~/logs/October, November, December 2025
Updated Dec 31, 2025
🧭 October, November, December 2025 Wednesday, Dec 31, 2025
Manna, Chapter 1, by Marshall Brain
Wilfred/difftastic: a structural diff that understands syntax
Tools built on tree-sitter’s concrete syntax trees
How I like to install NixOS (declaratively)
Galois verification reliability security
docker/awesome-compose: Awesome Docker Compose samples
ABSURD.website - We are creating absurd products and services!
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services
Co-op says shelves to be more fully stocked this weekend
Durable Execution Solutions | Temporal
A Look Back at Recent Car Carrier Fires
Bill Ackman Tweeting Through It
junegunn/fzf: A command-line fuzzy finder
The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles
nail-e/futa: a Functionally Useless Terminal Assistant
The Brilliant Milky Way Connects Photographers Around the Globe and Beyond in an Annual Contest
The Lexiconia Codex: A Fantasy Story That Teaches You Every LLM Buzzword
Use Apple products on enterprise networks
The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes
ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600
Status, class, and the crisis of expertise ❤️
Inflections in finance and tech
College Baseball, Venture Capital, and the Long Maybe
Oxide’s compensation model: How is it going?
Git Notes: git’s coolest, most unloved feature
A deep critique of AI 2027’s bad timeline models
Donald Trump-Inspired ‘Israel Edition’ Coin Pushed During Iran Conflict
NLnet; 62 new projects contribute to digital commons
The Decline of Legacy Media, Rise of Vodcasters, and X’s Staying Power
Spegel - A Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages
Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved
Scribble-based forecasting and AI 2027
The Fed says this is a cube of $1 million. They’re off by half a million.
A Higgs-bugson in the Linux Kernel
An Expansionary Theory of the Noosphere
Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner
write a simple shell package with resholve
We reached $1M ARR with zero funding
MacPaint Art From The Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
Your Review: Of Mice, Mechanisms, and Dementia
Movie Market Summary 1995 to 2025
The AWS Survival Guide for 2025: A Field Manual for the Brave and the Bankrupt
lucianmarin/subreply: Tiny, but mighty social network
Mozilla now only seems to speak using creepy, gibberish lunatic language
AWS Well-Architected Framework
The Hater’s Guide To The AI Bubble
Parsing Protobuf Like Never Before
Is SoftBank Still Backing OpenAI?
hydrogen jukeboxes: on the crammed poetics of “creative writing” LLMs
You’re Always Betting on Relative Value
The /o in Ruby regex stands for “oh the humanity!”
Go’s race detector has a mutex blind spot
Customizing tmux and making it less dreadful
Gemma 3n: How to Run & Fine-tune
Your Review: My Father’s Instant Mashed Potatoes
I’ve tracked my last 800 flights. Here’s when you really need to get to the airport.
StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers
Dollar Street - photos as data to kill country stereotypes
Data Replication Design Spectrum
A short statistical reasoning test
The Cost of a Call: From Voice Phishing to Data Extortion
Toronto’s underground labyrinth
A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer
How I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years
David Walker’s Paper Clip Collection
EFForg/rayhunter: Rust tool to detect cell site simulators on an orbic mobile hotspot
Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
Your Review: The Synaptic Plasticity and Memory Hypothesis
Oracle and OpenAI Are Full Of Crap
Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape
DevSecOps Solutions for Defense, Government, and Enterprise
Nine Things I Learned in 90 Years
Sources Say Bay Area House Party
Water Bark - Sonoma County Parks Foundation
Oh it’s personal: These are the top viral Russian fake news stories about European politicians
How 170+ Apps Were Exposed Lovable Vulnerability Explained
OnehundredthCoin’s NES Super Mario Bros. “arbitrary code execution”
We Gave Our AI Agents Twitter and Now They’re Demanding Lambos
File Format Gallery for Kaitai Struct
Will data centers crash the economy?
Your data lakehouse, built like software
APT Down - The North Korea Files
The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe
All Current And Upcoming EVs With Solid-State Batteries
mbj/mutant: Automated code reviews via mutation testing - semantic code coverage.
CamoLeak: Critical GitHub Copilot Vulnerability Leaks Private Source Code
Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
Does the news reflect what we die from?
Leveraged ETFs are bad for your wealth
Pwning the Entire Nix Ecosystem
Free To File – Find out how to file your income taxes for free
Notes: A Brief History of Intelligence (Bennett)
Look at how unhinged GPU box art was in the 2000s
Friday Facts #415 - Fix, Improve, Optimize | Factorio
Docker release? · Issue #21647 · minio/minio
User:Birdman86 CPU die shots ❤️
Average Price: Eggs, Grade A, Large (Cost per Dozen) in U.S.
Accessing Max Verstappen’s passport and PII through FIA bugs
Why /dev/null Is an ACID Compliant Database ❤️
The forgotten politics of “big tobacco”
The riots were in defense of the rapists
Collapse OS — Bootstrap post-collapse technology
Berkshire Hathaway - November 10, 2025
We ran over 600 image generations to compare AI models
A ‘small’ vanilla Kubernetes install on NixOS
What Now? Handling Errors in Large Systems
Italian man accused of dressing as dead mother in scam to collect her pension
A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z
When your customer leads your Series A
Getting from tested to battle-tested
catfishing - the Wikipedia guessing game
An Interview With a YouTube Writer Behind 500M+ Views
Vibecession: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
“Are you the one?” is free money
Hacker News: Clickbait Edition
Speed Comparison - Programming Languages
Notes On Distance Dialing : American Telephone & Telegraph Corporation
Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
Foxboron/ssh-tpm-agent: :computer: ssh-agent for TPMs
maxgoedjen/secretive: Protect your SSH keys with your Mac’s Secure Enclave
The Best Things and Stuff of 2025
Shepherd - Explore the books that readers love.
What an unprocessed photo looks like
Please don’t give Reflect Orbital money
Keep the Robots Out of the Gym
Reverse Engineering A Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel
Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition
Podcast
Movies & TV
Books
Misc.
Predicting the Future of Distributed Systems - Colin Breck
Trust Deterministic Execution to Scale & Simplify Your Systems • Frank Yu