News

  1. IDRs as records of intent (wrla.ch)
  2. A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't (housing.over.pizza)
  3. Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI (www.ft.com)
  4. Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster (motherduck.com)
  5. Knuth reward check (www.thomas-huehn.com)
  6. Bitwarden Dual License Model (community.bitwarden.com)
  7. Unikernels were hard. key word: were (ghuntley.com)
  8. I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall (conversableeconomist.com)
  9. Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry (www.opengroup.org)
  10. Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier (github.com)
  11. `123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach (cphpost.dk)
  12. The Lightbulb Computer (lightbulbcomputer.com)
  13. Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen (beaksec.github.io)
  14. Quoting The New York Times (simonwillison.net)
  15. Your Book Review: We Present Television (www.astralcodexten.com)
  16. REA Reverse – Engineer Anything (rea.tools)
  17. Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation (epoch.ai)
  18. Rampart: Browser native on-device PII radaction (ndstudio.gov)
  19. What is the Future of SaaS in an Agent First World? (www.mattambrogi.com)
  20. Quoting Matthew Green (simonwillison.net)
  21. A new feature for my blog, built using my voice (simonwillison.net)
  22. Nix wrote half of my debugger (fzakaria.com)
  23. Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0 (blogs.windows.com)
  24. ttok 1.0 (simonwillison.net)
  25. Dual-Use Tools and Epistemic Horror (blog.veitheller.de)
  26. ttok 0.4 (simonwillison.net)
  27. Ballots Everywhere: Times & Places (www.astralcodexten.com)
  28. Quoting Carson Gross (simonwillison.net)
  29. Pre-IPO Perpetual Futures Swap ETF (www.bloomberg.com)
  30. The 26 Most Important Facts About AI and the Economy (www.derekthompson.org)
  31. Reading Roundup: Color and Text (cceckman.com)
  32. dashboard (approximateknowledge.net)
  33. Once the Cheat Code Is There (blog.veitheller.de)
  34. Top Forecasters On The Plague (www.astralcodexten.com)
  35. Hidden Open Thread 454.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  36. Claude Haiku 5.5 (simonwillison.net)
  37. Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024) (www.usenix.org)
  38. ESG Gets More Illegal (www.bloomberg.com)
  39. 2D Vehicles (patkerr.co.uk)
  40. Quoting Jake Boggan (simonwillison.net)
  41. Announcing the Centre for Cryptographic Trust Infrastructure (CCTI) (martin.kleppmann.com)
  42. OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects (simonwillison.net)
  43. Durable Context, Disposable Code - Building Systems with Speed and Quality in the Agentic Era (hamy.xyz)
  44. Quoting Victoria Kim (simonwillison.net)
  45. An Open Letter To Steven Pinker On AI (www.astralcodexten.com)
  46. Sneaky Town Overview (V4 Edition) (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  47. EmbeddingGemma 2 (simonwillison.net)
  48. Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk (simonwillison.net)
  49. Treasury Futures Might Switch (www.bloomberg.com)
  50. Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo (blog.plover.com)
  51. Scrimshaw Jukebox (simonwillison.net)
  52. You May Now Listen to Commoncog Cases (commoncog.com)
  53. Dealing with Recessions (commoncog.com)
  54. Did live visuals for a concert in a large church (palomakop.tv)
  55. Extend Lua with Zig 1: Hello World (www.robbielyman.com)
  56. Quoting Felix Rieseberg (simonwillison.net)
  57. Charlie's Meatballs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  58. Charlie's Meatballs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  59. Mergers and Acqui-hires (www.bloomberg.com)
  60. Open Thread 454 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  61. I rode my bike from NYC to Montréal (Part 2) (missfunmi.com)
  62. The Hallway Track No. 028: arXiv rate limit, AI paper mills, Google FluSight (hallway.aris.pub)
  63. Qwen3.8 27B addition in words (simonwillison.net)
  64. 2026.Q3 Reflection (hamy.xyz)
  65. A Game Building Workshop for Kids and Parents (debamitro.github.io)
  66. Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder? (brooker.co.za)
  67. We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything (simonwillison.net)