Diamond Thermal Conductivity: A New Era in Chip Cooling https://spectrum.ieee.org/diamond-thermal-conductivity
IEEE Spectrum
Diamond Blankets Will Keep Future Chips Cool
Stanford's diamond innovation could redefine chip cooling, making electronics more efficient and powerful.
Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI https://asciinema.org/a/Lbxa2w9R5IbaJqW3INqVrbX8E
asciinema.org
untitled
Recorded by crc
Our modular, high-performance Merkle Tree library for Rust https://github.com/bilinearlabs/rs-merkle-tree
GitHub
GitHub - bilinearlabs/rs-merkle-tree: Merkle tree implementation in Rust with configurable storage backends and hash functions.…
Merkle tree implementation in Rust with configurable storage backends and hash functions. Fixed depth and incremental only. Optimized for fast proof generation. - bilinearlabs/rs-merkle-tree
Show HN: ASCII Automata https://hlnet.neocities.org/ascii-automata/
hlnet.neocities.org
ASCII AUTOMATA v2 (beta)
Apple alerts exploit developer that his iPhone was targeted with gov spyware https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/apple-alerts-exploit-developer-that-his-iphone-was-targeted-with-government-spyware/
TechCrunch
Exclusive: Apple alerts exploit developer that his iPhone was targeted with government spyware
A developer at Trenchant, a leading Western spyware and zero-day maker, was suspected of leaking company tools and was fired. Weeks later, Apple notified him that his personal iPhone was targeted with spyware.
Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws https://www.csoonline.com/article/4074962/foreign-hackers-breached-a-us-nuclear-weapons-plant-via-sharepoint-flaws.html
CSO Online
Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
A foreign actor infiltrated the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Kansas City National Security Campus through vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s SharePoint browser-based app, raising questions about the need to solidify further federal IT/OT security…
Weekend projects: Chicken Squisher 3000 https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/weekend-projects-chicken-squisher
Substack
Weekend projects: Chicken Squisher 3000
If it clucks like a duck...
The Greatness of Text Adventures https://entropicthoughts.com/the-greatness-of-text-adventures
Entropicthoughts
The Greatness of Text Adventures
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 …