1586
631
FSF announces Librephone project
https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project
1 year ago
710
474
What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on
https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die-from
555
138
Don’t Look Up: Sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites [pdf]
https://satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/docs/dontlookup_ccs25_fullpaper.pdf
537
452
Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
https://boydkane.com/essays/boss
482
162
Surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking
https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/surveillance-secrets/
422
252
GrapheneOS is ready to break free from Pixels
https://www.androidauthority.com/graphene-os-major-android-oem-partnership-3606853/
410
389
DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/bitcoin-doj-chen-zhi-pig-butchering-scam.html
403
108
Your data model is your destiny
https://notes.mtb.xyz/p/your-data-model-is-your-destiny
400
209
New York Times, AP, Newsmax and others say they won't sign new Pentagon rules
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-access-defense-department-rules-95878bce05096912887701eaa6d019c6
357
391
Why Is SQLite Coded In C
https://www.sqlite.org/whyc.html
337
77
ADS-B Exposed
https://adsb.exposed/
328
378
Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction?
https://forum.cursor.com/t/why-the-push-for-agentic-when-models-can-barely-follow-a-single-simple-instruction/137154
317
76
Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks
https://blog.cloudflare.com/unpacking-cloudflare-workers-cpu-performance-benchmarks/
278
How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?
https://excamera.substack.com/p/how-bad-can-a-297-adc-be
195
KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/
273
142
ChkTag: x86 Memory Safety
https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/open-intel/ChkTag-x86-Memory-Safety/post/1721490
266
392
America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/education-decline-low-expectations/684526/
265
25
SmolBSD – build your own minimal BSD system
https://smolbsd.org
260
141
Astronomers 'image' a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe
https://www.mpg.de/25518363/1007-asph-astronomers-image-a-mysterious-dark-object-in-the-distant-universe-155031-x
129
How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters
https://accent-explorer.boldvoice.com/
225
136
Why the open social web matters now
https://werd.io/why-the-open-social-web-matters-now/
223
161
How to turn liquid glass into a solid interface
https://tidbits.com/2025/10/09/how-to-turn-liquid-glass-into-a-solid-interface/
217
228
Comparing the power consumption of a 30 year old refrigerator to a new one
https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/10/14/fridge-power-consumption/
Intel Announces Inference-Optimized Xe3P Graphics Card with 160GB VRAM
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-crescent-island
203
144
Pyrefly: Python type checker and language server in Rust
https://pyrefly.org/?featured_on=talkpython
202
122
Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay)
https://waxbanks.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/bare-metal-the-emacs-essay/
61
PlayStation 3 Architecture (2021)
https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation-3
198
178
Half of America's Voting Machines Are Now Owned by a MAGA Oligarch
https://dissentinbloom.substack.com/p/half-of-americas-voting-machines
119
GPT-5o-mini hallucinates medical residency applicant grades
https://www.thalamusgme.com/blogs/cortex-core-clerkship-grades-and-transcript-normalization
193
145
Ruby Blocks
https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2025/ruby-blocks/
184
64
Benchmarking Postgres 17 vs. 18
https://planetscale.com/blog/benchmarking-postgres-17-vs-18
179
AppLovin nonconsensual installs
https://www.benedelman.org/applovin-nonconsensual-installs/
87
Zoo of array languages
https://ktye.github.io/
166
32
Optical diffraction patterns made with a MOPA laser engraving machine [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsGHr7dXLuI
158
114
Why study programming languages (2022)
https://people.csail.mit.edu/rachit/post/why-study-programming-languages/
157
45
CRISPR-like tools that finally can edit mitochondria DNA
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03307-x
146
98
A modern approach to preventing CSRF in Go
https://www.alexedwards.net/blog/preventing-csrf-in-go
53
Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language
https://kaitai.io/
135
22
Wireshark 4.6.0 Supports macOS Pktap Metadata (PID, Process Name, etc.)
https://nuxx.net/blog/2025/10/14/wireshark-4-6-0-supports-macos-pktap-metadata-pid-process-name-etc/
117
150
South Africa's one million invisible children without birth certificates
https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20250705-south-africa-s-one-million-invisible-children-without-birth-certificates
116
18
Copy-and-Patch: A Copy-and-Patch Tutorial
https://transactional.blog/copy-and-patch/tutorial
115
93
NVIDIA DGX Spark In-Depth Review: A New Standard for Local AI Inference
https://lmsys.org/blog/2025-10-13-nvidia-dgx-spark/
113
143
SpaceX launches Starship megarocket on 11th test flight
https://www.cnn.com/science/live-news/spacex-starship-flight-11-launch-10-13-25
104
When if is just a function
https://ryelang.org/blog/posts/if-as-function-blogpost-working-on-it_ver1/
112
37
If you'd built a "tool" that stupid, why would you advertise the fact?
https://svpow.com/2025/10/13/if-youd-built-a-tool-that-stupid-why-would-you-advertise-the-fact/
111
259
Let's Not Encrypt (2019)
https://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/lets_not_encrypt.xhtml
110
16
Interior cancels largest solar project in North America
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/10/trump-interior-department-cancels-largest-solar-project-in-north-america-00602071
105
Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold explodes during JerryRigEverything's durability test
https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/google-pixel-10-pro-fold-explodes-during-jerryrigeverythings-durability-test-3267086/
92
Subverting Telegram's end-to-end encryption (2023)
https://tosc.iacr.org/index.php/ToSC/article/view/10302
103
Tesla is at risk of losing subsidies in Korea over widespread battery failures
https://electrek.co/2025/10/14/tesla-is-at-risk-of-lossing-subsidies-in-korea-over-widespread-battery-failures/
100
84
Common yeast can survive Martian conditions
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-common-yeast-survive-martian-conditions.html
99
RFK Jr. Must Go
https://quillette.com/2025/09/17/rfk-jr-must-go-hhs-health-vaccines/
96
Hold Off on Litestream 0.5.0
https://mtlynch.io/notes/hold-off-on-litestream-0.5.0/
95
57
State Department Revokes Visas over Charlie Kirk Comments
https://www.wsj.com/politics/state-department-revokes-visas-over-charlie-kirk-comments-3c30d9ae
26
New lab-grown human embryo model produces blood cells
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-lab-grown-human-embryo-model-produces-blood-cells
What Dynamic Typing Is For
https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/what-dynamic-typing-is-for/
91
36
When Compiler Optimizations Hurt Performance
https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/when-compiler-optimizations-hurt
90
Weekend projects: Chicken Squisher 3000
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/weekend-projects-chicken-squisher
89
Prefix sum: 20 GB/s (2.6x baseline)
https://github.com/ashtonsix/perf-portfolio/tree/main/delta
3
U.S. Sanctions Cambodian Conglomerate, Citing Role in 'Pig-Butchering' Scams
https://www.wsj.com/business/u-s-sanctions-cambodian-conglomerate-citing-role-in-pig-butchering-scams-0cf2e0ff
82
11
Smithsonian Open Access
https://www.si.edu/openaccess
75
80
Preparing for AI's economic impact: exploring policy responses
https://www.anthropic.com/research/economic-policy-responses
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead
https://www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein-powders-and-shakes-contain-high-levels-of-lead-a4206364640/
