Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013) https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/advice.html
The zipper is getting its first major upgrade in 100 years https://www.wired.com/story/the-zipper-is-getting-its-first-major-upgrade-in-100-years/
WIRED
The Zipper Is Getting Its First Major Upgrade in 100 Years
By stripping away the fabric tape that’s held zippers together for a hundred years, Japanese clothing giant YKK is designing the future of seamless clothing.
Comparing the power consumption of a 30 year old refrigerator to a new one https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/10/14/fridge-power-consumption/
./techtipsy
Comparing the power consumption of a 30 year old refrigerator to a brand new one
Having a home server and a few smart plugs leads to interesting data points like this one. Well, interesting to me, at least.
RFCs: Blueprints of the Internet https://ackreq.github.io/posts/what-are-rfcs/
Broadcast
What Are RFCs? The Forgotten Blueprints of the Internet
Think about it for a second: could the internet exist without standards and protocols? Of course not! Computers need shared rules and agreements to communicate with one another. Even human languages, like English, work much the same way. They function as…
Thieves steal crown jewels in 4 minutes from Louvre Museum https://apnews.com/article/france-louvre-museum-robbery-a3687f330a43e0aaff68c732c4b2585b
AP News
Thieves steal crown jewels in 4 minutes from Louvre Museum
Thieves have pulled off a daring heist at the Louvre, stealing priceless Napoleonic jewels. On Sunday, they used a basket lift to access the museum, smashed display cases, and fled with the treasures.
Windows 11 25H2 October Update Bug Renders Recovery Environment Unusable https://www.techpowerup.com/342032/windows-11-25h2-october-update-bug-renders-recovery-environment-unusable
TechPowerUp
Windows 11 25H2 October Update Bug Renders Recovery Environment Unusable
It seems like Microsoft has encountered a significant issue with the latest Windows 11 25H2 October update, KB5066835. The company confirmed that this update disrupts mouse and keyboard functionality within the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), making…
How to Assemble an Electric Heating Element from Scratch https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2025/10/how-to-build-an-electric-heating-element-from-scratch/
LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
How to Assemble an Electric Heating Element from Scratch
This manual guides you through the process of building a 12V DC electric resistance heating element for a self-made heating or cooking device.
The macOS LC_COLLATE hunt: Or why does sort order differently on macOS and Linux (2020) https://blog.zhimingwang.org/macos-lc_collate-hunt
blog.zhimingwang.org
The macOS LC_COLLATE hunt - Zhiming Wang
GNU Octave Meets JupyterLite: Compute Anywhere, Anytime https://blog.jupyter.org/gnu-octave-meets-jupyterlite-compute-anywhere-anytime-8b033afbbcdc
Medium
GNU Octave Meets JupyterLite: Compute Anywhere, Anytime!
We are thrilled to announce the newest member of our JupyterLite kernel ecosystem: Xeus-Octave. Xeus-Octave allows you to run GNU Octave…
I wish SSDs gave you CPU performance style metrics about their activity https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SSDWritePerfMetricsWish
The Spilhaus Projection: A world map according to fish https://southernwoodenboatsailing.com/news/the-spilhaus-projection-a-world-map-according-to-fish
Southern Woodenboat Sailing
The Spilhaus Projection-A World Map according to Fish — Southern Woodenboat Sailing
When Mr Lewin began explaining how cartographers addressed the challenge of portraying what is essentially a three dimensional object - the world - on a two dimensional plane - a piece of paper - my eyes lit up!
Show HN: Pyversity – Fast Result Diversification for Retrieval and RAG https://github.com/Pringled/pyversity
GitHub
GitHub - Pringled/pyversity: Fast Diversification for Search & Retrieval
Fast Diversification for Search & Retrieval. Contribute to Pringled/pyversity development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dosbian: Boot to DOSBox on Raspberry Pi https://cmaiolino.wordpress.com/dosbian/
Carmelo Maiolino's blog
Distro – Dosbian 3.0
09/01/2025 released DOSBIAN 3.0 for Raspberry Pi 3/4/400/5/500 WHAT’S NEW IN VERSION 3.0 Latest distro updates applied to run in Raspberry Pi 5/500. Dosbox Staging updated to version 0.82, no…
The working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn't see in the movies https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/12/move-over-alan-turing-meet-the-working-class-hero-of-bletchley-park-you-didnt-see-in-the-movies
the Guardian
Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of computing?
Could the XZ backdoor been detected with better Git/Deb packaging practices? https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/xz-backdoor-debian-git-detection/
Optimized by Otto
Could the XZ backdoor have been detected with better Git and Debian packaging practices?
The discovery of a backdoor in XZ Utils in the spring of 2024 shocked the open source community, raising critical questions about software supply chain security. This post explores whether better Debian packaging practices could have detected this threat…