News

1. Crunchy Chili Oil (www.alisoneroman.com)
2. The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI (simonwillison.net)
3. Cooking for One (www.alisoneroman.com)
4. Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video] (www.youtube.com)
5. 99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots (patronview.com)
6. USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data (www.niemanlab.org)
7. Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language (github.com)
8. Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
9. Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (textlog.cc)
10. Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (blog.cloudflare.com)
11. US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects (www.bbc.com)
12. The 9 Questions I’m Obsessed With Right Now: AI, Politics, Movies, Drugs, and Western Civilization (www.derekthompson.org)
13. MacGregor The Bridge Builder (www.astralcodexten.com)
14. New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health (www.theguardian.com)
15. Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned (www.troyhunt.com)
16. Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes (www.sciencedaily.com)
17. AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (www.theregister.com)
18. Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open (herdr.dev)
19. things to say to someone who says they're vegan (lake.computer)
20. Everything Seed Mixture (www.alisoneroman.com)
21. Fake SpaceX Stock Isn’t Worth as Much (www.bloomberg.com)
22. Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users (openai.com)
23. Taste Is All That's Left (notashelf.dev)
24. Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)
25. Avocados with Everything (www.alisoneroman.com)
26. Eggs and Kale Fried in Chicken Fat (www.alisoneroman.com)
27. GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (www.githubstatus.com)
28. Smashed Cucumbers and Scallions over Garlicky Yogurt (www.alisoneroman.com)
29. Counter or gauge? (cceckman.com)
30. Fennel and Grapefruit Salad with Honey and Mint (www.alisoneroman.com)
31. Blood Oranges with Crunchy Red Onion and Avocado (www.alisoneroman.com)
32. Mario Meets Pareto (www.mayerowitz.io)
33. Open Questions On Open Weights (www.astralcodexten.com)
34. Art Prompts: Hailstone Arabesques (www.fractalkitty.com)
35. Hidden Open Thread 445.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
36. An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing (simonwillison.net)
37. Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (simonwillison.net)
38. Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models (simonwillison.net)
39. Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing (simonwillison.net)
40. Watermelon and Cucumbers with Spicy Sumac Salt (www.alisoneroman.com)
41. Persimmons and Pears with Blue Cheese and Spicy Pecans (www.alisoneroman.com)
42. The road to epsilon-zero: Coin-moving games with no coins (blog.plover.com)
43. Notes from the AI Coding Transition (emschwartz.me)
44. One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5 (simonwillison.net)
45. SpaceX Unlocks Tomorrow (www.bloomberg.com)
46. Apple and Endive Salad with Parsley and Salted Almonds (www.alisoneroman.com)
47. Raw and Roasted Kale with Pistachios and Creamy Pecorino (www.alisoneroman.com)
48. Vinegared Romaine with Sour Cream, Bacon, and Herbs (www.alisoneroman.com)
49. Little Gems and Cabbage with Pickled Turnips and Lemony Tahini Dressing (www.alisoneroman.com)
50. Grilled Eggplant Dressed with Garlicky Walnuts and Lots of Basil (www.alisoneroman.com)
51. Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun (nso.edu)
52. Incentives are for losers (www.experimental-history.com)
53. Text editor architecture from ed to jupyterlab (tyoverby.com)
54. How Much Faster is Coding with AI Agents? (from a Senior Software Engineer) (hamy.xyz)
55. New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging (simonwillison.net)
56. The Beauty Of Settled Science (www.astralcodexten.com)
57. Project Monopoly: Three Purples and Marylebone Station (gochugarugirl.com)
58. PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx (simonwillison.net)
59. My Impressions of Loop Engineering (debamitro.github.io)
60. Leveraged ETF Crash Hedging ETF (www.bloomberg.com)
61. Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer (www.bbc.com)
62. Quoting Steve Yegge (simonwillison.net)
63. A More Immediate Intuitive Appeal (blog.veitheller.de)
64. Don't be a meat proxy (simonwillison.net)
65. Does Forecasting Have Room At The Top? (www.astralcodexten.com)
66. Learning to fly FPV drones with AI flight coach (blog.divyendusingh.com)
67. Writing my own sequencer for the Yocto drum machine (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
68. Hedgehog Hedge Fund (www.bloomberg.com)
69. Death by side quests (jesusgollonet.com)
70. Open Thread 445 (www.astralcodexten.com)
71. Quoting David Crawshaw's prompt (simonwillison.net)
72. Devtools must be open source (exe.dev) (simonwillison.net)
73. Monday Cleaning Day (gochugarugirl.com)
74. Subway arrival times in my living room with Raspberry Pi (iafisher.com)
75. The Hallway Track No. 019: AlphaFold team disbanded, verification as the bottleneck, Tao's ICM caution (hallway.aris.pub)
76. Seven books I keep close because I love them (blog.plover.com)
77. Who's afraid of a non sofic group (www.robbielyman.com)
78. Project Monopoly: Pentonville Road (gochugarugirl.com)
79. weeknotes #63 (olu.online)
80. Open letters about AI development (simonwillison.net)
81. Adding Go's defer to the TypeScript Compiler (healeycodes.com)
82. Getting a Working SICP environment in Emacs in 2026 (www.blog.jamesgisele.com)
83. Reading Log #1 (vishnubharathi.codes)
84. Quoting Greg Brockman (simonwillison.net)
85. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (simonwillison.net)
86. Pendants (figbert.com)
87. My NixOS dev machine (miccah.io)
88. July Life Update (seinwave.com)
89. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (simonwillison.net)
90. Your Book Review: The Epic Of Gilgamesh (www.astralcodexten.com)
91. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp) (simonwillison.net)
92. About Interactives: Inquiries.link (www.fractalkitty.com)
93. Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation) (andrewkelley.me)
94. Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison (simonwillison.net)
95. smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses (simonwillison.net)