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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests
• (01:29) - Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)
• (02:42) - The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)
• (03:46) - Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
• (04:55) - Apps SDK
• (06:04) - Indefinite Backpack Travel
• (07:05) - OpenZL: An open source format-aware compression framework
• (08:05) - Mise: Monorepo Tasks
• (09:09) - Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?
• (10:15) - Kirigami-inspired parachute falls on target
• (11:17) - Outro

Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)
https://windscribe.com/blog/the-vpn-relationship-map/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45469376

The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)
https://thecascade.dev/article/least-amount-of-css/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45497624

Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
https://www.theverge.com/news/793579/microsoft-windows-11-local-account-bypass-workaround-changes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45497384

Apps SDK
https://developers.openai.com/apps-sdk/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45494558

Indefinite Backpack Travel
https://jeremymaluf.com/onebag/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452472

OpenZL: An open source format-aware compression framework
https://engineering.fb.com/2025/10/06/developer-tools/openzl-open-source-format-aware-compression-framework/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45492803

Mise: Monorepo Tasks
https://github.com/jdx/mise/discussions/6564
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45491621

Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?
https://animebythenumbers.substack.com/p/worse-crunchyroll-subtitles
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458973

Kirigami-inspired parachute falls on target
https://physicsworld.com/a/kirigami-inspired-parachute-falls-on-target/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45449015

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
• (01:34) - Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
• (02:44) - 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived
• (03:48) - What GPT-OSS leaks about OpenAI's training data
• (04:56) - Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
• (06:11) - The QNX Operating System
• (07:22) - Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks
• (08:31) - Structured Procrastination
• (09:43) - Sonic Robo Blast 2: 25 year old continuously developed DOOM engine-based fangame
• (10:54) - Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely
• (12:00) - Outro

Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
https://vgel.me/posts/seahorse/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487044

1 Trillion Web Pages Archived
https://blog.archive.org/trillion/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487476

What GPT-OSS leaks about OpenAI's training data
https://fi-le.net/oss/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45483924

Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
https://grist.org/buildings/how-germany-outfitted-half-a-million-balconies-with-solar-panels/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45485806

The QNX Operating System
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-qnx-operating-system
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45481892

Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks
https://jamesoclaire.com/2025/10/05/self-hosting-10tb-in-s3-on-a-framework-laptop-disks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45480317

Structured Procrastination
https://structuredprocrastination.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45488261

Sonic Robo Blast 2: 25 year old continuously developed DOOM engine-based fangame
https://www.srb2.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45447226

Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely
https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/welcome.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45448747

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving
• (01:29) - Paged Out Issue #7 [pdf]
• (02:29) - A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code
• (03:34) - Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet
• (04:58) - Social Cooling (2017)
• (06:07) - Blog Feeds
• (07:02) - NSA and IETF: Can an attacker purchase standardization of weakened cryptography?
• (08:29) - What .NET 10 GC Changes Mean for Developers
• (09:41) - Newton: physics simulation engine built upon NVIDIA Warp
• (10:48) - Outro

Paged Out Issue #7 [pdf]
https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_007.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45472319

A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code
https://github.com/johnperry-math/AoC2023/blob/master/More_Detailed_Comparison.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45473861

Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250928095654.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427972

Social Cooling (2017)
https://www.socialcooling.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45479165

Blog Feeds
https://blogfeeds.net
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45475808

NSA and IETF: Can an attacker purchase standardization of weakened cryptography?
https://blog.cr.yp.to/20251004-weakened.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45477206

What .NET 10 GC Changes Mean for Developers
https://roxeem.com/2025/09/30/what-net-10-gc-changes-mean-for-developers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45435606

Newton: physics simulation engine built upon NVIDIA Warp
https://github.com/newton-physics/newton
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440071