Monthly Highlights
1861.
We Lost Something: 1970s REPLs Were Better Than Modern Development Environments (programmingsimplicity.substack.com)
1862.
The Big City; Save the Flophouses (1996) (nytimes.com)
1863.
What, if anything, is universal to music cognition? (2024) (nature.com)
1864.
Google Tells Advertisers It'll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026 (adweek.com)
1865.
The choice between Rust and C-derived languages is not only about memory safety (bbuyukliev.blogspot.com)
1866.
Europe: WhatsApp opens for third-party apps (faq.whatsapp.com)
1867.
Evaluating chain-of-thought monitorability (openai.com)
1868.
What folk can do (folk.computer)
1869.
FBI Wanted List: Fraudulent Remote IT Workers from DPRK (fbi.gov)
1870.
More atmospheric rivers coming for flooded Washington and the West Coast (cnn.com)
1871.
GrapheneOS is leaving France after receiving threats from law enforcement (grapheneos.social)
1872.
Show HN: Epstein's emails reconstructed in a message-style UI (OCR and LLMs) (github.com)
1873.
Opinion: US Authorities Have Far-Reaching Access to European Cloud Data (heise.de)
1874.
Debian adds LoongArch as officially supported architecture (lists.debian.org)
1875.
Meta's new EU regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting Meta's feelings (pluralistic.net)
1876.
A most important mustard (asimov.press)
1877.
Zuckerberg Cut Ties with Pro-Immigration Organization He Founded (bloomberg.com)
1878.
SpaceX in Talks for Share Sale That Would Boost Valuation to $800B (wsj.com)
1879.
Show HN: Stickerbox, a kid-safe, AI-powered voice to sticker printer (stickerbox.com)
1880.
When did the job market get so rude? (theatlantic.com)
1881.
The Rise and Fall of the H-1B Visa – American Affairs Journal (americanaffairsjournal.org)
1882.
The Copenhagen Trap: How the West made passivity the only safe strategy (aliveness.kunnas.com)
1883.
Windows 11 October 2025 Update Triggers Major Gaming Performance Regression (guru3d.com)
1884.
School security AI flagged clarinet as a gun. Exec says it wasn't an error (arstechnica.com)
1885.
Show HN: Web app that lets you send email time capsules (resurf.me)
1886.
'Carspreading' is on the rise – and not everyone is happy about it (bbc.co.uk)
1887.
Minimum Viable Arduino Project: Aeropress Timer (netninja.com)
1888.
OpenAI won't make money by 2030 and needs another $207B, HSBC estimates (fortune.com)
1889.
Be Careful with GIDs in Rails (blog.julik.nl)
1890.
Telegraph chess: A 19th century tech marvel (spectrum.ieee.org)