News

  1. Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth (blog.talosintelligence.com)
  2. Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age (nullprogram.com)
  3. We Took over ChatGPT Accounts (www.parameter.ai)
  4. Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable (piefed.world)
  5. Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament (www.science.org)
  6. Switch Lowering in GCC (xoranth.net)
  7. Digital minimalism (vitalik.eth.limo)
  8. cyberwitchery (blog.veitheller.de)
  9. Build Standalone Lua Applications with Zig and fnlpack (www.ryanprior.com)
  10. dbreunig/nesformer (simonwillison.net)
  11. Anthropic's IPO: Can unprecedented revenue growth outrun 'irresponsibly large' investment? (leonlins.com)
  12. The oldest ice disappears and the Stone Age emerges from it (www.sciencenorway.no)
  13. My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii (virtuallyfun.com)
  14. Your Book Review: The History And Adventures Of An Atom (www.astralcodexten.com)
  15. Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX (github.com)
  16. Northflank Breached (status.northflank.com)
  17. Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code (fortune.com)
  18. The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes (www.wired.com)
  19. Big Changes (writing.natwelch.com)
  20. parsing the final fantasy 1 NES world map (part 1) (djan.org)
  21. API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions (simonwillison.net)
  22. Programming at Light Speed: Building the Gravity Query Engine (malisper.me)
  23. Run on the Law Firm (www.bloomberg.com)
  24. Building a multiplayer game world with autonomous Fable-class models (simonwillison.net)
  25. Links For October 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  26. Adding swing to my Yocto sequencer (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  27. Breakout (cceckman.com)
  28. AI, Lean, and the Future of Formal Verification, with Lean Creator Leo de Moura (thedataexchange.media)
  29. Quoting Ben Hylak (simonwillison.net)
  30. sleep; eating babies; many short story recs (todaythings.substack.com)
  31. The Better Technology (podviaznikov.com)
  32. Ever Failed (blog.veitheller.de)
  33. Quoting Ted Sanders (simonwillison.net)
  34. Where did internet directories go? (mohamedmohey.com)
  35. Not Your Keys, Not Your DAT (www.bloomberg.com)
  36. Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required) (github.com)
  37. GitHub Octoverse 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  38. Fake it ‘til you make it (and then keep faking it) (www.experimental-history.com)
  39. My California Ballot, 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  40. The October inflection point for vibe game development (simonwillison.net)
  41. Can you read every book? (mohamedmohey.com)
  42. Quoting Terk Terkowitz (simonwillison.net)
  43. You Already Don't Understand Your Code (george.mand.is)
  44. Announcing rainy city publishing (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  45. Building a Fullstack Rust Web App Boilerplate for Coding Agents (hamy.xyz)
  46. Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge (simonwillison.net)
  47. Breaking the open web won't stop the bad bots (www.techpolicy.press)
  48. Musk’s Mars Merger Pay (www.bloomberg.com)
  49. Website update (mrcoles.com)
  50. Simple circuits can create complex behaviors (aatishb.com)
  51. Show HN: Marelleo, an open-source story box I built for my kids using ESP32 (zebra.rodeo)
  52. What Is 'You Can See Everything' Really About? (www.derekthompson.org)
  53. Spaces of constant curvature (www.robbielyman.com)
  54. GPT-6.1 Terra (simonwillison.net)
  55. Open Thread 457 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  56. Quoting Jason Koebler (simonwillison.net)
  57. Anthropic Raises Concerns (www.bloomberg.com)
  58. Spiced Pumpkin Cake (gochugarugirl.com)
  59. ↗ Avoid negativity echo chambers (www.vesto.me)
  60. My First Mountain Bike Ride - A Beginner Perspective (bradleydettmer.me)
  61. My First Mountain Bike Ride: A Beginner's Perspective (www.bradleydettmer.me)
  62. The Hallway Track No. 031: Simons Foundation AI math initiative, authorship disclosure norms, EditorCheck peer review audit (hallway.aris.pub)
  63. weeknotes #69 (olu.online)
  64. Our Response To The eMudhra Key Disclosure Incident (go.dev)
  65. Constellation (vishnubharathi.codes)
  66. Perspicacity (vishnubharathi.codes)
  67. What does a newborn career look like? (approximateknowledge.net)
  68. An Autumn Apple and Hazelnut Cake (gochugarugirl.com)