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Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D
rykap.com

Ryan Kaplan - Software Engineer at Figma. Previously at Dropbox. Studied Math/CS at Brown University.

Mixpanel Security Breach
mixpanel.com

Insights for digital builders

The Nerd Reich – Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy
simonandschuster.com
Linux Kernel Explorer
reverser.dev

reverser.dev - Interactive Linux kernel source code browser with guided learning paths.

Music eases surgery and speeds recovery, study finds
bbc.com

A new study finds patients who listen to music during surgery wake faster and need fewer painkillers.

Coq: The World's Best Macro Assembler? [pdf] [2013]
nickbenton.name
DIY NAS: 2026 Edition
blog.briancmoses.com

An 8-bay DIY NAS with 10GbE networking, TrueNAS 25.10.1, an Intel N355 CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a smallish form factor that occupies less than 20 liters of your office space.

Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
nytimes.com
Penpot: The Open-Source Figma
github.com/penpot

Penpot: The open-source design tool for design and code collaboration - penpot/penpot

Functional Data Structures and Algorithms: a Proof Assistant Approach
fdsa-book.net
Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
ziglang.org
The Tesla Model Y Just Scored the Worst Reliability Rating in a Decade
autoblog.com
DSP 101 Part 1: An Introductory Course in DSP System Design
analog.com
Has the bailout of generative AI begun?
garymarcus.substack.com

Gary Marcus - Or is pouring a pile of government money in just a coincidence?

AdBlock and Signal are for terrorists, according to French govt (2023) [video]
youtube.com
Crypto hoarders dump tokens as shares tumble
arstechnica.com

Several companies are selling crypto stockpiles in effort to fund share buybacks, shore up stock prices.

Ilya Sutskever, Yann LeCun and the End of “Just Add GPUs”
abzglobal.net

When two of the most influential people in AI both say that today’s large language models are hitting their limits , it’s worth paying attention. In a recent long-form interview, Ilya Sutskever – co-founder of OpenAI and now head of Safe Superintelligence Inc. – argued that the industry is movin

C100 Developer Terminal
caligra.com

The Linux®-powered computer designed to accelerate your work.

Running Unsupported iOS on Deprecated Devices
nyansatan.github.io
Bring bathroom doors back to hotels
bringbackdoors.com

Bring Bathroom Doors Back to Hotels

EU Council approves Chat Control mandate for negotiation with Parliament
techradar.com

The agreement follows more than three years of disagreements

The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop
arstechnica.com

Google’s Pixel 10 works with AirDrop, and other phones should follow later.

AirDrop support for Pixel 10 likely exists because of the EU ruling
9to5google.com

Will Sattelberg - Out of nowhere, Google brought cross-platform AirDrop support to the Pixel 10 this week, allowing the company’s latest lineup of...

Why 90s Movies Feel More Alive Than Anything on Netflix
afranca.com.br

Andre Franca - Tags: #Blogging #ClassicCinema #ModernMovies #Netflix #Streaming I was rewatching The Silence of the Lambs the other night, and somethin...

Crews claim Boring Company failed to pay workers and snubbed OSHA concerns
nashvillebanner.com

Sarah Grace Taylor - Willie Shane and his crew walk off the Music City Loop project, citing safety concerns and payment issues with The Boring Company.

The most male and female reasons to end up hospital
leobenedictus.substack.com

Leo Benedictus - In which some stereotypes are resoundingly confirmed

S&box is now an open source game engine
sbox.game
Don't Download Apps
blog.calebjay.com
Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window
tyler.io
Fara-7B: An efficient agentic model for computer use
github.com/microsoft

Contribute to microsoft/fara development by creating an account on GitHub.

China Has Three Reusable Rockets Ready for Their Debut Flights
china-in-space.com

Jack C. - One of the three launch vehicles will be China’s first and the first outside the United States.

A temporary victory – but we still need to stop Chat Control
mullvad.net

An important victory – but we still need to stop Chat Control.

Gemini CLI Tips and Tricks for Agentic Coding
github.com/addyosmani

Gemini CLI Tips and Tricks. Contribute to addyosmani/gemini-cli-tips development by creating an account on GitHub.

Investors expect AI use to soar. That's not happening
economist.com
Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–managed servers
scaleway.com

From desktop to datacenter: how Scaleway turns Apple's Mac mini into a fully managed, high-performance cloud server for macOS and iOS developers.

GrapheneOS is leaving France after receiving threats from law enforcement
grapheneos.social

We no longer have any active servers in France and are continuing the process of leaving OVH. We'll be rotating our TLS keys and Let's Encrypt account keys pinned via accounturi. DNSSEC keys may also be rotated. Our backups are encrypted and can remain on OVH for now.

DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's why
xda-developers.com

There are a lot of reasons to be skeptical.

A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team
cendyne.dev

We lost the capitalism game and they're trying to get a second wind through a broken vibe-coded SaaS platform.

