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Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/advice.html
194•peterkshultz•3h ago•75 comments

Compare Single Board Computers

https://sbc.compare/
38•todsacerdoti•1h ago•7 comments

GNU Octave Meets JupyterLite: Compute Anywhere, Anytime

https://blog.jupyter.org/gnu-octave-meets-jupyterlite-compute-anywhere-anytime-8b033afbbcdc
51•bauta-steen•4h ago•6 comments

Dosbian: Boot to DOSBox on Raspberry Pi

https://cmaiolino.wordpress.com/dosbian/
9•indigodaddy•22m ago•1 comments

The Trinary Dream Endures

https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/trinary-dream/
26•FromTheArchives•2h ago•32 comments

The Spilhaus Projection: A world map according to fish

https://southernwoodenboatsailing.com/news/the-spilhaus-projection-a-world-map-according-to-fish
47•zynovex•1w ago•5 comments

What Unix pipelines got right and how we can do better

https://programmingsimplicity.substack.com/p/what-unix-pipelines-got-right-and
4•rajiv_abraham•9m ago•3 comments

Replacement.ai

https://replacement.ai
782•wh313•6h ago•518 comments

Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB

https://demo.duckui.com
158•caioricciuti•8h ago•51 comments

The macOS LC_COLLATE hunt: Or why does sort order differently on macOS and Linux (2020)

https://blog.zhimingwang.org/macos-lc_collate-hunt
53•g0xA52A2A•6h ago•8 comments

RFCs: Blueprints of the Internet

https://ackreq.github.io/posts/what-are-rfcs/
88•ackreq•4h ago•71 comments

Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/infisical/jobs/0gY2Da1-full-stack-engineer-global
1•vmatsiiako•2h ago

Show HN: Pyversity – Fast Result Diversification for Retrieval and RAG

https://github.com/Pringled/pyversity
48•Tananon•5h ago•5 comments

How to Assemble an Electric Heating Element from Scratch

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2025/10/how-to-build-an-electric-heating-element-from-scratch/
57•surprisetalk•6h ago•32 comments

Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?

47•jwithington•2h ago•38 comments

Show HN: Notepad.exe – macOS editor for Swift and Python (now Linux runtime)

https://notepadexe.com/
30•krzyzanowskim•3h ago•23 comments

Could the XZ backdoor been detected with better Git/Deb packaging practices?

https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/xz-backdoor-debian-git-detection/
5•ottoke•2h ago•1 comments

US Government Uptime Monitor

https://usa-status.com/
66•exr0n•32m ago•12 comments

Thieves steal crown jewels in 4 minutes from Louvre Museum

https://apnews.com/article/france-louvre-museum-robbery-a3687f330a43e0aaff68c732c4b2585b
114•malshe•3h ago•80 comments

I wish SSDs gave you CPU performance style metrics about their activity

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SSDWritePerfMetricsWish
45•ingve•2h ago•19 comments

The case for the return of fine-tuning

https://welovesota.com/article/the-case-for-the-return-of-fine-tuning
108•nanark•10h ago•58 comments

Scheme Reports at Fifty

https://crumbles.blog/posts/2025-10-18-scheme-reports-at-fifty.html
26•djwatson24•5h ago•6 comments

The Spherical Cows of Programming

https://programmingsimplicity.substack.com/p/the-spherical-cows-of-programming
24•whobre•4h ago•32 comments

Xubuntu.org Might Be Compromised

https://old.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1oa4549/xubuntuorg_might_be_compromised/
233•kekqqq•5h ago•92 comments

Better SRGB to Greyscale Conversion

https://30fps.net/pages/better-srgb-to-greyscale/
9•ibobev•5d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Open-Source Voice AI Badge Powered by ESP32+WebRTC

https://github.com/VapiAI/vapicon-2025-hardware-workshop
29•Sean-Der•1w ago•3 comments

Abandoned land drives dangerous heat in Houston, study finds

https://stories.tamu.edu/news/2025/10/07/abandoned-land-drives-dangerous-heat-in-houston-texas-am...
97•PaulHoule•6h ago•93 comments

Why an abundance of choice is not the same as freedom

https://aeon.co/essays/why-an-abundance-of-choice-is-not-the-same-as-freedom
86•herbertl•4h ago•35 comments

Lost Jack Kerouac story found among assassinated mafia boss' belongings

https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/lost-jack-kerouac-chapter-found-mafia-boss-estate-21098...
88•rmason•4d ago•53 comments

Improving PixelMelt's Kindle Web Deobfuscator

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10/improving-pixelmelts-kindle-web-deobfuscator/
70•ColinWright•7h ago•13 comments
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Windows 11 25H2 October Update Bug Renders Recovery Environment Unusable

https://www.techpowerup.com/342032/windows-11-25h2-october-update-bug-renders-recovery-environment-unusable
75•MaximilianEmel•3h ago

Comments

lioeters•2h ago
> this update disrupts mouse and keyboard functionality within the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), making them unresponsive

> Early last week, Microsoft accidentally broke the Windows Media Creation Tool (MCT) just a day ahead of Windows 10's end-of-life. Additionally, the company began requiring Online Accounts for Windows 11 installations, making them increasingly difficult to bypass.

