News

  1. I'm the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband (themomoftheyear.substack.com)
  2. Building Go Tools Without Writing Any Go (niccrane.com)
  3. Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free (gultsch.de)
  4. Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story (lexontech.org)
  5. Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service (floci.io)
  6. Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe? (safenotsafe.dev)
  7. A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models (allanrbo.blogspot.com)
  8. Infecting the Steam Link with NixOS (feyor.sh)
  9. We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  10. Carp in Glamorous Toolkit (blog.veitheller.de)
  11. Your Book Review: Lee Kuan Yew's Memoirs (www.astralcodexten.com)
  12. What even is an OS now? (sockpuppet.org)
  13. Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face (swarmtraces.org)
  14. The commercial applications of embodied conversational agents are gross. (newdelete.alinen.net)
  15. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it? (news.ycombinator.com)
  16. Vinegar-Braised Chicken Wings (www.alisoneroman.com)
  17. Vinegar-Braised Chicken Wings with Zucchini and Herbs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  18. notice of being ghosted (lake.computer)
  19. Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models (ollaya.dev)
  20. Quoting John Gruber (simonwillison.net)
  21. L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages (blog.plover.com)
  22. Banana, Walnut and Cardamom Bundt (gochugarugirl.com)
  23. Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality? (www.quantamagazine.org)
  24. Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red (jev-pokemon.vercel.app)
  25. PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock (github.com)
  26. Fall Meetups 2026 - Call For Meetup Organizers (www.astralcodexten.com)
  27. Plan mode is dead (www.aymannadeem.com)
  28. The road to epsilon-zero: “Shortlex” isn't actually a single order (blog.plover.com)
  29. Note on 24th September 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  30. The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
  31. clml, a rust string coloring library (etc.octavore.com)
  32. The Specter Of Neuralese (www.astralcodexten.com)
  33. Morgan Stanley Leaked Some Deals (www.bloomberg.com)
  34. Parsing Expression Grammar vs. Regexes: Building Org Parser in Lisp, Export HTML (jointhefreeworld.org)
  35. Homemade bagels (merveilles.town)
  36. Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers – Castle Game Engine (castle-engine.io)
  37. How China Thinks About AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  38. 16GB iPod Nano 3G Upgrade (tuckerosman.com)
  39. Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later (www.astralcodexten.com)
  40. Rapid Learning Skill for Code (niccrane.com)
  41. Out Now: Low-tech Magazine Volume IV (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
  42. Platform-independent SIMD in Go (go.dev)
  43. Kalshi Levers the Predictions (www.bloomberg.com)
  44. Building a homelab (wrla.ch)
  45. Noting another house repair chore victory (blog.plover.com)
  46. Delegation and trust (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  47. Hidden Open Thread 452.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  48. The Mundanity of Excellence, Small Wins, and Why You Should Fix Bugs Before Writing New Features (probablydance.com)
  49. SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering (simonwillison.net)
  50. Mysteries Of AI Generalization (www.astralcodexten.com)
  51. Work diary victory (blog.plover.com)
  52. Building a Multiplayer Game of Life with Rust + Datastar (hamy.xyz)
  53. Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war (simonwillison.net)
  54. Who Cares If a Merger Is Fair? (www.bloomberg.com)
  55. Quoting @therealcornpop (simonwillison.net)
  56. Simplicio, Ten Years Later (adagrad.substack.com)
  57. Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models (simonwillison.net)
  58. Open Thread 452 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  59. Solitaire Alone Together (eieio.games)
  60. The Hallway Track No. 026: AI use in science study, astronomy disclosure gap, Paper2Agent, SAIR initiative (hallway.aris.pub)
  61. A First Futamura Projection (blog.veitheller.de)
  62. Tuna and Butterbean Salad (gochugarugirl.com)
  63. weeknotes #66 (olu.online)
  64. Quoting voxium (simonwillison.net)
  65. Continuing blub studies (upvalue.io)
  66. Reading Log #6 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  67. 0061: i'm not a cat, artificial adventures, synthetic sagas, anthropic, sponsors (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  68. Synthetic sagas (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  69. Artsy Math: Squaring Square Patterns (www.fractalkitty.com)