News

  1. 4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe (www.solarpowerworldonline.com)
  2. Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program (apnews.com)
  3. Orkut.com (orkut.com)
  4. Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Latent Factorization (github.com)
  5. Beauty in DVD Menus (vale.rocks)
  6. Telnet BBS Guide (www.telnetbbsguide.com)
  7. I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities (quesma.com)
  8. The 26 Most Important Facts About AI and the Economy (www.derekthompson.org)
  9. OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results (twitter.com)
  10. “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically (mathstodon.xyz)
  11. Reading Roundup: Color and Text (cceckman.com)
  12. Once the Cheat Code Is There (blog.veitheller.de)
  13. Margaret Hamilton has died (news.mit.edu)
  14. Top Forecasters On The Plague (www.astralcodexten.com)
  15. Hidden Open Thread 454.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  16. Claude Haiku 5.5 (simonwillison.net)
  17. 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth (www.404media.co)
  18. The Mathocalypse (scottaaronson.blog)
  19. ESG Gets More Illegal (www.bloomberg.com)
  20. Claude Haiku 5.5 (www.anthropic.com)
  21. GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone (openai.com)
  22. Teams in Vienna and Beijing have built the first thorium nuclear clocks (www.nytimes.com)
  23. Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app (bigwords.page)
  24. Quoting Jake Boggan (simonwillison.net)
  25. Announcing the Centre for Cryptographic Trust Infrastructure (CCTI) (martin.kleppmann.com)
  26. OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects (simonwillison.net)
  27. Durable Context, Disposable Code - Building Systems with Speed and Quality in the Agentic Era (hamy.xyz)
  28. Quoting Victoria Kim (simonwillison.net)
  29. An Open Letter To Steven Pinker On AI (www.astralcodexten.com)
  30. Sneaky Town Overview (V4 Edition) (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  31. EmbeddingGemma 2 (simonwillison.net)
  32. Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk (simonwillison.net)
  33. Treasury Futures Might Switch (www.bloomberg.com)
  34. Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo (blog.plover.com)
  35. The Slow Formation of Durable Software (newsletter.dancohen.org)
  36. Scrimshaw Jukebox (simonwillison.net)
  37. You May Now Listen to Commoncog Cases (commoncog.com)
  38. Dealing with Recessions (commoncog.com)
  39. Did live visuals for a concert in a large church (palomakop.tv)
  40. Extend Lua with Zig 1: Hello World (www.robbielyman.com)
  41. Quoting Felix Rieseberg (simonwillison.net)
  42. Charlie's Meatballs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  43. Charlie's Meatballs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  44. Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits (100r.ca)
  45. Mergers and Acqui-hires (www.bloomberg.com)
  46. Open Thread 454 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  47. I rode my bike from NYC to Montréal (Part 2) (missfunmi.com)
  48. The Hallway Track No. 028: arXiv rate limit, AI paper mills, Google FluSight (hallway.aris.pub)
  49. Qwen3.8 27B addition in words (simonwillison.net)
  50. 2026.Q3 Reflection (hamy.xyz)
  51. A Game Building Workshop for Kids and Parents (debamitro.github.io)
  52. Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder? (brooker.co.za)
  53. We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything (simonwillison.net)
  54. Using REAPER with ALSA, ignoring Pipewire (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  55. Recent addenda to articles 202609: Errors, omissions, and retractions (blog.plover.com)
  56. Biking the Empire State Trail - Schenectady - Albany - Hudson (bradleydettmer.me)
  57. Improving My Hardware Workflow With CI and Nix (www.scd31.com)
  58. Simple Sudoku Solvers SIII, EI: Agda (blog.veitheller.de)
  59. We’re Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  60. Mathober 2026 Art (www.fractalkitty.com)
  61. Tips for Biking the Empire State Trail (bradleydettmer.me)
  62. What is the Atmosphere: An Untech Introduction (bnb.im)
  63. Our AI Midwife (www.astralcodexten.com)
  64. Arch-specific SIMD in Go (go.dev)
  65. Opening Private Markets to the Public (www.bloomberg.com)