News

  1. I like 'em thick (www.experimental-history.com)
  2. The Amazon Tax (seths.blog)
  3. Fixing a Bricked Framework Laptop (quantum5.ca)
  4. Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development (www.videogameschronicle.com)
  5. Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner (philo.gay)
  6. Fairphone is now officially available in the United States (www.fairphone.com)
  7. Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People (www.privacyguides.org)
  8. Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows (twitter.com)
  9. Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction (www.theregister.com)
  10. Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM (pixelcluster.dev)
  11. Rethinking Database Programming (acadia.engineering)
  12. Finger: Social network that never died (en.andros.dev)
  13. Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with (www.cell.com)
  14. Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (simonwillison.net)
  15. How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots (timmarinin.net)
  16. Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full (fabiensanglard.net)
  17. Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera (catcrafts.net)
  18. GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% (openrouter.ai)
  19. Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots (responsiblestatecraft.org)
  20. Open Thread 447 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  21. Brown Butter–Buttermilk Cake (www.alisoneroman.com)
  22. Blueberry Cake with Almond and Cinnamon (www.alisoneroman.com)
  23. Lemon Shaker Tart (www.alisoneroman.com)
  24. Pistachio-Plum Crisp (www.alisoneroman.com)
  25. Rhubarb-Almond Galette (www.alisoneroman.com)
  26. Everyone’s Favorite Celebration Cake (www.alisoneroman.com)
  27. Caramelized Honey with Figs and Ice Cream (www.alisoneroman.com)
  28. Honey-Yogurt Pound Cake with Raspberries (www.alisoneroman.com)
  29. Cocoa Banana Bread (www.alisoneroman.com)
  30. Chocolate-Tahini Tart with Crunchy Salt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  31. Frozen Blackberries and Labne with Honey (www.alisoneroman.com)
  32. We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility (simonwillison.net)
  33. A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 (duckdb.org)
  34. Jackdaw Release DELAYED (charlie-volow.com)
  35. Due diligence for charitable giving (iafisher.com)
  36. What If It's Just This? (read.alonzo.zip)
  37. Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things (simonwillison.net)
  38. Quoting Dario Amodei (simonwillison.net)
  39. Reading Log #3 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  40. The Creation of Abulafia (blog.veitheller.de)
  41. IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video] (www.youtube.com)
  42. Ranking the Most Brilliantly Colored Birds with Data (moultano.wordpress.com)
  43. CORS Chat (simonwillison.net)
  44. Getting MIDI sync working (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  45. Rhythm games (sygi.xyz)
  46. Your Book Review: The Escape Artist (www.astralcodexten.com)
  47. Crunchy Tenderstem Broccoli (gochugarugirl.com)
  48. Don't classify. Hallucinate! (simonwillison.net)
  49. The American Sports Plutocracy Is Bullshit (www.derekthompson.org)
  50. Pasta e Ceci Salad (www.alisoneroman.com)
  51. Pasta e Ceci Salad (www.alisoneroman.com)
  52. The road to epsilon-zero: Productive programs and well-founded orders (blog.plover.com)
  53. The Foothills Of Bay Area House Party (www.astralcodexten.com)
  54. llm-gemini 0.33 (simonwillison.net)
  55. Bilateral OTC Goat Hedge (www.bloomberg.com)
  56. Thoughts on the "in-between" (brianagude.substack.com)
  57. Links from The Internship (cceckman.com)
  58. 24 things I believe (clarionsong.substack.com)
  59. The Quest For Caffeine You Can Have At Night (www.astralcodexten.com)
  60. Another partial SSI trick with canonicalize (bernsteinbear.com)
  61. A fully legible mind (blog.veitheller.de)
  62. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter) (simonwillison.net)
  63. A Walk In Primrose Hill (gochugarugirl.com)
  64. Sorbet in Grapefruit Cups (www.alisoneroman.com)
  65. Reading together, unsupervised (brian.abelson.live)
  66. Anchovy-Butter Chicken with Chicken Fat Croutons (www.alisoneroman.com)
  67. AI-Backed Securities (www.bloomberg.com)
  68. Quoting Florian Herrengt (simonwillison.net)
  69. <a href="/blog/thewildlifetrusts/we-drained-britain-dry-now-we-are-watching-it-burn" hreflang="en">We drained Britain dry. Now we are watching it burn</a> (www.wildlondon.org.uk)
  70. Topologies on Free Products (www.robbielyman.com)
  71. My Daily Routine as a Software Engineer and Dad of a 1-Year-Old (hamy.xyz)
  72. There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text (simonwillison.net)
  73. Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs (simonwillison.net)
  74. There are two kinds of theorems (blog.plover.com)
  75. Pick-and-Shovel Seller Financing (www.bloomberg.com)
  76. Reflections on AI (blog.greg.technology)