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Tesla Faces US Auto Safety Investigation over Door Handles
bloomberg.com

US auto safety regulators opened an investigation into whether some Tesla Inc. vehicle doors are defective, citing incidents in which exterior handles stopped working and trapped children inside.

The old SF tech scene is dead. What it's morphing into is more sinister
sfgate.com

Ariana Bindman - Column: San Francisco's absurd, redundant startups are a relic of the past. 

Microsoft Favors Anthropic over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code
theverge.com

Tom Warren - Claude 4 is being favored over GPT-5

Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)
blinry.org

blinry - Last week, I went on an adventure through the electromagnetic spectrum!

Mother of All Demos (1968)
wordspike.com

Douglas Engelbart's 1968 "Mother of All Demos" at SRI showcased interactive computing innovations, including the mouse debut, hypertext, real-time editing, and collaborative tools, envisioning augmented human intellect.

After escaping Russian energy dependence, Europe is locking itself in to US LNG
davekeating.substack.com

Dave Keating - The US energy secretary says the quiet part out loud: the tributary $750 billion in energy purchases the EU has promised in its Trump deal is meant to lock Europe into "long-term" energy dependence.

Implicit Ode Solvers Are Not Universally More Robust Than Explicit Ode Solvers
stochasticlifestyle.com

Christopher Rackauckas - A very common adage in ODE solvers is that if you run into trouble with an explicit method, usually some explicit Runge-Kutta method like RK4, then you should try an implicit method. Implicit methods, because they are doing more work, solving an implicit system via a Newton method having “better” stability, should be the thing you go to on the “hard” problems. This is at least what I heard at first, and then I learne

Teens turned their rooms into tech-free zones. This was the result
bbc.co.uk

Elizabeth and Henry are among those ditching technology in their bedrooms to see how they cope.

Java 25 Officially Released
mail.openjdk.org
Generative AI as Seniority-Biased Technological Change
papers.ssrn.com
Trucker built a scale model of NYC over 21 years
gothamist.com

Joseph Macken said he did the project as a hobby in his upstate basement.

When the job search becomes impossible
jeffwofford.com
CIA Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room
cia.gov
Teen Safety, Freedom, and Privacy
openai.com
Just Use HTML
gomakethings.com

I’ve worked on so many projects recently that were more complicated than they needed to be because they used JavaScript to generate HTML. JavaScript is… Slower to load Slower to run More prone to breaking Harder to read and reason about Doesn’t actually look like the final output It’s inferior to just using HTML in nearly every way. I’m not saying never use JavaScript, though. I think JS is great at augmenting and

Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node
reddit.com
Robert Redford has died
nytimes.com
Self Propagating NPM Malware Compromises over 40 Packages
stepsecurity.io

The popular @ctrl/tinycolor package with over 2 million weekly downloads has been compromised alongside 40+ other NPM packages in a sophisticated supply chain attack. The malware self-propagates across maintainer packages, harvests AWS/GCP/Azure credentials using TruffleHog, and establishes persistence through GitHub Actions backdoors - representing a major escalation in NPM ecosystem threats.

DuckDB 1.4.0 LTS
duckdb.org

The DuckDB team - We're releasing DuckDB version 1.4.0, codenamed “Andium”. This is an LTS release with one year of community support, and it packs several new features including database encryption, the MERGE statement and Iceberg writes.

Presentation Decks are a lot easier to create with Gamma
news.ycombinator.com
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Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza
middleeasteye.net

Most authoritative report by the UN on genocide paves way for ICJ ruling, authors say

Reichstag Fire Decree (1933)
encyclopedia.ushmm.org

The Reichstag Fire Decree of February 1933 restricted individual freedoms, and allowed Hitler's government to overrule state and local laws and overthrow state and local governments.

