News

  1. Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster (typesafe.ai)
  2. Not All the Susquehanna Puts Were Bad (www.bloomberg.com)
  3. We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub in 25 minutes (www.strix.ai)
  4. Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it (thenextweb.com)
  5. An Update on Wayback Machine Access (blog.archive.org)
  6. Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (blog.google)
  7. GEFS on OpenBSD: A Early Preview (marc.info)
  8. America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster (www.lawfaremedia.org)
  9. Cartesian – AI 3D Modeling for Design (www.formas.ai)
  10. The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped (josprague.com)
  11. The Inference Hardware Revolution of 2026 (spectrum.ieee.org)
  12. Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite (withcapsule.app)
  13. Show HN: Hacking a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device (bkovac.github.io)
  14. There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy (www.experimental-history.com)
  15. Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations (github.com)
  16. 25 years of mass surveillance is enough (www.schneier.com)
  17. Let's make quality the norm again (www.forbrukerradet.no)
  18. Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3 (rmoff.net)
  19. CSS-Tricks in Limbo (vale.rocks)
  20. I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea (notnottalmud.substack.com)
  21. US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons (www.bbc.com)
  22. King Ludd (www.astralcodexten.com)
  23. The contagion of fear (simonwillison.net)
  24. A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals (www.effort.news)
  25. AI Labs Want Someone to Stop Them (www.bloomberg.com)
  26. Quoting Laurie Voss (simonwillison.net)
  27. Bad Feelings (www.derekthompson.org)
  28. The Hallway Track No. 025: Navier-Stokes provenance dispute, Fields Medalists declaration, AI peer review (hallway.aris.pub)
  29. A tale of two talks (blog.veitheller.de)
  30. Open Thread 451 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  31. weeknotes #65 (olu.online)
  32. The Zeitgeist of September 2026 (adagrad.substack.com)
  33. Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)
  34. George Orwell's essay on the atomic bomb anticipates Nineteen Eighty-Four (blog.plover.com)
  35. Quoting Paul Ford (simonwillison.net)
  36. A Decade in Cardiff (francisco.wiki)
  37. OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May (simonwillison.net)
  38. Metacarp (blog.veitheller.de)
  39. So you want to use OpenRouter? (simonwillison.net)
  40. Quoting Boris Cherny (simonwillison.net)
  41. Braised Chicken Piccata (www.alisoneroman.com)
  42. Braised Chicken Piccata (www.alisoneroman.com)
  43. Feeling sad about AI (simonwillison.net)
  44. Why Harvard's Dean 'Encourages' Students to Use AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  45. Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases (simonwillison.net)
  46. Mathober 2026 Prompts (www.fractalkitty.com)
  47. Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify (simonwillison.net)
  48. Introducing mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps (danvk.github.io)
  49. Dallas Gets Some Equities (www.bloomberg.com)
  50. More Pollinators (cceckman.com)
  51. Royce On San Francisco (www.astralcodexten.com)
  52. AI Safety Is Having a Moment (www.derekthompson.org)
  53. A Logic GUI (occasionallycogent.com)
  54. Quoting Calif Research (simonwillison.net)
  55. .blend URL Viewer (simonwillison.net)
  56. AAA AI (www.bloomberg.com)
  57. Exploring Subtyping in Implicit Polarized F with Rocq (jtm.cx)
  58. Peter, I Meant To Say This (aaronstrick.com)
  59. showing online-go.com games on an e-ink inkplate display (djan.org)
  60. Quoting Terence Tao (simonwillison.net)
  61. AI Dotfiles - How I Take My AI Workflows Across Projects And Machines (hamy.xyz)
  62. Some thoughts on the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem (simonwillison.net)
  63. Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5 (simonwillison.net)