News

  1. Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard (github.com)
  2. An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  3. With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's lines (learnfromx.com)
  4. Surviving "The Graduate" (www.newyorker.com)
  5. HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN (karpathy.bearblog.dev)
  6. Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models (twitter.com)
  7. Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly) (epoyraz.github.io)
  8. TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8 (atlasum.net)
  9. The Duty of a Scholar (www.daemonology.net)
  10. It's the memory latency, stupid (pivotlake.io)
  11. William Nordhaus has died (news.yale.edu)
  12. Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4 (jepsen.io)
  13. Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector (github.com)
  14. Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts (www.parameter.ai)
  15. Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable (piefed.world)
  16. Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament (www.science.org)
  17. Switch Lowering in GCC (xoranth.net)
  18. cyberwitchery (blog.veitheller.de)
  19. Build Standalone Lua Applications with Zig and fnlpack (www.ryanprior.com)
  20. dbreunig/nesformer (simonwillison.net)
  21. Anthropic's IPO: Can unprecedented revenue growth outrun 'irresponsibly large' investment? (leonlins.com)
  22. Your Book Review: The History And Adventures Of An Atom (www.astralcodexten.com)
  23. Big Changes (writing.natwelch.com)
  24. parsing the final fantasy 1 NES world map (part 1) (djan.org)
  25. API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions (simonwillison.net)
  26. Much Ado About None: Sentinel Values in Python (florianwilhelm.info)
  27. Programming at Light Speed: Building the Gravity Query Engine (malisper.me)
  28. Run on the Law Firm (www.bloomberg.com)
  29. Building a multiplayer game world with autonomous Fable-class models (simonwillison.net)
  30. Links For October 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  31. Adding swing to my Yocto sequencer (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  32. Breakout (cceckman.com)
  33. Quoting Ben Hylak (simonwillison.net)
  34. sleep; eating babies; many short story recs (todaythings.substack.com)
  35. The Better Technology (podviaznikov.com)
  36. Ever Failed (blog.veitheller.de)
  37. Quoting Ted Sanders (simonwillison.net)
  38. Where did internet directories go? (mohamedmohey.com)
  39. Not Your Keys, Not Your DAT (www.bloomberg.com)
  40. GitHub Octoverse 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  41. Fake it ‘til you make it (and then keep faking it) (www.experimental-history.com)
  42. My California Ballot, 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  43. Redox: Ring Buffers Project Summary (www.redox-os.org)
  44. The October inflection point for vibe game development (simonwillison.net)
  45. Can you read every book? (mohamedmohey.com)
  46. Quoting Terk Terkowitz (simonwillison.net)
  47. Reading and writing are less symmetric than you (probably) think (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
  48. You Already Don't Understand Your Code (george.mand.is)
  49. Announcing rainy city publishing (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  50. Building a Fullstack Rust Web App Boilerplate for Coding Agents (hamy.xyz)
  51. Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge (simonwillison.net)
  52. Musk’s Mars Merger Pay (www.bloomberg.com)
  53. Website update (mrcoles.com)
  54. What Is 'You Can See Everything' Really About? (www.derekthompson.org)
  55. Spaces of constant curvature (www.robbielyman.com)
  56. GPT-6.1 Terra (simonwillison.net)
  57. Open Thread 457 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  58. Quoting Jason Koebler (simonwillison.net)
  59. Anthropic Raises Concerns (www.bloomberg.com)
  60. Spiced Pumpkin Cake (gochugarugirl.com)
  61. ↗ Avoid negativity echo chambers (www.vesto.me)
  62. My First Mountain Bike Ride - A Beginner Perspective (bradleydettmer.me)
  63. My First Mountain Bike Ride: A Beginner's Perspective (www.bradleydettmer.me)
  64. The Hallway Track No. 031: Simons Foundation AI math initiative, authorship disclosure norms, EditorCheck peer review audit (hallway.aris.pub)
  65. weeknotes #69 (olu.online)
  66. Our Response To The eMudhra Key Disclosure Incident (go.dev)
  67. Constellation (vishnubharathi.codes)
  68. Perspicacity (vishnubharathi.codes)
  69. What does a newborn career look like? (approximateknowledge.net)