> Every previously reported issue has been addressed or resolved, except for the broken localhost functionality and now this WinRE problem.

izacus•2h ago
Wonder if they used Copilot for coding those features and then AI to review them. I bet the productivity of the engineers was off the charts for that one.
Velocifyer•2h ago
At this point Arch Linux is more stable than Losedows 11.
edoceo•2h ago
Windoesnt
varispeed•2h ago
Has Microsoft switched to vibe coding? Seems like the last series of blunders coincide with Coidiot rollout.
EarthIsHome•2h ago
eating their own dogfood
franczesko•2h ago
Switched? The Windows Insider has 3 different tiers for testers: Dev, Beta and Release preview and still update rollouts are an example of how not to do it
pjmlp•2h ago
They got rid of most QA people, and nowadays apparently devs do QA as well, except that apparently not much of it, like in large majority of companies, where testing and docs come last.

Then there is the whole AI KPIs that most companies are pushing on their employees, and given CoPilot, they surely must be pushing a lot.

PunchyHamster•2h ago
Closed tickets look better on KPI than re-opened ones
zamadatix•1h ago
It's worth noting that QA change happened >10 years ago now. It's really the shift in focus that accelerated things recently.
pjmlp•56m ago
Kind of, it has been slowly felt during Windows 10 and 11 time, especially in anything related to UWP and WinRT.
dev1ycan•2h ago
Microsoft is just completely pathetic, it's become completely opposite of what companies want and it wouldn't surprise me if it becomes politics soon to switch to Linux on office spaces.
kachapopopow•1h ago
office 365 is the only thing stopping people from switching to linux as the only current alternative is ironically chromeos (android office) and macos (fully supported by microsoft)
echohack5•1h ago
Office because lawyers send docs in .docx format like it was written in the blood of the Benjamin Franklin

DirectX because steam defacto runs on Windows only for the vast majority of games, and not everyone wants a steam deck form

I can't think of any other S tier use cases tbh

jayd16•1h ago
Drivers and such are still usually windows first.
esseph•36m ago
I'm 100% gaming on Fedora with proton and have been for quite awhile.

Playing Arc Raiders now on Linux just fine, and several other new games. Not BF6 though, that requires you to basically install a windows rootkit.

kachapopopow•9m ago
directx to vulkan works good enough these days, what breaks is DRM, anti-piracy and anticheats.
prmoustache•1h ago
Most tasks are done OK with the web version of office365 tools and I know a few companies who do not bother to pay the licence to install the full suite to all their workers so that should make them easy to switch.

I think there is more to it: IT desktop admins mostly trained on the microsoft ecosystem, GPOs, etc.

thewebguyd•1h ago
I see macOS growing in share for corporate laptops/desktops first, but it would be nice to see widespread Linux.

But for now, with big enterprise office requirement, macOS is the next best refuge for most companies.

BoppreH•1h ago
Between these issues, the end of support for Windows 10, and the total lack of respect for customers ("yes/maybe later" is unacceptable), I'm happy for my recent switch to Linux.

Fedora Kinoite (atomic + KDE) has been a breath of fresh air. The Dolphin file manager alone was worth the switch, and connecting my phone via KDE Connect is the most excited I've been about software in a while. The atomic part has been surprisingly painless.

It hasn't been free from small bugs (what software is, nowadays?), but at least I know they're not there because of greed, so it pushes me towards contributing instead of hating the developers.

Refreeze5224•1h ago
KDE Connect is a wonderful piece of software, and works on more than just KDE! Most distros are supported, I believe.
mook•1h ago
KDE Connect works on Windows, and I think mac too. I get the feeling that it's really just people making stuff for themselves and sharing it with the world, and not trying to "win" in some fashion.
BoppreH•48m ago
It's still limited by the features the OS supports. For example, on Windows you can't mount the phone's filesystem wirelessly.
kwanbix•1h ago
Double Commander is the best (actually Total Commander but that is for windows).
hebelehubele•19m ago
Are there any Linux laptops with very good (read: all day) battery life for software dev in an IDE?
bkraz•1h ago
In Win11 as admin, take ownership of the following files, and remove all permissions for the system user. This prevents any updates and can be easily undone at any time. I turned off updates, and life is much better. I no longer feel guilty about having my system "at risk". It's no longer worth the pain of updates.

C:\Windows\System32\WaaSMedicSvc.dll C:\Windows\System32\usosvc.dll C:\Windows\System32\wuaueng.dll

prmoustache•1h ago
I'd rather use a non broken operating system than disable updates.
tacker2000•1h ago
Yea at this point updating stuff is just almost more pain than pleasure, since new features are very limited nowadays and most of the time things end up being more broken.

For example, the latest MacOS sequoia security update broke the touch id reader when logging in, i need to type my password now everytime. And lets not forget about the new glass design and UI changes in the latest iOS.

Im pretty tired of updates at this point and will push them out unless absolutely necessary.

esseph•39m ago
> Im pretty tired of updates at this point and will push them out unless absolutely necessary.

As a systems guy by trade and now a security guy by role, that scares the every living fuck out of me.

Yeul•16m ago
Yep the recent Windows update broke a videogame that I was playing.

Windows used to be about backwards compatibility. Microsoft was proud of it. Twenty year old software ran on it.

Now it is all about AI stuff that I do not give a fuck about.

tgv•42m ago
I pinned the system version on 23H2. It does get other updates still.
Arrath•9m ago
I can't wait to try this. Long have I feuded with the Task Scheduler and its slippery ability to reenable the update services when I look away. Thanks!
boznz•1h ago
Microsoft updates feel like they are boiling the frog, changing the whole OS to something you never signed up for. Why can't they stick to just security and stick their bloatware AI crap in Windows 12