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  1. How the words we teach English language learners changed (pudding.cool)
  2. weeknotes #63 (olu.online)
  3. A Rant About “Technology” (2005) (www.ursulakleguin.com)
  4. Twenty Years of RISC OS Open (www.riscosopen.org)
  5. F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language (fstar-lang.org)
  6. Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side (meshdiff.com)
  7. Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language (fuselang.org)
  8. Rust All Hands 2026 Retrospective (blog.rust-lang.org)
  9. Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge (publicdomainreview.org)
  10. Show HN: Syncular – offline-first SQL sync with TypeScript and Rust cores (github.com)
  11. Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops (getbor.dev)
  12. Open letters about AI development (simonwillison.net)
  13. Karpathy’s Pelican (twitter.com)
  14. MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150 (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
  15. Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built (github.com)
  16. Go 1.27 Interactive Tour (victoriametrics.com)
  17. Reading Log #1 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  18. Quoting Greg Brockman (simonwillison.net)
  19. Seedance 2.5 (seed.bytedance.com)
  20. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (simonwillison.net)
  21. Diátaxis (diataxis.fr)
  22. Pendants (figbert.com)
  23. My NixOS dev machine (miccah.io)
  24. July Life Update (seinwave.com)
  25. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (simonwillison.net)
  26. Your Book Review: The Epic Of Gilgamesh (www.astralcodexten.com)
  27. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp) (simonwillison.net)
  28. About Interactives: Inquiries.link (www.fractalkitty.com)
  29. Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation) (andrewkelley.me)
  30. Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison (simonwillison.net)
  31. smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses (simonwillison.net)
  32. Friday Baking Day (gochugarugirl.com)
  33. help wanted (lake.computer)
  34. links #8: how you know it's good (etc.octavore.com)
  35. RE: “The robots work at night”: How AI helps the world’s poorest, and where it falls short (olu.online)
  36. The End of my Suno Era (read.alonzo.zip)
  37. The Four Horsemen of the AI Bubble Apocalypse (www.derekthompson.org)
  38. do more random elective medical stuff (adagrad.substack.com)
  39. there is a poker-shaped hole in your heart (adagrad.substack.com)
  40. In Which I Lose My Mind Over Embeddings (HPLM Chapter 2) (www.maayanroth.com)
  41. Writing dumber (liquidbrain.net)
  42. Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (simonwillison.net)
  43. Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (simonwillison.net)
  44. Holocloth (holocloth.vercel.app)
  45. Links For July 2026 (Part 2) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  46. I have something to say about grilled meat (www.alisoneroman.com)
  47. Grilled Tomatillo Salsa (www.alisoneroman.com)
  48. Charred Broccoli Salad with Garlic and Basil (www.alisoneroman.com)
  49. Quoting Bruce Schneier (simonwillison.net)
  50. Topologies, Groups, Graphs (www.robbielyman.com)
  51. The Situation Deteriorated (www.bloomberg.com)
  52. Thursday Night Dinner (gochugarugirl.com)
  53. Elena, a library for building Progressive Web Components (elenajs.com)
  54. Highlights From The Discourse On The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  55. Hidden Open Thread 444.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  56. this edge of the earth (toground.link)
  57. AI Worming through Word (simonwillison.net)
  58. Quoting Matthew Green (simonwillison.net)
  59. Announcing PCBEval (blog.greg.technology)
  60. SpaceX Crash Insurance (www.bloomberg.com)
  61. Everyone's Tables Suck (404wolf.com)
  62. The Next Miracle Drug Might Already Be in Your Medicine Cabinet (www.derekthompson.org)
  63. Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2 (16-bits.org)
  64. Folding Paper Globes (foldingglobes.com)
  65. Eventual Consistency (thornberry.io)
  66. Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT (simonwillison.net)
  67. How Much OpenCode + GPT 5.6 Usage Do You Get With OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro Subscription? (hamy.xyz)
  68. Lorenz and Little: How Much Does Your Tail Cost? (brooker.co.za)
  69. Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude (simonwillison.net)
  70. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident (simonwillison.net)
  71. Project Monopoly: Euston Road (gochugarugirl.com)
  72. Elevators Won’t Repair Themselves (www.bloomberg.com)
  73. RE: knitting the web: we need interlinkers (olu.online)
  74. Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine (www.astralcodexten.com)
  75. State of multi-player Wayland (blinry.org)
  76. The inliner is yielding benefits for ZJIT (bernsteinbear.com)
  77. If AI Writes All the Code, What Do the Programmers Do? (probablydance.com)
  78. moonshotai/Kimi-K3 (simonwillison.net)
  79. An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff (simonwillison.net)
  80. A Merger Closing Mystery (www.bloomberg.com)
  81. Project Monopoly: The Angel Islington (gochugarugirl.com)
  82. What Does It Look Like When You Handle Disruption Well? (commoncog.com)
  83. “Steph Curry: fluke or breakthrough” ten years later (blog.plover.com)
  84. Blog Newsletter Restored (punchagan.muse-amuse.in)
  85. Open Thread 444 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  86. Tactical Decision Game with John Schmitt (commoncog.com)
  87. The Hallway Track No. 018: Genesis Mission $5B, Challengescape problem directory, team science vs. solo AI agents (hallway.aris.pub)
  88. Mid-Training and the Middle-End (blog.veitheller.de)
  89. An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud (simonwillison.net)
  90. Doing Okay-ish with AI at the AI-proof competition (blog.greg.technology)