News

  1. Quoting Jakub Pachocki (simonwillison.net)
  2. Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads (www.virtualizationhowto.com)
  3. Replaceable but Employed: Automation and the Meaning of Work (www.nber.org)
  4. Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026) (lax-skyline.parcelscope.net)
  5. In Memoriam (www.alisoneroman.com)
  6. Skirting The Issue (gochugarugirl.com)
  7. bzip3 (github.com)
  8. Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics (mathathonchallenge.com)
  9. Live map of public transport in Belgium (openbaarvervoerbelgie.be)
  10. Open Thread 450 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  11. Keep Our Servers Running (blog.archive.org)
  12. 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video] (www.youtube.com)
  13. I Wrote a Package Manager Ten Years Ago (blog.veitheller.de)
  14. Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI (simonwillison.net)
  15. Reading Log #5 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  16. The Dataflow Model Revisited (www.vldb.org)
  17. In Practice (read.alonzo.zip)
  18. Icy Moons Are Ocean Worlds (mceglowski.substack.com)
  19. Decapitating a MacBook (2025) (mm-dev.rocks)
  20. How I Clean My Glasses (hamy.xyz)
  21. zero (approximateknowledge.net)
  22. Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers (simonwillison.net)
  23. Using Blender with coding agents on macOS (simonwillison.net)
  24. Making hypothesis testing make sense (minireference.com)
  25. Trusting-Trust Attack against an Entire Linux Distribution (arxiv.org)
  26. The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting (simonwillison.net)
  27. This Month in Ladybird – August 2026 (ladybird.org)
  28. Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world (www.ox.ac.uk)
  29. Finding a bug in Dummit and Foote's Abstract Algebra (kallus.org)
  30. The LLM Architecture Problem (riskmusings.substack.com)
  31. Your Book Review: The Tale Of Genji (www.astralcodexten.com)
  32. OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis (simonwillison.net)
  33. Whistle Synth Mac App (www.jefftk.com)
  34. Decoding the NEC V20 Microcode (martypc.blogspot.com)
  35. Infinite Lives, 1986: Arkanoid (approximateknowledge.net)
  36. Support Local Variables (bernsteinbear.com)
  37. Show HN: Interactive Tree of Life (ptree.org)
  38. Simple Is Not Small (jyn.dev)
  39. GPT‑6 Astra (simonwillison.net)
  40. The Clippers Got Some Consulting (www.bloomberg.com)
  41. WeatherNext 3 (deepmind.google)
  42. College EA Meetups Everywhere: Times & Places (www.astralcodexten.com)
  43. AI Enablement Theater™ (george.mand.is)
  44. Grilled Artichokes with Preserved Lemon Yogurt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  45. Perfect Pancakes, Perfect Waffles (www.alisoneroman.com)
  46. The ETF Dividend Flip (www.bloomberg.com)
  47. Kinda-Sweet Granola with Coconut and Turmeric (www.alisoneroman.com)
  48. Decidedly Not Sweet Granola (www.alisoneroman.com)
  49. Four-Bean Salad with Green Romesco (www.alisoneroman.com)
  50. Cold Garlicky Pasta with Capers and Salsa Verde (www.alisoneroman.com)
  51. Chicken Soup with Toasted Garlic, Mushrooms, and Celery (www.alisoneroman.com)
  52. llm-gemini 0.34 (simonwillison.net)
  53. Seared Short Ribs with Kimchi and Sesame Salt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  54. Turmeric-Roasted Lamb Shoulder and Carrots with All the Fixings (www.alisoneroman.com)
  55. Any Excuse to Make Shrimp Cocktail (www.alisoneroman.com)
  56. Smashed Eggs and Fancy Fish on Crackers (www.alisoneroman.com)
  57. Creamy Goat Cheese with Lemony Za’atar (www.alisoneroman.com)
  58. A Better Garlic Bread / Caramelized Garlic on Toast with Anchovies (www.alisoneroman.com)
  59. Spicy Red Cabbage with Sweet Onion and Lime (www.alisoneroman.com)
  60. Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics (simonwillison.net)
  61. Absurd Adventure And Amygdalectomy Advocacy (www.astralcodexten.com)
  62. Quoting Rick Brewster (simonwillison.net)
  63. GTM hack: steal engagement with Claude (nmn.gl)
  64. What Makes LLM Tokenization Slow? (healeycodes.com)
  65. Art Works (www.fauxtrots.com)
  66. Goroutine Leak Profiles (go.dev)
  67. Tracing np.add, all the way down (blog.veitheller.de)
  68. Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican (simonwillison.net)
  69. Codex bundles LibreOffice (simonwillison.net)
  70. Amazon Charged the First Price (www.bloomberg.com)
  71. Quoting Tarn Adams (simonwillison.net)
  72. Scour - August Update (emschwartz.me)
  73. We Can't Let AI Writing Take Over the Internet (www.derekthompson.org)
  74. Nicholas Decker In Hell (www.astralcodexten.com)
  75. Picolibrary: a very small press (novalis.org)
  76. A Tetrational Self-Cleaning Turing Machine (nickdrozd.github.io)
  77. How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? (danluu.com)