News

  1. Nov 03: Play It Again (tinylogger.com)
  2. Jelly Sheet (mrdoob.github.io)
  3. Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients (www.dana-farber.org)
  4. Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active (lamont.columbia.edu)
  5. C++26 Disapproved (andreasfertig.com)
  6. Just Write Rust (hamy.xyz)
  7. the cost of being online (olu.online)
  8. The Internals of PostgreSQL (www.interdb.jp)
  9. The Little Book of Generative AI Foundations: An Intuitive Mathematical Primer (arxiv.org)
  10. Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3 (webkit.org)
  11. Show HN: Kairos – Open-source risk and fraud decisioning platform (github.com)
  12. How Much Should Anthropic Pop? (www.bloomberg.com)
  13. Introduction to Programming in ATS (ats-lang.sourceforge.net)
  14. How I use AI (Oct 2026) (ben.stolovitz.com)
  15. Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data (github.com)
  16. Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot (neufangled.com)
  17. Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too (simonwillison.net)
  18. BIG NEWS! Plus, how to work with others when you work alone (vrklovespaper.substack.com)
  19. Mac at any scale (namespace.so)
  20. There is no posttraining data commons (openathena.ai)
  21. Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines (arstechnica.com)
  22. The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading (honnibal.dev)
  23. ultra-wideband pt. 1 - intuition (awill.co)
  24. Nov 02: Fifteen Minutes Before Work (tinylogger.com)
  25. Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels (hackertv.org)
  26. A Second Futamura Projection (blog.veitheller.de)
  27. llm 0.37 (simonwillison.net)
  28. find more color in the slough (toground.link)
  29. In 5 days, Reclaim your Power (kolamcreativecollective.com)
  30. maybe (olu.online)
  31. Writing seen in PHerc. 306B, for the first time in 2000 years (scrollprize.substack.com)
  32. Binance Got Some Money Back (www.bloomberg.com)
  33. Nyquist Limit - the frequency of changes in tech is invalidating our understanding (www.ryanprior.com)
  34. Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time (blog.nns.ee)
  35. You Can Read Everything (miguelconner.substack.com)
  36. Import AI 479: Spacewar; low-latency tasks versus LLMs; Genie 4 (importai.substack.com)
  37. The U.S. Census Bureau and “Super Intelligence” (simonwillison.net)
  38. Why I Don't Use AI for Games (sarah.engineer)
  39. A Food Trail From Bermondsey to Borough (gochugarugirl.com)
  40. Open Thread 458 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  41. 43 Days at Recurse Center (blog.log101.dev)
  42. Externationalization (blog.log101.dev)
  43. Test and verification technique effectiveness with GPT-6 Astra (danluu.com)
  44. The Hallway Track No. 032: Distributed agents on Perturb-seq, LLMs as peer reviewers, agent platforms for science (hallway.aris.pub)
  45. Nov 01: Year Four (tinylogger.com)
  46. weeknotes #70 (olu.online)
  47. Replacing the battery on a 2013 MacBook Pro (ninad.pundaliks.in)
  48. Quoting Kyle Kingsbury (simonwillison.net)
  49. some subtle mental adjustments (clarionsong.substack.com)
  50. Garbagely incompetent (blog.greg.technology)
  51. GoodReads removed their RSS feeds :( (aaronstrick.com)
  52. Resisting Cognitive Surrender (knlb.dev)
  53. Cycling Vermont (macwright.com)
  54. Portable chargers are a good default gift idea (liquidbrain.net)
  55. cyberwitchery (blog.veitheller.de)
  56. Build Standalone Lua Applications with Zig and fnlpack (www.ryanprior.com)
  57. dbreunig/nesformer (simonwillison.net)
  58. Anthropic's IPO: Can unprecedented revenue growth outrun 'irresponsibly large' investment? (leonlins.com)
  59. Your Book Review: The History And Adventures Of An Atom (www.astralcodexten.com)
  60. Big Changes (writing.natwelch.com)
  61. parsing the final fantasy 1 NES world map (part 1) (djan.org)
  62. API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions (simonwillison.net)
  63. Programming at Light Speed: Building the Gravity Query Engine (malisper.me)
  64. Run on the Law Firm (www.bloomberg.com)
  65. Agave 4.4 Update (helius.substack.com)
  66. Building a multiplayer game world with autonomous Fable-class models (simonwillison.net)
  67. Links For October 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  68. Adding swing to my Yocto sequencer (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  69. Breakout (cceckman.com)
  70. Quoting Ben Hylak (simonwillison.net)
  71. sleep; eating babies; many short story recs (todaythings.substack.com)
  72. The Better Technology (podviaznikov.com)
  73. Ever Failed (blog.veitheller.de)
  74. Quoting Ted Sanders (simonwillison.net)
  75. Where did internet directories go? (mohamedmohey.com)
  76. GPUs aren’t infrastructure; they’re fuel (minhanhday.substack.com)
  77. Not Your Keys, Not Your DAT (www.bloomberg.com)
  78. GitHub Octoverse 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  79. Fake it ‘til you make it (and then keep faking it) (www.experimental-history.com)
  80. My California Ballot, 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  81. The October inflection point for vibe game development (simonwillison.net)
  82. Can you read every book? (mohamedmohey.com)
  83. Quoting Terk Terkowitz (simonwillison.net)