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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:16) - Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
• (01:28) - Tell HN: Azure outage
• (02:36) - Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition
• (03:50) - China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990
• (05:07) - Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres
• (06:18) - Dithering – Part 1
• (07:20) - Tailscale Peer Relays
• (08:30) - AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B
• (09:28) - Eye prosthesis is the first to restore sight lost to macular degeneration
• (10:33) - GLP-1 therapeutics: Their emerging role in alcohol and substance use disorders
• (11:46) - Outro

Tell HN: Azure outage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748661

Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/removing-obfuscation-in-java-edition
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748879

China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-new-forest-report
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45732800

Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres
https://topicpartition.io/blog/postgres-pubsub-queue-benchmarks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45747018

Dithering – Part 1
https://visualrambling.space/dithering-part-1/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45750954

Tailscale Peer Relays
https://tailscale.com/blog/peer-relays-beta
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45749017

AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/29/aol-bending-spoons-deal
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45749161

Eye prosthesis is the first to restore sight lost to macular degeneration
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/10/eye-prosthesis.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45671677

GLP-1 therapeutics: Their emerging role in alcohol and substance use disorders
https://academic.oup.com/jes/article/9/11/bvaf141/8277723?login=false
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45728525