October 2025 Archive
1621.
Microcomputers – The Second Wave: Toward a Mass Market (technicshistory.com)
1622.
The mad king's digital killswitch (pluralistic.net)
1623.
Give Your Metrics an Expiry Date (adrianhoward.com)
1624.
Unchecked and Unaccountable: How DOGE Jeopardizes Americans' Data (hsgac.senate.gov)
1625.
Let the little guys in: A context sharing runtime for the personalised web (arjun.md)
1626.
From Hollywood to horticulture: Cate Blanchett on a mission to save seeds (bbc.com)
1627.
SwirlDB: Modular-first, CRDT-based embedded database (docs.swirldb.org)
1628.
Frozen DuckLakes for Multi-User, Serverless Data Access (ducklake.select)
1629.
Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani (ft.com)
1630.
Mamdani says he would phase out NYC gifted program for early grades (nytimes.com)
1631.
The NIH ordered me to stop my 'dangerous' gain-of-function research (statnews.com)
1632.
Launch HN: Grapevine (YC S19) – A company GPT that actually works (getgrapevine.ai)
1633.
The publishing industry has a gambling problem (thewalrus.ca)
1634.
ARM Memory Tagging: how it improves C/C++ memory safety (2018) [pdf] (llvm.org)
1635.
Spotify running ICE recruitment ads about "dangerous illegals" (djmag.com)
1636.
Show HN: I built a local-first podcast app (wherever.audio)
1637.
Vietnam Airlines Data Breach (haveibeenpwned.com)
1638.
Researchers demonstrate centimetre-level positioning using smartwatches (otago.ac.nz)
1639.
SierraDB: A distributed event store built in Rust (tqwewe.com)
1640.
The Tonnetz (thetonnetz.com)
1641.
OpenBSD 7.8 (openbsd.org)
1642.
Oskar Speck's 1932 Kayak Journey from Germany to Australia (nswskc.wordpress.com)
1643.
Connect to a 1980s Atari BBS through the web (southernamis.com)
1644.
My first fifteen compilers (2019) (blog.sigplan.org)
1645.
Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch" (neowin.net)
1646.
US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew (theregister.com)
1647.
How to Enter a City Like a King (worldhistory.substack.com)
1648.
Why China is winning the trade war (economist.com)
1649.
More big companies bet they can still grow without hiring (wsj.com)
1650.
Normalize Identifying Corporate Devices in Your Software (lgug2z.com)