News

  1. Humans haven't stopped evolving (www.harvardmagazine.com)
  2. Welcome to the Classroom of Meritocratic Supremacy (read.alonzo.zip)
  3. JetZero (www.jetzero.aero)
  4. An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk (blog.ktz.me)
  5. Show HN: I mapped every US golf course (golfcoursebrowser.com)
  6. Systems and Delays (martin.janiczek.cz)
  7. Inflect-Micro-v2: complete voice in 9.36M parameters (huggingface.co)
  8. Clinical failure rates over the decades: yikes (www.science.org)
  9. Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers (blog.cloudflare.com)
  10. GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage (spectrum.ieee.org)
  11. Turn And Face The Strange (fly.io)
  12. The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models (claude.com)
  13. Did They Ghost You? (didtheyghostyou.com)
  14. Producing ammonia and fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota (ammoniaenergy.org)
  15. Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller (github.com)
  16. Memory Safety Absolutists (itsallaboutthebit.com)
  17. Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site (brolly.sh)
  18. Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds (hannahilea.com)
  19. Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment (tobi.knaup.me)
  20. Quoting Boris Cherny (simonwillison.net)
  21. Introducing Claude Opus 5 (simonwillison.net)
  22. Show HN: I made some transistor animations (brandonli.net)
  23. Your Book Review: Breakdown In Pakistan (www.astralcodexten.com)
  24. The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  25. Cranban is a tool for collaborating with robots (patrickweaver.net)
  26. I'm running a programming contest (eieio.games)
  27. Printing tiny photos for paper journals (macwright.com)
  28. The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? (simonwillison.net)
  29. If You're Reading This I'm Free (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  30. Sports Happen So Much (www.bloomberg.com)
  31. Sheena Ringo in Sound & Recording (disk.horse)
  32. What Is Lost When We Make 'The Odyssey' Modern (www.derekthompson.org)
  33. Every exterior shot in *The Taking of Pelham 123* (iafisher.com)
  34. Simple Sudoku Solvers SII, EV: Racket/miniKanren (blog.veitheller.de)
  35. Quoting Thomas Ptacek (simonwillison.net)
  36. OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
  37. Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? (simonwillison.net)
  38. The SEC Pays a Texting Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
  39. Links For July 2026 (Part 1) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  40. Back to basics: The Hundred-Page Languages Models Book, Chapter 1 (www.maayanroth.com)
  41. Things I know about beets (lucymcphail.com)
  42. GPT 5.6 + OpenCode vs Claude + Claude Code - First Impressions (hamy.xyz)
  43. Call for lightning talks: Haskell Symposium 2026 (decomposition.al)
  44. LSE Will Trade 22.83 Hours a Day (www.bloomberg.com)
  45. Category Theory Day One (www.robbielyman.com)
  46. Blog Jamboree 2026: The Winners (www.experimental-history.com)
  47. Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac (simonwillison.net)
  48. A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team (simonwillison.net)
  49. Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness (www.astralcodexten.com)
  50. Going Ham: Zero to Amateur Extra in 31 Days (flaviuspopan.com)
  51. Bytecode-to-Source Mapping (tidefield.dev)
  52. No central server, only BitTorrent (www.scannedinavian.com)
  53. Some more things about Django I've been enjoying (jvns.ca)
  54. Why I Write (bugwhisperer.dev)
  55. Avoid the trap of magical thinking (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  56. Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API) (words.filippo.io)
  57. Reverse-engineering is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
  58. Ice Cream Hedging (www.bloomberg.com)
  59. Project Monopoly: King’s Cross Station (gochugarugirl.com)
  60. Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? (simonwillison.net)
  61. How Moats are Built (commoncog.com)
  62. I loved my AI assistant. My friends did not. (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  63. <a href="/blog/thewildlifetrusts/challenges-abound-new-prime-minister-nature-has-solutions" hreflang="en">Challenges abound for the new Prime Minister – but nature has the solutions</a> (www.wildlondon.org.uk)
  64. Open Thread 443 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  65. The Hallway Track No. 017: Science EIC contra AI hype, data poisoning of research agents, Vancouver Standard for AI disclosure (hallway.aris.pub)
  66. This is the golden age of video games (approximateknowledge.net)
  67. Quoting Sam Altman (simonwillison.net)
  68. The road to epsilon-zero: Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals (blog.plover.com)
  69. Looking for work (tonsky.me)
  70. Rethinking Legal Education in the AI Era (www.law.uchicago.edu)