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…
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 …
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
Minds, brains, and programs (1980) [pdf] https://home.csulb.edu/~cwallis/382/readings/482/searle.minds.brains.programs.bbs.1980.pdf
If you'd built a "tool" that stupid, why would you advertise the fact? https://svpow.com/2025/10/13/if-youd-built-a-tool-that-stupid-why-would-you-advertise-the-fact/
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
If you’d built a “tool” that stupid, why would you advertise the fact?
A few days ago I got a sensationally stupid email from one of those websites that most of us probably have a subscription to, but which I will not give the oxygen of publicity by linking to[1]. The…
Erowid - Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Psychoactives https://www.erowid.org
www.erowid.org
Erowid
Erowid is a non-profit educational & harm-reduction resource with 60 thousand pages of online information about psychoactive drugs, plants, chemicals, and technologies including entheogens, psychedelics, new psychoactive substances, research chemicals, stimulants…
Show HN: Modshim – A new alternative to monkey-patching in Python https://github.com/joouha/modshim
GitHub
GitHub - joouha/modshim: Override and customize Python packages without touching their code
Override and customize Python packages without touching their code - joouha/modshim
Greenland’s national telco, Tusass, signs new agreement with Eutelsat https://www.dagens.com/technology/greenland-ditches-starlink-for-french-satellite-service
Dagens.com
Greenland Ditches Starlink for French Satellite Service
Greenland Strengthens Internet Links Without U.S. Help