Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7648198/2026/10/01/mike-tomlin-minecraft-nfl-coach/
The Athletic
Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city. Over 19 minutes, he showed it off to the world
The former Steelers coach went deep sharing his passion project on YouTube, and teased more to come.
Apple Pass Designer https://developer.apple.com/pass-designer/
Apple Developer
Pass Designer - Apple Developer
Whether you’re creating passes for a local fitness center, a small music venue, a global airline, or a national coffee chain, Pass Designer makes it easy to craft and preview passes that reflect your business.
Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnV_cWeoo5Q
YouTube
Kernel Recipes 2026 - Security in the LLM age
Greg KH
A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting https://bsky.app/profile/theplanetaryguy.com/post/3mwucf5ert22f
Bluesky Social
Paul Byrne (@theplanetaryguy.com)
This will never stop blowing my mind.
A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away.
And around it, four planets slowly orbiting.
Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away.
And around it, four planets slowly orbiting.
Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/openai-safety-team-resignation/688881/?gift=v5U_UzUTothfWXsPxtvNVAh7esWToMRD6XnbXmc5WgA
The Atlantic
I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.
The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU
Phoronix
The Amazing Work By Valve's Timur Kristóf On Improving Old AMD GPUs On Linux
Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux…
Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict https://cosmowenman.substack.com/p/rodin-museum-3d-scan-verdict
Substack
Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D Scan Verdict
Sometimes the law is not the law
Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too? https://sjg.io/writing/binrange-have-you-actually-put-the-bins-out/
sjg.io
Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?
How I massively over-engineered a trivial problem again because I just can't help myself
Why don't more developers “use the platform”? https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/03/why-dont-more-developers-use-the-platform/
Read the Tea Leaves
Why don’t more developers “use the platform”?
For years, advocates for web standards, performance, and accessibility have implored web developers to “use the platform”. I’ve often been one of those…
Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata
GitHub
GitHub - Niko1221/Strata: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on any consumer hardware: one-click install for Windows / Linux. Strata inference…
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on any consumer hardware: one-click install for Windows / Linux. Strata inference engine, OpenAI/Anthropic API on localhost, optional image input. - Niko1221/Strata
Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-05/qualcomm-licenses-patents-on-huawei-s-logicfolding-chip-tech
Bloomberg.com
Qualcomm Licenses Patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding Chip Tech
Qualcomm Inc. has agreed to license patents related to Huawei Technologies Co.’s novel LogicFolding chipmaking technique as part of a wide-ranging pact, a win for the Chinese company’s technological ambitions.
Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam
Reflection
Introducing Beam: Reflection’s 501B open-weight model — Reflection
Make intelligence open and accessible to all
The lamps in my house https://arslan.io/2026/10/05/the-lamps-in-my-house/
Fatih Arslan
The lamps in my house
I have a thing for lamps. Especially designer lamps from the past. I occasionally share them on X and Instagram, and people always ask me about the brands and models. I love lamps so much that I designed one myself. So I decided to give a tour of the lamps
Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates https://www.vals.ai/blogs/room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductors
www.vals.ai
Two Room-Temperature Antiferromagnetic Semiconductor Candidates | Vals AI
We are sharing two candidate magnets for next-generation computer memory, found by a team of Claude Opus 5.5 agents. Both are predicted to have zero net magnetism yet still sort electrons by spin: one a new compound we designed, the other a material first…
Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf] https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf
The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients https://spectrum.ieee.org/fully-implantable-cochlear-implant
IEEE Spectrum
World’s First Fully Implanted Cochlear Implant Reaches Patients
Users get round-the-clock hearing with no visible external hardware
Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation https://qlabs.sh/research/dust