News

  1. Banks Recycle the Risk (www.bloomberg.com)
  2. Claude Sonnet 5.5 (www.anthropic.com)
  3. Leek and Potato Soup (gochugarugirl.com)
  4. The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent (www.ssp.sh)
  5. 13 Months Sober (2025) (www.bobbytables.io)
  6. Open Thread 453 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  7. Pirating the Pirates (mubi.com)
  8. Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat (www.thisamericanlife.org)
  9. Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts (hn.watch)
  10. MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta (www.reuters.com)
  11. Coding Is Not Solved (blog.alexewerlof.com)
  12. What Would a Serious AI Product Look Like? (blog.glyph.im)
  13. Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC (git.mills.io)
  14. Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page (github.com)
  15. Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants (scissor.studio)
  16. 37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it (www.habibicode.org)
  17. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio)
  18. Quoting Muse AI Agent (simonwillison.net)
  19. The Hallway Track No. 027: AGMAI advisory group, Millennium Problems for biology, autonomous research pipelines (hallway.aris.pub)
  20. Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain (www.nissan-global.com)
  21. Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock (colo.to)
  22. Legistar Trek, Or, Exploring New York City Legislation (harihareswara.net)
  23. Small Decisions: Engineering a Leading Model (brooker.co.za)
  24. 2026 in LLMs (so far) (simonwillison.net)
  25. When did Google get so weird? (sancho.bearblog.dev)
  26. Ember-1 (fireworks.ai)
  27. Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'” (bookofrevenue.com)
  28. marathon (approximateknowledge.net)
  29. Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights (jvns.ca)
  30. Kākāpō Party (simonwillison.net)
  31. My Six Favorite YouTube IDs (blog.greg.technology)
  32. Building Go Tools Without Writing Any Go (niccrane.com)
  33. Infecting the Steam Link with NixOS (feyor.sh)
  34. Carp in Glamorous Toolkit (blog.veitheller.de)
  35. Your Book Review: Lee Kuan Yew's Memoirs (www.astralcodexten.com)
  36. The commercial applications of embodied conversational agents are gross. (newdelete.alinen.net)
  37. Vinegar-Braised Chicken Wings (www.alisoneroman.com)
  38. Vinegar-Braised Chicken Wings with Zucchini and Herbs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  39. notice of being ghosted (lake.computer)
  40. Quoting John Gruber (simonwillison.net)
  41. L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages (blog.plover.com)
  42. Banana, Walnut and Cardamom Bundt (gochugarugirl.com)
  43. Fall Meetups 2026 - Call For Meetup Organizers (www.astralcodexten.com)
  44. The road to epsilon-zero: “Shortlex” isn't actually a single order (blog.plover.com)
  45. Note on 24th September 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  46. clml, a rust string coloring library (etc.octavore.com)
  47. The Specter Of Neuralese (www.astralcodexten.com)
  48. Morgan Stanley Leaked Some Deals (www.bloomberg.com)
  49. Homemade bagels (merveilles.town)
  50. How China Thinks About AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  51. Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later (www.astralcodexten.com)
  52. Rapid Learning Skill for Code (niccrane.com)
  53. Out Now: Low-tech Magazine Volume IV (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
  54. Platform-independent SIMD in Go (go.dev)
  55. Kalshi Levers the Predictions (www.bloomberg.com)
  56. Building a homelab (wrla.ch)
  57. Noting another house repair chore victory (blog.plover.com)
  58. Delegation and trust (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  59. Hidden Open Thread 452.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  60. The Mundanity of Excellence, Small Wins, and Why You Should Fix Bugs Before Writing New Features (probablydance.com)
  61. SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering (simonwillison.net)
  62. Mysteries Of AI Generalization (www.astralcodexten.com)
  63. Work diary victory (blog.plover.com)
  64. Building a Multiplayer Game of Life with Rust + Datastar (hamy.xyz)
  65. Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war (simonwillison.net)
  66. Who Cares If a Merger Is Fair? (www.bloomberg.com)
  67. Quoting @therealcornpop (simonwillison.net)
  68. Simplicio, Ten Years Later (adagrad.substack.com)
  69. Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models (simonwillison.net)
  70. Open Thread 452 (www.astralcodexten.com)