news, !paper 2025-10-11

2066 Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available / koreajoongangdaily.joins.com / 930

769 The <output> Tag / denodell.com / 171

671 Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024) / windscribe.com / 424

642 Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year / hardware.slashdot.org / 219

553 Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society / pewresearch.org / 490

529 Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland / bluewin.ch / 527

503 Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026 / riksbank.se / 559

479 Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor / github.com/YaLTeR / 229

434 Zig builds are getting faster / mitchellh.com / 209

433 PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports / peps.python.org / 240

432 Social Cooling (2017) / socialcooling.com / 276

412 GNU Health / gnuhealth.org / 116

362 Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025 / blog.fsck.com / 191

326 ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving / github.com/DebarghaG / 173

321 The QNX Operating System / abortretry.fail / 138

319 Ambigr.am / ambigr.am / 42

306 Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme / reason.com / 247

306 Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify / bhargav.dev / 156

304 AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline / arstechnica.com / 380

304 Meta Superintelligence's surprising first paper / paddedinputs.substack.com / 166

302 Paged Out Issue #7 [pdf] / pagedout.institute / 24

292 Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits / cnbc.com / 638

291 People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads / arstechnica.com / 159

289 A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code / github.com/johnperry-math / 246

281 Social anxiety isn't about being liked / chrislakin.blog / 217

274 Removing these 50 objects from orbit would cut danger from space junk in half / arstechnica.com / 114

273 Vibing a non-trivial Ghostty feature / mitchellh.com / 127

271 Firefox is the best mobile browser / kelvinjps.com / 167

267 Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks / jamesoclaire.com / 113

266 AV2 video codec delivers 30% lower bitrate than AV1, final spec due in late 2025 / videocardz.com / 209

261 Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD / github.com/BalajeS / 107

252 BYD builds fastest car / autotrader.co.uk / 302

243 LineageOS 23 / lineageos.org / 94

236 Microsoft Amplifier / github.com/microsoft / 132

231 The collapse of the econ PhD job market / chrisbrunet.com / 370

208 $912 energy independence without red tape / sunboxlabs.com / 163

203 The Buchstabenmuseum Berlin is closing / buchstabenmuseum.de / 69

201 Rating 26 years of Java changes / neilmadden.blog / 224

189 The Faroes / photoblog.nk412.com / 104

187 How hard do you have to hit a chicken to cook it? (2020) / james-simon.github.io / 104

185 X-ray scans reveal the hidden risks of cheap batteries / theverge.com / 77

174 Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial / github.com/anthropics / 20

172 China's New Rare Earth and Magnet Restrictions Threaten US Defense Supply Chains / csis.org / 168

170 Google blocks Android hack that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere / androidauthority.com / 60

169 Show HN: ut – Rust based CLI utilities for devs and IT / github.com/ksdme / 63

166 Discord hack shows risks of online age checks / news.sky.com / 52

164 Orcas are bringing humans gifts / newscientist.com / 96

163 Thunderscan: A clever device transforms a printer into a scanner (2004) / folklore.org / 36

162 Sharpie found a way to make pens more cheaply by manufacturing them in the U.S. / wsj.com / 200

160 AI-powered open-source code laundering / github.com/SudoMaker / 87

157 How we are building Audacity 4 / youtube.com / 32

149 Say Goodbye / mooreds.com / 106

148 Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS / github.com/acsandmann / 68

144 How Apple designs a virtual knob (2012) / jherrm.github.io / 91

139 Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why? / news.ycombinator.com / 433

139 Japan's summers have lengthened by 3 weeks over 42 years, say resaerchers / english.kyodonews.net / 29

137 Sora Update #1 / blog.samaltman.com / 177

134 California needs to learn from Houston and Dallas about homelessness / governance.fyi / 248

131 86 GB/s bitpacking with ARM SIMD (single thread) / github.com/ashtonsix / 29

123 Learn Turbo Pascal – a video series originally released on VHS / youtube.com / 41

122 Peter Thiel's antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon / theguardian.com / 96

122 Parrot – type-safe SQL in Gleam, supports SQlite, PostgreSQL and MySQL / github.com/daniellionel01 / 34

120 OpenAI's hunger for computing power / wsj.com / 105

120 Show HN: ASCII Drawing Board / delopsu.com / 46

116 Binary Formats Gallery / formats.kaitai.io / 25

116 Matrix Core Programming on AMD GPUs / salykova.github.io / 5

108 Indonesia says 22 plants in industrial zone contaminated by caesium 137 / reuters.com / 26

106 Heroin addicts often seem normal / justismills.substack.com / 145

104 How to inject knowledge efficiently? Knowledge infusion scaling law for LLMs / arxiv.org / 35

102 Datastar response to misunderstandings / data-star.dev / 90

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