News

  1. Reading Log #2 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  2. Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating (mezha.net)
  3. LinkedIn Feed Blocker (github.com)
  4. Fastmail offers EU data region (www.fastmail.com)
  5. help unexpected (lake.computer)
  6. "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers (blog.senko.net)
  7. Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
  8. Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload (social.treehouse.systems)
  9. Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (blog.getutm.app)
  10. Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (zaneham.github.io)
  11. A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS (specification.website)
  12. Baked Pasta with Artichokes, Greens, and Too Much Cheese (www.alisoneroman.com)
  13. Pasta with Crispy Squid, Lemon, and Chile (www.alisoneroman.com)
  14. Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com)
  15. Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
  16. US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide (www.bloomberg.com)
  17. DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)
  18. Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (github.com)
  19. Getting off the Modernization Treadmill (unplannedobsolescence.com)
  20. Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
  21. U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (genesisopenmodels.anl.gov)
  22. Roasted Tomato and Anchovy Bucatini (www.alisoneroman.com)
  23. Whole-Wheat Pasta with Brown-Buttered Mushrooms, Buckwheat, and Egg Yolk (www.alisoneroman.com)
  24. Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength (twitter.com)
  25. Clam Pasta with Chorizo and Walnuts (www.alisoneroman.com)
  26. Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra) (simonwillison.net)
  27. Sour Cream Flatbread (www.alisoneroman.com)
  28. Spelt with Crispy Sausage, Flowering Broccoli, and Green Garlic (www.alisoneroman.com)
  29. Buttered Zucchini Omelette (www.alisoneroman.com)
  30. Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com)
  31. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)
  32. Split Pea Salad (www.alisoneroman.com)
  33. I'm Building an Official Shopify Theme! (brianagude.substack.com)
  34. Crispy Chickpeas and Lamb with Greens and Garlicky Yogurt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  35. The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI (simonwillison.net)
  36. Cooking for One (www.alisoneroman.com)
  37. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (www.noemamag.com)
  38. The 9 Questions I’m Obsessed With Right Now: AI, Politics, Movies, Drugs, and Western Civilization (www.derekthompson.org)
  39. MacGregor The Bridge Builder (www.astralcodexten.com)
  40. A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs (bernsteinbear.com)
  41. things to say to someone who says they're vegan (lake.computer)
  42. Fake SpaceX Stock Isn’t Worth as Much (www.bloomberg.com)
  43. Eggs and Kale Fried in Chicken Fat (www.alisoneroman.com)
  44. Counter or gauge? (cceckman.com)
  45. Fennel and Grapefruit Salad with Honey and Mint (www.alisoneroman.com)
  46. Blood Oranges with Crunchy Red Onion and Avocado (www.alisoneroman.com)
  47. Open Questions On Open Weights (www.astralcodexten.com)
  48. Art Prompts: Hailstone Arabesques (www.fractalkitty.com)
  49. Hidden Open Thread 445.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  50. An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing (simonwillison.net)
  51. Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (simonwillison.net)
  52. Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models (simonwillison.net)
  53. Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing (simonwillison.net)
  54. No one can afford to make Myst games anymore (www.wired.com)
  55. A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava (www.runnersworld.com)
  56. Watermelon and Cucumbers with Spicy Sumac Salt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  57. The road to epsilon-zero: Coin-moving games with no coins (blog.plover.com)
  58. Notes from the AI Coding Transition (emschwartz.me)
  59. One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5 (simonwillison.net)
  60. SpaceX Unlocks Tomorrow (www.bloomberg.com)
  61. Incentives are for losers (www.experimental-history.com)
  62. Text editor architecture from ed to jupyterlab (tyoverby.com)
  63. How Much Faster is Coding with AI Agents? (from a Senior Software Engineer) (hamy.xyz)
  64. New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging (simonwillison.net)
  65. The Beauty Of Settled Science (www.astralcodexten.com)
  66. Project Monopoly: Three Purples and Marylebone Station (gochugarugirl.com)
  67. PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx (simonwillison.net)
  68. My Impressions of Loop Engineering (debamitro.github.io)
  69. Leveraged ETF Crash Hedging ETF (www.bloomberg.com)
  70. Quoting Steve Yegge (simonwillison.net)
  71. A More Immediate Intuitive Appeal (blog.veitheller.de)
  72. Don't be a meat proxy (simonwillison.net)
  73. Does Forecasting Have Room At The Top? (www.astralcodexten.com)
  74. Learning to fly FPV drones with AI flight coach (blog.divyendusingh.com)
  75. Writing my own sequencer for the Yocto drum machine (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  76. Hedgehog Hedge Fund (www.bloomberg.com)
  77. Death by side quests (jesusgollonet.com)
  78. Open Thread 445 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  79. Quoting David Crawshaw's prompt (simonwillison.net)
  80. Devtools must be open source (exe.dev) (simonwillison.net)
  81. Monday Cleaning Day (gochugarugirl.com)
  82. Rebuilding Postgres for 300x faster analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
  83. Subway arrival times in my living room with Raspberry Pi (iafisher.com)
  84. The Hallway Track No. 019: AlphaFold team disbanded, verification as the bottleneck, Tao's ICM caution (hallway.aris.pub)
  85. Seven books I keep close because I love them (blog.plover.com)
  86. Who's afraid of a non sofic group (www.robbielyman.com)
  87. Project Monopoly: Pentonville Road (gochugarugirl.com)
  88. weeknotes #63 (olu.online)
  89. Open letters about AI development (simonwillison.net)
  90. Adding Go's defer to the TypeScript Compiler (healeycodes.com)
  91. Getting a Working SICP environment in Emacs in 2026 (www.blog.jamesgisele.com)
  92. Reading Log #1 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  93. Quoting Greg Brockman (simonwillison.net)
  94. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (simonwillison.net)