1. Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader (github.com)
Firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper display reader. Contribute to crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader development by creating an account on GitHub.
2. Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 (catstret.ch)
fresh OI install, clean slate, let
3. Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016) (www.happydaze.se)
4. Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens (www.latimes.com)
A gathering in Colombia reflects mounting impatience with the slow pace of global climate negotiations. Countries first agreed at COP28 in Dubai in 2023 to “transition away from fossil fuels,” but made little progress on it.
5. Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases (academy.dair.ai)
Wiki Builder is an open-source Claude Code plugin that turns the LLM-knowledge-base workflow into a one-command setup. Scaffold a configurable wiki, point Claude at sources, and let the agent compile durable pages, indexes, and concept maps for you.
6. Shrinkflation Is Quietly Making All Gadgets Worse (gizmodo.com)
RAM prices are forcing companies to choose between higher prices and worse specs. Some have decided on doing both.
7. What makes a good smartphone camera? (cadence.moe)
8. Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions (github.com)
A self-contained full-text search engine in pure PHP. No extensions, no dependencies. - olivier-ls/php-fts
9. Virtual violin produces realistic sounds (news.mit.edu)
MIT researchers developed a “computational violin” — the first computer simulation that captures the detailed physics of the instrument and realistically produces the sound of a violin when its strings are plucked. Violin makers could use the model to test how a violin might sound when certain dimensions or properties are changed.
10. Proton Meet (proton.me)
Protect the conversations that matter with a secure, end-to-end encrypted video conferencing from Proton.
11. SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags (yibo-fu.com)
SoundOff: Low-cost Passive Ultrasound Tags for Non-invasive and Non-Intrusive Smart Home Sensing Yibo Fu, Vivian Shen, Víctor Riera Naranjo, Bolei Deng,...
12. Make some art with your phone sensors (tautme.github.io)
13. Show HN: I wrote a flight simulator in my own programming language (github.com)
Simple flight simulator. Contribute to navid-m/flightsim development by creating an account on GitHub.
14. Google tools for customizing searches (cardcatalogforlife.substack.com)
15. Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC (leetusman.com)
16. Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software (adaptivesoftware.substack.com)
17. Xbox CEO ends Copilot AI development and overhauls leadership (www.dexerto.com)
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma reshuffled leadership and axed Copilot features as the division looks to reverse declining revenue.
18. Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages (github.com)
What happened? In 1.110, we added a setting to add Copilot as coauthor in commit messages by appending Co-authored-by: Copilot [email protected]. The setting git.addAICoAuthor has three different ...
19. The Thinking Plant's Man (2025) (www.sciencehistory.org)
Jagadish Chandra Bose and the long, contentious search for plant intelligence.
20. Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition (www.theguardian.com)
Walt Disney Company says technology at California theme park will prevent fraud and streamline re-entry
21. Behavior-Oriented Concurrency for Python (microsoft.github.io)
The bocpy module provides behavior-oriented concurrency for Python.
22. Why airlines are always going bankrupt (davidoks.blog)
23. Mythos is the best cybersecurity news in a decade (sfstandard.com)
Anthropic’s powerful AI model is the best cybersecurity news in a decade.
24. The Boring Internet (www.terrygodier.com)
The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.
25. Urban Birds Are Rising Earlier Because of Traffic Noise (2013) (www.audubon.org)
A male house sparrow. Photo by Edoddridge via Wikimedia Commons Most city dwellers have been woken up at some point by the chirping of birds outside their apartment window, but a new...
27. OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury (arstechnica.com)
Elon Musk argued the journals show the moment when OpenAI abandoned its mission.
28. The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (2008) (theamericanscholar.org)
Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers
29. McDonald's is a premium product now (2024) (greyenlightenment.com)
30. Our Continuation of MkDocs (github.com)
Hello, MkDocs community! You may know me as the previous (last active) maintainer of MkDocs. I welcome everyone to our continuation from where MkDocs was left off, named ProperDocs. You can already...