News

  1. Artist Residency: Day 1 (www.fauxtrots.com)
  2. 500B Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile a First-Person Shooter (momo5502.com)
  3. WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement (wallhop.io)
  4. Build your own decision model (nishtahir.com)
  5. IDRs as records of intent (wrla.ch)
  6. A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't (housing.over.pizza)
  7. Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster (motherduck.com)
  8. Knuth reward check (www.thomas-huehn.com)
  9. Unikernels were hard. key word: were (ghuntley.com)
  10. Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier (github.com)
  11. Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity (news.vt.edu)
  12. The Lightbulb Computer (lightbulbcomputer.com)
  13. Quoting The New York Times (simonwillison.net)
  14. Your Book Review: We Present Television (www.astralcodexten.com)
  15. Rampart: Browser native on-device PII radaction (ndstudio.gov)
  16. What is the Future of SaaS in an Agent First World? (www.mattambrogi.com)
  17. Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team (www.cockroachlabs.com)
  18. Quoting Matthew Green (simonwillison.net)
  19. Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware (werwolv.net)
  20. A new feature for my blog, built using my voice (simonwillison.net)
  21. Nix wrote half of my debugger (fzakaria.com)
  22. Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0 (blogs.windows.com)
  23. ttok 1.0 (simonwillison.net)
  24. Dual-Use Tools and Epistemic Horror (blog.veitheller.de)
  25. ttok 0.4 (simonwillison.net)
  26. Ballots Everywhere: Times & Places (www.astralcodexten.com)
  27. Quoting Carson Gross (simonwillison.net)
  28. Pre-IPO Perpetual Futures Swap ETF (www.bloomberg.com)
  29. C for Rust programmers (bd103.dev)
  30. The 26 Most Important Facts About AI and the Economy (www.derekthompson.org)
  31. Reading Roundup: Color and Text (cceckman.com)
  32. dashboard (approximateknowledge.net)
  33. Once the Cheat Code Is There (blog.veitheller.de)
  34. Top Forecasters On The Plague (www.astralcodexten.com)
  35. Hidden Open Thread 454.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  36. Claude Haiku 5.5 (simonwillison.net)
  37. ESG Gets More Illegal (www.bloomberg.com)
  38. 2D Vehicles (patkerr.co.uk)
  39. Quoting Jake Boggan (simonwillison.net)
  40. Announcing the Centre for Cryptographic Trust Infrastructure (CCTI) (martin.kleppmann.com)
  41. OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects (simonwillison.net)
  42. Durable Context, Disposable Code - Building Systems with Speed and Quality in the Agentic Era (hamy.xyz)
  43. Quoting Victoria Kim (simonwillison.net)
  44. An Open Letter To Steven Pinker On AI (www.astralcodexten.com)
  45. OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller (openscad.org)
  46. Sneaky Town Overview (V4 Edition) (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  47. EmbeddingGemma 2 (simonwillison.net)
  48. Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk (simonwillison.net)
  49. Treasury Futures Might Switch (www.bloomberg.com)
  50. Grieving the loss of details (purplesyringa.moe)
  51. Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo (blog.plover.com)
  52. Scrimshaw Jukebox (simonwillison.net)
  53. You May Now Listen to Commoncog Cases (commoncog.com)
  54. Dealing with Recessions (commoncog.com)
  55. Did live visuals for a concert in a large church (palomakop.tv)
  56. Extend Lua with Zig 1: Hello World (www.robbielyman.com)
  57. Quoting Felix Rieseberg (simonwillison.net)
  58. Charlie's Meatballs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  59. Charlie's Meatballs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  60. Mergers and Acqui-hires (www.bloomberg.com)
  61. Open Thread 454 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  62. I rode my bike from NYC to Montréal (Part 2) (missfunmi.com)
  63. The Hallway Track No. 028: arXiv rate limit, AI paper mills, Google FluSight (hallway.aris.pub)
  64. Qwen3.8 27B addition in words (simonwillison.net)