News

  1. OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target (www.wsj.com)
  2. cyberwitchery (blog.veitheller.de)
  3. Show HN: To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessing Game (tng.episodle.com)
  4. Build Standalone Lua Applications with Zig and fnlpack (www.ryanprior.com)
  5. dbreunig/nesformer (simonwillison.net)
  6. sanstun: A sans-IO, parallel-friendly WireGuard implementation in Rust (www.firezone.dev)
  7. Anthropic's IPO: Can unprecedented revenue growth outrun 'irresponsibly large' investment? (leonlins.com)
  8. Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man (www.bostonglobe.com)
  9. Jules Verne's Lost Novel (blue-continuum.com)
  10. The oldest ice disappears and the Stone Age emerges from it (www.sciencenorway.no)
  11. Infinite Mac: BeOS (blog.persistent.info)
  12. My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii (virtuallyfun.com)
  13. Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights (github.com)
  14. Your Book Review: The History And Adventures Of An Atom (www.astralcodexten.com)
  15. AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them (newsletter.signoz.io)
  16. Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX (github.com)
  17. The federated code forge (tangled.org)
  18. Northflank Breached (status.northflank.com)
  19. Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code (fortune.com)
  20. The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes (www.wired.com)
  21. Big Changes (writing.natwelch.com)
  22. Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises (www.binarysecurity.no)
  23. Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace (phorion.io)
  24. parsing the final fantasy 1 NES world map (part 1) (djan.org)
  25. API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions (simonwillison.net)
  26. Building an AI-native engineering org (twitter.com)
  27. Programming at Light Speed: Building the Gravity Query Engine (malisper.me)
  28. Run on the Law Firm (www.bloomberg.com)
  29. Building a multiplayer game world with autonomous Fable-class models (simonwillison.net)
  30. Links For October 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  31. Adding swing to my Yocto sequencer (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  32. Breakout (cceckman.com)
  33. Quoting Ben Hylak (simonwillison.net)
  34. sleep; eating babies; many short story recs (todaythings.substack.com)
  35. The Better Technology (podviaznikov.com)
  36. Ever Failed (blog.veitheller.de)
  37. Quoting Ted Sanders (simonwillison.net)
  38. Where did internet directories go? (mohamedmohey.com)
  39. Not Your Keys, Not Your DAT (www.bloomberg.com)
  40. GitHub Octoverse 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  41. Fake it ‘til you make it (and then keep faking it) (www.experimental-history.com)
  42. My California Ballot, 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  43. The October inflection point for vibe game development (simonwillison.net)
  44. Can you read every book? (mohamedmohey.com)
  45. Quoting Terk Terkowitz (simonwillison.net)
  46. You Already Don't Understand Your Code (george.mand.is)
  47. Announcing rainy city publishing (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  48. Building a Fullstack Rust Web App Boilerplate for Coding Agents (hamy.xyz)
  49. Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge (simonwillison.net)
  50. Musk’s Mars Merger Pay (www.bloomberg.com)
  51. Website update (mrcoles.com)
  52. What Is 'You Can See Everything' Really About? (www.derekthompson.org)
  53. Spaces of constant curvature (www.robbielyman.com)
  54. GPT-6.1 Terra (simonwillison.net)
  55. Open Thread 457 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  56. Quoting Jason Koebler (simonwillison.net)
  57. Anthropic Raises Concerns (www.bloomberg.com)
  58. Spiced Pumpkin Cake (gochugarugirl.com)
  59. ↗ Avoid negativity echo chambers (www.vesto.me)
  60. My First Mountain Bike Ride - A Beginner Perspective (bradleydettmer.me)
  61. My First Mountain Bike Ride: A Beginner's Perspective (www.bradleydettmer.me)
  62. The Hallway Track No. 031: Simons Foundation AI math initiative, authorship disclosure norms, EditorCheck peer review audit (hallway.aris.pub)
  63. weeknotes #69 (olu.online)
  64. Our Response To The eMudhra Key Disclosure Incident (go.dev)
  65. Constellation (vishnubharathi.codes)
  66. Perspicacity (vishnubharathi.codes)
  67. What does a newborn career look like? (approximateknowledge.net)
  68. An Autumn Apple and Hazelnut Cake (gochugarugirl.com)
  69. oblique strategies for managing complex trauma (clarionsong.substack.com)
  70. 2026 NYC General Election: Judicial Candidates (harihareswara.net)