News

  1. The case against JPEG XL (giannirosato.com)
  2. Open-Source AI and Open Models Reading List (www.interconnects.ai)
  3. Apple's Dimensional Drawings (developer.apple.com)
  4. Open Thread 451 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  5. Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs (community.signalusers.org)
  6. Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher (www.vals.ai)
  7. Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003) (pages.cs.wisc.edu)
  8. Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster (techcrunch.com)
  9. Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? (www.atomic14.com)
  10. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) (news.ycombinator.com)
  11. weeknotes #65 (olu.online)
  12. Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 (www.lesswrong.com)
  13. CUDA for AMD on Windows (github.com)
  14. Making Startups Powerful (paulgraham.com)
  15. Data collected by cars and sold to third parties (www.theverge.com)
  16. Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  17. The Zeitgeist of September 2026 (adagrad.substack.com)
  18. Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)
  19. George Orwell's essay on the atomic bomb anticipates Nineteen Eighty-Four (blog.plover.com)
  20. Quoting Paul Ford (simonwillison.net)
  21. A Decade in Cardiff (francisco.wiki)
  22. OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May (simonwillison.net)
  23. Metacarp (blog.veitheller.de)
  24. So you want to use OpenRouter? (simonwillison.net)
  25. Quoting Boris Cherny (simonwillison.net)
  26. Braised Chicken Piccata (www.alisoneroman.com)
  27. Braised Chicken Piccata (www.alisoneroman.com)
  28. Feeling sad about AI (simonwillison.net)
  29. Why Harvard's Dean 'Encourages' Students to Use AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  30. Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace (aprilnea.me)
  31. Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases (simonwillison.net)
  32. Mathober 2026 Prompts (www.fractalkitty.com)
  33. Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify (simonwillison.net)
  34. Introducing mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps (danvk.github.io)
  35. Dallas Gets Some Equities (www.bloomberg.com)
  36. More Pollinators (cceckman.com)
  37. Julia 1.13 highlights (julialang.org)
  38. Royce On San Francisco (www.astralcodexten.com)
  39. AI Safety Is Having a Moment (www.derekthompson.org)
  40. A Logic GUI (occasionallycogent.com)
  41. Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid) (spaceships.treybastian.com)
  42. Quoting Calif Research (simonwillison.net)
  43. .blend URL Viewer (simonwillison.net)
  44. AAA AI (www.bloomberg.com)
  45. Exploring Subtyping in Implicit Polarized F with Rocq (jtm.cx)
  46. Peter, I Meant To Say This (aaronstrick.com)
  47. showing online-go.com games on an e-ink inkplate display (djan.org)
  48. Quoting Terence Tao (simonwillison.net)
  49. AI Dotfiles - How I Take My AI Workflows Across Projects And Machines (hamy.xyz)
  50. Some thoughts on the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem (simonwillison.net)
  51. Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5 (simonwillison.net)
  52. Robinhood Tokenized AMC (www.bloomberg.com)
  53. God Help Us, Let’s Try To Learn About Mechanistic Interpretability Techniques (www.astralcodexten.com)
  54. Quoting Jakub Pachocki (simonwillison.net)
  55. In Memoriam (www.alisoneroman.com)
  56. Skirting The Issue (gochugarugirl.com)
  57. Open Thread 450 (www.astralcodexten.com)