October 2025 Archive
16921.
Sure, Ultra-Processed Foods Are Bad. But How Does That Help Anyone? (thewalrus.ca)
16922.
Revisiting Karpathy's 'Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks' (gilesthomas.com)
16923.
Network Storage and Scaling Characteristics of a Distributed Filesystem (maknee.github.io)
16924.
How to Design a Rate Limiter (A Complete Guide for System Design Interviews) (javarevisited.substack.com)
16925.
Aftok: New kind of cooperative, bottom-up business organization without hiearchy (aftok.com)
16926.
Some (hopefully not super obvious) insights about great engineering teams (praf.me)
16927.
Safepay: Pakistan's Stripe (realisticoptimist.io)
16928.
AAS: The Metric for Monitoring DB Performance (kylehailey.com)
16929.
Why it took 4 years to get a lock files specification (snarky.ca)
16930.
Syneris — Instantly share videos, images, and websites with zero friction (syneris.netlify.app)
16931.
Flowcharts vs. Handoffs: a simple math framing (blog.rowboatlabs.com)
16932.
Artificial intelligence in research and development (nber.org)
16933.
Understanding the 4 Main Approaches to LLM Evaluation (From Scratch) (magazine.sebastianraschka.com)
16934.
North Korea's Contagious Interview Campaign Escalates: 338 Malicious NPM (socket.dev)
16935.
How to Enable SFTP Without Shell Access on Ubuntu (digitalocean.com)
16936.
The Language of the Black Parade (blambot.com)
16937.
GPT-OSS 20B running on a phone (simonwillison.net)
16938.
Research Figures Guide (research-figure-guide.nature.com)
16939.
Goodbye Nouveau GL. Hello Zink (collabora.com)
16940.
A trader's 5-minute fix for missing IPO momentum plays
16941.
NixOS dotfiles repo will blow your mind (github.com)
16942.
DC Comics declares it will never use generative AI (avclub.com)
16943.
What Jihad al-Shamie's three wives tell us about terror (thetimes.com)
16944.
Can AI Co-Design Distributed Systems? Scaling from 1 GPU to 1k (harvard-edge.github.io)
16945.
There Is No Algorithm for Truth – Tom Scott [video] (youtube.com)
16946.
Gemini AI Photo – Free AI Photo Editor and Generator (Powered by Nano Banana) (geminiaiphoto.com)
16947.
Crazy Crypto Heist Is the Story of Our Time (nytimes.com)
16948.
Optical Archiver: Optar fits 200kB on an A4 page (ronja.twibright.com)
16949.
Show HN: Fantasy Timeline and Calendar Editor (legendkeeper.com)
16950.
Bad UX World Cup (badux.lol)