News

  1. GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage (spectrum.ieee.org)
  2. Fly.io CEO Kurt Mackey is stepping down (fly.io)
  3. The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models (claude.com)
  4. Did They Ghost You? (didtheyghostyou.com)
  5. Producing ammonia and fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota (ammoniaenergy.org)
  6. The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras (www.theguardian.com)
  7. Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site (brolly.sh)
  8. Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds (hannahilea.com)
  9. Bringing PyTorch Monarch to AMD GPUs (pytorch.org)
  10. The Dark Night of Mathematics (kirwinhampshire.substack.com)
  11. Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment (tobi.knaup.me)
  12. Bitchat is now on Radicle (radicle.network)
  13. Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB (kitsumed.github.io)
  14. Quoting Boris Cherny (simonwillison.net)
  15. Introducing Claude Opus 5 (simonwillison.net)
  16. Show HN: I made some transistor animations (brandonli.net)
  17. Your Book Review: Breakdown In Pakistan (www.astralcodexten.com)
  18. The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  19. Cranban is a tool for collaborating with robots (patrickweaver.net)
  20. I'm running a programming contest (eieio.games)
  21. The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? (simonwillison.net)
  22. If You're Reading This I'm Free (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  23. Sports Happen So Much (www.bloomberg.com)
  24. Sheena Ringo in Sound & Recording (disk.horse)
  25. What Is Lost When We Make 'The Odyssey' Modern (www.derekthompson.org)
  26. Every exterior shot in *The Taking of Pelham 123* (iafisher.com)
  27. Simple Sudoku Solvers SII, EV: Racket/miniKanren (blog.veitheller.de)
  28. Quoting Thomas Ptacek (simonwillison.net)
  29. OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
  30. Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? (simonwillison.net)
  31. The SEC Pays a Texting Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
  32. Building a Tiny 3D Renderer for a Tiny Handheld (saffroncr.itch.io)
  33. Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings (news.mongabay.com)
  34. Links For July 2026 (Part 1) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  35. Spatial languages: Writing code in 2D (shukla.io)
  36. How My Images Are Dithered (dead.garden)
  37. Back to basics: The Hundred-Page Languages Models Book, Chapter 1 (www.maayanroth.com)
  38. Things I know about beets (lucymcphail.com)
  39. GPT 5.6 + OpenCode vs Claude + Claude Code - First Impressions (hamy.xyz)
  40. Call for lightning talks: Haskell Symposium 2026 (decomposition.al)
  41. LSE Will Trade 22.83 Hours a Day (www.bloomberg.com)
  42. Category Theory Day One (www.robbielyman.com)
  43. Blog Jamboree 2026: The Winners (www.experimental-history.com)
  44. Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac (simonwillison.net)
  45. A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team (simonwillison.net)
  46. Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness (www.astralcodexten.com)
  47. Going Ham: Zero to Amateur Extra in 31 Days (flaviuspopan.com)
  48. Bytecode-to-Source Mapping (tidefield.dev)
  49. Some more things about Django I've been enjoying (jvns.ca)
  50. Reverse-engineering is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
  51. Ice Cream Hedging (www.bloomberg.com)
  52. Project Monopoly: King’s Cross Station (gochugarugirl.com)
  53. Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? (simonwillison.net)
  54. How Moats are Built (commoncog.com)
  55. <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)
  56. Open Thread 443 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  57. Stolen Buttons (anatolyzenkov.com)
  58. Quoting Sam Altman (simonwillison.net)
  59. Looking for work (tonsky.me)
  60. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making (simonwillison.net)