IBM Technology Atlas
ibm.com
AP Live: View from Gaza as Israel Begins Expanded Operation in Gaza City
youtube.com
How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs
anildash.com

Anil Dash - A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Public static void main(String[] args) is dead
mccue.dev
Show HN: Pyproc – Call Python from Go Without CGO or Microservices
github.com/YuminosukeSato
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Call Python from Go without CGO or microservices - Unix domain socket based IPC for ML inference and data processin - YuminosukeSato/pyproc

"Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces
adamsilver.io

Adam Silver - Adam Silver – interaction designer - London, UK

Linux phones are more important now than ever
feddit.org

## E: apparently it needs to be said that I am not suggesting you switch to Linux on your phone today; just that development needs to accelerate. Please don’t be one of the 34 people that replied to tell me Linux is not ready. Android has always been a fairly open platform, especially if you were deliberate about getting it that way, but we’ve seen in recent months an extremely rapid devolution of the Android ecosyst

I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
morrick.me

A reaction and assorted observations about Apple's September 9 Awe Dropping event.

Active NPM supply chain attack: Tinycolor and 40 Packages Compromised
socket.dev

Malicious update to @ctrl/tinycolor on npm is part of a supply-chain attack hitting 40+ packages across maintainers

Why do we keep gravitating toward complexity?
kyrylo.org

Kyrylo Silin - The Great Pyramids took decades to build. It was a monumental feat of human ingenuity and collaboration. Today, we software developers erect our own pyramids each day - not from stone, but from code. Yet despite far more advanced tools, these systems don’t always make the experience better. So why, when KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) is a well-known mantra, do we keep gravitating toward complexity?

Total porn ban proposed by Michigan lawmakers
fox2detroit.com

Some states have moved to require age verification to ensure only adults are watching porn, but no states have outright banned the viewing of pornographic material.

Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment
gadgetreview.com

Massive Attack used live facial recognition technology on concertgoers, turning surveillance into provocative art that sparked debate about privacy.

Show HN: Pooshit – Sync local code to remote Docker containers
news.ycombinator.com
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The Revised Report on Scheme or An UnCommon Lisp (1985) [pdf]
dspace.mit.edu
William Gibson Reads Neuromancer (2004)
bearcave.com
Imperial Tyranny, Korean Humiliation
english.hani.co.kr

This incident should prompt us in Korea to comprehensively reassess our investment projects in the US

Godot 4.5, making dreams accessible – Godot Engine
godotengine.org

Godot Engine - From mind-blowing effects now made possible by the stencil buffer to accessible descriptions of your GUI elements that opens up the possibility for people with disabilities to play your game — we are proud to present to you Godot 4.5.

Deaths are projected to exceed births in 2031
cbo.gov

CBO projects that the U.S. population will increase from 350 million people in 2025 to 367 million people in 2055. It will be smaller and grow more slowly over the next 30 years, on average, than the agency previously projected it would.

Ghost kitchens are dying
davidrmann3.substack.com

Restaurant 101 - Ghost Kitchens Are Dying.

Scryer Prolog Meetup 2025
hsd-pbsa.de
AI hype is masking recession signals in the market
axios.com
GPT‑5-Codex and upgrades to Codex
simonwillison.net

Simon Willison - OpenAI half-released a new model today: GPT‑5-Codex, a fine-tuned GPT-5 variant explicitly designed for their various AI-assisted programming tools. I say half-released because it's not yet available via their API, …

How People Use ChatGPT [pdf]
cdn.openai.com
California reached a union deal with tech giants
politico.com
Addendum to GPT-5 system card: GPT-5-Codex
openai.com
Hosting a website on a disposable vape
bogdanthegeek.github.io

Someone's trash is another person's web server.

React is winning by default and slowing innovation
lorenstew.art

Your Name - Exploring how React's dominance by default stifles frontend innovation, and why deliberate framework choices lead to better tools for performance, developer experience, and ecosystem diversity.

AOMedia Announces Year-End Launch of Next-Gen Video Codec AV2
aomedia.org

The Future of Innovation Is Open: AOMedia Member Survey Highlights Adoption Trends

macOS 26 Tahoe: The Ars Technica Review
arstechnica.com

Liquid Glass brings translucent sheen to the typical batch of iterative changes.

macOS Tahoe
apple.com

macOS Tahoe with a new design, more ways to work seamlessly across devices, and new features to turbocharge productivity every day.

