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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

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:17) - Fluid Glass
• (01:16) - Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026
• (02:28) - Open Printer is an open source inkjet printer with DRM-free ink
• (03:44) - Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did
• (04:58) - PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports
• (06:02) - Zig builds are getting faster
• (07:07) - Where it's at://
• (08:11) - I turned the Lego Game Boy into a working Game Boy
• (09:08) - Cancellations in async Rust
• (10:17) - Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits
• (11:29) - Outro

Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026
https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/press-and-published/notices-and-press-releases/press-releases/2025/offline-card-payments-should-be-possible-no-later-than-1-july-2026/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45467500

Open Printer is an open source inkjet printer with DRM-free ink
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Open-Printer-is-an-open-source-inkjet-printer-with-DRM-free-ink-and-roll-paper-support.1126929.0.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45423404

Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/asked-to-do-something-illegal-at-work/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45447536

PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports
https://pep-previews--4622.org.readthedocs.build/pep-0810/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45466086

Zig builds are getting faster
https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-builds-getting-faster
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45468698

Where it's at://
https://overreacted.io/where-its-at/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45455164

I turned the Lego Game Boy into a working Game Boy
https://blog.nataliethenerd.com/i-turned-the-lego-game-boy-into-a-working-game-boy-part-1/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45463319

Cancellations in async Rust
https://sunshowers.io/posts/cancelling-async-rust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45464632

Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/jeff-bezos-ai-in-an-industrial-bubble-but-society-to-benefit.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45464429

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
• (01:27) - OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss
• (02:48) - Potential issues in curl found using AI assisted tools
• (03:59) - Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminal
• (05:00) - Babel is why I keep blogging with Emacs
• (06:11) - The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh
• (07:19) - Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it
• (08:22) - I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone
• (09:34) - Why I chose Lua for this blog
• (10:36) - FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go
• (11:35) - Outro

OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss
https://www.techinasia.com/news/openais-revenue-rises-16-to-4-3b-in-h1-2025
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45453586

Potential issues in curl found using AI assisted tools
https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115241241075258997
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45449348

Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminal
https://github.com/paaatrick/playball
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45451577

Babel is why I keep blogging with Emacs
https://entropicthoughts.com/why-stick-to-emacs-blog
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45453222

The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/history-of-letter-yogh
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45455882

Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it
https://github.com/triton-lang/triton/pull/7298
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458948

I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/i-spent-the-day-trying-to-teach-seniors-how-to-use-an-iphone-and-it-was-a-nightmare.2468117/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45457670

Why I chose Lua for this blog
https://andregarzia.com/2025/03/why-i-choose-lua-for-this-blog.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452261

FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go
https://github.com/FyshOS/fynedesk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458122

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:14) - Jane Goodall has died
• (01:17) - Show HN: Autism Simulator
• (02:25) - Don't avoid workplace politics
• (03:41) - Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP
• (04:49) - Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining
• (06:02) - Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing
• (07:14) - OpenTSLM: Language models that understand time series
• (08:23) - Category Theory Illustrated – Natural Transformations
• (09:40) - Cormac McCarthy's personal library
• (10:44) - Outro

Show HN: Autism Simulator
https://autism-simulator.vercel.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45438346

Don't avoid workplace politics
https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/10/01/stop-avoiding-politics/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440571

Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/16604719?hl=en
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45439670

Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining
https://si.inc/posts/the-heap/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45438496

Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing
https://www.alephic.com/writing/the-magic-of-claude-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45437893

OpenTSLM: Language models that understand time series
https://www.opentslm.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440431

Category Theory Illustrated – Natural Transformations
https://abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrated/11_natural_transformations/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45435422

F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf]
https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2025/zeng-sigmod2025.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45437759

Cormac McCarthy's personal library
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/two-years-cormac-mccarthys-death-rare-access-to-personal-library-reveals-man-behind-myth-180987150/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45444694

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:15) - Sora 2
• (01:25) - Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol
• (02:43) - Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine
• (03:55) - Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores
• (05:11) - Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement
• (06:19) - CDC File Transfer
• (07:17) - Founder sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulent sale to JPMorgan
• (08:34) - Designing agentic loops
• (09:48) - Diff Algorithms
• (10:45) - An opinionated critique of Duolingo
• (12:01) - Outro

Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol
https://www.empirical.health/blog/inflammation-and-heart-health/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45430498

Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2115228/image-site-imgur-pulls-out
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45424888

Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores
https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/14173685
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427197

Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement
https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/boeing-has-started-working-on-a-737-max-replacement-40a110df
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45428482

CDC File Transfer
https://github.com/google/cdc-file-transfer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45433768

Founder sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulent sale to JPMorgan
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/business/charlie-javice-frank-sentenced-jpmorgan-intl
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45424827

Designing agentic loops
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/30/designing-agentic-loops/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45426680

Diff Algorithms
https://flo.znkr.io/diff/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45430604

An opinionated critique of Duolingo
https://isomorphism.xyz/blog/2025/duolingo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425061

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - Claude Sonnet 4.5
• (01:27) - Claude Code 2.0
• (02:27) - Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web
• (03:22) - Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol
• (04:28) - Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
• (05:33) - Voronoi map generation in Civilization VII
• (06:43) - Vertical Solar Panels Are Out Standing
• (07:54) - iRobot Founder: Don't Believe the AI and Robotics Hype
• (09:05) - How to create an OS from scratch
• (10:10) - Safe zero-copy operations in C#
• (11:08) - Outro

Claude Code 2.0
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@anthropic-ai/claude-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45416228

Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web
https://loadmo.re
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45415207

Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol
https://openai.com/index/buy-it-in-chatgpt/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45416080

Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45418675

Voronoi map generation in Civilization VII
https://civilization.2k.com/civ-vii/from-the-devs/map-generation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45382300

Vertical Solar Panels Are Out Standing
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/25/vertical-solar-panels-are-out-standing/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45414215

iRobot Founder: Don't Believe the AI and Robotics Hype
https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/29/irobot-founder-dont-believe-the-ai-robotics-hype/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45418261

How to create an OS from scratch
https://github.com/cfenollosa/os-tutorial
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45420173

Safe zero-copy operations in C#
https://ssg.dev/safe-zero-copy-operations-in-c/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45420001