating an account on GitHub.

Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line
kensegall.com
How did I get here?
how-did-i-get-here.net

A cool-as-shit dynamic traceroute powered by custom software, married with an informative article about how the BGP routing protocol works and guides the shape of the Internet.

James Watson has died
nytimes.com
Ruby already solved my problem
newsletter.masilotti.com

Joe Masilotti - One great question in office hours led me to delete a whole class.

Sam Altman Subpoenaed on Stage
twitter.com
Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages
github.com/sayyadirfanali

monospace typeface designed for symbol-rich programming - sayyadirfanali/Myna

Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts
gtaforums.com

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-31/-grand-theft-auto-studio-accused-of-union-busting-after-firings?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MTkzOTg3MSwiZXhwIjoxNzYyNTQ0NjcxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNTBISEpHUFFRNkMwMCIsI...

Notes on Being a Man
profgalloway.com

Scott Galloway - Donald Trump pulled off a stunning political comeback because of … young men. While the Democrats ignored this demographic, the far right rushed in to fill the void, flooding the manosphere with rockets, Hulk Hogan, coarseness, and crypto. The last presidential election was supposed to be a referendum on women’s rights. It wasn’t. It was […]

Gmail AI gets more intrusive
daveverse.org

Gmail doesn't just offer to write your emails for you, they actually do it, and it's up to you to delete the text it wrote. Hard to make a screen shot to demo without revealing personal i…

Vodafone Germany is killing the open internet – one peering connection at a time
coffee.link

The telecom giant claims its exit from public internet exchanges will give customers "lower latencies." The evidence suggests they're in for a nightmare.

Angel Investors, a Field Guide
jeanyang.com

I’ve been lucky to work with some of the best angel investors in the business. When I started Akita, my angel investors were my mentor Jason Hong, superangel Elad Gil, #ANGELS co-founder Jana Messerschmidt, Eventbrite co-founders Kevin and Julia Hartz, Stanford professor Dan Boneh, and NBA player Kevin Durant. I became a more well-prepared and well-connected founder thanks to my angel investors. When I first became a

Nasdaq 100 set for worst week since April meltdown
fortune.com

Rita Nazareth,Bloomberg - A risk-off week on Wall Street is drawing to a close, with some of the most-expensive areas of the market driving stocks lower.

Y Combinator Startup brings brainrot to developers' IDEs
cladlabs.ai

Experience the next generation of AI-powered development.

Toxic Salton Sea dust triggers changes in lung microbiome after just one week
phys.org

Dust from California's drying Salton Sea doesn't just smell bad. Scientists from UC Riverside found that breathing the dust can quickly re-shape the microscopic world inside the lungs.

3I/ATLAS shows perihelion burst and radial-only non-gravitational acceleration
reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful
Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15
apnews.com

Denmark's government has announced a plan to ban social media access for anyone under 15. The Ministry of Digitalization has led the move, allowing some parents to consent for children as young as 13 after assessment.

Pressured on Israel work, Microsoft asks employees to flag violations
detroitnews.com

The move is the latest from Microsoft after months of probes into how the Israel Ministry of Defense was using the company's Azure cloud technology.

A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'
nytimes.com
Inside Cursor
joincolossus.com

Sixty days with the AI coding decacorn

Claude Is Down
status.claude.com
Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls his company the first to be 'completely anti-woke'
businessinsider.com

Julia Hornstein - Palantir sees "accelerating and otherworldly growth" as CEO Alex Karp highlights working with ICE and supporting Israel on an earnings call.

Why I love OCaml (2023)
mccd.space
"Green Llama" did not just beat Cascade Platinum Plus
foxchapelresearch.substack.com

Fox Chapel Research - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

I'm making a small RPG and I need feeback regarding performance
jslegenddev.substack.com

JSLegendDev - This past month, I’ve been working secretly on a small RPG game.

OpenMW 0.50.0 Released – open-source Morrowind reimplementation
openmw.org

The OpenMW team is proud to announce the release of version 0.50.0 of our open-source engine! Grab it from our Downloads Page for all supported operating systems. This round number release overhaul…

White House rules out bailout for AI as bubble fears grow
telegraph.co.uk
We chose OCaml to write Stategraph
stategraph.dev

OCaml's type system catches state corruption at compile time. Type-safe SQL, automatic serialization, and immutability by default prevent entire categories of bugs.

Is Software the UFOlogy of Engineering Disciplines?
codemanship.wordpress.com

One area where software development lags far behind other technical design disciplines like electronic and mechanical engineering is in standards of evidence. To illustrate what I mean, I want to t…

Subway sandwich thrower found not guilty in D.C. jury rebuke
npr.org

The acquittal on a misdemeanor charge comes after the case came to represent broader resistance in the nation's capital to the Trump administration's law enforcement surge.

