News

  1. In Memoriam (www.alisoneroman.com)
  2. No constitutional right to clean water, federal court finds (www.usatoday.com)
  3. Skirting The Issue (gochugarugirl.com)
  4. Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users (news.ycombinator.com)
  5. Bing Wallpaper showing Ad for Harry Potter and Fantastic beasts box set (www.thurrott.com)
  6. Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (www.techemails.com)
  7. bzip3 (github.com)
  8. De-Brainrot Vacations (devz.cl)
  9. Splash-free urinals (2025) (academic.oup.com)
  10. Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements (www.theregister.com)
  11. Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type (news.ycombinator.com)
  12. Impedance Matching (2017) (www.edge.org)
  13. Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics (mathathonchallenge.com)
  14. Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs (vllm.ai)
  15. Live map of public transport in Belgium (openbaarvervoerbelgie.be)
  16. Open Thread 450 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  17. LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices (www.notebookcheck.net)
  18. Keep Our Servers Running (blog.archive.org)
  19. I Wrote a Package Manager Ten Years Ago (blog.veitheller.de)
  20. Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI (simonwillison.net)
  21. Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes (austinhenley.com)
  22. Reading Log #5 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  23. It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis (anubis.techaro.lol)
  24. GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard (grapheneos.social)
  25. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files? (news.ycombinator.com)
  26. In Practice (read.alonzo.zip)
  27. How I Clean My Glasses (hamy.xyz)
  28. zero (approximateknowledge.net)
  29. Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers (simonwillison.net)
  30. Using Blender with coding agents on macOS (simonwillison.net)
  31. Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results? (news.ycombinator.com)
  32. Making hypothesis testing make sense (minireference.com)
  33. The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting (simonwillison.net)
  34. The LLM Architecture Problem (riskmusings.substack.com)
  35. Your Book Review: The Tale Of Genji (www.astralcodexten.com)
  36. OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis (simonwillison.net)
  37. Infinite Lives, 1986: Arkanoid (approximateknowledge.net)
  38. Support Local Variables (bernsteinbear.com)
  39. GPT‑6 Astra (simonwillison.net)
  40. The Clippers Got Some Consulting (www.bloomberg.com)
  41. College EA Meetups Everywhere: Times & Places (www.astralcodexten.com)
  42. AI Enablement Theater™ (george.mand.is)
  43. Grilled Artichokes with Preserved Lemon Yogurt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  44. Perfect Pancakes, Perfect Waffles (www.alisoneroman.com)
  45. The ETF Dividend Flip (www.bloomberg.com)
  46. Kinda-Sweet Granola with Coconut and Turmeric (www.alisoneroman.com)
  47. Decidedly Not Sweet Granola (www.alisoneroman.com)
  48. Four-Bean Salad with Green Romesco (www.alisoneroman.com)
  49. Cold Garlicky Pasta with Capers and Salsa Verde (www.alisoneroman.com)
  50. Chicken Soup with Toasted Garlic, Mushrooms, and Celery (www.alisoneroman.com)
  51. llm-gemini 0.34 (simonwillison.net)
  52. Seared Short Ribs with Kimchi and Sesame Salt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  53. Turmeric-Roasted Lamb Shoulder and Carrots with All the Fixings (www.alisoneroman.com)
  54. Any Excuse to Make Shrimp Cocktail (www.alisoneroman.com)
  55. Smashed Eggs and Fancy Fish on Crackers (www.alisoneroman.com)
  56. Creamy Goat Cheese with Lemony Za’atar (www.alisoneroman.com)
  57. A Better Garlic Bread / Caramelized Garlic on Toast with Anchovies (www.alisoneroman.com)
  58. Spicy Red Cabbage with Sweet Onion and Lime (www.alisoneroman.com)
  59. Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics (simonwillison.net)
  60. Absurd Adventure And Amygdalectomy Advocacy (www.astralcodexten.com)
  61. Quoting Rick Brewster (simonwillison.net)
  62. GTM hack: steal engagement with Claude (nmn.gl)
  63. What Makes LLM Tokenization Slow? (healeycodes.com)
  64. Art Works (www.fauxtrots.com)
  65. Goroutine Leak Profiles (go.dev)
  66. Tracing np.add, all the way down (blog.veitheller.de)
  67. Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican (simonwillison.net)
  68. Codex bundles LibreOffice (simonwillison.net)
  69. Amazon Charged the First Price (www.bloomberg.com)
  70. Quoting Tarn Adams (simonwillison.net)
  71. Scour - August Update (emschwartz.me)
  72. We Can't Let AI Writing Take Over the Internet (www.derekthompson.org)
  73. Nicholas Decker In Hell (www.astralcodexten.com)
  74. Picolibrary: a very small press (novalis.org)
  75. A Tetrational Self-Cleaning Turing Machine (nickdrozd.github.io)
  76. How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? (danluu.com)
  77. Recently (macwright.com)