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1. Roasted Tomato and Anchovy Bucatini (www.alisoneroman.com)
2. Whole-Wheat Pasta with Brown-Buttered Mushrooms, Buckwheat, and Egg Yolk (www.alisoneroman.com)
3. Clam Pasta with Chorizo and Walnuts (www.alisoneroman.com)
4. Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra) (simonwillison.net)
5. Sour Cream Flatbread (www.alisoneroman.com)
6. App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours (daringfireball.net)
7. Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it (ancientlibrary.net)
8. Spelt with Crispy Sausage, Flowering Broccoli, and Green Garlic (www.alisoneroman.com)
9. Buttered Zucchini Omelette (www.alisoneroman.com)
10. Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70% (www.databricks.com)
11. Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com)
12. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)
13. Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (app.dealroom.co)
14. Split Pea Salad (www.alisoneroman.com)
15. I'm Building an Official Shopify Theme! (brianagude.substack.com)
16. Crispy Chickpeas and Lamb with Greens and Garlicky Yogurt (www.alisoneroman.com)
17. Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities (openai.com)
18. The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI (simonwillison.net)
19. An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes (www.sdss.org)
20. Cooking for One (www.alisoneroman.com)
21. A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website (patronview.com)
22. Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice (www.sciencealert.com)
23. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (www.noemamag.com)
24. Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language (github.com)
25. Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
26. Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (textlog.cc)
27. Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (blog.cloudflare.com)
28. The 9 Questions I’m Obsessed With Right Now: AI, Politics, Movies, Drugs, and Western Civilization (www.derekthompson.org)
29. 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out (www.ign.com)
30. MacGregor The Bridge Builder (www.astralcodexten.com)
31. A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs (bernsteinbear.com)
32. New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health (www.theguardian.com)
33. AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (www.theregister.com)
34. things to say to someone who says they're vegan (lake.computer)
35. Fake SpaceX Stock Isn’t Worth as Much (www.bloomberg.com)
36. Eggs and Kale Fried in Chicken Fat (www.alisoneroman.com)
37. Smashed Cucumbers and Scallions over Garlicky Yogurt (www.alisoneroman.com)
38. Counter or gauge? (cceckman.com)
39. Fennel and Grapefruit Salad with Honey and Mint (www.alisoneroman.com)
40. Blood Oranges with Crunchy Red Onion and Avocado (www.alisoneroman.com)
41. Open Questions On Open Weights (www.astralcodexten.com)
42. Art Prompts: Hailstone Arabesques (www.fractalkitty.com)
43. Hidden Open Thread 445.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
44. An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing (simonwillison.net)
45. Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (simonwillison.net)
46. Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models (simonwillison.net)
47. Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing (simonwillison.net)
48. Watermelon and Cucumbers with Spicy Sumac Salt (www.alisoneroman.com)
49. Persimmons and Pears with Blue Cheese and Spicy Pecans (www.alisoneroman.com)
50. The road to epsilon-zero: Coin-moving games with no coins (blog.plover.com)
51. Notes from the AI Coding Transition (emschwartz.me)
52. One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5 (simonwillison.net)
53. SpaceX Unlocks Tomorrow (www.bloomberg.com)
54. Incentives are for losers (www.experimental-history.com)
55. Text editor architecture from ed to jupyterlab (tyoverby.com)
56. How Much Faster is Coding with AI Agents? (from a Senior Software Engineer) (hamy.xyz)
57. New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging (simonwillison.net)
58. The Beauty Of Settled Science (www.astralcodexten.com)
59. Project Monopoly: Three Purples and Marylebone Station (gochugarugirl.com)
60. PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx (simonwillison.net)
61. My Impressions of Loop Engineering (debamitro.github.io)
62. Leveraged ETF Crash Hedging ETF (www.bloomberg.com)
63. Quoting Steve Yegge (simonwillison.net)
64. A More Immediate Intuitive Appeal (blog.veitheller.de)
65. Don't be a meat proxy (simonwillison.net)
66. Does Forecasting Have Room At The Top? (www.astralcodexten.com)
67. Learning to fly FPV drones with AI flight coach (blog.divyendusingh.com)
68. Writing my own sequencer for the Yocto drum machine (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
69. Hedgehog Hedge Fund (www.bloomberg.com)
70. Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer (blog.stackdump.com)
71. Death by side quests (jesusgollonet.com)
72. Open Thread 445 (www.astralcodexten.com)
73. Quoting David Crawshaw's prompt (simonwillison.net)
74. Devtools must be open source (exe.dev) (simonwillison.net)
75. Monday Cleaning Day (gochugarugirl.com)
76. Subway arrival times in my living room with Raspberry Pi (iafisher.com)
77. The Hallway Track No. 019: AlphaFold team disbanded, verification as the bottleneck, Tao's ICM caution (hallway.aris.pub)
78. Seven books I keep close because I love them (blog.plover.com)
79. Who's afraid of a non sofic group (www.robbielyman.com)
80. Project Monopoly: Pentonville Road (gochugarugirl.com)
81. weeknotes #63 (olu.online)
82. Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI (2024) (ykiko.me)
83. Open letters about AI development (simonwillison.net)
84. Adding Go's defer to the TypeScript Compiler (healeycodes.com)
85. Getting a Working SICP environment in Emacs in 2026 (www.blog.jamesgisele.com)
86. Reading Log #1 (vishnubharathi.codes)
87. Quoting Greg Brockman (simonwillison.net)
88. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (simonwillison.net)
89. Pendants (figbert.com)
90. My NixOS dev machine (miccah.io)
91. July Life Update (seinwave.com)
92. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (simonwillison.net)
93. Your Book Review: The Epic Of Gilgamesh (www.astralcodexten.com)
94. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp) (simonwillison.net)
95. About Interactives: Inquiries.link (www.fractalkitty.com)