What do we do if SETI is successful? https://www.universetoday.com/articles/what-do-we-do-if-seti-is-successful
Universe Today
What Do We Do If SETI Is Successful?
The Search For Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is evolving. We’ve moved on from the limited thinking of monitoring radio waves to checking for interstellar pushing lasers or even budding Dyson swarms around stars. To match our increased understanding…
Show HN: Katakate – Dozens of VMs per node for safe code exec https://github.com/Katakate/k7
GitHub
GitHub - Katakate/k7: Your own self-hosted infra for lightweight VM sandboxes to safely execute untrusted code. CLI, API, Python…
Your own self-hosted infra for lightweight VM sandboxes to safely execute untrusted code. CLI, API, Python SDK. ⭐ Star it if you like it! ⭐ - Katakate/k7
NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/20/science/nasa-spacex-moon-landing-contract-sean-duffy
CNN
‘We’re not going to wait for one company’: NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said SpaceX is “behind schedule” and thwarting the space agency’s ability to beat China back to the moon.
Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server https://disco.cloud/blog/how-idealistorg-replaced-a-3000mo-heroku-bill-with-a-55-server/
Disco Blog
How Idealist.org Replaced a $3,000/mo Heroku Bill with a $55 Server
At Disco, we help teams escape expensive PaaS pricing while keeping the developer experience they love. This is the story of how Idealist.org, the world's largest nonprofit job board, tackled a common and expensive challenge: the rising cost of staging environments…
Mathematicians have found a hidden 'reset button' for undoing rotation https://www.newscientist.com/article/2499647-mathematicians-have-found-a-hidden-reset-button-for-undoing-rotation/
New Scientist
Mathematicians have found a hidden 'reset button' for undoing rotation
Mathematicians thought that they understood how rotation works, but now a new proof has revealed a surprising twist that makes it possible to reset even a complex sequence of motion
Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an Nvidia Spark via brute force with Claude Code https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/20/deepseek-ocr-claude-code/
Simon Willison’s Weblog
Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an NVIDIA Spark via brute force using Claude Code
DeepSeek released a new model yesterday: DeepSeek-OCR, a 6.6GB model fine-tuned specifically for OCR. They released it as model weights that run using PyTorch and CUDA. I got it running …
Show HN: bbcli – A TUI and CLI to browse BBC News like a hacker https://github.com/hako/bbcli
GitHub
GitHub - hako/bbcli: :newspaper: Browse BBC News like a hacker.
:newspaper: Browse BBC News like a hacker. Contribute to hako/bbcli development by creating an account on GitHub.
"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-here
Default
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.”
My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
rlsw – Raylib software OpenGL renderer in less than 5k LOC https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/blob/master/src/external/rlsw.h
GitHub
raylib/src/external/rlsw.h at master · raysan5/raylib
A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming - raysan5/raylib
Rectal oxygen delivery might soon be a real medical treatment https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/butt-breathing-might-soon-be-a-real-medical-treatment/
Ars Technica
“Butt breathing” might soon be a real medical treatment
Ig Nobel-winning research could one day be used to treat people with blocked airways or clogged lungs.
Minds, brains, and programs (1980) [pdf] https://home.csulb.edu/~cwallis/382/readings/482/searle.minds.brains.programs.bbs.1980.pdf
OpenBSD 7.8 Released https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.8/ANNOUNCEMENT