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Why this Obscure Audio Codec is a Perfect Fit for the N64 (phoboslab.org)

Democrats Win Enough Seats Nationwide to End Electoral College (newrepublic.com)

September in Servo: <progress>, rounded rectangles, and more! - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications. (servo.org)

Stunning Image of Our Satellite-Choked Night Skies (kottke.org)

Security advisory: openssh-server password authentication bypass (alpinelinux.org)

‘There Is One Fight’: American Voters Reject Tech Oligarchy (404media.co)

From 25 million instructions to one faulty skip: AI-driven fault analysis of a secure boot (eshard.com)

You should absolutely download your favourite youtube videos (criminallyvulgar.dev)

I wish tech companies knew more about me (rakhim.exotext.com)

Why this Obscure Audio Codec is a Perfect Fit for the N64 (phoboslab.org)

Vivaldi 8.3 for Desktop: make bad ads sad (vivaldi.com)

Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM (theverge.com)

A clock made of branches (fzakaria.com)

Covert underperformance on safety research tasks · OpenAI Alignment (alignment.openai.com)

OpenSSH: Release Notes (openssh.org)

GitHub - cristianoc/TScert: TScert: a sound core for TypeScript. An independent checker, whose soundness is proved in Lean, accepts a TypeScript function only with a proof. (github.com)

*sshole · sshhole.com (sshhole.com)

Moment of Ruby: an argument for nothing (aha.io)

Awesome repositories are no longer awesome (erikgahner.github.io)

Italian chef fired from Queensland restaurant after refusing to put pineapple on pizza (bbc.co.uk)

ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base · ERNIE (ernie.baidu.com)

CSS Feature Clips: Looping Product Demos Without Video (stepshots.com)

Being a kid making games in the early 2000s (jaytholen.net)

ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base · ERNIE (ernie.baidu.com)

TextEdit vs. Pages (leancrew.com)

Chip art (en.wikipedia.org)

Want to Rent an Internet Address at the White House? – Krebs on Security (krebsonsecurity.com)

Devlog ⚡ Zig Programming Language (ziglang.org)

[Mbed-tls-announce] Announcement: Future Maintenance of Mbed TLS - mbed-tls (lists.trustedfirmware.org)

Altera Announces Agilex 2X, a Complete FPGA & SoC Portfolio Built for the Future of Intelligent Systems (altera.com)

Walker Playground (markblah.github.io)

So my ISP was hijacking my DNS (karthihegde.dev)

Spreading Liquid with three.js | mofu (mofu-dev.com)

11 nanoseconds per word: Ridiculously Over-Optimizing Anagrams | Wiredream - Dave Andersen's blog (wiredream.com)

Frustrated Ranchers Want People To Quit 'Rescuing' Their Working Guardian Dogs (cowboystatedaily.com)

I wanted to write in my ebooks. So I built PageScribe. (aspireai.kiranadimatyam.com)

A thousand fewer paths to root (openai.com)

Introducing Images 2.6 (openai.com)

You’ll need nerves of steel to work with AI agents (orchidfiles.com)

bf16 might be freezing your weight updates — Lacuna (lacuna.tiptreesystems.com)

Introducing Images 2.6 (openai.com)

A thousand fewer paths to root (openai.com)

Coffee’s new status symbol is a machine without plastic | CNN Business (cnn.com)

PC Deal Check | A second opinion before you buy (pcdealcheck.com)

ai poisoning: are we using ai, or is ai using us? (blog.sparkcan.com)

Harmony - chat that belongs to the people in it (mony.lol)

Adam Phillips · Is curiosity good for us? (lrb.co.uk)

Death comes for XSLT (dbushell.com)

GitHub - gauge-sh/gauge-cli: :dog: The open-source Gauge CLI. Hillclimb your Skills, CLI, SDK, MCP, API, or Docs to make something agents want. (github.com)

Less Popular Than Coal (argmin.net)

Don’t Call It a Decision Model - TypeSafe AI Blog (typesafe.ai)

Successful people (blog.samaltman.com)

Successful people (blog.samaltman.com)

DOOM's DNA: How code keeps its family resemblance (squid-protocol.github.io)

Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 3: Bad Update Improvements (icode4.coffee)

Texas just went blue, and the tech bros are sad

Replit Pro: opt out of arbitration by November 8 (readthediff.substack.com)

David Ralph Lewis - Everything is an AI scam now (davidralphlewis.co.uk)

Residential Proxies Detected on White House Network (layer3intel.com)

From wild to mild: Friendly foxes show changes in brain region (news.cornell.edu)

Wing Commander Together (fireflyk64.github.io)

Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders (arstechnica.com)

OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company, Inc. (openai.com)

Insects Don’t Swarm at LED Lights (birdsoutsidemywindow.org)

Recursive Self-Improvement via AI for Chip Design & Chip Design for AI - Ricursive Intelligence (ricursive.com)

A farmer destroys 10 hectares of crops after following AI advice on weed and pest control.

Have I Befriended a Murderer? (longreads.com)

Education Shouldn't Be Held for Ransom (blog.kagi.com)

0.93.0: Conductor is joining Meta (conductor.build)

benchfmt.rs: Bringing Go's Benchmarking and benchstat Workflow to Rust (bwplotka.dev)

A new Go API for JSON - The Go Programming Language (go.dev)

This Month in Ladybird - October 2026 - Ladybird (ladybird.org)

Progress on provable inference for large language models (anthropic.com)

Progress on provable inference for large language models (anthropic.com)

An end to buggy web apps (replay.io)

'She knew she had something really important on her hands': Rosalind Franklin figured out DNA's helical structure before Watson and Crick, study suggests (livescience.com)

Kemi Badenoch says Africans should apologise for slavery. She should read a history book (theguardian.com)

Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrastructure Permanent - 99% Invisible (99percentinvisible.org)

moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro · Hugging Face (huggingface.co)

‘It’s just vape shops, nail shops, charity shops’: Can anything save the British high street? (theguardian.com)

PC Deal Check | A second opinion before you buy (pcdealcheck.com)

Y Combinator’s Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens (techcrunch.com)

Adding window functions to a spreadsheet (getgrist.com)

AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history — $17B guidance would exceed Intel's… (tomshardware.com)

GitHub - peterretief/codemap: One HTML page that maps a Go module: packages, dependencies, files and functions (github.com)

Evergreen — Provably Safe Systems Code (evergreenlang.net)

Letting users trust their own MCP clients, without opening a phishing hole (streamvessel.com)

Synaptics Appears To Use Legal Threats To Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver (phoronix.com)

GitHub - Vapmuz/Mocktastic: Custom client implementation in C++ of Meshtastic for ArduinoIDE and ESP32 (Lilygo T3 v1.6.1). (github.com)