News

  1. U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels (postalemployeenetwork.com)
  2. Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market (gamersnexus.net)
  3. Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  4. Please add prompt caching to Jev-style models (emschwartz.me)
  5. Is Existential Risk Securities Fraud? (www.bloomberg.com)
  6. GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities (www.anthropic.com)
  7. Tcl/Tk 9.1 (www.tcl-lang.org)
  8. Dots: Always-on agents (openai.com)
  9. DevDay 2026 Recap (openai.com)
  10. GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price (openai.com)
  11. DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers (www.eff.org)
  12. OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog (simonwillison.net)
  13. PS5 Relapse Exploit (github.com)
  14. The Strangest Idea in the World (www.experimental-history.com)
  15. America.gov (america.gov)
  16. Esther Hermitte: una antropología para el presente (medium.com)
  17. How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent (spectrum.ieee.org)
  18. Without the Hot Air (www.withouthotair.com)
  19. 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds (www.cbc.ca)
  20. Hosted Go Urls (writing.natwelch.com)
  21. Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models (github.com)
  22. You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner (www.derekthompson.org)
  23. Using any C++ library in Godot (blog.conan.io)
  24. Claude Sonnet 5.5 (simonwillison.net)
  25. Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It (www.nytimes.com)
  26. Quoting @joedaroo (simonwillison.net)
  27. Banks Recycle the Risk (www.bloomberg.com)
  28. Leek and Potato Soup (gochugarugirl.com)
  29. Open Thread 453 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  30. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display (jagi.studio)
  31. Quoting Muse AI Agent (simonwillison.net)
  32. I rode my bike from NYC to Montréal (Part 1) (missfunmi.com)
  33. The Hallway Track No. 027: AGMAI advisory group, Millennium Problems for biology, autonomous research pipelines (hallway.aris.pub)
  34. Legistar Trek, Or, Exploring New York City Legislation (harihareswara.net)
  35. Small Decisions: Engineering a Leading Model (brooker.co.za)
  36. 2026 in LLMs (so far) (simonwillison.net)
  37. There are no dumb questions (blog.greg.technology)
  38. marathon (approximateknowledge.net)
  39. Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights (jvns.ca)
  40. Kākāpō Party (simonwillison.net)
  41. My Six Favorite YouTube IDs (blog.greg.technology)
  42. Building Go Tools Without Writing Any Go (niccrane.com)
  43. Infecting the Steam Link with NixOS (feyor.sh)
  44. Carp in Glamorous Toolkit (blog.veitheller.de)
  45. Your Book Review: Lee Kuan Yew's Memoirs (www.astralcodexten.com)
  46. The commercial applications of embodied conversational agents are gross. (newdelete.alinen.net)
  47. Vinegar-Braised Chicken Wings (www.alisoneroman.com)
  48. Vinegar-Braised Chicken Wings with Zucchini and Herbs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  49. notice of being ghosted (lake.computer)
  50. Quoting John Gruber (simonwillison.net)
  51. L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages (blog.plover.com)
  52. Banana, Walnut and Cardamom Bundt (gochugarugirl.com)
  53. Fall Meetups 2026 - Call For Meetup Organizers (www.astralcodexten.com)
  54. The road to epsilon-zero: “Shortlex” isn't actually a single order (blog.plover.com)
  55. Note on 24th September 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  56. clml, a rust string coloring library (etc.octavore.com)
  57. The Specter Of Neuralese (www.astralcodexten.com)
  58. Morgan Stanley Leaked Some Deals (www.bloomberg.com)
  59. Homemade bagels (merveilles.town)
  60. How China Thinks About AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  61. Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later (www.astralcodexten.com)
  62. Rapid Learning Skill for Code (niccrane.com)
  63. Out Now: Low-tech Magazine Volume IV (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
  64. Platform-independent SIMD in Go (go.dev)
  65. Kalshi Levers the Predictions (www.bloomberg.com)
  66. Building a homelab (wrla.ch)
  67. Noting another house repair chore victory (blog.plover.com)
  68. Delegation and trust (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  69. Hidden Open Thread 452.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  70. The Mundanity of Excellence, Small Wins, and Why You Should Fix Bugs Before Writing New Features (probablydance.com)
  71. SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering (simonwillison.net)
  72. Mysteries Of AI Generalization (www.astralcodexten.com)
  73. Work diary victory (blog.plover.com)
  74. Building a Multiplayer Game of Life with Rust + Datastar (hamy.xyz)
  75. Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war (simonwillison.net)