News

  1. 'People are going to get screwed' Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres (www.ft.com)
  2. IBM Bob (bob.ibm.com)
  3. Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+ (arstechnica.com)
  4. Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search (productrise.app)
  5. Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board (collusion.wiki)
  6. O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11 (www.oo-software.com)
  7. Solving the Jane Street Reverse Engineering Challenge (jestoph.com)
  8. Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year (www.techdirt.com)
  9. Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (2025) (gwern.net)
  10. GPT‑6 Astra (simonwillison.net)
  11. GPT-6 Astra (openai.com)
  12. Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s (inference-docs.cerebras.ai)
  13. The Clippers Got Some Consulting (www.bloomberg.com)
  14. Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60% (www.discoverwildlife.com)
  15. K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models (ifm.ai)
  16. .name Termination (neil.fraser.name)
  17. Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly (babyloniantwins.com)
  18. College EA Meetups Everywhere: Times & Places (www.astralcodexten.com)
  19. AI Enablement Theater™ (george.mand.is)
  20. Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap (www.kedglobal.com)
  21. Grilled Artichokes with Preserved Lemon Yogurt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  22. Perfect Pancakes, Perfect Waffles (www.alisoneroman.com)
  23. The ETF Dividend Flip (www.bloomberg.com)
  24. Kinda-Sweet Granola with Coconut and Turmeric (www.alisoneroman.com)
  25. Decidedly Not Sweet Granola (www.alisoneroman.com)
  26. Four-Bean Salad with Green Romesco (www.alisoneroman.com)
  27. Cold Garlicky Pasta with Capers and Salsa Verde (www.alisoneroman.com)
  28. Chicken Soup with Toasted Garlic, Mushrooms, and Celery (www.alisoneroman.com)
  29. llm-gemini 0.34 (simonwillison.net)
  30. Seared Short Ribs with Kimchi and Sesame Salt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  31. Turmeric-Roasted Lamb Shoulder and Carrots with All the Fixings (www.alisoneroman.com)
  32. Any Excuse to Make Shrimp Cocktail (www.alisoneroman.com)
  33. Smashed Eggs and Fancy Fish on Crackers (www.alisoneroman.com)
  34. Creamy Goat Cheese with Lemony Za’atar (www.alisoneroman.com)
  35. A Better Garlic Bread / Caramelized Garlic on Toast with Anchovies (www.alisoneroman.com)
  36. Spicy Red Cabbage with Sweet Onion and Lime (www.alisoneroman.com)
  37. Festive Yellow Sheet Cake (www.alisoneroman.com)
  38. Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics (simonwillison.net)
  39. Absurd Adventure And Amygdalectomy Advocacy (www.astralcodexten.com)
  40. Quoting Rick Brewster (simonwillison.net)
  41. GTM hack: steal engagement with Claude (nmn.gl)
  42. What Makes LLM Tokenization Slow? (healeycodes.com)
  43. Art Works (www.fauxtrots.com)
  44. Goroutine Leak Profiles (go.dev)
  45. Tracing np.add, all the way down (blog.veitheller.de)
  46. Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican (simonwillison.net)
  47. Codex bundles LibreOffice (simonwillison.net)
  48. The largest electric aircraft just flew [video] (www.youtube.com)
  49. Amazon Charged the First Price (www.bloomberg.com)
  50. Quoting Tarn Adams (simonwillison.net)
  51. Scour - August Update (emschwartz.me)
  52. Authorization terminology is a mess: Let's fix it (idpro.org)
  53. We Can't Let AI Writing Take Over the Internet (www.derekthompson.org)
  54. Nicholas Decker In Hell (www.astralcodexten.com)
  55. Picolibrary: a very small press (novalis.org)
  56. A Tetrational Self-Cleaning Turing Machine (nickdrozd.github.io)
  57. Elevator of the Year Winner Modernization of the Metropolis Trust Building (www.starelevator.com)
  58. How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? (danluu.com)
  59. Recently (macwright.com)
  60. Don’t Hedge the KPIs (www.bloomberg.com)
  61. Pasta and Sausage Meatballs (gochugarugirl.com)
  62. Published a new Digital Snippet for AV Club (palomakop.tv)
  63. 1960s theory that Stonehenge was a prehistoric computer (www.bbc.com)
  64. Open Thread 449 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  65. Host more and co-host more (liquidbrain.net)
  66. The Hallway Track No. 023: Co-Scientist, Terminal-Bench Science, AI in peer review (hallway.aris.pub)
  67. The joy of Compiler Development (theslowpath.pages.dev)
  68. ↗ Any user process can escalate to root (www.vesto.me)
  69. Understanding ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)
  70. Why I am no longer letting Claude Code add itself as Co-author in my commits (indradhanush.github.io)
  71. Bug blindness (danluu.com)
  72. Introducing Hy4 Preview (simonwillison.net)
  73. Three Sticky Notes (clarionsong.substack.com)
  74. August Life Update (seinwave.com)
  75. Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days (simonwillison.net)
  76. Your Book Review: Thomas Urquhart’s Translation Of Rabelais (www.astralcodexten.com)