News

  1. Once the Cheat Code Is There (blog.veitheller.de)
  2. Margaret Hamilton, who led software development for Apollo program, dies at 90 (news.mit.edu)
  3. Top Forecasters On The Plague (www.astralcodexten.com)
  4. Hidden Open Thread 454.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  5. Claude Haiku 5.5 (simonwillison.net)
  6. Despite what Watson said, Rosalind Franklin understood structure of DNA first (link.springer.com)
  7. The Mathocalypse (scottaaronson.blog)
  8. Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI (www.rswebsols.com)
  9. Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits (debasishg.github.io)
  10. ESG Gets More Illegal (www.bloomberg.com)
  11. Claude Haiku 5.5 (www.anthropic.com)
  12. GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone (openai.com)
  13. Docker Agent (github.com)
  14. Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app (bigwords.page)
  15. Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation (arxiv.org)
  16. ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-Off Prior to Arrests (krebsonsecurity.com)
  17. Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees (www.classaction.org)
  18. Why were Victorian elites so effective? (worksinprogress.co)
  19. Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages (ascii.rest)
  20. SynthID Detector (synthid.com)
  21. AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares (github.com)
  22. Anti-patterns in software blogging (refactoringenglish.com)
  23. House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k (www.readingchronicle.co.uk)
  24. Google Playground: Create and play custom games (blog.google)
  25. Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome (developer.chrome.com)
  26. Quoting Jake Boggan (simonwillison.net)
  27. Announcing the Centre for Cryptographic Trust Infrastructure (CCTI) (martin.kleppmann.com)
  28. OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects (simonwillison.net)
  29. Durable Context, Disposable Code - Building Systems with Speed and Quality in the Agentic Era (hamy.xyz)
  30. Quoting Victoria Kim (simonwillison.net)
  31. An Open Letter To Steven Pinker On AI (www.astralcodexten.com)
  32. Sneaky Town Overview (V4 Edition) (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  33. EmbeddingGemma 2 (simonwillison.net)
  34. Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk (simonwillison.net)
  35. Treasury Futures Might Switch (www.bloomberg.com)
  36. Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo (blog.plover.com)
  37. Scrimshaw Jukebox (simonwillison.net)
  38. You May Now Listen to Commoncog Cases (commoncog.com)
  39. Dealing with Recessions (commoncog.com)
  40. Did live visuals for a concert in a large church (palomakop.tv)
  41. Extend Lua with Zig 1: Hello World (www.robbielyman.com)
  42. Quoting Felix Rieseberg (simonwillison.net)
  43. Charlie's Meatballs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  44. Charlie's Meatballs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  45. Mergers and Acqui-hires (www.bloomberg.com)
  46. Open Thread 454 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  47. I rode my bike from NYC to Montréal (Part 2) (missfunmi.com)
  48. The Hallway Track No. 028: arXiv rate limit, AI paper mills, Google FluSight (hallway.aris.pub)
  49. Qwen3.8 27B addition in words (simonwillison.net)
  50. 2026.Q3 Reflection (hamy.xyz)
  51. A Game Building Workshop for Kids and Parents (debamitro.github.io)
  52. Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder? (brooker.co.za)
  53. We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything (simonwillison.net)
  54. Using REAPER with ALSA, ignoring Pipewire (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  55. Recent addenda to articles 202609: Errors, omissions, and retractions (blog.plover.com)
  56. Biking the Empire State Trail - Schenectady - Albany - Hudson (bradleydettmer.me)
  57. Improving My Hardware Workflow With CI and Nix (www.scd31.com)
  58. Simple Sudoku Solvers SIII, EI: Agda (blog.veitheller.de)
  59. We’re Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  60. Mathober 2026 Art (www.fractalkitty.com)
  61. Tips for Biking the Empire State Trail (bradleydettmer.me)
  62. What is the Atmosphere: An Untech Introduction (bnb.im)
  63. Our AI Midwife (www.astralcodexten.com)
  64. Arch-specific SIMD in Go (go.dev)
  65. Opening Private Markets to the Public (www.bloomberg.com)
  66. The Kio Programming Language (jdevuyst.blogspot.com)
  67. Quoting Matthew Green (simonwillison.net)
  68. September Life Update (seinwave.com)
  69. Fall update (jamiepalatnik.com)
  70. Recently (macwright.com)