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9.13.25 | EU court classifies nuclear energy as clean, Treasury expands Patriot Act against Bitcoin self-custody, UTF-8 praised as brilliant design


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  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (00:20) - EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
  • (01:39) - The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody
  • (02:57) - UTF-8 is a brilliant design
  • (04:11) - Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens
  • (05:22) - Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems
  • (06:27) - QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system
  • (07:46) - 3D modeling with paper
  • (08:45) - Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction
  • (09:54) - FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
  • (11:00) - Legal win
  • (12:04) - Outro

  • EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
    https://www.weplanet.org/post/eu-court-rules-nuclear-energy-is-clean-energy
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45224967

    The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody
    https://www.tftc.io/treasury-iexpanding-patriot-act/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45221274

    UTF-8 is a brilliant design
    https://iamvishnu.com/posts/utf8-is-brilliant-design
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45225098

    Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens
    https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5498346-corporate-america-has-been-trying-to-hide-job-openings-now-it-is-failing/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45223719

    Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems
    https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/many-hard-leetcode-problems-are-easy-constraint/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222695

    QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system
    https://github.com/qgis/QGIS
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45224156

    3D modeling with paper
    https://www.arvinpoddar.com/blog/3d-modeling-with-paper
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222369

    Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction
    https://acoup.blog/2025/09/12/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-ivc-rent-and-extraction/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45228472

    FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
    https://ffglitch.org/gallery/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45227212

    Legal win
    https://ma.tt/2025/09/legal-win/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45228692

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