News

  1. "LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." (twitter.com)
  2. Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software Still the Same? [video] (www.youtube.com)
  3. EU Digital Identity Wallet rollout: every EU state on one board (myid.ie)
  4. A technical vision for the Haskell ecosystem (discourse.haskell.org)
  5. Lonewolf 0.3 – A standalone XMPP server written in Rust (github.com)
  6. Why learn web dev skills in 2026 (minireference.com)
  7. Why Zig over C for Systems Programming (www.mtsoukalos.eu)
  8. US test reactor cleared for operations (www.world-nuclear-news.org)
  9. Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026 (1960) (www.science.org)
  10. AI Is Destroying the Trust Between Writers and Readers (www.theatlantic.com)
  11. Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and platform.claude.com (status.claude.com)
  12. LLM use policy (klauria.tech)
  13. IceWM (ice-wm.org)
  14. Switcher (2004) (folklore.org)
  15. Brave Search API now accepts agentic payments via the x402 protocol (brave.com)
  16. Jolly Dystopia (figbert.com)
  17. Nov 12: Where Are The Good Podcasts? (tinylogger.com)
  18. Simple Sudoku Solvers SIII, EIII: Verilog (blog.veitheller.de)
  19. AI Company Employees Should Unionize (www.astralcodexten.com)
  20. do we really need to measure that? (olu.online)
  21. Edge0-145B: Frontier AI Capabilities on Your Own Computer (edge0.ai)
  22. llm-gemini 0.37 (simonwillison.net)
  23. Reverse engineering my Coway air purifier to ditch the cloud (scottjg.com)
  24. Former Nvidia CEO Huang had a relationship with a second employee, sources say (www.reuters.com)
  25. Dwarf planet candidate appears which takes roughly 280 years to orbit our sun (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  26. Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator (antigravity.google)
  27. Rust 1.100 (blog.rust-lang.org)
  28. Nvidia’s Board Had to Do Something (www.bloomberg.com)
  29. ‘This Is an Insane Scandal’: How Jensen Huang’s Downfall Could Change Everything (www.derekthompson.org)
  30. Make (no) mistakes (minhanhday.substack.com)
  31. Submitting a patch to GNU sed (miccah.io)
  32. Fixing Postgres’s biggest mistakes (malisper.me)
  33. SSA from bytecode: imperative pearl (bernsteinbear.com)
  34. tinyrenderer-rs (klauria.tech)
  35. Nov 11: Looking Glass, NASA Smash (tinylogger.com)
  36. research as a hobby, blog edition (olu.online)
  37. Personal public transit display on an Adafruit MagTag (hannahilea.com)
  38. Gemini Decisions API (simonwillison.net)
  39. aws-emulator (simonwillison.net)
  40. Browse tools.simonwillison.net by tag (simonwillison.net)
  41. Homelab 2026 (writing.natwelch.com)
  42. Anthropic's IPO roadshow video (simonwillison.net)
  43. Our current screen time policies (www.bryanbraun.com)
  44. Escaping The “Outside Criticism” Trap (www.astralcodexten.com)
  45. Nov 10: The Worst Flight (tinylogger.com)
  46. Make bad things cost something (jimkang.com)
  47. two way ranging - how it works (awill.co)
  48. Reading Log #9 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  49. Rolling my own self-serve sponsorships for my personal website (hamy.xyz)
  50. what's the point? (olu.online)
  51. llm-gemini 0.36 (simonwillison.net)
  52. Anthropic Has Some Anchor Investors (www.bloomberg.com)
  53. We need more goat sacrifices (www.experimental-history.com)
  54. Maybe Be Careful (miguelconner.substack.com)
  55. Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember (simonwillison.net)
  56. Quoting Prompting Claude Fable 5.2 (simonwillison.net)
  57. Mathematicians and Luddites (alok.github.io)
  58. For random numbers on the GPU, encrypt a counter (klauria.tech)
  59. I am searching for a coffee alternative (bernsteinbear.com)
  60. Yonkers Rises (simonwillison.net)
  61. Nov 09: The Right Question (tinylogger.com)
  62. Pamphlets Considered Quite Cool (figbert.com)
  63. Go Turns 17 (go.dev)
  64. llm-anthropic 0.31 (simonwillison.net)
  65. Locating the source of a mysterious beep with Claude (simonwillison.net)
  66. 20-30 minute meditations (qqrs.us)
  67. should learning to code be like learning to read? (olu.online)
  68. Open Thread 459 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  69. Is the Nvidia Affair Securities Fraud? (www.bloomberg.com)
  70. Can Tactical Decision Games Accelerate ... Maths? (commoncog.com)
  71. The Hallway Track No. 033: AutoDNA autonomous lab, mathematics profession at scale, AI cloning benchmarks (hallway.aris.pub)
  72. psychic: a fast file browser with ML-powered ranking (klauria.tech)
  73. The Web Is More Than Enough, by Paul Ford (simonwillison.net)
  74. Hide your slop PR descriptions behind <details><summary> (simonwillison.net)
  75. weeknotes #71 (olu.online)
  76. Recurse Center Week One (ajoellee.com)
  77. Nov 08: Layover (tinylogger.com)
  78. Sanborn keymaps: location priors, if you can read them (danvk.github.io)
  79. $16k and a solar panel (blog.greg.technology)
  80. 11 UI improvements in otel-desktop-viewer (ctrlspice.codes)
  81. Nov 07: Minimal Tools (tinylogger.com)
  82. how i think (olu.online)
  83. I did a meditation and it sort of changed my personality?! (www.benkuhn.net)
  84. sattolo (cosmo-grant.github.io)
  85. Nov 06: Keep Making Imperfect Stuff (cont.) (tinylogger.com)
  86. Mourning Joe Wahrhaftig (harihareswara.net)
  87. A short history of the Troubled Teen Industry (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  88. Here comes the sun[light]: An ambient Daylight Clock with time and space controls (hannahilea.com)
  89. Your Book Review: Orality and Literacy (www.astralcodexten.com)