Cloudflare outage should not have happened
ebellani.github.io

Yet again, another global IT outage happen (deja vu strikes again in our industry). This time at cloudflare(Prince 2025). Again, taking down large swats of the internet with it(Booth 2025). And yes, like my previous analysis of the GCP and CrowdStrike’s outages, this post critiques Cloudflare’s root cause analysis (RCA), which — despite providing a great overview of what happened — misses the real lesson. Here’s the

Slop Detective – Fight the Slop Syndicate
slopdetective.kagi.com

Fight the Slop Syndicate!

Slashdot effect
en.wikipedia.org
From blood sugar to brain relief: GLP-1 therapy slashes migraine frequency
medlink.com

A diabetes medication that lowers brain fluid pressure has cut monthly migraine days by more than half

KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support
phoronix.com
MIT study finds AI can replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
cnbc.com
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030
ft.com

A burning platform

Compressed filesystems à la language models
grohan.co

Ronalds Vilcins - https://grohan.co - Every systems engineer at some point in their journey yearns to write a filesystem. This sounds daunting at first - and writing a battle-tested filesystem is hard - but the minimal surface area for a “working” FS is surprisingly small, simple, and in-distribution for coding agents. In fact, one of my smoke tests for new coding models is seeing how good of a filesystem they can one-shot! At some point, I had quite a f

Justice dept. requires RealPage end sharing competitively sensitive information
justice.gov

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division filed a proposed settlement today to resolve the United States’ claims against RealPage Inc. as part of its ongoing enforcement against algorithmic coordination, information sharing, and other anticompetitive practices in rental housing markets across the country. The proposed settlement would help restore free market competition in

There may not be a safe off-ramp for some taking GLP-1 drugs, study suggests
arstechnica.com

In trial, 82% saw weight rebound and cardiovascular health reverse after withdrawal.

Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth
scienceclock.com
I DM'd a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign
medium.com
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being 'AI free'
theverge.com

Ash Parrish - “We can produce results that meet our quality standards without its assistance.”

Kagi Hub Belgrade
blog.kagi.com
Qiskit open-source SDK for working with quantum computers
github.com/Qiskit

Qiskit is an open-source SDK for working with quantum computers at the level of extended quantum circuits, operators, and primitives. - Qiskit/qiskit

EU council reaches position on Chat Control
consilium.europa.eu
Await Is Not a Context Switch: Understanding Python's Coroutines vs. Tasks
mergify.com

Python’s async model is misunderstood, especially by engineers coming from JS or C#. In Python, awaiting a coroutine doesn’t yield to the event loop. Only tasks create concurrency. This post explains why that distinction matters and how it affects locking, design, and correctness.

I don't care how well your "AI" works
fokus.cool
A cell so minimal that it challenges definitions of life
quantamagazine.org

The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by genome sequencing.

Statistical Process Control in Python
timothyfraser.com

Timothy Fraser, PhD - Your online textbook for learning reliability and six sigma techniques in R and Python! Made for Cornell University Course SYSEN 5300.

AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same price [video]
youtube.com
Image Diffusion Models Exhibit Emergent Temporal Propagation in Videos
arxiv.org

Image diffusion models, though originally developed for image generation, implicitly capture rich semantic structures that enable various recognition and localization tasks beyond synthesis. In this work, we investigate their self-attention maps can be reinterpreted as semantic label propagation kernels, providing robust pixel-level correspondences between relevant image regions. Extending this mechanism across frame

ICE Arrests the Press
petapixel.com

Pesala Bandara - A GoFundMe campaign has been set up to help him with the costs.

OpenAI needs to raise $207B by 2030 so it can continue to lose money
ft.com

A burning platform

Modder who put Thomas the Tank Engine into Skyrim flips the bird at lawyers
gamesradar.com

"I sometimes feel like I need to milk a particular joke until its inevitable demise"

Space Truckin' – The Nostromo (2012)
alienseries.wordpress.com

“I was really influenced by three films,” Ridley Scott told Fantastic Films in 1979, on the subject of the Nostromo and its claustrophobic corridors. “Not so much in terms of Star…

Show HN: A WordPress plugin that rewrites image URLs for near-zero-cost delivery
wordpress.org
show

Serve images from Cloudflare's global CDN. Zero egress fees, one-click setup, works with any theme.

BebboSSH: SSH2 implementation for Amiga systems (68000, GPLv3)
franke.ms
Space: 1999 – Special Effects Techniques
catacombs.space1999.net
Meta Execs Privately Compared Instagram to Addictive Drug, Court Filing Shows
nationalreview.com

The court filing is part of a years-old lawsuit alleging that major social media companies knowingly created products that would harm teen mental health.

