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  1. Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It (www.medpagetoday.com)
  2. The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes (www.wired.com)
  3. Big Changes (writing.natwelch.com)
  4. US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech (progressives.house.gov)
  5. Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises (www.binarysecurity.no)
  6. elect.horse (elect.horse)
  7. Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace (phorion.io)
  8. Herdr has released native app (github.com)
  9. Cormac McCarthy's Library (cormacmccarthy.lib.utk.edu)
  10. Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer (github.com)
  11. API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions (simonwillison.net)
  12. We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry (labs.ycombinator.com)
  13. Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance (arkm.com)
  14. A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W (github.com)
  15. Programming at Light Speed: Building the Gravity Query Engine (malisper.me)
  16. Run on the Law Firm (www.bloomberg.com)
  17. Building a multiplayer game world with autonomous Fable-class models (simonwillison.net)
  18. Links For October 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  19. Adding swing to my Yocto sequencer (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  20. Breakout (cceckman.com)
  21. H.264 Is Magic (2016) (sidbala.com)
  22. LLM Voice (martinfowler.com)
  23. We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 (mistral.ai)
  24. Quoting Ben Hylak (simonwillison.net)
  25. sleep; eating babies; many short story recs (todaythings.substack.com)
  26. The Better Technology (podviaznikov.com)
  27. Ever Failed (blog.veitheller.de)
  28. Quoting Ted Sanders (simonwillison.net)
  29. Where did internet directories go? (mohamedmohey.com)
  30. Not Your Keys, Not Your DAT (www.bloomberg.com)
  31. GitHub Octoverse 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  32. Fake it ‘til you make it (and then keep faking it) (www.experimental-history.com)
  33. My California Ballot, 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  34. The October inflection point for vibe game development (simonwillison.net)
  35. Artificial Analysis v5 and the benchmarker's dilemma (www.interconnects.ai)
  36. I'm so bad at billiards that I ended up in the hyperbolic plane [video] (www.youtube.com)
  37. Can you read every book? (mohamedmohey.com)
  38. Quoting Terk Terkowitz (simonwillison.net)
  39. Astroterm: A Planetarium for Your Terminal (github.com)
  40. You Already Don't Understand Your Code (george.mand.is)
  41. Announcing rainy city publishing (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  42. Building a Fullstack Rust Web App Boilerplate for Coding Agents (hamy.xyz)
  43. Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge (simonwillison.net)
  44. Musk’s Mars Merger Pay (www.bloomberg.com)
  45. Gilgamesh by Simon Armitage review – an ancient epic is brilliantly translated (www.theguardian.com)
  46. Website update (mrcoles.com)
  47. What Is 'You Can See Everything' Really About? (www.derekthompson.org)
  48. Cuis: The Modern Smalltalk-80 (cuis.st)
  49. Spaces of constant curvature (www.robbielyman.com)
  50. GPT-6.1 Terra (simonwillison.net)
  51. Open Thread 457 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  52. Quoting Jason Koebler (simonwillison.net)
  53. Anthropic Raises Concerns (www.bloomberg.com)
  54. Spiced Pumpkin Cake (gochugarugirl.com)
  55. ↗ Avoid negativity echo chambers (www.vesto.me)
  56. My First Mountain Bike Ride - A Beginner Perspective (bradleydettmer.me)
  57. My First Mountain Bike Ride: A Beginner's Perspective (www.bradleydettmer.me)
  58. The Hallway Track No. 031: Simons Foundation AI math initiative, authorship disclosure norms, EditorCheck peer review audit (hallway.aris.pub)
  59. weeknotes #69 (olu.online)
  60. Our Response To The eMudhra Key Disclosure Incident (go.dev)
  61. Constellation (vishnubharathi.codes)
  62. Perspicacity (vishnubharathi.codes)
  63. What does a newborn career look like? (approximateknowledge.net)
  64. An Autumn Apple and Hazelnut Cake (gochugarugirl.com)
  65. oblique strategies for managing complex trauma (clarionsong.substack.com)
  66. 2026 NYC General Election: Judicial Candidates (harihareswara.net)
  67. Decompiling Fast Food Tycoon 2: Drawing the World (healeycodes.com)
  68. “We should be more ambitious with the software we build” (danluu.com)
  69. Your Book Review: The Ghost In My Brain (www.astralcodexten.com)
  70. the price of community is not inconvenience (olu.online)
  71. 2026 NYC Election Ballot Proposals: What I Think And Why (harihareswara.net)
  72. Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro (simonwillison.net)