News

  1. Patreon laying off 20% of staff (www.patreon.com)
  2. Em dashes are fucking amazing (psychotechnology.substack.com)
  3. My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page (hhh.hn)
  4. IRGC Claims It Destroyed Amazon's Bahrain Data Center (houseofsaud.com)
  5. Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models (bfl.ai)
  6. Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds (ziggit.dev)
  7. Hetzner is working on LLM Inference (sliplane.io)
  8. Nothing works and everyone is euphoric (ptrchm.com)
  9. It's getting harder to focus every day (glyphack.com)
  10. AMD's Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun (chipsandcheese.com)
  11. Flux 3 (bfl.ai)
  12. The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  13. Claude Cookbook (platform.claude.com)
  14. I'm running a programming contest (eieio.games)
  15. The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? (simonwillison.net)
  16. If You're Reading This I'm Free (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  17. Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models (news.ycombinator.com)
  18. Sports Happen So Much (www.bloomberg.com)
  19. Sheena Ringo in Sound & Recording (disk.horse)
  20. Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI (www.politico.com)
  21. Writing by hand is good for your brain (nealstephenson.substack.com)
  22. I regret migrating to Codeberg (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
  23. What Is Lost When We Make 'The Odyssey' Modern (www.derekthompson.org)
  24. Every exterior shot in *The Taking of Pelham 123* (iafisher.com)
  25. Simple Sudoku Solvers SII, EV: Racket/miniKanren (blog.veitheller.de)
  26. Quoting Thomas Ptacek (simonwillison.net)
  27. OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
  28. Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? (simonwillison.net)
  29. The SEC Pays a Texting Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
  30. Links For July 2026 (Part 1) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  31. Back to basics: The Hundred-Page Languages Models Book, Chapter 1 (www.maayanroth.com)
  32. Things I know about beets (lucymcphail.com)
  33. GPT 5.6 + OpenCode vs Claude + Claude Code - First Impressions (hamy.xyz)
  34. Call for lightning talks: Haskell Symposium 2026 (decomposition.al)
  35. LSE Will Trade 22.83 Hours a Day (www.bloomberg.com)
  36. Category Theory Day One (www.robbielyman.com)
  37. Blog Jamboree 2026: The Winners (www.experimental-history.com)
  38. Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac (simonwillison.net)
  39. A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team (simonwillison.net)
  40. Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness (www.astralcodexten.com)
  41. Going Ham: Zero to Amateur Extra in 31 Days (flaviuspopan.com)
  42. Bytecode-to-Source Mapping (tidefield.dev)
  43. No central server, only BitTorrent (www.scannedinavian.com)
  44. Why I Write (bugwhisperer.dev)
  45. Avoid the trap of magical thinking (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  46. Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API) (words.filippo.io)
  47. Some more things about Django I've been enjoying (jvns.ca)
  48. Reverse-engineering is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
  49. Ice Cream Hedging (www.bloomberg.com)
  50. Project Monopoly: King’s Cross Station (gochugarugirl.com)
  51. Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? (simonwillison.net)
  52. How Moats are Built (commoncog.com)
  53. I loved my AI assistant. My friends did not. (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  54. <a href="/blog/thewildlifetrusts/challenges-abound-new-prime-minister-nature-has-solutions" hreflang="en">Challenges abound for the new Prime Minister – but nature has the solutions</a> (www.wildlondon.org.uk)
  55. Open Thread 443 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  56. The Hallway Track No. 017: Science EIC contra AI hype, data poisoning of research agents, Vancouver Standard for AI disclosure (hallway.aris.pub)
  57. This is the golden age of video games (approximateknowledge.net)
  58. Quoting Sam Altman (simonwillison.net)
  59. India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch (arstechnica.com)
  60. The road to epsilon-zero: Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals (blog.plover.com)
  61. Looking for work (tonsky.me)
  62. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making (simonwillison.net)
  63. [New Game] Those Who Wear Red (k-monk.org)
  64. The road to epsilon-zero: ordinals as nim-heaps (blog.plover.com)
  65. Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP (brooker.co.za)
  66. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 3 (Gardens) (gochugarugirl.com)
  67. Claude make Fable 5 permanent (simonwillison.net)
  68. 202607-social-media-algorithms-accumulated-aesthetic-artifacts (henderson.lol)
  69. Great Chicken Parmesan (www.alisoneroman.com)
  70. For Everyone Cooking on Vacation (www.alisoneroman.com)
  71. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 2 (Historic Houses) (gochugarugirl.com)
  72. Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures (www.astralcodexten.com)