News

  1. How I Actually Do Agentic Engineering As A Senior Software Engineer (hamy.xyz)
  2. AI Superforecasting Should Transform The FDA (www.astralcodexten.com)
  3. Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU (www.independent.co.uk)
  4. Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs (arxiv.org)
  5. Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard (mimo.xiaomi.com)
  6. How good are frontier models at physics? (arxiv.org)
  7. Accurate Models of AMD Matrix Cores (arxiv.org)
  8. Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres (rohanbansal.com)
  9. Reverse-engineered Jev-like model (github.com)
  10. Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022) (opensource.googleblog.com)
  11. Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude (simonwillison.net)
  12. BlackRock Wants Pensions (www.bloomberg.com)
  13. Quoting Mustafa Suleyman (simonwillison.net)
  14. Small programming tricks (will-keleher.com)
  15. The DeepMind Institute (institute.deepmind.com)
  16. Anatomy of a Texture (agentlien.github.io)
  17. Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds (arxiv.org)
  18. Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera (www.wired.com)
  19. Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust (developer.nvidia.com)
  20. How to Handle Disruptive Change (commoncog.com)
  21. Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing (mistral.ai)
  22. Rabbit Hole: Minimum L-seams (www.fractalkitty.com)
  23. Size-Specialized Memory Allocation (go.dev)
  24. The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (johnjwang.com)
  25. AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran (www.wsj.com)
  26. Not All the Susquehanna Puts Were Bad (www.bloomberg.com)
  27. There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy (www.experimental-history.com)
  28. Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations (github.com)
  29. Performance Improvements in .NET 11 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  30. Aside from that (push.cx)
  31. King Ludd (www.astralcodexten.com)
  32. The contagion of fear (simonwillison.net)
  33. AI Labs Want Someone to Stop Them (www.bloomberg.com)
  34. Quoting Laurie Voss (simonwillison.net)
  35. Bad Feelings (www.derekthompson.org)
  36. Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" (evanhahn.com)
  37. The Hallway Track No. 025: Navier-Stokes provenance dispute, Fields Medalists declaration, AI peer review (hallway.aris.pub)
  38. A tale of two talks (blog.veitheller.de)
  39. Open Thread 451 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  40. weeknotes #65 (olu.online)
  41. The Zeitgeist of September 2026 (adagrad.substack.com)
  42. Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)
  43. George Orwell's essay on the atomic bomb anticipates Nineteen Eighty-Four (blog.plover.com)
  44. Quoting Paul Ford (simonwillison.net)
  45. A Decade in Cardiff (francisco.wiki)
  46. OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May (simonwillison.net)
  47. Metacarp (blog.veitheller.de)
  48. So you want to use OpenRouter? (simonwillison.net)
  49. Quoting Boris Cherny (simonwillison.net)
  50. Braised Chicken Piccata (www.alisoneroman.com)
  51. Braised Chicken Piccata (www.alisoneroman.com)
  52. Feeling sad about AI (simonwillison.net)
  53. Why Harvard's Dean 'Encourages' Students to Use AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  54. Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases (simonwillison.net)
  55. Mathober 2026 Prompts (www.fractalkitty.com)
  56. Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify (simonwillison.net)
  57. Introducing mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps (danvk.github.io)
  58. Dallas Gets Some Equities (www.bloomberg.com)
  59. More Pollinators (cceckman.com)
  60. Royce On San Francisco (www.astralcodexten.com)
  61. AI Safety Is Having a Moment (www.derekthompson.org)
  62. A Logic GUI (occasionallycogent.com)
  63. Quoting Calif Research (simonwillison.net)