News

  1. BIG NEWS! Plus, how to work with others when you work alone (vrklovespaper.substack.com)
  2. Just a little AI resistance, as a treat (shkspr.mobi)
  3. Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack (dfarq.homeip.net)
  4. The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading (honnibal.dev)
  5. Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996? (nicholas.carlini.com)
  6. Nvidia – open-source auto-ontology (github.com)
  7. A Second Futamura Projection (blog.veitheller.de)
  8. Nov 02: Fifteen Minutes Before Work (tinylogger.com)
  9. Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News (hackertimes.ca)
  10. DiscImageStudio: burn visible artwork onto CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs (github.com)
  11. llm 0.37 (simonwillison.net)
  12. find more color in the slough (toground.link)
  13. In 5 days, Reclaim your Power (kolamcreativecollective.com)
  14. maybe (olu.online)
  15. Binance Got Some Money Back (www.bloomberg.com)
  16. Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen (rikiyat.github.io)
  17. Nyquist Limit - the frequency of changes in tech is invalidating our understanding (www.ryanprior.com)
  18. You Can Read Everything (miguelconner.substack.com)
  19. Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand (arstechnica.com)
  20. The U.S. Census Bureau and “Super Intelligence” (simonwillison.net)
  21. Why I Don't Use AI for Games (sarah.engineer)
  22. A Food Trail From Bermondsey to Borough (gochugarugirl.com)
  23. European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative (erici.eu)
  24. Open Thread 458 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  25. 43 Days at Recurse Center (blog.log101.dev)
  26. Externationalization (blog.log101.dev)
  27. The Hallway Track No. 032: Distributed agents on Perturb-seq, LLMs as peer reviewers, agent platforms for science (hallway.aris.pub)
  28. Nov 01: Year Four (tinylogger.com)
  29. Katamari Damacy but it's The Met collection (katamari.vaguespac.es)
  30. Test and verification technique effectiveness with GPT-6 Astra (danluu.com)
  31. weeknotes #70 (olu.online)
  32. Replacing the battery on a 2013 MacBook Pro (ninad.pundaliks.in)
  33. Quoting Kyle Kingsbury (simonwillison.net)
  34. Life with Down Syndrome (www.esquire.com)
  35. Resisting Cognitive Surrender (knlb.dev)
  36. some subtle mental adjustments (clarionsong.substack.com)
  37. Garbagely incompetent (blog.greg.technology)
  38. GoodReads removed their RSS feeds :( (aaronstrick.com)
  39. Resisting Cognitive Surrender (knlb.dev)
  40. Toit v2.0.0 (toit.io)
  41. Cycling Vermont (macwright.com)
  42. Portable chargers are a good default gift idea (liquidbrain.net)
  43. cyberwitchery (blog.veitheller.de)
  44. Build Standalone Lua Applications with Zig and fnlpack (www.ryanprior.com)
  45. dbreunig/nesformer (simonwillison.net)
  46. Anthropic's IPO: Can unprecedented revenue growth outrun 'irresponsibly large' investment? (leonlins.com)
  47. Your Book Review: The History And Adventures Of An Atom (www.astralcodexten.com)
  48. Big Changes (writing.natwelch.com)
  49. parsing the final fantasy 1 NES world map (part 1) (djan.org)
  50. API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions (simonwillison.net)
  51. Programming at Light Speed: Building the Gravity Query Engine (malisper.me)
  52. Run on the Law Firm (www.bloomberg.com)
  53. Building a multiplayer game world with autonomous Fable-class models (simonwillison.net)
  54. Links For October 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  55. Adding swing to my Yocto sequencer (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  56. Breakout (cceckman.com)
  57. Quoting Ben Hylak (simonwillison.net)
  58. sleep; eating babies; many short story recs (todaythings.substack.com)
  59. The Better Technology (podviaznikov.com)
  60. Ever Failed (blog.veitheller.de)
  61. Quoting Ted Sanders (simonwillison.net)
  62. Where did internet directories go? (mohamedmohey.com)
  63. GPUs aren’t infrastructure; they’re fuel (minhanhday.substack.com)
  64. Not Your Keys, Not Your DAT (www.bloomberg.com)
  65. GitHub Octoverse 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  66. Fake it ‘til you make it (and then keep faking it) (www.experimental-history.com)
  67. My California Ballot, 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  68. The October inflection point for vibe game development (simonwillison.net)
  69. Can you read every book? (mohamedmohey.com)
  70. Quoting Terk Terkowitz (simonwillison.net)
  71. You Already Don't Understand Your Code (george.mand.is)
  72. Announcing rainy city publishing (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  73. Building a Fullstack Rust Web App Boilerplate for Coding Agents (hamy.xyz)
  74. Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge (simonwillison.net)
  75. Musk’s Mars Merger Pay (www.bloomberg.com)
  76. Website update (mrcoles.com)