News

  1. Open Thread 458 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  2. Nov 01: Year Four (tinylogger.com)
  3. F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix (fosscomics.com)
  4. AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture (www.eurogamer.net)
  5. Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed (trigger.dev)
  6. OccupySaaS (occupysaas.com)
  7. weeknotes #70 (olu.online)
  8. Replacing the battery on a 2013 MacBook Pro (ninad.pundaliks.in)
  9. Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  10. Quoting Kyle Kingsbury (simonwillison.net)
  11. Seoul Viosys begins production of rare-earth-free white light emitter (www.semiconductor-today.com)
  12. Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN (hackerbooks.org)
  13. Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case (www.reddit.com)
  14. Proving and improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs (arxiv.org)
  15. Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust (github.com)
  16. Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018) (shkspr.mobi)
  17. The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks (nolanlawson.com)
  18. some subtle mental adjustments (clarionsong.substack.com)
  19. Garbagely incompetent (blog.greg.technology)
  20. GoodReads removed their RSS feeds :( (aaronstrick.com)
  21. Resisting Cognitive Surrender (knlb.dev)
  22. Cycling Vermont (macwright.com)
  23. An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  24. Bidirectional charging during grid outages (www.jefftk.com)
  25. HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN (karpathy.bearblog.dev)
  26. Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved (www.fz-juelich.de)
  27. One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems (www.nature.com)
  28. Show HN: I rebuilt my old canvas 3D library as a small WebGL 2 library – phoria2 (kevs3d.co.uk)
  29. Portable chargers are a good default gift idea (liquidbrain.net)
  30. Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now (rhaas.blogspot.com)
  31. cyberwitchery (blog.veitheller.de)
  32. Build Standalone Lua Applications with Zig and fnlpack (www.ryanprior.com)
  33. dbreunig/nesformer (simonwillison.net)
  34. Anthropic's IPO: Can unprecedented revenue growth outrun 'irresponsibly large' investment? (leonlins.com)
  35. Your Book Review: The History And Adventures Of An Atom (www.astralcodexten.com)
  36. Big Changes (writing.natwelch.com)
  37. parsing the final fantasy 1 NES world map (part 1) (djan.org)
  38. API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions (simonwillison.net)
  39. Programming at Light Speed: Building the Gravity Query Engine (malisper.me)
  40. Run on the Law Firm (www.bloomberg.com)
  41. Building a multiplayer game world with autonomous Fable-class models (simonwillison.net)
  42. Links For October 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  43. Adding swing to my Yocto sequencer (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  44. Breakout (cceckman.com)
  45. Quoting Ben Hylak (simonwillison.net)
  46. sleep; eating babies; many short story recs (todaythings.substack.com)
  47. The Better Technology (podviaznikov.com)
  48. Ever Failed (blog.veitheller.de)
  49. Quoting Ted Sanders (simonwillison.net)
  50. Where did internet directories go? (mohamedmohey.com)
  51. Not Your Keys, Not Your DAT (www.bloomberg.com)
  52. GitHub Octoverse 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  53. Fake it ‘til you make it (and then keep faking it) (www.experimental-history.com)
  54. My California Ballot, 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  55. The October inflection point for vibe game development (simonwillison.net)
  56. Can you read every book? (mohamedmohey.com)
  57. Quoting Terk Terkowitz (simonwillison.net)
  58. You Already Don't Understand Your Code (george.mand.is)
  59. Announcing rainy city publishing (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  60. Building a Fullstack Rust Web App Boilerplate for Coding Agents (hamy.xyz)
  61. Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge (simonwillison.net)
  62. Musk’s Mars Merger Pay (www.bloomberg.com)
  63. Website update (mrcoles.com)
  64. What Is 'You Can See Everything' Really About? (www.derekthompson.org)
  65. Spaces of constant curvature (www.robbielyman.com)
  66. GPT-6.1 Terra (simonwillison.net)
  67. Open Thread 457 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  68. Quoting Jason Koebler (simonwillison.net)
  69. Anthropic Raises Concerns (www.bloomberg.com)
  70. Spiced Pumpkin Cake (gochugarugirl.com)
  71. ↗ Avoid negativity echo chambers (www.vesto.me)