CS234: Reinforcement Learning Winter 2025
web.stanford.edu
The gruesome new data on tech jobs
businessinsider.com

Alistair Barr - A new report from Indeed shows tech jobs, and especially data analytics roles, have fallen dramatically in recent years.

The Generative Burrito Test
generativist.com

A critical benchmark for image generation models: A partially eaten burrito with cheese, sour cream, guacamole, lettuce, salsa, pinto beans, and chicken.

Notes on the Troubleshooting and Repair of Computer and Video Monitors
repairfaq.org
Reinventing how .NET builds and ships (again)
devblogs.microsoft.com

Matt Mitchell - An exploration of how .NET evolved from a distributed build system to Unified Build, dramatically reducing complexity and build times while improving flexibility and predictability for shipping .NET releases.

Show HN: KiDoom – Running DOOM on PCB Traces
mikeayles.com
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What they don't tell you about maintaining an open source project
andrej.sh

i built kaneo.app - an open source, self-hosted kanban board. turns out shipping code is the easy part. here's what maintaining it actually looks like.

Ironwood, our latest TPU
blog.google

Google’s seventh-gen Tensor Processing Unit is here! Learn what makes Ironwood our most powerful and energy-efficient custom silicon to date.

Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
jayd.ml

Jayden Milne - In my recent analysis of YouTube’s information density I included the results from an advanced statistical analysis on the number of videos present on the home page, which projected that around May 2026 there would only be one lonely video on the home screen.

Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance"
pluralistic.net
ZoomInfo CEO blocks researcher after documenting pre-consent biometric tracking
github.com/clark-prog

Blackout — The Official Blackout Public FAFO Repo. - clark-prog/blackout-public

ICE Offers Up to $280M to Immigrant-Tracking 'Bounty Hunter' Firms
wired.com

Dell Cameron - Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.

This blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem (2021)
blog.nns.ee
A new bridge links the math of infinity to computer science
quantamagazine.org

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms.

The Bughouse Effect
tsvibt.blogspot.com

What happens when you work closely with someone on a really difficult project—and then they seem to just fuck it up? This is a post about t...

Unison 1.0
unison-lang.org

After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to the future of Unison.

IQ differences of identical twins reared apart are influenced by education
sciencedirect.com
Bad UX World Cup 2025
badux.lol

Build a bad date picker and win a shit trophy! Presented by Nordcraft.

Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack
promptarmor.com

An indirect prompt injection in an implementation blog can manipulate Antigravity to invoke a malicious browser subagent in order to steal credentials and sensitive code from a user’s IDE.

Show HN: StepKit, an open and cross-platform durable execution standard
news.ycombinator.com
show
Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor
github.com/flowglad
show

Open source payments + billing infrastructure. Contribute to flowglad/flowglad development by creating an account on GitHub.

It is ok to say "CSS variables" instead of "custom properties"
blog.kizu.dev

Roma Komarov - TPAC 2025 just ended, and I am positively tired. Attending it remotely, my sleep schedule is chaotic right now. I have many ideas for CSS-related posts in my list of ideas for November, but almost all of them require at least some amount of research and crafting demos. Well! I found one note that I wanted to expand on, and which sounds tiny enough to be able to finish it in my altered state.

Stop Telling Us XMPP Should Use JSON
process-one.net

XML vs. JSON: Stop Worrying About the Wrong Layer

Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
dwarkesh.com

Dwarkesh Patel - “These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”

US banks scramble to assess data theft after hackers breach financial tech firm
techcrunch.com

Zack Whittaker - U.S. banking giants including JPMorgan Chase, Citi, and Morgan Stanley are working to identify what data was stolen in a recent cyberattack on a New York financial firm.

Unifying our mobile and desktop domains
techblog.wikimedia.org
EU set to adopt ChatControl negotiating mandate tomorrow without discussion
digitalcourage.social

🇪🇺EU government ambassadors set to adopt #ChatControl negotiating mandate tomorrow without discussion, including "voluntary" mass scanning and anonymity-destroying age verification. https://www.parlament.gv.at/dokument/XXVIII/EU/46204/imfname_11544887.pdf The protest continues next year! https://chatcontrol.eu 💪

Python is not a great language for data science
blog.genesmindsmachines.com

Claus Wilke - It may be a good language for data science, but it’s not a great one.

Ozempic does not slow Alzheimer's, study finds
semafor.com

Novo Nordisk’s shares fell 6% on the news.

Orion 1.0
blog.kagi.com
Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse
platformer.news

What is the role of tech journalism in a world where CEOs no longer feel shame?

New layouts with CSS Subgrid
joshwcomeau.com

Josh W. Comeau - Subgrid allows us to extend a grid template down through the DOM tree, so that deeply-nested elements can participate in the same grid layout. At first glance, I thought this would be a helpful convenience, but it turns out that it’s so much more. Subgrid unlocks exciting new layout possibilities, stuff we couldn’t do until now. ✨

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