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1. Britain's Railway Privatization Was an Abject Failure
Nach dem Ausverkauf in den 1990er Jahren kehrt der britische Bahnbetrieb nun wieder in die öffentliche Hand zurück – aber zu welchem Preis? Hintergrund von Gareth Dennis
2. GitHub Partial Outage
GitHub's Status Page - Some users may experience failing git push and pull operations..
3. European Nations Decide Against Acquiring Boeing E-7 Awacs Aircraft
Loss of the multi-billion dollar acquisition is a severe blow to U.S. dominance of European military landscape and will boost European defense technology
4. Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs
Our statement detailing an incident concerning a legacy system. We outline our commitment to transparency, accountability, and planned investment in cyber security research.
5. Blender Lab
Introducing an innovation space within the Blender project.
6. Show HN: Kratos - Cloud native Auth0 open-source alternative (self-hosted)
Headless cloud-native authentication and identity management written in Go. Scales to a billion+ users. Replace Homegrown, Auth0, Okta, Firebase with better UX and DX. Passkeys, Social Sign In, OIDC, Magic Link, Multi-Factor Auth, SMS, SAML, TOTP, and more. Runs everywhere, runs best on Ory Network. - GitHub - ory/kratos: Headless cloud-native authentication and identity management written in Go. Scales to a billion+ users. Replace Homegrown, Auth0, Okta, Firebase with better UX and DX. Passkeys, Social Sign In, OIDC, Magic Link, Multi-Factor Auth, SMS, SAML, TOTP, and more. Runs everywhere, runs best on Ory Network.
7. Google will allow users to sideload Android apps without verification
8. Denx (a.k.a. U-Boot) Retires
9. SIMA 2: An Agent That Plays, Reasons, and Learns with You in Virtual 3D Worlds
Introducing SIMA 2, the next milestone in our research creating general and helpful AI agents. By integrating the advanced capabilities of our Gemini models, SIMA is evolving from an instruction-foll…
10. We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner
We made the switch from AWS-hosted MongoDB Atlas to a self-hosted solution on Hetzner, resulting in a 90% reduction in costs while maintaining performance and reliability.
11. Switching from GPG to Age
Some notes about my switch from using GPG for encryption to using age, and how it has changed my workflows.
12. Heartbeats in Distributed Systems
In distributed systems, one of the fundamental challenges is knowing whether a node or service is alive and functioning properly. Unlike monolithic applications, where everything runs in a single process, distributed systems span multiple machines, networks, and data centers. This becomes even glaring when the nodes are geographically separated. This is where heartbeat mechanisms come into play.
13. A Challenge to Roboticists: My Humanoid Olympics
The real Humanoid Robot Olympics should be all about doing household chores.
14. Google open-sources Android 16 QPR1, two months late
Android 16 QPR1 is finally being pushed to the Android Open Source Project. This should have happened on 2025-09-03. We migrated to full Android 16 QPR1 kernel code (GPLv2 tarball) and firmware in September. We couldn't migrate userspace to QPR1 without it being pushed to AOSP.
15. Human Fovea Detector
16. Steam Machine
Your games on the big screen
17. Seed. LINE's Custom Typeface
18. Tesla Is Recalling Cybertrucks Again. Yep, More Pieces Are Falling Off
The glue-induced recall only affects vehicles with the dealer-installed lightbar option.
19. Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software
Verification This issue's title and/or description do not reference a single formula e.g. brew install wget. If they do, open an issue at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/new/choose instead. Provide a detailed description...
20. Continuous Autoregressive Language Models
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2510.27688: Continuous Autoregressive Language Models
21. Shader Glass
Overlay for running GPU shaders on top of Windows desktop - mausimus/ShaderGlass
22. GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
23. Randomness Testing Guide
Test the randomness of random number generators.
24. Reverse Engineering Yaesu FT-70D Firmware Encryption
nothing interesting
25. Project Euler
A website dedicated to the fascinating world of mathematics and programming
26. Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World
The 17-percentage-point drop in U.S. religiosity over the past decade is among the largest declines measured in the Gallup World Poll.
27. Steam Frame
VR and non-VR gaming
28. Transpiler, a Meaningless Word (2023)
29. Valve is about to win the console generation
30. Enabling Trillion-Parameter Models on AWS EFA
Make trillion-parameter models available with cloud platform portability