News

  1. U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982 (oilprice.com)
  2. 1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops (lolchat.rip)
  3. Claude Sonnet 5.5 (simonwillison.net)
  4. ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model (github.com)
  5. Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms (github.com)
  6. World Labs Is Joining AMD (www.worldlabs.ai)
  7. California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops (www.kqed.org)
  8. Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery (arstechnica.com)
  9. It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs (calnewport.com)
  10. Quoting @joedaroo (simonwillison.net)
  11. MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser (stateofutopia.com)
  12. Banks Recycle the Risk (www.bloomberg.com)
  13. Sonnet 5.5 (www.anthropic.com)
  14. Leek and Potato Soup (gochugarugirl.com)
  15. Open Thread 453 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  16. Pirating the Pirates (mubi.com)
  17. Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent (www.cnbc.com)
  18. Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat (www.thisamericanlife.org)
  19. Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah (twitter.com)
  20. Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API (blog.cloudflare.com)
  21. Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts (hn.watch)
  22. Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests (www.petervijeh.com)
  23. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio)
  24. Quoting Muse AI Agent (simonwillison.net)
  25. I rode my bike from NYC to Montréal (Part 1) (missfunmi.com)
  26. The Hallway Track No. 027: AGMAI advisory group, Millennium Problems for biology, autonomous research pipelines (hallway.aris.pub)
  27. Legistar Trek, Or, Exploring New York City Legislation (harihareswara.net)
  28. Behold the pawpaw (www.cbc.ca)
  29. Small Decisions: Engineering a Leading Model (brooker.co.za)
  30. 2026 in LLMs (so far) (simonwillison.net)
  31. There are no dumb questions (blog.greg.technology)
  32. marathon (approximateknowledge.net)
  33. Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights (jvns.ca)
  34. What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI (this.os.isfine.org)
  35. Kākāpō Party (simonwillison.net)
  36. My Six Favorite YouTube IDs (blog.greg.technology)
  37. Building Go Tools Without Writing Any Go (niccrane.com)
  38. Infecting the Steam Link with NixOS (feyor.sh)
  39. Carp in Glamorous Toolkit (blog.veitheller.de)
  40. Your Book Review: Lee Kuan Yew's Memoirs (www.astralcodexten.com)
  41. The commercial applications of embodied conversational agents are gross. (newdelete.alinen.net)
  42. Vinegar-Braised Chicken Wings (www.alisoneroman.com)
  43. Vinegar-Braised Chicken Wings with Zucchini and Herbs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  44. notice of being ghosted (lake.computer)
  45. Quoting John Gruber (simonwillison.net)
  46. L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages (blog.plover.com)
  47. Banana, Walnut and Cardamom Bundt (gochugarugirl.com)
  48. Fall Meetups 2026 - Call For Meetup Organizers (www.astralcodexten.com)
  49. The road to epsilon-zero: “Shortlex” isn't actually a single order (blog.plover.com)
  50. Note on 24th September 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  51. clml, a rust string coloring library (etc.octavore.com)
  52. The Specter Of Neuralese (www.astralcodexten.com)
  53. Morgan Stanley Leaked Some Deals (www.bloomberg.com)
  54. Homemade bagels (merveilles.town)
  55. How China Thinks About AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  56. Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later (www.astralcodexten.com)
  57. Rapid Learning Skill for Code (niccrane.com)
  58. Out Now: Low-tech Magazine Volume IV (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
  59. Platform-independent SIMD in Go (go.dev)
  60. Kalshi Levers the Predictions (www.bloomberg.com)
  61. Building a homelab (wrla.ch)
  62. Noting another house repair chore victory (blog.plover.com)
  63. Delegation and trust (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  64. Hidden Open Thread 452.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  65. The Mundanity of Excellence, Small Wins, and Why You Should Fix Bugs Before Writing New Features (probablydance.com)
  66. SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering (simonwillison.net)
  67. Mysteries Of AI Generalization (www.astralcodexten.com)
  68. Work diary victory (blog.plover.com)
  69. Building a Multiplayer Game of Life with Rust + Datastar (hamy.xyz)
  70. Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war (simonwillison.net)
  71. Who Cares If a Merger Is Fair? (www.bloomberg.com)
  72. Quoting @therealcornpop (simonwillison.net)
  73. Simplicio, Ten Years Later (adagrad.substack.com)