News

  1. Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop (reason.com)
  2. How the Tobacco Industry Drove the Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods (2025) (vcresearch.berkeley.edu)
  3. Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA (wikiworkersunited.org)
  4. Using Blender with coding agents on macOS (simonwillison.net)
  5. How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret (www.propublica.org)
  6. Meet the Ig Nobel Prize Winners (arstechnica.com)
  7. The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025) (devquasar.com)
  8. .gitignore Everything by Default (packagemain.tech)
  9. Making hypothesis testing make sense (minireference.com)
  10. Terpstra Keyboard (terpstrakeyboard.com)
  11. AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems (www.sylvainkalache.com)
  12. Git hosting that never leaves Europe (pushin.eu)
  13. Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns (codeberg.org)
  14. The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting (simonwillison.net)
  15. Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% (engineering.atspotify.com)
  16. Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions (nvd.nist.gov)
  17. GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
  18. Statichost.eu – European static site hosting (www.statichost.eu)
  19. The LLM Architecture Problem (riskmusings.substack.com)
  20. Can AI design circuit boards yet? (eebench.org)
  21. Your Book Review: The Tale Of Genji (www.astralcodexten.com)
  22. Shutting down our public encrypted DNS (mullvad.net)
  23. Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem (www.anthropic.com)
  24. OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis (simonwillison.net)
  25. Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer (opentrailpaper.com)
  26. IBM Bob (bob.ibm.com)
  27. Infinite Lives, 1986: Arkanoid (approximateknowledge.net)
  28. Support Local Variables (bernsteinbear.com)
  29. GPT‑6 Astra (simonwillison.net)
  30. The Clippers Got Some Consulting (www.bloomberg.com)
  31. College EA Meetups Everywhere: Times & Places (www.astralcodexten.com)
  32. AI Enablement Theater™ (george.mand.is)
  33. Grilled Artichokes with Preserved Lemon Yogurt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  34. Perfect Pancakes, Perfect Waffles (www.alisoneroman.com)
  35. The ETF Dividend Flip (www.bloomberg.com)
  36. Kinda-Sweet Granola with Coconut and Turmeric (www.alisoneroman.com)
  37. Decidedly Not Sweet Granola (www.alisoneroman.com)
  38. Four-Bean Salad with Green Romesco (www.alisoneroman.com)
  39. Cold Garlicky Pasta with Capers and Salsa Verde (www.alisoneroman.com)
  40. Chicken Soup with Toasted Garlic, Mushrooms, and Celery (www.alisoneroman.com)
  41. llm-gemini 0.34 (simonwillison.net)
  42. Seared Short Ribs with Kimchi and Sesame Salt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  43. Turmeric-Roasted Lamb Shoulder and Carrots with All the Fixings (www.alisoneroman.com)
  44. Any Excuse to Make Shrimp Cocktail (www.alisoneroman.com)
  45. Smashed Eggs and Fancy Fish on Crackers (www.alisoneroman.com)
  46. Creamy Goat Cheese with Lemony Za’atar (www.alisoneroman.com)
  47. A Better Garlic Bread / Caramelized Garlic on Toast with Anchovies (www.alisoneroman.com)
  48. Spicy Red Cabbage with Sweet Onion and Lime (www.alisoneroman.com)
  49. Festive Yellow Sheet Cake (www.alisoneroman.com)
  50. Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics (simonwillison.net)
  51. Absurd Adventure And Amygdalectomy Advocacy (www.astralcodexten.com)
  52. Quoting Rick Brewster (simonwillison.net)
  53. GTM hack: steal engagement with Claude (nmn.gl)
  54. What Makes LLM Tokenization Slow? (healeycodes.com)
  55. Art Works (www.fauxtrots.com)
  56. Goroutine Leak Profiles (go.dev)
  57. Tracing np.add, all the way down (blog.veitheller.de)
  58. Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican (simonwillison.net)
  59. Codex bundles LibreOffice (simonwillison.net)
  60. Amazon Charged the First Price (www.bloomberg.com)
  61. Quoting Tarn Adams (simonwillison.net)
  62. Scour - August Update (emschwartz.me)
  63. We Can't Let AI Writing Take Over the Internet (www.derekthompson.org)
  64. Nicholas Decker In Hell (www.astralcodexten.com)
  65. Picolibrary: a very small press (novalis.org)
  66. A Tetrational Self-Cleaning Turing Machine (nickdrozd.github.io)
  67. How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? (danluu.com)
  68. Don’t Hedge the KPIs (www.bloomberg.com)
  69. Pasta and Sausage Meatballs (gochugarugirl.com)
  70. Published a new Digital Snippet for AV Club (palomakop.tv)
  71. Open Thread 449 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  72. Host more and co-host more (liquidbrain.net)
  73. The Hallway Track No. 023: Co-Scientist, Terminal-Bench Science, AI in peer review (hallway.aris.pub)
  74. The joy of Compiler Development (theslowpath.pages.dev)
  75. ↗ Any user process can escalate to root (www.vesto.me)
  76. Understanding ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)
  77. Why I am no longer letting Claude Code add itself as Co-author in my commits (indradhanush.github.io)
  78. Bug blindness (danluu.com)
  79. Introducing Hy4 Preview (simonwillison.net)