News

  1. Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later (www.astralcodexten.com)
  2. Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop (lwn.net)
  3. Virtio-nvgpu: Near-native Nvidia GPU access inside a KVM guest (github.com)
  4. Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents" (www.kenklippenstein.com)
  5. Meta VR Glasses (www.meta.com)
  6. ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit (blog.arxiv.org)
  7. Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series (www.qualcomm.com)
  8. Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second (artificialanalysis.ai)
  9. OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals (www.smh.com.au)
  10. VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) (fly.io)
  11. LensVLM: Compressing long context as images, expanding only relevant pages (huggingface.co)
  12. Kalshi Levers the Predictions (www.bloomberg.com)
  13. Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats (www.anthropic.com)
  14. A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  15. Making Tailscale Faster (tailscale.com)
  16. Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy (apnews.com)
  17. Building a homelab (wrla.ch)
  18. Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech (blog.google)
  19. Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock (pointinthecloud.com)
  20. Noting another house repair chore victory (blog.plover.com)
  21. Tokens too cheap to meter (jyn.dev)
  22. Delegation and trust (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  23. Hidden Open Thread 452.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  24. The Mundanity of Excellence, Small Wins, and Why You Should Fix Bugs Before Writing New Features (probablydance.com)
  25. SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering (simonwillison.net)
  26. Mysteries Of AI Generalization (www.astralcodexten.com)
  27. Work diary victory (blog.plover.com)
  28. Building a Multiplayer Game of Life with Rust + Datastar (hamy.xyz)
  29. Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war (simonwillison.net)
  30. Who Cares If a Merger Is Fair? (www.bloomberg.com)
  31. Quoting @therealcornpop (simonwillison.net)
  32. The mystery animal on an ancient god's head (signoregalilei.com)
  33. Simplicio, Ten Years Later (adagrad.substack.com)
  34. The "Windows XP Box" (2003) (www.mini-itx.com)
  35. Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models (simonwillison.net)
  36. Open Thread 452 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  37. Solitaire Alone Together (eieio.games)
  38. The Hallway Track No. 026: AI use in science study, astronomy disclosure gap, Paper2Agent, SAIR initiative (hallway.aris.pub)
  39. A First Futamura Projection (blog.veitheller.de)
  40. Tuna and Butterbean Salad (gochugarugirl.com)
  41. weeknotes #66 (olu.online)
  42. Quoting voxium (simonwillison.net)
  43. Reading Log #6 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  44. 0061: i'm not a cat, artificial adventures, synthetic sagas, anthropic, sponsors (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  45. Synthetic sagas (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  46. Artsy Math: Squaring Square Patterns (www.fractalkitty.com)
  47. Processing Community Day NYC 2026 • MIDI Workshop Preview (george.mand.is)
  48. Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI (simonwillison.net)
  49. Your Book Review: This Is Going To Hurt (www.astralcodexten.com)
  50. “Shoppy Shop” Thoughts (www.alisoneroman.com)
  51. Note on 18th September 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  52. Quoting Thariq Shihipar (simonwillison.net)
  53. A Model for Winning Survivor (victoriaritvo.com)
  54. Project Monopoly: Fleet Street (gochugarugirl.com)
  55. Mrs Perkins' Quilt (www.fractalkitty.com)
  56. How To Write With An LLM (simonwillison.net)
  57. Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries (simonwillison.net)
  58. The Whole Indian Options Trade Was Too Good (www.bloomberg.com)