From Memorization to Reasoning in the Spectrum of Loss Curvature
arxiv.org

We characterize how memorization is represented in transformer models and show that it can be disentangled in the weights of both language models (LMs) and vision transformers (ViTs) using a decomposition based on the loss landscape curvature. This insight is based on prior theoretical and empirical work showing that the curvature for memorized training points is much sharper than non memorized, meaning ordering weig

Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams
sherwood.news

The report shows that the company was hesitant to crack down harder on scams, due to the billions in revenue that they were generating for Meta....

Parents say ChatGPT encouraged son to kill himself
edition.cnn.com
Video games can alter reality
particle.scitech.org.au

Tom Gurn - Tetris is more than just a game.

Majority of teens hold negative views of news media, says report
niemanlab.org

About half of the teens surveyed believe that journalists frequently “make up details, such as quotes” and “pay for sources.”

A startup’s quest to store electricity in the ocean
techcrunch.com

Tim De Chant - Sizable Energy has a plan to store excess renewable energy in flexible reservoirs out at sea. The startup has raised $8 million to test prototypes.

Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site
prison.josh.mn
Leaving Meta and PyTorch
soumith.ch
JermCAD: Browser-Based CAD Software
github.com/jeremyaboyd

A YAML-powered, vibe-coded, browser-based CAD software - jeremyaboyd/jerm-cad

Dead Framework Theory
aifoc.us

These are my opinions and are ruminations on what might be happening as more and more developers use LLMs and Frameworks to build on the web. In October last year I wrote “will developers care about frameworks in the future?” predicting that LLMs would abstract away framework choice. I was wrong—or at least, wrong about the timeline. The reality is more interesting and more permanent: React isn’t competing with other

A Fond Farewell
farmersalmanac.com

Farmers' Almanac Staff - After more than 200 years of sharing wit and wisdom, the 2026 Farmers' Almanac will be our last edition. But our story stays alive in you.

A prvalue is not a temporary
blog.knatten.org

This is part one of a series of blog posts on temporaries, copies, return value optimization, and passing by value vs. reference. A good place to start, and the point of this first article, is how …

A File Format Uncracked for 20 Years
landaire.net

"I’ve had enough reasonable file formats fired at me in my time to tell you that wasn’t one" - Sam Fisher

HTML Slides with notes
nbd.neocities.org
Time Immemorial turns 750: The Medieval law that froze history at 1189
ianvisits.co.uk

You’ve probably heard of the phrase “time immemorial” as a general term for events that happened a very long time ago, but in fact, it has a specific meaning, and this year is its 750th anniversary.

A Note on Fil-C
graydon2.dreamwidth.org
I Use Typst Now
christopherbiscardi.com
IRS halts Direct File and points to other free services
wsj.com
Scientists find ways to boost memory in aging brains
news.vt.edu

In two separate studies, Virginia Tech researchers identified age-related molecular changes in the brain and adjusted them to improve memory.

Is Vibe Coding Dying?
garymarcus.substack.com

Gary Marcus - Amateurs might not be replacing teams of coders, after all

The secret campaign to silence critics of a hospital real estate empire
motherjones.com

When skeptics called out Medical Properties Trust, they found themselves harassed—and surveilled.

Man who threw sandwich at US border agent not guilty of assault
bbc.com

Sean Dunn's attorney acknowledged he threw the sandwich, but argued it was a "harmless gesture".

Game design is simple
raphkoster.com

So, let’s just walk through the whole thing, end to end. Here’s a twelve-step program for understanding game design. One: Fun There are a lot of things people call “fun.” But most of them are not u…

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani's policies as 'normal'
theguardian.com

Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

The Learning Loop and LLMs
martinfowler.com
Tesla Shareholders Approve Elon Musk's $1T Pay Package
wsj.com
Unix v4 Tape Found
discuss.systems

Attached: 1 image While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973 Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum #retrocomputing

Analysis indicates that the universe’s expansion is not accelerating
ras.ac.uk

Florin Simion @Yonescat - The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously thought, a new study suggests. "Remarkab...

You should write an agent
fly.io

They're like riding a bike: easy, and you don't get it until you try.

Two billion email addresses were exposed
troyhunt.com

I hate hyperbolic news headlines about data breaches, but for the "2 Billion Email Addresses" headline to be hyperbolic, it'd need to be exaggerated or overstated - and it isn't. It's rounded up from the more precise number of 1,957,476,021 unique email addresses, but other than that,

UK outperforms US in creating unicorns from early stage VC investment
cityam.com

Maisie Grice - The UK has created nearly three times as many unicorns than the US per dollar in early stage venture capital investment

Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted
wired.com

Caroline Haskins - Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken tipped them over the edge.

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