News

  1. Links For October 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  2. Adding swing to my Yocto sequencer (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  3. Breakout (cceckman.com)
  4. Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from (trakkr.ai)
  5. We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 (mistral.ai)
  6. Quoting Ben Hylak (simonwillison.net)
  7. ‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014) (www.nytimes.com)
  8. Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 (artificialanalysis.ai)
  9. DoorDash to Acquire Instacart (about.doordash.com)
  10. Hackers expose the identities of more than 40k DHS employees (text.npr.org)
  11. NetBSD adds a new beginner-friendly text editor called atto (mastodon.sdf.org)
  12. Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008) (publicpolicy.googleblog.com)
  13. sleep; eating babies; many short story recs (todaythings.substack.com)
  14. The US added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months (electrek.co)
  15. Chained PHP2Shell Exploit Roots 25 Servers, Including US Government Servers (dreamgroup.com)
  16. Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS (smsofdeath.com)
  17. Forging a Microsoft Edge Full Chain with Logic Bugs Only (blog.orange.tw)
  18. Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5 (divagr.com)
  19. Ever Failed (blog.veitheller.de)
  20. GitLab Security Incident: Attempted Exploitation of CVE-2026-97229 (alpinelinux.org)
  21. StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month (data.stackexchange.com)
  22. Quoting Ted Sanders (simonwillison.net)
  23. A Health Update (furbo.org)
  24. Where did internet directories go? (mohamedmohey.com)
  25. Not Your Keys, Not Your DAT (www.bloomberg.com)
  26. Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons? (nullpt.rs)
  27. GitHub Octoverse 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  28. Fake it ‘til you make it (and then keep faking it) (www.experimental-history.com)
  29. My California Ballot, 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  30. CNC Stone Carving (carmelitegothic.com)
  31. The October inflection point for vibe game development (simonwillison.net)
  32. Can you read every book? (mohamedmohey.com)
  33. Quoting Terk Terkowitz (simonwillison.net)
  34. You Already Don't Understand Your Code (george.mand.is)
  35. Announcing rainy city publishing (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  36. Building a Fullstack Rust Web App Boilerplate for Coding Agents (hamy.xyz)
  37. Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge (simonwillison.net)
  38. Musk’s Mars Merger Pay (www.bloomberg.com)
  39. Website update (mrcoles.com)
  40. MiniLake Is a Local Databricks API Emulator with SQL, Delta Lake and Spark (dmux.github.io)
  41. What Is 'You Can See Everything' Really About? (www.derekthompson.org)
  42. Spaces of constant curvature (www.robbielyman.com)
  43. GPT-6.1 Terra (simonwillison.net)
  44. OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache (the-decoder.com)
  45. Open Thread 457 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  46. Quoting Jason Koebler (simonwillison.net)
  47. Anthropic Raises Concerns (www.bloomberg.com)
  48. Spiced Pumpkin Cake (gochugarugirl.com)
  49. ↗ Avoid negativity echo chambers (www.vesto.me)
  50. My First Mountain Bike Ride - A Beginner Perspective (bradleydettmer.me)
  51. My First Mountain Bike Ride: A Beginner's Perspective (www.bradleydettmer.me)
  52. The Hallway Track No. 031: Simons Foundation AI math initiative, authorship disclosure norms, EditorCheck peer review audit (hallway.aris.pub)
  53. weeknotes #69 (olu.online)
  54. Our Response To The eMudhra Key Disclosure Incident (go.dev)
  55. Constellation (vishnubharathi.codes)
  56. Perspicacity (vishnubharathi.codes)
  57. What does a newborn career look like? (approximateknowledge.net)
  58. An Autumn Apple and Hazelnut Cake (gochugarugirl.com)
  59. oblique strategies for managing complex trauma (clarionsong.substack.com)
  60. 2026 NYC General Election: Judicial Candidates (harihareswara.net)
  61. Decompiling Fast Food Tycoon 2: Drawing the World (healeycodes.com)
  62. “We should be more ambitious with the software we build” (danluu.com)
  63. Your Book Review: The Ghost In My Brain (www.astralcodexten.com)
  64. the price of community is not inconvenience (olu.online)
  65. 2026 NYC Election Ballot Proposals: What I Think And Why (harihareswara.net)
  66. Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro (simonwillison.net)
  67. The AI Story Wall Street Doesn’t Want to Hear (www.derekthompson.org)
  68. What’s the value of measuring ARR? (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  69. Indian government sites are serving revoked eMudhra certificates (captnemo.in)
  70. Animations for System Builders: Metastability and Lost Writes (brooker.co.za)
  71. San Francisco Meetup This Saturday (www.astralcodexten.com)
  72. DE STAAT - FREEDOM (Official Music Video) (simonwillison.net)
  73. Zuckerberg Wants to Keep His Votes (www.bloomberg.com)
  74. Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation (simonwillison.net)
  75. pgrust v0.4-beta: Gravity, Columnar Indexes, Automatic Memory, and Developing in the Open (malisper.me)
  76. Important Tomato Sauce News! (www.alisoneroman.com)