News

  1. Sheena Ringo in Sound & Recording (disk.horse)
  2. Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI (www.politico.com)
  3. Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL (learnopengl.com)
  4. Writing by hand is good for your brain (nealstephenson.substack.com)
  5. Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ (haqr.eu)
  6. Astronomers may have found the first exomoon (www.eso.org)
  7. What Is Lost When We Make 'The Odyssey' Modern (www.derekthompson.org)
  8. AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt (futurism.com)
  9. Every exterior shot in *The Taking of Pelham 123* (iafisher.com)
  10. OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
  11. Simple Sudoku Solvers SII, EV: Racket/miniKanren (blog.veitheller.de)
  12. Quoting Thomas Ptacek (simonwillison.net)
  13. OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
  14. Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? (simonwillison.net)
  15. The SEC Pays a Texting Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
  16. Links For July 2026 (Part 1) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  17. Back to basics: The Hundred-Page Languages Models Book, Chapter 1 (www.maayanroth.com)
  18. Things I know about beets (lucymcphail.com)
  19. GPT 5.6 + OpenCode vs Claude + Claude Code - First Impressions (hamy.xyz)
  20. Call for lightning talks: Haskell Symposium 2026 (decomposition.al)
  21. LSE Will Trade 22.83 Hours a Day (www.bloomberg.com)
  22. Category Theory Day One (www.robbielyman.com)
  23. The Unity CLI: manage Unity from your terminal (unity.com)
  24. Blog Jamboree 2026: The Winners (www.experimental-history.com)
  25. Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac (simonwillison.net)
  26. A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team (simonwillison.net)
  27. Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness (www.astralcodexten.com)
  28. Going Ham: Zero to Amateur Extra in 31 Days (flaviuspopan.com)
  29. Bytecode-to-Source Mapping (tidefield.dev)
  30. Some more things about Django I've been enjoying (jvns.ca)
  31. Why I Write (bugwhisperer.dev)
  32. Avoid the trap of magical thinking (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  33. Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API) (words.filippo.io)
  34. Reverse-engineering is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
  35. Ice Cream Hedging (www.bloomberg.com)
  36. Project Monopoly: King’s Cross Station (gochugarugirl.com)
  37. Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? (simonwillison.net)
  38. How Moats are Built (commoncog.com)
  39. I loved my AI assistant. My friends did not. (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  40. <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)
  41. Open Thread 443 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  42. The Hallway Track No. 017: Science EIC contra AI hype, data poisoning of research agents, Vancouver Standard for AI disclosure (hallway.aris.pub)
  43. This is the golden age of video games (approximateknowledge.net)
  44. Quoting Sam Altman (simonwillison.net)
  45. The road to epsilon-zero: Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals (blog.plover.com)
  46. Looking for work (tonsky.me)
  47. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making (simonwillison.net)
  48. [New Game] Those Who Wear Red (k-monk.org)
  49. The road to epsilon-zero: ordinals as nim-heaps (blog.plover.com)
  50. Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP (brooker.co.za)
  51. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 3 (Gardens) (gochugarugirl.com)
  52. Claude make Fable 5 permanent (simonwillison.net)
  53. 202607-social-media-algorithms-accumulated-aesthetic-artifacts (henderson.lol)
  54. What I Learned From Getting Knocked Down (cranberrymuffin.io)
  55. Great Chicken Parmesan (www.alisoneroman.com)
  56. For Everyone Cooking on Vacation (www.alisoneroman.com)
  57. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 2 (Historic Houses) (gochugarugirl.com)
  58. Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures (www.astralcodexten.com)
  59. Quoting Kimi K3 (simonwillison.net)
  60. LLM cliché highlighter (simonwillison.net)
  61. Scanning for Pangram Errors (veryfineprint.substack.com)
  62. Learning a few things about running SQLite (jvns.ca)
  63. Spot birds not golf (simonwillison.net)
  64. Firefox in WebAssembly (simonwillison.net)
  65. Against "Stochastic Terrorism" (www.astralcodexten.com)
  66. Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark (simonwillison.net)
  67. Shorts Will Sell You SpaceX (www.bloomberg.com)
  68. Quoting Thibault Sottiaux (simonwillison.net)