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Pebble, Rebble, and a Path Forward
ericmigi.com

Eric Migicovsky - Pebble, Rebble, and a Path Forward

Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors
arxiv.org

LLMs have achieved remarkable breakthroughs in reasoning, insights, and tool use, but chaining these abilities into extended processes at the scale of those routinely executed by humans, organizations, and societies has remained out of reach. The models have a persistent error rate that prevents scale-up: for instance, recent experiments in the Towers of Hanoi benchmark domain showed that the process inevitably becom

A day at Hetzner online in the Falkenstein data center
igorslab.de

Igor Wallossek - My visit to Hetzner Online in Falkenstein goes far beyond a tour of a single server, as the site reveals an impressive combination of industrial precision, tech

5 Things to Try with Gemini 3 Pro in Gemini CLI
developers.googleblog.com
Google Brings Gemini 3 AI Model to Search and AI Mode
blog.google

Learn more about Gemini 3 and how it’s upgrading Google Search and AI Mode.

Google Antigravity
antigravity.google

Google Antigravity - Build the new way

Gemini 3 for developers: New reasoning, agentic capabilities
blog.google

Gemini 3 is introducing advanced agentic coding capabilities, plus Google Antigravity, a new agentic development platform.

Gemini 3
blog.google

Today we’re releasing Gemini 3 – our most intelligent model that helps you bring any idea to life.

Google Antigravity
antigravity.google

Google Antigravity - Build the new way

Gemini 3
blog.google
Short Little Difficult Books
countercraft.substack.com

Lincoln Michel - Novels that challenge with style, story, or form that you can read in a day.

Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright
bbc.com

The study, commissioned by the Department for Transport, was completed by Berkshire's TRL.

Experiment: Making TypeScript Immutable-by-Default
evanhahn.com

I got it working with arrays and records, but couldn't make it work for regular objects.

'Fear really drives him': is Alex Karp of Palantir the world's scariest CEO?
theguardian.com

His company is potentially creating the ultimate state surveillance tool, and Karp has recently been on a striking political and philosophical journey. His biographer reveals what makes him tick

Ruby 4.0.0 Preview2 Released
ruby-lang.org
Only Criminals Don't Want to Be Gassed by the Government
popehat.com

Ken White at Popehat Report - The Tellingly Pathetic Case Against Alejandro Orellana

Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to
huijzer.xyz

My blog containing posts about open source software, statistics, history, and related topics

Multiple Digital Ocean services down
status.digitalocean.com
GoSign Desktop RCE flaws affecting users in Italy
ush.it
Mathematics and Computation (2019) [pdf]
math.ias.edu
Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
cloudflarestatus.com
Gemini 3 Pro Model Card
pixeldrain.com

This file has been shared with you on pixeldrain

Cloudflare Down?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
cloudflarestatus.com
Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]
storage.googleapis.com
The Miracle of Wörgl
scf.green
Comparing Android Alternatives: Lineage OS, ∕E∕OS, and Graphene OS
kevinboone.me
How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack
fabiensanglard.net
PayPal bans Linux users with a GPU name containing the string "Apple M1"
vt.social

Soooo... PayPal is banning Asahi Linux users. Hey, can you maybe not do that please? https://gist.github.com/asahilina/31dd6bf3cde26a51e0fc1414e1abe730 Yes, they ban Linux users with a GPU name containing the string "Apple M1". Anything else works. Edit: To be clear they're banning the platform from access, not individual accounts. This won't get your account banned. Edit 2: Alternate workaround: Spoof a Mac OS /

Google boss warns 'no company is going to be immune' if AI bubble bursts
bbc.com

The AI boom has been an "extraordinary moment" but a subsequent bust would affect every company, CEO Sundar Pichai told the BBC.

The surprising benefits of giving up
nautil.us

Molly Glick - The Surprising Benefits of Giving Up: Ditching or adjusting goals in the face of adversity might often be the best thing for us.

LeJEPA: Provable and Scalable Self-Supervised Learning Without the Heuristics
arxiv.org

Learning manipulable representations of the world and its dynamics is central to AI. Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) offer a promising blueprint, but lack of practical guidance and theory has led to ad-hoc R&D. We present a comprehensive theory of JEPAs and instantiate it in {\bf LeJEPA}, a lean, scalable, and theoretically grounded training objective. First, we identify the isotropic Gaussian as

Core Devices keeps stealing our work
rebble.io
Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions
github.com/rust9x

UNOFFICIAL "Tier 4" Rust target for Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista. - rust9x/rust

Rebecca Heineman has died
pcgamer.com

Heineman's cancer fundraiser is now collecting for her funeral.

I caught Google Gemini using my data and then covering it up
unbuffered.stream

I asked Google Gemini a pretty basic developer question. The answer was unremarkable, apart from it mentioning in conclusion that it knows I previously used ...

