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Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/nyregion/wikipedia-conference-gunman.html
42•tptacek•10h ago

Comments

bigtoe416•8h ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20251018000158/https://www.nytim...
DeepYogurt•8h ago
Mad props to the volunteers.
tptacek•6h ago
What a hell of a thing, right?
OutOfHere•7h ago
For what it's worth, nighttime wakefulness (past midnight) is associated with an elevated risk for suicide via circadian misalignment:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7953996/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6314836/

I am sharing this because it's an underrecognized cause that builds up.

The poor culture of ignoring the root causes is precisely what gets us here.

anigbrowl•5h ago
They guy is wearing a sign declaring himself to be a 'non-offending pedophile', and you think his big problem could be that he stays awake too late at night?

./watch

https://dotslashwatch.com/
60•shrx•1h ago•14 comments

StageConnect: Behringer protocol is open source

https://github.com/OpenMixerProject/StageConnect
119•jdboyd•5h ago•55 comments

Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-karpathy
819•ctoth•18h ago•747 comments

Ruby Blocks

https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2025/ruby-blocks/
54•stonecharioteer•3d ago•36 comments

New Work by Gary Larson

https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff
277•jkestner•14h ago•63 comments

AMD's Chiplet APU: An Overview of Strix Halo

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-chiplet-apu-an-overview-of-strix
71•zdw•7h ago•16 comments

Fast calculation of the distance to cubic Bezier curves on the GPU

https://blog.pkh.me/p/46-fast-calculation-of-the-distance-to-cubic-bezier-curves-on-the-gpu.html
12•ux•2h ago•0 comments

The early Unix history of chown() being restricted to root

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ChownRestrictionEarlyHistory
27•kencausey•4d ago•0 comments

The Unix Executable as a Smalltalk Method [pdf]

https://programmingmadecomplicated.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/onward25-jakubovic.pdf
93•pcfwik•10h ago•9 comments

The pivot

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/10/the-pivot-1.html
331•AndrewDucker•16h ago•149 comments

Live Stream from the Namib Desert

https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2025/10/live-stream-from-namib-desert.html
495•surprisetalk•23h ago•91 comments

Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support

https://aiven.io/blog/exploring-postgresql-18-new-uuidv7-support
237•s4i•2d ago•176 comments

PlayStation 3 Architecture (2021)

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation-3
151•adamwk•4d ago•40 comments

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/
572•weinzierl•18h ago•294 comments

EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars

https://restofworld.org/2025/ev-depreciation-blusmart-collapse/
360•belter•1d ago•793 comments

WebMCP

https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/WebMCP
87•sanj•13h ago•22 comments

Tahoe's Elephant

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/10/12/last-week-on-my-mac-tahoes-elephant/
65•GavinAnderegg•6d ago•38 comments

4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence

https://alecmuffett.com/article/117792
413•alecmuffett•1d ago•548 comments

The Underscore Music Player

https://kottke.org/25/10/the-underscore-music-player
7•tobr•1w ago•0 comments

Second Chances on YouTube

https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/second-chances-on-youtube/
7•aspenmayer•1w ago•2 comments

Show HN: ServiceRadar – open-source Network Observability Platform

https://github.com/carverauto/serviceradar
41•carverauto•9h ago•2 comments

The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation

https://50centadjustedforinflation.com/
654•gaws•19h ago•166 comments

When if is just a function

https://ryelang.org/blog/posts/if-as-function-blogpost-working-on-it_ver1/
62•soheilpro•3d ago•64 comments

If the Gumshoe Fits: The Thomas Pynchon Experience

https://www.bookforum.com/print/3202/if-the-gumshoe-fits-62416
35•prismatic•1w ago•0 comments

Cyberpsychology's Influence on Modern Computing

https://cacm.acm.org/research/cyberpsychologys-influence-on-modern-computing/
19•pseudolus•6d ago•4 comments

Asking AI to build scrapers should be easy right?

https://www.skyvern.com/blog/asking-ai-to-build-scrapers-should-be-easy-right/
114•suchintan•16h ago•53 comments

How I ditched smartphones

https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/how-i-ditched-smartphones/15315
12•sipofwater•6h ago•3 comments

Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments

https://www.aiengineering.report/p/claude-code-vs-codex-sentiment-analysis-reddit
105•waprin•1d ago•49 comments

The Wi-Fi Revolution (2003)

https://www.wired.com/2003/05/wifirevolution/
84•Cieplak•6d ago•71 comments

Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch"

https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-refugees-flock-to-linux-in-what-devs-call-their-biggest-la...
19•bundie•3h ago•11 comments