Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/
Living Dangerously with Claude https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/living-dangerously-with-claude/
Simon Willison’s Weblog
Living dangerously with Claude
I gave a talk last night at Claude Code Anonymous in San Francisco, the unofficial meetup for coding agent enthusiasts. I decided to talk about a dichotomy I’ve been struggling …
Claude Memory https://www.anthropic.com/news/memory
Anthropic
Claude introduces memory for teams at work
Claude now remembers your team's projects and preferences across conversations. Memory helps maintain context for complex work, with project-specific boundaries and full user control over what's remembered.
Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/armed-police-swarm-student-after-ai-mistakes-bag-of-doritos-for-a-weapon-3273512/
Dexerto
Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon - Dexerto
Armed officers swarmed a 16-year-old student outside a Baltimore high school when an AI gun detection system flagged Doritos as a firearm.
Antislop: A framework for eliminating repetitive patterns in language models https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15061
arXiv.org
Antislop: A Comprehensive Framework for Identifying and...
Widespread LLM adoption has introduced characteristic repetitive phraseology, termed "slop," which degrades output quality and makes AI-generated text immediately recognizable. We present...
Can “second life” EV batteries work as grid-scale energy storage? https://www.volts.wtf/p/can-second-life-ev-batteries-work
www.volts.wtf
Can "second life" EV batteries work as grid-scale energy storage?
Colin Campbell explains how Redwood drains every drop of capacity from used batteries before they are recycled.
Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates https://lwn.net/Articles/1043103/
LWN.net
Date bug affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates
The Ubuntu Project has announced that a bug in the Rust-based uutils version of the date comman [...]
Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language https://kaitai.io/
kaitai.io
Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language
Kaitai Struct is a formal language for binary format specification that can be compiled into parser code
FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts https://github.com/CaptainYouz/FocusTube
GitHub
GitHub - CaptainYouz/FocusTube: TL;DR: We only have one life. Let's stop wasting it on YouTube shorts.
TL;DR: We only have one life. Let's stop wasting it on YouTube shorts. - CaptainYouz/FocusTube
/dev/null is an ACID compliant database https://jyu.dev/blog/why-dev-null-is-an-acid-compliant-database/
Joey's HQ
Why /dev/null Is an ACID Compliant Database
/dev/null is web scale
Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/23/apple-loses-uk-app-store-monopoly-case-penalty-might-near-2-billion/
9to5Mac
Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2 billion - 9to5Mac
A landmark case in the UK concerning Apple’s App Store practices has just been decided, with Apple losing the case and owing restitution.
US probes Waymo robotaxis over school bus safety https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-investigates-waymo-robotaxis-over-102015308.html
Reuters via Yahoo News
US probes Alphabet unit Waymo robotaxis over school bus safety
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday it has opened a preliminary investigation into about 2,000 Waymo self-driving vehicles after reports that the company's robotaxis may have failed to follow traffic safety…
Show HN: Git for LLMs – A context management interface https://twigg.ai
How memory maps (mmap) deliver faster file access in Go https://info.varnish-software.com/blog/how-memory-maps-mmap-deliver-25x-faster-file-access-in-go
Varnish-Software
How Memory Maps (mmap) Deliver 25x Faster File Access in Go
Learn how memory maps (mmap) accelerate file I/O, reduce latency, and improve app performance in Unix and Go with real-world benchmarks.
Show HN: OpenSnowcat – A fork of Snowplow to keep open analytics alive https://opensnowcat.io/
OpenSnowcat
OpenSnowcat - Enterprise-grade behavioral data platform.
OpenSnowcat is a fork of Snowplow that is open-source, community-driven, and managed by Snowcat Cloud Inc.