RIP Rebecca Heineman
en.wikipedia.org
Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
windowslatest.com

Mayank Parmar - Microsoft is moving forward with its plans to turn Windows 11 into a full-fledged “AI” operating system amidst Copilot backlash. The first big move in that direction is an experimental feature called “Agent Workspace,” which gives AI agents access to the most-used folders in your directory, such as Desktop, Music, Pictures, and Videos. It will […]

Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files
github.com/kaushiksrini
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Contribute to kaushiksrini/parqeye development by creating an account on GitHub.

'Unremovable Israeli spyware' on your Samsung phone?
androidauthority.com

A recently rekindled controversy alleges that Samsung's preinstalled service, AppCloud, is used as an Israeli spyware.

Private equity firms are snapping up mobile home parks, driving out residents
theconversation.com

Cassie Powell - For residents who can’t afford to move, rising lot rents can mean losing everything.

More liberals, people of color and LGBTQ say they're buying guns out of fear
npr.org

The image of gun ownership in America has been white, rural and Republican, but that's been changing as more liberals and minorities have been buying guns, especially after the 2024 election.

Ion: Modern System Shell in Rust
github.com/redox-os

Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/ion - redox-os/ion

Run ancient UNIX on modern hardware
github.com/felipenlunkes

Easily run old versions of UNIX for PDP-11 on modern hardware - felipenlunkes/run-ancient-unix

Grok 4.1
x.ai

Grok 4.1 is now available to all users on grok.com, 𝕏, and the iOS and Android apps. It is rolling out immediately in Auto mode and can be selected explicitly as “Grok 4.1” in the model picker.

Compiling Ruby to machine language
patshaughnessy.net
Show HN: PrinceJS – 19,200 req/s Bun framework in 2.8 kB (built by a 13yo)
princejs.vercel.app
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19,200 req/s • 2.8 kB • Built by @Lil_Prince_1218 (13yo Nigeria)

An official atlas of North Korea
cartographerstale.com

Miguel García Álvarez - A North Korean atlas that shows the world from the perspective of one of the most isolated countries on the planet.

Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown
theguardian.com

Touts, and ordinary consumers, will no longer be able to charge anything more than price at which they bought ticket

EEG-based neurofeedback in athletes and non-athletes
mdpi.com
Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
bleepingcomputer.com

On October 24, 2025, Azure DDOS Protection automatically detected and mitigated a multi-vector DDoS attack measuring 15.72 Tbps and nearly 3.64 billion...

A new book about the origins of Effective Altruism
newrepublic.com

Kate Mabus - A new book recovers the origins of a movement recently championed by Sam Bankman-Fried.

The Baumol Effect and Jevons paradox are related
a16z.news

Alex Danco - The Baumol Effect and Jevons paradox are related

Cities panic over having to release mass surveillance recordings
neuburger.substack.com

Time to cheer a legal win against the surveillance state, here the use of massive spycams by a vendor called Flock.

How when AWS was down, we were not
authress.io

Nothing can have an unlimited uptime. But even when AWS and other hyperscalers are having incidents, we've created an architecture that is resilient to those outages. Here's how we do it for Authress.

Israeli-founded app preloaded on Samsung phones is attracting controversy
sammobile.com

Danny Dorresteijn - For years, Samsung has shipped its Galaxy M, F, and A series smartphones in India with a little-known app called AppCloud. Despite its name, AppCloud isn’t a cloud storage service. It’s essentially an app-installer that surfaces third-party app recommendations during device setup. On new Galaxy devices in these lineups, AppCloud appears as part of the […]

Why don't people return their shopping carts?
behavioralscientist.org

Hannah B. Waldfogel - For reasons I can’t fully explain, people’s failure to return their carts bothers me more than it probably should. But then I realized I can do something about it.

You can now buy used Ford vehicles on Amazon
theverge.com

Andrew J. Hawkins - Ford joins Hyundai in selling its vehicles on Amazon.

App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
404media.co

Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.

Living my best Sun Microsystems ecosystem life in 2025
osnews.com
Project Gemini
geminiprotocol.net
How to escape the Linux networking stack
blog.cloudflare.com

Many products at Cloudflare aren’t possible without pushing the limits of network hardware and software to deliver improved performance, increased efficiency, or novel capabilities such as soft-unicast, our method for sharing IP subnets across data centers. Happily, most people do not need to know the intricacies of how your operating system handles network and Internet access in general. Yes, even most people within

WBlock: A New Ad-Blocker for Safari
github.com/0xCUB3

The next-generation ad blocker for Safari. Contribute to 0xCUB3/wBlock development by creating an account on GitHub.

Google is killing the open web, part 2
wok.oblomov.eu

Oblomov - Do not comply in advance.

WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model
blog.google

The new AI model delivers more efficient, more accurate and higher-resolution global weather predictions.

Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies
angadh.com

If delivered today, the last of Huxley’s 7-part lecture series at MIT would probably be categorised under motivational talks or self-help strategies. It surv...

Show HN: ESPectre – Motion detection based on Wi-Fi spectre analysis
github.com/francescopace
show

🛜 ESPectre 👻 - Motion detection system based on Wi-Fi spectre analysis (CSI), with Home Assistant integration. - francescopace/espectre

Jeff Bezos creates A.I. startup where he will be co-chief executive
nytimes.com
Replicate is joining Cloudflare
replicate.com
The time has finally come for geothermal energy
newyorker.com

Rivka Galchen - It used to be that drawing heat from deep in the Earth was practical only in geyser-filled places such as Iceland. But new approaches may have us on the cusp of an energy revolution.

FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools
github.com/medusalix

Open hardware and software tools for communicating with Miele appliances via their optical diagnostic interface - medusalix/FreeMDU

GCC 16 considering changing default to C++20
inbox.sourceware.org
Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe
bbc.co.uk

Drones have been found across Western Europe near airports, military bases and power plants, as part of a suspected programme of 'hybrid warfare'

FCC Chairman backs demand that NBC fire Seth Meyers 'immediately'
ew.com

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr back Donald Trump's call for NBC to 'immediately' fire Seth Meyers, days after the host addressed the president's connection to the Epstein emails.

Are you stuck in movie logic?
usefulfictions.substack.com

Cate Hall - Consider just saying what the problem is

Ned: ImGui Text Editor with GL Shaders
github.com/nealmick

ImGui Text Editor with GL Shaders. Contribute to nealmick/ned development by creating an account on GitHub.

Republican push to make U.S. census surveys voluntary alarms statisticians
science.org
Things I don't like in configuration languages
medv.io
Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h)
hwisnu.bearblog.dev

Let's be honest: most people have a love-hate relationship with C. We love its raw speed, its direct connection to the metal, and its elegant simplicity. ...

Building a Simple Search Engine That Works
karboosx.net

Karboosx - You don't need Elasticsearch for most projects. I built a simple search engine from scratch that tokenizes everything, stores it in your existing database, and scores results by relevance. Dead simple to understand and maintain.

Mixing Is the Heartbeat of Deep Lakes. At Crater Lake, It's Slowing Down
quantamagazine.org

The physics of mixing water layers — an interplay of wind, climate and more — makes lakes work. When it stops, impacts can ripple across an ecosystem.

People are using iPad OS features on their iPhones
idevicecentral.com

The newly released itunesstored & bookassetd sbx escape exploit allows us to modify the MobileGestalt.Plist file to change values inside of it. This file is very important since it contains all the details about the device. Its type, color, model, capabilities like Dynamic Island, Stage Manager, multitasking, etc. are all present inside that file. Naturally,

A 1961 Relay Computer Running in the Browser
minivac.greg.technology

A 1961 relay computer running in your browser

Why movies just don't feel "real" anymore
reddit.com/r/movies
A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents
shoosmiths.com
PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator
picoide.com

Emulates ATAPI CD-ROM and IDE hard drives with built-in CD audio output and optional WiFi front panel interface. Fully open source firmware and hardware.

Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)
britneyspears.ac
Goldman Sachs asks in biotech Report: Is curing patients a sustainable business? (2018)
cnbc.com
9NEWS Questions Flock Safety CEO over Mass Surveillance and ICE Access
9news.com

Garrett Langley, who created a license plate reader network, said he is confident Denver will continue using the cameras because the system reduces crime.

An overly aggressive mock can work fine, but break much later
nedbatchelder.com

An overly aggressive mock can work fine, but then break much later. Why?

Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha”
quantamagazine.org

A sudden flash of insight is a product of your brain. Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha” and how it might boost memory.

Peter Thiel sells off all Nvidia stock, stirring bubble fears
thestreet.com
Call Me Maybe: Eavesdropping encrypted LTE calls with ReVoLTE (2020)
montsecure.com

Montsecure’s mission is to enable everyone to build and use secure mobile networks. Therefore we training, consulting and tools. Tools like SEAL allow you to test and secure your mobile network. network. We use AI and machine learning to provide you with the best possible security.

Why Castrol Honda Superbike crashes on (most) modern systems
seri.tools
The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition (2023)
ahalbert.com
Julia 1.12 brings progress on standalone binaries and more
lwn.net

Julia is a modern programming language that is of particular interest to scientists due to its [...]

I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosure
jonathanclark.com

I have emails proving attacks started months before Coinbase's 'discovery'. A detailed investigation with evidence and recordings.

Linux mode setting, from the comfort of OCaml
roscidus.com
Open-source Zig book
zigbook.net

Zigbook is a comprehensive, open-source guide to the Zig programming language, packed with hands-on chapters, projects, and real-world examples.

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
wired.com

Brian Merchant - I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

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