GPT-5-Codex
openai.com
Show HN: I built an app store for open-source financial plans (on spreadsheets)
finfam.app
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FinFam - Collaborative financial plans for friends and families

Ghostty 1.2.0
ghostty.org

Release notes for Ghostty 1.2.0, released on September 15, 2025.

The U.S. Government's Extraordinary Pursuit of Kilmar Ábrego García
newyorker.com

Cristian Farias - The Trump Administration’s maneuvers are rising to a political prosecution.

Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link
kennedn.com
Microsoft to force install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in October
bleepingcomputer.com

Next month, Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows devices that have the Microsoft 365 desktop client apps.

Asciinema CLI 3.0 rewritten in Rust, adds live streaming, upgrades file format
blog.asciinema.org
Varnish Cache to be renamed Vinyl Cache project
varnish-cache.org
A string formatting library in 65 lines of C++
riki.house
Google is shutting down Tables, its Airtable rival
techcrunch.com

Sarah Perez - Google said the Tables app will not be supported after December 16, 2025, and advised that users export or migrate their data to either Google Sheets or AppSheet instead, depending on their needs.

US lawmakers introduce bill to strip citizens of passports over Israel criticism
thecradle.co

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked visas and green cards of foreign nationals for opposing Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza

Boring work needs tension
iaziz786.com

Mohammad Aziz - We can make our work exciting by chasing the every day tension.

Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps
news.ycombinator.com
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The Washington Post Fired Me – But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced
karenattiah.substack.com

Karen Attiah - I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Paid $2400 to Cloudflare, support refuses to help
news.ycombinator.com
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Meta bypassed Apple privacy protections, claims former employee
9to5mac.com

Ben Lovejoy - A former Meta product manager has claimed that the social network circumvented Apple’s privacy protections, as well as cheating advertisers,...

Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content
alastair.is

I have an incredibly boring summer hobby: looking at the changelog for the WebKit Github repo. Why? Because I spend a chunk of my professional life working with webviews inside mobile apps and I like to get an early peek into what's coming in the next version of iOS. Since

GuitarPie: Electric Guitar Fretboard Pie Menus
andreasfender.com
How to self-host a web font from Google Fonts
blog.velocifyer.com
Show HN: Daffodil – Open-Source Ecommerce Framework to connect to any platform
github.com/graycoreio
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Build complex Ecommerce store frontends and connect to any backend https://discord.gg/BdaJVZ53sR - graycoreio/daffodil

Goldman Sachs says AI still not showing up in companies' bottom lines
businessinsider.com

Huileng Tan - Big Tech is pouring billions into AI and stocks are soaring, but Goldman cautions earnings haven't caught up to the hype.

Programming Deflation
tidyfirst.substack.com

Kent Beck - When Code Gets Cheaper Every Day

PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin
newsroom.paypal-corp.com

Send and receive money as easily as sending a text, across apps, borders, and currencies.

CubeSats are fascinating learning tools for space
jeffgeerling.com
Show HN: Semlib – Semantic Data Processing
github.com/anishathalye
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Build data processing and data analysis pipelines that leverage the power of LLMs 🧠 - anishathalye/semlib

The Obsolescence of Political Definitions (1991)
vmchale.com
Hosting a website on a disposable vape
bogdanthegeek.github.io

Someone's trash is another person's web server.

How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?
shkspr.mobi

Terence Eden - I have a modest set of solar panels on an entirely ordinary house in suburban London. On average they generate about 3,800kWh per year. We also use about 3,800kWh of electricity each year. Obviously, we can't use all the power produced over summer and we need to buy power in winter. So here's my question: How big a battery would we need in order to be completely self-sufficient? Background …

Pgstream: Postgres streaming logical replication with DDL changes
github.com/xataio

PostgreSQL replication with DDL changes. Contribute to xataio/pgstream development by creating an account on GitHub.

Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty
mastodon.social/@chatcontrol

Attached: 1 image Danish Minister of Justice and chief architect of the current Chat Control proposal, Peter Hummelgaard: "We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone's civil liberty to communicate on encrypted messaging services." Share your thoughts via https://fightchatcontrol.eu/, or to jm@jm.dk directly. Source: https://www.ft.dk/samling/20231/almdel/REU/spm/1426/index.htm

The madness of SaaS chargebacks
medium.com

Mike Kulakov - Chargebacks in SaaS: unfair fees, false claims, and the only way we’ve ever actually won a dispute.

RustGPT: A pure-Rust transformer LLM built from scratch
github.com/tekaratzas

An transformer based LLM. Written completely in Rust - tekaratzas/RustGPT

Amish men live longer
plainanabaptistjournal.org

This study examines differences in the longevity of Amish men compared to the men within the general population of the United States. Data for this analysis comes from the 1965 Ohio Amish directory, specifically the birth and death dates of men from the Holmes County settlement. Amish men’s longevity is compared with the white men of Ohio based on life tables published online by the Social Security Administration. Am

How does air pollution impact your brain?
neurofrontiers.blog

neuronerd - Air pollution is increasingly recognized as having negative effects on brain health. Here we take a look at what those are.

Korea's major US investment projects halted
kedglobal.com

KED Global -  ELLABELL, Georgia – The South Korean government has secured the release of about 300 nationals detained following a raid by US authorities on an ele

The Culture novels as a dystopia
boristhebrave.com

A couple of people have mentioned to me: “we need more fiction examples of positive AI superintelligence – utopias like the Culture novels”. And they’re right, AI can be tremendously positive…

Show HN: I reverse engineered macOS to allow custom Lock Screen wallpapers
cindori.com
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Backdrop is the ultimate live wallpaper engine for Mac. Customize your desktop with dynamic, animated wallpapers. Browse a collection of stunning Mac backgrounds or create and share your own.

The Mac app flea market
blog.jim-nielsen.com
Folks, we have the best π
lcamtuf.substack.com

lcamtuf - And some novel ideas for bicycle wheel design.

Celestia – Real-time 3D visualization of space
celestiaproject.space
Show HN: Omarchy on CachyOS
github.com/mroboff
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Installation script for DHH's Omarchy on top of CachyOS. (Read the README.md before proceeding!) - GitHub - mroboff/omarchy-on-cachyos: Installation script for DHH's Omarchy on top of Cach...

US taxpayers to pay billions in fuel subsidies thanks to Big Beautiful Bill
wired.com

Molly Taft - A report finds that President Trump’s flagship legislation will grant $40 billion in new subsidies to the oil and gas industry over the next decade.

Americans crushed by auto loans as defaults and repossessions surge
carscoops.com

Chris Chilton - Consumer group calls for congressional action as drivers fail to keep up with the cost of running cars

Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage
starlink.com

High-speed internet. Available almost anywhere on Earth.

A qualitative analysis of pig-butchering scams
arxiv.org

Pig-butchering scams have emerged as a complex form of fraud that combines elements of romance, investment fraud, and advanced social engineering tactics to systematically exploit victims. In this paper, we present the first qualitative analysis of pig-butchering scams, informed by in-depth semi-structured interviews with $N=26$ victims. We capture nuanced, first-hand accounts from victims, providing insight into the

Language models pack billions of concepts into 12k dimensions
nickyoder.com

In a recent 3Blue1Brown video series on transformer models, Grant Sanderson posed a fascinating question: How can a relatively modest embedding space of 12,288 dimensions (GPT-3) accommodate millions of distinct real-world concepts? The answer lies at the intersection of high-dimensional geometry and a remarkable mathematical result known as the

Decentralized YouTube alternative adds livestream scheduling in new release
news.itsfoss.com

Also adds multilingual emails, improved admin tools, and session management.

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