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  1. An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff (simonwillison.net)
  2. Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions (gregoryszorc.com)
  3. The Artist Who Colored Ghibli (animationobsessive.substack.com)
  4. Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped (www.techdirt.com)
  5. A Merger Closing Mystery (www.bloomberg.com)
  6. Project Monopoly: The Angel Islington (gochugarugirl.com)
  7. Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library (usefeyn.com)
  8. MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH (microsoft.ai)
  9. Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website (www.sgieurope.com)
  10. What Does It Look Like When You Handle Disruption Well? (commoncog.com)
  11. “Steph Curry: fluke or breakthrough” ten years later (blog.plover.com)
  12. Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles (eaton-works.com)
  13. Open Thread 444 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  14. Should you wash your solar panels? (incoherency.co.uk)
  15. How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going? (lockwood.dev)
  16. Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines (github.com)
  17. Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023) (misago-project.org)
  18. Shay Locomotives (www.shaylocomotives.com)
  19. VLC for Unity now supported on Linux (code.videolan.org)
  20. Modern email can be built from borrowed parts (en.andros.dev)
  21. Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace (huggingface.co)
  22. Tactical Decision Game with John Schmitt (commoncog.com)
  23. The Hallway Track No. 018: Genesis Mission $5B, Challengescape problem directory, team science vs. solo AI agents (hallway.aris.pub)
  24. Mid-Training and the Middle-End (blog.veitheller.de)
  25. An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud (simonwillison.net)
  26. weeknotes #62 (olu.online)
  27. Invention 2 by J. S. Bach (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  28. Production ML-DSA Verification in 350 Lines of Python (words.filippo.io)
  29. It gets better: A letter to my younger self (bugwhisperer.dev)
  30. Porting Super Hexagon to the Playdate (captnemo.in)
  31. Some vegan recipes (kevingal.com)
  32. Welcome to the Classroom of Meritocratic Supremacy (read.alonzo.zip)
  33. Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds (hannahilea.com)
  34. Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap (theconsensus.dev)
  35. Quoting Boris Cherny (simonwillison.net)
  36. Introducing Claude Opus 5 (simonwillison.net)
  37. Your Book Review: Breakdown In Pakistan (www.astralcodexten.com)
  38. The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  39. Cranban is a tool for collaborating with robots (patrickweaver.net)
  40. I'm running a programming contest (eieio.games)
  41. The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? (simonwillison.net)
  42. If You're Reading This I'm Free (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  43. Sports Happen So Much (www.bloomberg.com)
  44. Sheena Ringo in Sound & Recording (disk.horse)
  45. What Is Lost When We Make 'The Odyssey' Modern (www.derekthompson.org)
  46. Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol (cen.acs.org)
  47. Every exterior shot in *The Taking of Pelham 123* (iafisher.com)
  48. Simple Sudoku Solvers SII, EV: Racket/miniKanren (blog.veitheller.de)
  49. Quoting Thomas Ptacek (simonwillison.net)
  50. OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
  51. Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? (simonwillison.net)
  52. The computer that helped win World War II (spectrum.ieee.org)
  53. The SEC Pays a Texting Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
  54. Links For July 2026 (Part 1) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  55. Back to basics: The Hundred-Page Languages Models Book, Chapter 1 (www.maayanroth.com)
  56. Things I know about beets (lucymcphail.com)
  57. GPT 5.6 + OpenCode vs Claude + Claude Code - First Impressions (hamy.xyz)
  58. Call for lightning talks: Haskell Symposium 2026 (decomposition.al)
  59. LSE Will Trade 22.83 Hours a Day (www.bloomberg.com)
  60. Category Theory Day One (www.robbielyman.com)
  61. Blog Jamboree 2026: The Winners (www.experimental-history.com)
  62. Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac (simonwillison.net)
  63. A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team (simonwillison.net)
  64. Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness (www.astralcodexten.com)
  65. Going Ham: Zero to Amateur Extra in 31 Days (flaviuspopan.com)
  66. Bytecode-to-Source Mapping (tidefield.dev)
  67. Some more things about Django I've been enjoying (jvns.ca)