News

  1. CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development (www.cssbed.com)
  2. The death of web development education (molily.de)
  3. Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles (automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu)
  4. SvelteKit 3 (svelte.dev)
  5. ArXiv's Updated Rate Limit Policy (blog.arxiv.org)
  6. Pi 1.0 (earendil.com)
  7. Pi Durable (earendil.com)
  8. Oxygen-deprived underwater zones may not be “dead zones” but clue to early life (agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
  9. Bez: Generating a browser engine from specs and tests (tangled.org)
  10. Opening Private Markets to the Public (www.bloomberg.com)
  11. Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met (stoppels.ch)
  12. Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake (blog.gitbutler.com)
  13. Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform (blog.cloudflare.com)
  14. RIP, vector database (turbopuffer.com)
  15. Various Projects Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32 Microcontrollers (www.rtl-sdr.com)
  16. RacketCon Is Saturday (con.racket-lang.org)
  17. Context Language Models (arxiv.org)
  18. Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams (blog.cloudflare.com)
  19. How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026 (nnethercote.github.io)
  20. The Kio Programming Language (jdevuyst.blogspot.com)
  21. Quoting Matthew Green (simonwillison.net)
  22. September Life Update (seinwave.com)
  23. Fall update (jamiepalatnik.com)
  24. Summer Vegetable Soup with Hominy & Lime (www.alisoneroman.com)
  25. Summer Ends When I Say It Does (www.alisoneroman.com)
  26. AI Agents Will Pay Attention (www.bloomberg.com)
  27. Hard times with hard links (iafisher.com)
  28. Giving friends custom text buzzes based on morse code (liquidbrain.net)
  29. San Francisco Mindset (podviaznikov.com)
  30. With AI, Your Imagination is the Limit (hamy.xyz)
  31. Quoting Anthropic Frontier Red Team (simonwillison.net)
  32. Please add prompt caching to Jev-style models (emschwartz.me)
  33. GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price (simonwillison.net)
  34. Is Existential Risk Securities Fraud? (www.bloomberg.com)
  35. OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog (simonwillison.net)
  36. The Strangest Idea in the World (www.experimental-history.com)
  37. Esther Hermitte: una antropología para el presente (medium.com)
  38. Hosted Go Urls (writing.natwelch.com)
  39. You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner (www.derekthompson.org)
  40. Claude Sonnet 5.5 (simonwillison.net)
  41. Quoting @joedaroo (simonwillison.net)
  42. Banks Recycle the Risk (www.bloomberg.com)
  43. Leek and Potato Soup (gochugarugirl.com)
  44. Open Thread 453 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  45. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio)
  46. Quoting Muse AI Agent (simonwillison.net)
  47. I rode my bike from NYC to Montréal (Part 1) (missfunmi.com)
  48. The Hallway Track No. 027: AGMAI advisory group, Millennium Problems for biology, autonomous research pipelines (hallway.aris.pub)
  49. Legistar Trek, Or, Exploring New York City Legislation (harihareswara.net)
  50. Small Decisions: Engineering a Leading Model (brooker.co.za)
  51. 2026 in LLMs (so far) (simonwillison.net)
  52. There are no dumb questions (blog.greg.technology)
  53. marathon (approximateknowledge.net)
  54. Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights (jvns.ca)
  55. Kākāpō Party (simonwillison.net)
  56. My Six Favorite YouTube IDs (blog.greg.technology)
  57. Building Go Tools Without Writing Any Go (niccrane.com)
  58. Infecting the Steam Link with NixOS (feyor.sh)
  59. Carp in Glamorous Toolkit (blog.veitheller.de)
  60. Your Book Review: Lee Kuan Yew's Memoirs (www.astralcodexten.com)
  61. The commercial applications of embodied conversational agents are gross. (newdelete.alinen.net)
  62. Vinegar-Braised Chicken Wings (www.alisoneroman.com)
  63. Vinegar-Braised Chicken Wings with Zucchini and Herbs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  64. notice of being ghosted (lake.computer)
  65. Quoting John Gruber (simonwillison.net)
  66. L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages (blog.plover.com)
  67. Banana, Walnut and Cardamom Bundt (gochugarugirl.com)
  68. Fall Meetups 2026 - Call For Meetup Organizers (www.astralcodexten.com)
  69. The road to epsilon-zero: “Shortlex” isn't actually a single order (blog.plover.com)