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I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/mbe5IY2LF9

OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers

https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/history.md

Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser

https://treylorswift.github.io/demoscene-recomp/web/

OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results

https://twitter.com/danintheory/status/2108065033070789090

Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM

https://github.com/pingdotgg/ts-rust

The people holding up the internet

https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet

A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew

https://github.com/zerobrewhq/zerobrew

Terence Tao Responds to the OpenAI Math Drop

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117395269325940185

In Vienna and Beijing, the first (thorium) nuclear clocks begin to tick

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/science/first-nuclear-clocks-thorium-229.html

'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth

https://www.404media.co/oldest-living-land-animal-jonathan-the-tortoise/

Open source 160 sound visualization experiments

https://www.kagan.in/iwrzwr/visual-archive/

Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/man-discovers-his-parents-coffee-machine-used-1tb-of-data-in-10-days-3416399/

Despite what Watson said, Rosalind Franklin understood structure of DNA first

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10739-026-09866-7

Margaret Hamilton, who led software development for Apollo program, dies at 90

https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007

Why were Victorian elites so effective?

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-seven-vices-of-highly-effective-victorians/

Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits

https://debasishg.github.io/blog/push-ifs-up-fors-down/

The Mathocalypse

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10169

Reverse Engineering of the M-VAVE FM-1 Pocket Synthesizer Firmware

https://github.com/AL-255/FM-1-RE

ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-Off Prior to Arrests

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/shinyhunters-extorted-boeing-spin-off-prior-to-arrests/

Meta and Microsoft Limit Employee Use of Claude AI Tools

https://www.rswebsols.com/news/meta-and-microsoft-take-steps-to-reduce-employee-usage-of-claude-ai/

Docker Agent

https://github.com/docker/docker-agent

It may soon be possible to create "mirror life"

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/09/30/it-may-soon-be-possible-to-create-mirror-life

GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-for-everyone/

Claude Haiku 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-haiku-5-5

Study: Claude, ChatGPT Offer Different Shopping Prices Based on Wealth

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-10-07/study-claude-chatgpt-ai-bots-offer-different-shopping-prices-based-on-wealth

AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares

https://github.com/Queuingtheorydotcom/11SquaresFormalized

God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser

https://github.com/snuri00/psp-web-recomp

Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging

https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/anti-patterns-software-blogging/

Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages

https://ascii.rest/

Visa, Mastercard, Major Banks Facing New Litigation over 'Anticompetitive' Fees

https://www.classaction.org/news/visa-mastercard-major-banks-facing-new-litigation-over-anticompetitive-merchant-credit-card-transaction-fees

Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/10/01/across-the-globe-people-increasingly-say-social-media-is-harming-democracy/

Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08144

Forever Junior: The Skills AI Can't Develop for You

https://tech.criteo.com/blog/human-skills-ai-cant-develop-junior-engineers/

Reasons to Dislike AI Coding

https://www.sicpers.info/2026/10/reasons-to-dislike-ai-coding/

SynthID Detector

https://synthid.com/

Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese

https://fiveminutesforward.com/post/2026-10-04-telegraph-test/

Google Playground

https://labs.google/playground

GitHub Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/djlmxz2zd0j7

Shaders, WebGPU Components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, JavaScript and Framer

https://github.com/shader-effects-inc/shaders

Google Playground: Create and play custom games

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/playground-experimental-gaming-platform/

House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k

https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/26612080.house-15m-underground-tunnels-sale-300k/

PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/10/ps5-jailbreaks-are-escalating-at-an-unprecedented-pace-and-sony-must-be-sweating

Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/jpeg-xl-in-chrome

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2026/press-release/

I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard

https://antonfrolov.substack.com/p/i-hired-an-illustrator-to-draw-my

A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps

https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/

Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261005011249.htm

La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993 (session replay)

https://nanochess.org/la_cueva_bbs.html

The art of defusing a second world war bomb

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/06/it-could-knock-a-whole-street-down-the-art-of-defusing-a-second-world-war-bomb

Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/hackers-obtain-counterfeit-tls-certificates-for-google-and-other-large-services/