Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/21/mosquitoes-found-iceland-first-time-climate-crisis-warms-country

Three wrongly accused over child abuse images after BT gets 'wires crossed' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgknm8xrgpo

The principles of extreme fault tolerance https://planetscale.com/blog/the-principles-of-extreme-fault-tolerance

Iceland just found its first mosquitoes https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/climate/iceland-mosquito-discovery

We rewrote OpenFGA in pure Postgres https://getrover.substack.com/p/how-we-rewrote-openfga-in-pure-postgres

Lottery-fication of Everything: 0 day options, perps, parlays are now mainstream https://www.dopaminemarkets.com/p/the-lottery-fication-of-everything

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-here

rlsw – Raylib software OpenGL renderer in less than 5k LOC https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/blob/master/src/external/rlsw.h

Doomsday Scoreboard https://doomsday.march1studios.com/

Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server https://disco.cloud/blog/how-idealistorg-replaced-a-3000mo-heroku-bill-with-a-55-server/

NSO permanently barred from targeting WhatsApp users with Pegasus spyware https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/nso-permanently-barred-from-targeting-whatsapp-users-with-pegasus-spyware/

I wanted to do something meaningful: the Chinese nationals fighting for Ukraine https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/20/i-was-doing-nothing-at-home-the-chinese-nationals-fighting-for-ukraine

KDE Plasma 6.5 Released https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.5.0/

EU Explained in 10 Minutes https://www.250bpm.com/p/eu-explained-in-10-minutes

Wikipedia Seems Pretty Worried About AI https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/wikipedia-contributors-are-worried-about-ai-scraping.html

Human Error Cripples the Internet (1997) https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/071797dns.html

Most Expensive Laptops https://comparelaptopprices.com/lists/most-expensive-laptops/

Pasta/80 is a simple Pascal cross compiler targeting the Z80 microprocessor https://github.com/pleumann/pasta80

AI Weiwei: What I Wish I Had Known About Germany Earlier https://hyperallergic.com/1050197/what-i-wish-i-had-known-about-germany-earlier/

Show HN: I'm rewriting a web server written in Rust for speed and ease of use https://ferron.sh/

Claude Code on the web https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-code-on-the-web

Servo v0.0.1 https://github.com/servo/servo

Entire Linux Network stack diagram (2024) https://zenodo.org/records/14179366

Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/

IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023) https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/the-ides-we-had-30-years-ago-and

Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013) https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/advice.html

DeepSeek OCR https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR

Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-karpathy

Space Elevator https://neal.fun/space-elevator/

AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?ts=20251020

Hetzner: The Simple Cloud just got more flexible and more affordable https://old.reddit.com/r/hetzner/comments/1o80yjs/the_simple_cloud_just_got_more_flexible_and_even/

Grandmaster, Popular Commentator Daniel Naroditsky Tragically Passes Away at 29 https://www.chess.com/news/view/grandmaster-daniel-naroditsky-dies-at-29

High-speed CAPTCHA-bypass with Python / PyAutoGUI [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF3ee0uTBm4

The internet just had another major global outage. Why does this keep happening? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/576516/the-internet-just-had-another-major-global-outage-why-does-this-keep-happening

Trump nominee says he has 'Nazi streak' https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/20/paul-ingrassia-racist-text-messages-nazi-00613608TrumpnomineesaysMLKJr.holidaybelongsin‘hell’andthathehas‘Nazistreak,’accordingtotexts

Elon Musk threatens to leave Tesla if he doesn't get his ridiculous pay https://electrek.co/2025/10/20/elon-musk-threatens-leave-tesla-tsla-if-he-doesnt-ridiculous-pay/

Webflow Donates $150k to Support Astro's Open Source Mission https://astro.build/blog/webflow-official-partner/

AI Slop is taking over Spotify https://symmetrybreak.ing/blog/spotify-slop/

Emacs Time-Zones https://xenodium.com/emacs-time-zones-mode

Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/

The co-founder of OpenAI says it will take a decade before AI agents work https://www.businessinsider.com/andrej-karpathy-ai-agents-timelines-openai-2025-10

Techno-capitalists expect innovation to save us, but it's what got us here https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/19/techno-capitalists-think-innovation-can-save-the-planet-but-that-same-thinking-is-what-got-us-here

Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/wikipedia-says-traffic-is-falling-due-to-ai-search-summaries-and-social-video/

Show HN: I made a RAG agent for the leyman https://www.sitesidekick.io

Jellyfin 10.11.0, "Biggest Release Yet" https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-10.11.0/

Office Walker – The Manual Walking Pad https://office-walker.com/

Vercel Is Down https://www.vercel-status.com

Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more https://www.theverge.com/news/802486/aws-outage-alexa-fortnite-snapchat-offline

Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption https://www.dockerstatus.com/pages/incident/533c6539221ae15e3f000031/68f5e1c741c825463df7486c

AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?ts=20251020