News

1. The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing (randsinrepose.com)
2. Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent (www.primeintellect.ai)
3. Watermelon and Cucumbers with Spicy Sumac Salt (www.alisoneroman.com)
4. Persimmons and Pears with Blue Cheese and Spicy Pecans (www.alisoneroman.com)
5. The road to epsilon-zero: Coin-moving games with no coins (blog.plover.com)
6. Notes from the AI Coding Transition (emschwartz.me)
7. I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux (runarcn.no)
8. Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery (www.wired.com)
9. One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5 (simonwillison.net)
10. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (research.meta.ai)
11. Zed DeltaDB (zed.dev)
12. Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models (neon.com)
13. SpaceX Unlocks Tomorrow (www.bloomberg.com)
14. Apple and Endive Salad with Parsley and Salted Almonds (www.alisoneroman.com)
15. Raw and Roasted Kale with Pistachios and Creamy Pecorino (www.alisoneroman.com)
16. Vinegared Romaine with Sour Cream, Bacon, and Herbs (www.alisoneroman.com)
17. Little Gems and Cabbage with Pickled Turnips and Lemony Tahini Dressing (www.alisoneroman.com)
18. Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls (www.promptarmor.com)
19. Chicories with Anchovy Bread Crumbs and Egg Yolk (www.alisoneroman.com)
20. Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects (github.com)
21. Grilled Eggplant Dressed with Garlicky Walnuts and Lots of Basil (www.alisoneroman.com)
22. Grilled Corn Salad with Fresh Cheese and Corn Nuts (www.alisoneroman.com)
23. Discovery Loop (www.discoveryloop.com)
24. Raw and Roasted Carrots and Fennel with Feta and Pistachios (www.alisoneroman.com)
25. Baked Summer Squash with Cream and Parmesan Bread Crumbs (www.alisoneroman.com)
26. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (blog.google)
27. Cucumbers and Kohlrabi in Crunchy Chili Oil (www.alisoneroman.com)
28. Steamed Artichokes with Salted Garlic Butter (www.alisoneroman.com)
29. The Valley of Webhooks (weli.dev)
30. Incentives are for losers (www.experimental-history.com)
31. Blistered Green Beans with Creamy Tahini and Fresh Hot Sauce (www.alisoneroman.com)
32. Raw Broccoli and Basil Salad with Peanuts and Shallot (www.alisoneroman.com)
33. Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness (www.campion.edu.au)
34. Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field (rubinobservatory.org)
35. The Entropy of a Markov Chain (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
36. Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work (blog.cloudflare.com)
37. Building an Advanced Agentic Harness (data4sci.com)
38. Painting with Gaussians (yogthos.net)
39. Position: LLMs Can't Jump (openreview.net)
40. Text editor architecture from ed to jupyterlab (tyoverby.com)
41. How Much Faster is Coding with AI Agents? (from a Senior Software Engineer) (hamy.xyz)
42. New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging (simonwillison.net)
43. The Beauty Of Settled Science (www.astralcodexten.com)
44. Project Monopoly: Three Purples and Marylebone Station (gochugarugirl.com)
45. PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx (simonwillison.net)
46. My Impressions of Loop Engineering (debamitro.github.io)
47. Leveraged ETF Crash Hedging ETF (www.bloomberg.com)
48. Quoting Steve Yegge (simonwillison.net)
49. A More Immediate Intuitive Appeal (blog.veitheller.de)
50. Don't be a meat proxy (simonwillison.net)
51. Does Forecasting Have Room At The Top? (www.astralcodexten.com)
52. Learning to fly FPV drones with AI flight coach (blog.divyendusingh.com)
53. Writing my own sequencer for the Yocto drum machine (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
54. Hedgehog Hedge Fund (www.bloomberg.com)
55. Death by side quests (jesusgollonet.com)
56. Open Thread 445 (www.astralcodexten.com)
57. Quoting David Crawshaw's prompt (simonwillison.net)
58. Devtools must be open source (exe.dev) (simonwillison.net)
59. Monday Cleaning Day (gochugarugirl.com)
60. Rebuilding Postgres for 300x faster analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
61. Subway arrival times in my living room with Raspberry Pi (iafisher.com)
62. The Hallway Track No. 019: AlphaFold team disbanded, verification as the bottleneck, Tao's ICM caution (hallway.aris.pub)
63. Seven books I keep close because I love them (blog.plover.com)
64. Who's afraid of a non sofic group (www.robbielyman.com)
65. Project Monopoly: Pentonville Road (gochugarugirl.com)
66. GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2 (www.gnu.org)
67. weeknotes #63 (olu.online)
68. Open letters about AI development (simonwillison.net)
69. Adding Go's defer to the TypeScript Compiler (healeycodes.com)
70. Getting a Working SICP environment in Emacs in 2026 (www.blog.jamesgisele.com)
71. Reading Log #1 (vishnubharathi.codes)
72. Quoting Greg Brockman (simonwillison.net)
73. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (simonwillison.net)
74. Pendants (figbert.com)
75. My NixOS dev machine (miccah.io)
76. July Life Update (seinwave.com)
77. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (simonwillison.net)
78. Your Book Review: The Epic Of Gilgamesh (www.astralcodexten.com)
79. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp) (simonwillison.net)
80. About Interactives: Inquiries.link (www.fractalkitty.com)
81. Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation) (andrewkelley.me)
82. Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison (simonwillison.net)
83. smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses (simonwillison.net)
84. Friday Baking Day (gochugarugirl.com)
85. help wanted (lake.computer)
86. links #8: how you know it's good (etc.octavore.com)
87. RE: “The robots work at night”: How AI helps the world’s poorest, and where it falls short (olu.online)
88. The End of my Suno Era (read.alonzo.zip)
89. The Four Horsemen of the AI Bubble Apocalypse (www.derekthompson.org)
90. do more random elective medical stuff (adagrad.substack.com)
91. there is a poker-shaped hole in your heart (adagrad.substack.com)
92. In Which I Lose My Mind Over Embeddings (HPLM Chapter 2) (www.maayanroth.com)
93. Writing dumber (liquidbrain.net)
94. Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (simonwillison.net)
95. Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (simonwillison.net)
96. Links For July 2026 (Part 2) (www.astralcodexten.com)
97. Quoting Bruce Schneier (simonwillison.net)
98. Topologies, Groups, Graphs (www.robbielyman.com)
99. The Situation Deteriorated (www.bloomberg.com)
100. Thursday Night Dinner (gochugarugirl.com)
101. Published my first Digital Snippet for AV Club (palomakop.tv)
102. Highlights From The Discourse On The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
103. Hidden Open Thread 444.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)