News

  1. Reasons robotics is hard (secondthoughts.ai)
  2. Fable 5.1 World Modeling (github.com)
  3. Muse Spark 1.3 (developer.meta.com)
  4. Grilled Artichokes with Preserved Lemon Yogurt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  5. Perfect Pancakes, Perfect Waffles (www.alisoneroman.com)
  6. Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023) (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)
  7. Async Rust vs RTOS showdown (2022) (tweedegolf.nl)
  8. The ETF Dividend Flip (www.bloomberg.com)
  9. Kinda-Sweet Granola with Coconut and Turmeric (www.alisoneroman.com)
  10. Decidedly Not Sweet Granola (www.alisoneroman.com)
  11. Four-Bean Salad with Green Romesco (www.alisoneroman.com)
  12. Cold Garlicky Pasta with Capers and Salsa Verde (www.alisoneroman.com)
  13. Chicken Soup with Toasted Garlic, Mushrooms, and Celery (www.alisoneroman.com)
  14. llm-gemini 0.34 (simonwillison.net)
  15. Seared Short Ribs with Kimchi and Sesame Salt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  16. Turmeric-Roasted Lamb Shoulder and Carrots with All the Fixings (www.alisoneroman.com)
  17. Any Excuse to Make Shrimp Cocktail (www.alisoneroman.com)
  18. Smashed Eggs and Fancy Fish on Crackers (www.alisoneroman.com)
  19. Creamy Goat Cheese with Lemony Za’atar (www.alisoneroman.com)
  20. A Better Garlic Bread / Caramelized Garlic on Toast with Anchovies (www.alisoneroman.com)
  21. Spicy Red Cabbage with Sweet Onion and Lime (www.alisoneroman.com)
  22. Festive Yellow Sheet Cake (www.alisoneroman.com)
  23. Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber (blog.google)
  24. Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business (www.nytimes.com)
  25. Exit the Cave (turtlespace.blog)
  26. Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics (simonwillison.net)
  27. WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine (github.com)
  28. Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them (trellner.com)
  29. Poisson Disk Sampling (stripeacross.com)
  30. Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle (www.science.org)
  31. Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them (studyfinds.com)
  32. Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training? (help.mistral.ai)
  33. Absurd Adventure And Amygdalectomy Advocacy (www.astralcodexten.com)
  34. Quoting Rick Brewster (simonwillison.net)
  35. GTM hack: steal engagement with Claude (nmn.gl)
  36. Tracing np.add, all the way down (blog.veitheller.de)
  37. What Makes LLM Tokenization Slow? (healeycodes.com)
  38. Art Works (www.fauxtrots.com)
  39. Goroutine Leak Profiles (go.dev)
  40. Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican (simonwillison.net)
  41. Codex bundles LibreOffice (simonwillison.net)
  42. Amazon Charged the First Price (www.bloomberg.com)
  43. Quoting Tarn Adams (simonwillison.net)
  44. Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems (www.cbsnews.com)
  45. Scour - August Update (emschwartz.me)
  46. We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora (blog.cloudflare.com)
  47. Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters (wasmi-labs.github.io)
  48. We Can't Let AI Writing Take Over the Internet (www.derekthompson.org)
  49. Nicholas Decker In Hell (www.astralcodexten.com)
  50. Picolibrary: a very small press (novalis.org)
  51. A Tetrational Self-Cleaning Turing Machine (nickdrozd.github.io)
  52. Wendell Berry has died (www.nytimes.com)
  53. Recently (macwright.com)
  54. A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards (clui.org)
  55. Don’t Hedge the KPIs (www.bloomberg.com)
  56. Pasta and Sausage Meatballs (gochugarugirl.com)
  57. Published a new Digital Snippet for AV Club (palomakop.tv)
  58. Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex (werwolv.net)
  59. Open Thread 449 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  60. Host more and co-host more (liquidbrain.net)
  61. The Hallway Track No. 023: Co-Scientist, Terminal-Bench Science, AI in peer review (hallway.aris.pub)
  62. The joy of Compiler Development (theslowpath.pages.dev)
  63. ↗ Any user process can escalate to root (www.vesto.me)
  64. Understanding ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)
  65. Why I am no longer letting Claude Code add itself as Co-author in my commits (indradhanush.github.io)
  66. Introducing Hy4 Preview (simonwillison.net)
  67. Three Sticky Notes (clarionsong.substack.com)
  68. August Life Update (seinwave.com)
  69. Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days (simonwillison.net)
  70. Your Book Review: Thomas Urquhart’s Translation Of Rabelais (www.astralcodexten.com)
  71. Gatekeepers (podviaznikov.com)
  72. fuck your AI slop: 5 rules of writing cold messages that actually get sales (nmn.gl)
  73. Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode (simonwillison.net)
  74. Hidden Open Thread 448.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  75. AI Refi (www.bloomberg.com)
  76. The Hivemindians, a CAP Theorem tale (thornberry.io)
  77. Pollinator season (cceckman.com)
  78. Take The 2026 ACX Survey (www.astralcodexten.com)