News

  1. PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust (github.com)
  2. RSS Feeds for Last.fm (lfm.xiffy.nl)
  3. With AI, Your Imagination is the Limit (hamy.xyz)
  4. Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? (github.com)
  5. Quoting Anthropic Frontier Red Team (simonwillison.net)
  6. U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels (postalemployeenetwork.com)
  7. Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites (space.bl2.net)
  8. Please add prompt caching to Jev-style models (emschwartz.me)
  9. GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price (simonwillison.net)
  10. Is Existential Risk Securities Fraud? (www.bloomberg.com)
  11. We’re forgetting what darkness feels like (www.theguardian.com)
  12. Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries (www.bbc.com)
  13. Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine (enigma.design)
  14. Tcl/Tk 9.1 (www.tcl-lang.org)
  15. Dots: Always-on agents (openai.com)
  16. GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price (openai.com)
  17. Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
  18. OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog (simonwillison.net)
  19. PS5 Relapse Exploit (github.com)
  20. Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux (frostyard.github.io)
  21. The Strangest Idea in the World (www.experimental-history.com)
  22. America.gov (america.gov)
  23. Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026 (www.backblaze.com)
  24. Esther Hermitte: una antropología para el presente (medium.com)
  25. How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent (spectrum.ieee.org)
  26. Hosted Go Urls (writing.natwelch.com)
  27. Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev (magazine.sebastianraschka.com)
  28. You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner (www.derekthompson.org)
  29. Claude Sonnet 5.5 (simonwillison.net)
  30. Quoting @joedaroo (simonwillison.net)
  31. Banks Recycle the Risk (www.bloomberg.com)
  32. Leek and Potato Soup (gochugarugirl.com)
  33. Open Thread 453 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  34. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio)
  35. Quoting Muse AI Agent (simonwillison.net)
  36. I rode my bike from NYC to Montréal (Part 1) (missfunmi.com)
  37. The Hallway Track No. 027: AGMAI advisory group, Millennium Problems for biology, autonomous research pipelines (hallway.aris.pub)
  38. Legistar Trek, Or, Exploring New York City Legislation (harihareswara.net)
  39. Small Decisions: Engineering a Leading Model (brooker.co.za)
  40. 2026 in LLMs (so far) (simonwillison.net)
  41. There are no dumb questions (blog.greg.technology)
  42. marathon (approximateknowledge.net)
  43. Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights (jvns.ca)
  44. Kākāpō Party (simonwillison.net)
  45. My Six Favorite YouTube IDs (blog.greg.technology)
  46. Building Go Tools Without Writing Any Go (niccrane.com)
  47. Infecting the Steam Link with NixOS (feyor.sh)
  48. Carp in Glamorous Toolkit (blog.veitheller.de)
  49. Your Book Review: Lee Kuan Yew's Memoirs (www.astralcodexten.com)
  50. The commercial applications of embodied conversational agents are gross. (newdelete.alinen.net)
  51. Vinegar-Braised Chicken Wings (www.alisoneroman.com)
  52. Vinegar-Braised Chicken Wings with Zucchini and Herbs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  53. notice of being ghosted (lake.computer)
  54. Quoting John Gruber (simonwillison.net)
  55. L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages (blog.plover.com)
  56. Banana, Walnut and Cardamom Bundt (gochugarugirl.com)
  57. Fall Meetups 2026 - Call For Meetup Organizers (www.astralcodexten.com)
  58. The road to epsilon-zero: “Shortlex” isn't actually a single order (blog.plover.com)
  59. Note on 24th September 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  60. clml, a rust string coloring library (etc.octavore.com)
  61. The Specter Of Neuralese (www.astralcodexten.com)
  62. Morgan Stanley Leaked Some Deals (www.bloomberg.com)
  63. Homemade bagels (merveilles.town)
  64. How China Thinks About AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  65. Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later (www.astralcodexten.com)
  66. Rapid Learning Skill for Code (niccrane.com)
  67. Out Now: Low-tech Magazine Volume IV (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
  68. Platform-independent SIMD in Go (go.dev)
  69. Kalshi Levers the Predictions (www.bloomberg.com)
  70. Building a homelab (wrla.ch)
  71. Noting another house repair chore victory (blog.plover.com)
  72. Delegation and trust (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  73. Hidden Open Thread 452.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)