News

  1. Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB (kitsumed.github.io)
  2. ARC-AGI Leaderboard (arcprize.org)
  3. UK AISI / Caisi Preliminary Assessment of Kimi K3's Cyber Capabilities (www.nist.gov)
  4. Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall (www.wsj.com)
  5. Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach (www.maths.cam.ac.uk)
  6. Quoting Boris Cherny (simonwillison.net)
  7. Introducing Claude Opus 5 (simonwillison.net)
  8. Sperm Whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep (news.st-andrews.ac.uk)
  9. Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard (artificialanalysis.ai)
  10. Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales (www.dbos.dev)
  11. Claude Opus 5 (www.anthropic.com)
  12. Don't Take the Black Pill [video] (www.youtube.com)
  13. Your Book Review: Breakdown In Pakistan (www.astralcodexten.com)
  14. Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models (www.cnbc.com)
  15. Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS (discuss.haiku-os.org)
  16. My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page (hhh.hn)
  17. IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center (houseofsaud.com)
  18. Future euro banknote design proposals (www.ecb.europa.eu)
  19. Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds (ziggit.dev)
  20. The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  21. Cranban is a tool for collaborating with robots (patrickweaver.net)
  22. I'm running a programming contest (eieio.games)
  23. The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? (simonwillison.net)
  24. If You're Reading This I'm Free (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  25. Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out [video] (www.youtube.com)
  26. Sports Happen So Much (www.bloomberg.com)
  27. Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server (twitter.com)
  28. Sheena Ringo in Sound & Recording (disk.horse)
  29. What Is Lost When We Make 'The Odyssey' Modern (www.derekthompson.org)
  30. Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data (globaloilnetwork.staffinganalytics.io)
  31. Every exterior shot in *The Taking of Pelham 123* (iafisher.com)
  32. Simple Sudoku Solvers SII, EV: Racket/miniKanren (blog.veitheller.de)
  33. Quoting Thomas Ptacek (simonwillison.net)
  34. OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
  35. Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? (simonwillison.net)
  36. The SEC Pays a Texting Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
  37. An old patent inspired the new "Y-zipper", a three-sided fastener (news.mit.edu)
  38. Links For July 2026 (Part 1) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  39. Back to basics: The Hundred-Page Languages Models Book, Chapter 1 (www.maayanroth.com)
  40. Things I know about beets (lucymcphail.com)
  41. GPT 5.6 + OpenCode vs Claude + Claude Code - First Impressions (hamy.xyz)
  42. Call for lightning talks: Haskell Symposium 2026 (decomposition.al)
  43. LSE Will Trade 22.83 Hours a Day (www.bloomberg.com)
  44. Category Theory Day One (www.robbielyman.com)
  45. Blog Jamboree 2026: The Winners (www.experimental-history.com)
  46. Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac (simonwillison.net)
  47. A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team (simonwillison.net)
  48. Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness (www.astralcodexten.com)
  49. Going Ham: Zero to Amateur Extra in 31 Days (flaviuspopan.com)
  50. Bytecode-to-Source Mapping (tidefield.dev)
  51. No central server, only BitTorrent (www.scannedinavian.com)
  52. Why I Write (bugwhisperer.dev)
  53. Avoid the trap of magical thinking (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  54. Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API) (words.filippo.io)
  55. Some more things about Django I've been enjoying (jvns.ca)
  56. Reverse-engineering is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
  57. Ice Cream Hedging (www.bloomberg.com)
  58. Project Monopoly: King’s Cross Station (gochugarugirl.com)
  59. Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? (simonwillison.net)
  60. How Moats are Built (commoncog.com)
  61. I loved my AI assistant. My friends did not. (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  62. <a href="/blog/thewildlifetrusts/challenges-abound-new-prime-minister-nature-has-solutions" hreflang="en">Challenges abound for the new Prime Minister – but nature has the solutions</a> (www.wildlondon.org.uk)
  63. Open Thread 443 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  64. The Hallway Track No. 017: Science EIC contra AI hype, data poisoning of research agents, Vancouver Standard for AI disclosure (hallway.aris.pub)
  65. This is the golden age of video games (approximateknowledge.net)
  66. Quoting Sam Altman (simonwillison.net)
  67. The road to epsilon-zero: Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals (blog.plover.com)
  68. Looking for work (tonsky.me)
  69. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making (simonwillison.net)
  70. [New Game] Those Who Wear Red (k-monk.org)
  71. The road to epsilon-zero: ordinals as nim-heaps (blog.plover.com)
  72. Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP (brooker.co.za)
  73. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 3 (Gardens) (gochugarugirl.com)