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Oct 09, 2026 from Hackaday

Two-Component H-shifter for Racing Sims

Flying and driving simulators can go as far as money will take you, and at some point it might end up being cheaper to buy a plane or race car …read more

Oct 09, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

Prison phone calls, volcanic eruptions, and animal testing.

Oct 09, 2026 from R74n Newsletter

New Minigame: Human Tier List

You can now rank every human on Earth with a single webpage.

Oct 09, 2026 from Kev Quirk

2026-10-09 20:15: First fire of the year and Sid is loving it. Not sure we appreciated the...

First fire of the year and Sid is loving it. Not sure we appreciated the giant queen wasp that came bumbling out of the chimney though. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are ...

Oct 09, 2026 from Above the Law

Legal Challenge Could Derail Trump Administration’s Livestreamed Firing-Squad Execution Plans

A potential habeas challenge could push the execution into the next administration. The post Legal Challenge Could Derail Trump Administration’s Livestreamed Firing-Squad Execution Plans appeared f...

Oct 09, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Will Not Be Influenced By The Influencer, Part 17

Read Will Not Be Influenced By The Influencer, Part 17 Me: "What flavor milkshake would you like?" Teenage Girl #1: "What looks best for an Instagram photo?" Me: "Uh, I'm not an expert on that." Te...

Oct 09, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 9 October 2026

Wormsmith Edition Top Story Global PC shipments have plunged 20%, shocking industry analysts. (Notebook Check) Who expected the numbers to be much worse. One of them tried to blame it on "macro con...

Oct 09, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Japan lodges formal complaint with China for calling Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi Sanae Takaichi

What isn’t in a name? Speaking at a press conference on October 7, Toshihiro Kitamura, press secretary for Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, addressed the latest piece of diplomatic friction bet...

Oct 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Deno team joins Cloudflare as runtime development winds down

The Deno team is joining Cloudflare to work with the Workers and Durable Objects teams on a shared platform for distributed applications. Official Deno runtime development will end after one year o...

Oct 09, 2026 from Thejesh GN

Weekly Notes 41/2026

This week was good. I got back to my routine after two weeks of travel and a hectic schedule. Work is progressing well; I did two P.T. sessions, a game, and a run walk. I am still away from a five ...

Oct 09, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Gap Week: October 9, 2026

Hey, folks, no post this week as my work schedule has been pretty heavily disrupted and other tasks had to come first. Patrons will already know this background, but over the summer, we had a water...

Oct 09, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

You can now tell telemarkers to get lost officially in South Africa

“South Africans can register blocks against direct marketers on the government’s new National Opt-Out Registry now – not from May 2027, as the National Consumer Commission’s (NCC’s) own launch stat...

Oct 09, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

In the Online Age, PRC Foreign Intelligence Evolves

Matt Brazil

Oct 09, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Dealing with the Uncles

So Khosrow II had regained his throne and the usurper Bahram Chobin had fled and been killed. Order was restored in the Iranian Empire. Khosrow had originally be put on the throne when his two uncl...

Oct 09, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Trump und Folter

Die USA klagen Maduro wegen Folter an. Warum? Ich dachte, Trump sei pro Folter.

Oct 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Webb Telescope Finds Water Clouds on a Jupiter-Sized World Seven Light-Years Away

About 7.4 light-years from the Sun, a dim ball of gas about as wide as Jupiter drifts through space with no star to warm it. Jupiter is large enough to fit some 11 Earths side by side. (A light-yea...

Oct 09, 2026 from Your Local Epidemiologist

The revolutionary art of fixing the thing people are complaining about

Project Stethoscope, potholes, and everything in between

Oct 09, 2026 from Michael Lynch

Why Are Coding Agents So Dumb?

The first time I used a coding agent, I was mesmerized. Before the agent, I was copy/pasting between my IDE and an AI chat interface. It was amazing to see an agent edit files directly and fix its ...

Oct 08, 2026 from Above the Law

The World’s Richest Law Firm Has Decided Money Isn’t Everything — See Also

Kirkland & Ellis Is Done Sharing Its Revenue With The Media: Turns out $10 billion is right where the numbers stop providing 'meaningful value.' Biglaw Wants Lawyers Who Know How To Use AI: But som...

Oct 08, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Ukraine Struggling to Counter Russian Jet-Powered Drone Campaign

David Traugott