News

  1. OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects (simonwillison.net)
  2. Durable Context, Disposable Code - Building Systems with Speed and Quality in the Agentic Era (hamy.xyz)
  3. Quoting Victoria Kim (simonwillison.net)
  4. AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped) (github.com)
  5. State of Devs 2026 survey results: developers are exhausted (2026.stateofdevs.com)
  6. Integer multiplication below n log n (github.com)
  7. Sharing AI progress in mathematics (openai.com)
  8. Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI (penguin-mail.com)
  9. An Open Letter To Steven Pinker On AI (www.astralcodexten.com)
  10. Sneaky Town Overview (V4 Edition) (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  11. Decisions API is in public beta (developers.openai.com)
  12. OpenSSH 10.6 (www.openssh.org)
  13. EmbeddingGemma 2 (simonwillison.net)
  14. Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery (arstechnica.com)
  15. Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk (simonwillison.net)
  16. Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill (citizenlab.ca)
  17. Treasury Futures Might Switch (www.bloomberg.com)
  18. Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model (www.zohaib.cc)
  19. Utah to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without human oversight (www.techspot.com)
  20. California closed the Montana license plate loophole (www.thedrive.com)
  21. OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI (github.com)
  22. EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model (blog.google)
  23. Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo (blog.plover.com)
  24. The Early History of Smalltalk (1993) (worrydream.com)
  25. Scrimshaw Jukebox (simonwillison.net)
  26. Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer (peterszentkiralyi.eu)
  27. Mistral Large 4 (mistral.ai)
  28. What's Earth's dominant species by mass? (signoregalilei.com)
  29. Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen (www.nobelprize.org)
  30. Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore (gleam.run)
  31. You May Now Listen to Commoncog Cases (commoncog.com)
  32. Dealing with Recessions (commoncog.com)
  33. Did live visuals for a concert in a large church (palomakop.tv)
  34. Extend Lua with Zig 1: Hello World (www.robbielyman.com)
  35. Quoting Felix Rieseberg (simonwillison.net)
  36. Charlie's Meatballs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  37. Charlie's Meatballs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  38. Mergers and Acqui-hires (www.bloomberg.com)
  39. Open Thread 454 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  40. I rode my bike from NYC to Montréal (Part 2) (missfunmi.com)
  41. The Hallway Track No. 028: arXiv rate limit, AI paper mills, Google FluSight (hallway.aris.pub)
  42. Qwen3.8 27B addition in words (simonwillison.net)
  43. 2026.Q3 Reflection (hamy.xyz)
  44. A Game Building Workshop for Kids and Parents (debamitro.github.io)
  45. Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder? (brooker.co.za)
  46. We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything (simonwillison.net)
  47. Using REAPER with ALSA, ignoring Pipewire (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  48. Recent addenda to articles 202609: Errors, omissions, and retractions (blog.plover.com)
  49. Biking the Empire State Trail - Schenectady - Albany - Hudson (bradleydettmer.me)
  50. Improving My Hardware Workflow With CI and Nix (www.scd31.com)
  51. Simple Sudoku Solvers SIII, EI: Agda (blog.veitheller.de)
  52. We’re Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  53. Mathober 2026 Art (www.fractalkitty.com)
  54. Tips for Biking the Empire State Trail (bradleydettmer.me)
  55. What is the Atmosphere: An Untech Introduction (bnb.im)
  56. Our AI Midwife (www.astralcodexten.com)
  57. Arch-specific SIMD in Go (go.dev)
  58. Opening Private Markets to the Public (www.bloomberg.com)
  59. The Kio Programming Language (jdevuyst.blogspot.com)
  60. Quoting Matthew Green (simonwillison.net)
  61. September Life Update (seinwave.com)
  62. Fall update (jamiepalatnik.com)
  63. Summer Vegetable Soup with Hominy & Lime (www.alisoneroman.com)
  64. Summer Ends When I Say It Does (www.alisoneroman.com)
  65. AI Agents Will Pay Attention (www.bloomberg.com)
  66. Hard times with hard links (iafisher.com)
  67. Giving friends custom text buzzes based on morse code (liquidbrain.net)
  68. San Francisco Mindset (podviaznikov.com)