News

  1. Open Thread 444 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  2. AI companies are shredding rare books (xcancel.com)
  3. How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going? (lockwood.dev)
  4. Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470% (www.bbc.com)
  5. VLC for Unity now supported on Linux (code.videolan.org)
  6. Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27 (huggingface.co)
  7. Tactical Decision Game with John Schmitt (commoncog.com)
  8. The Hallway Track No. 018: Genesis Mission $5B, Challengescape problem directory, team science vs. solo AI agents (hallway.aris.pub)
  9. PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works (nikolays.github.io)
  10. Mid-Training and the Middle-End (blog.veitheller.de)
  11. Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary (github.com)
  12. US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search (www.techspot.com)
  13. We have proof automation now (www.imperialviolet.org)
  14. Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg (github.com)
  15. An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud (simonwillison.net)
  16. Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS (beyondloom.com)
  17. Invention 2 by J. S. Bach (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  18. Production ML-DSA Verification in 350 Lines of Python (words.filippo.io)
  19. It gets better: A letter to my younger self (bugwhisperer.dev)
  20. Porting Super Hexagon to the Playdate (captnemo.in)
  21. Some vegan recipes (kevingal.com)
  22. Welcome to the Classroom of Meritocratic Supremacy (read.alonzo.zip)
  23. Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds (hannahilea.com)
  24. Quoting Boris Cherny (simonwillison.net)
  25. Introducing Claude Opus 5 (simonwillison.net)
  26. Your Book Review: Breakdown In Pakistan (www.astralcodexten.com)
  27. The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  28. Cranban is a tool for collaborating with robots (patrickweaver.net)
  29. I'm running a programming contest (eieio.games)
  30. Printing tiny photos for paper journals (macwright.com)
  31. The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? (simonwillison.net)
  32. If You're Reading This I'm Free (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  33. Sports Happen So Much (www.bloomberg.com)
  34. Sheena Ringo in Sound & Recording (disk.horse)
  35. Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room (blackhole.plav.in)
  36. What Is Lost When We Make 'The Odyssey' Modern (www.derekthompson.org)
  37. I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated (arstechnica.com)
  38. Every exterior shot in *The Taking of Pelham 123* (iafisher.com)
  39. Simple Sudoku Solvers SII, EV: Racket/miniKanren (blog.veitheller.de)
  40. Quoting Thomas Ptacek (simonwillison.net)
  41. OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
  42. Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? (simonwillison.net)
  43. The SEC Pays a Texting Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
  44. Magnolias Are So Old That They're Pollinated by Beetles, Not Bees (mymodernmet.com)
  45. Links For July 2026 (Part 1) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  46. Back to basics: The Hundred-Page Languages Models Book, Chapter 1 (www.maayanroth.com)
  47. Things I know about beets (lucymcphail.com)
  48. GPT 5.6 + OpenCode vs Claude + Claude Code - First Impressions (hamy.xyz)
  49. Call for lightning talks: Haskell Symposium 2026 (decomposition.al)
  50. LSE Will Trade 22.83 Hours a Day (www.bloomberg.com)
  51. Category Theory Day One (www.robbielyman.com)
  52. Blog Jamboree 2026: The Winners (www.experimental-history.com)
  53. Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac (simonwillison.net)
  54. A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team (simonwillison.net)
  55. Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness (www.astralcodexten.com)
  56. Going Ham: Zero to Amateur Extra in 31 Days (flaviuspopan.com)
  57. Bytecode-to-Source Mapping (tidefield.dev)
  58. No central server, only BitTorrent (www.scannedinavian.com)
  59. Why I Write (bugwhisperer.dev)
  60. Avoid the trap of magical thinking (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  61. Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API) (words.filippo.io)
  62. Some more things about Django I've been enjoying (jvns.ca)
  63. Reverse-engineering is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
  64. Ice Cream Hedging (www.bloomberg.com)
  65. Project Monopoly: King’s Cross Station (gochugarugirl.com)
  66. Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? (simonwillison.net)
  67. How Moats are Built (commoncog.com)
  68. I loved my AI assistant. My friends did not. (www.lowimpactfruit.com)