1. Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash? (www.dgt.is)
thoughts, talks, docs and unpopular opinions
2. Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB (cactuscompute.com)
An open speech recognition model that runs on the same CPU engine as Needle. It transcribes seven languages, reaches the first token in 11 ms, and loads beside Needle so one binary turns a clip straight into tool calls.
3. US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft (www.bloomberg.com)
4. Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days (www.dexerto.com)
The man said they discovered that their parents’ coffee maker had generated far more traffic than they expected.
5. I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard (antonfrolov.substack.com)
6. Show HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years (tanzaniaeducationproject.org)
8. Terence Tao Responds to the OpenAI Math Drop (mathstodon.xyz)
9. Theranos.World (www.theranos.world)
An interactive simulation of Elizabeth Holmes
10. OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled (www.ft.com)
11. I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities (quesma.com)
Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Astra one-shot Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino in Three.js: AI design, UX, data visualization and explorable explanations.
12. ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (www.frontiersin.org)
13. OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results (twitter.com)
We've updated our GitHub math repo with 6 new Lean formalizations, 19 modifications, and 3 withdrawals. The repo now has ~42% top-line results formalized. We will continue to update the repo with new formalizations and with any errata we notice.
https://t.co/HI6otY2NTO
https://t.co/HI6otY2NTO
14. The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished (shahidhussain.com)
15 years ago, a band called Salvage dropped an epic song, and then vanished without a trace. Until now.
15. Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits (100r.ca)
16. OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers (github.com)
Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub.
18. The Slow Formation of Durable Software (newsletter.dancohen.org)
How a group of historians took years to imagine Zotero, the research application that would eventually be used by millions
19. 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth (www.404media.co)
Jonathan, a 194-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise, was born before the Civil War. Scientists have now sequenced his genome to reveal what’s behind his extreme longevity, so we can live longer too.
20. I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it (www.reddit.com)
21. 4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe (www.solarpowerworldonline.com)
Wood Mackenzie’s latest global report on levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) shows that advancing technologies and market dynamics continue to drive
22. Cleo (Mathematician) (en.wikipedia.org)
23. The value of not getting to the point (2015) (ken.arneson.name)
25. DuckDB Ducklake (github.com)
DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format - duckdb/ducklake
26. Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments (scottbezek.blogspot.com)
27. ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux (naturalsystems.io)
28. US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams (thequietus.com)
A North Carolina man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for collecting millions in royalties from bot-farming streams of AI-generated songs. The US Justice Department announced the sentencing of 54-year-old Michael Smith (pictured above) in a press release yesterday (6 October). He was sentenced for one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud […]