News

  1. Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser (treylorswift.github.io)
  2. “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically (mathstodon.xyz)
  3. Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM (github.com)
  4. Once the Cheat Code Is There (blog.veitheller.de)
  5. Margaret Hamilton has died (news.mit.edu)
  6. Top Forecasters On The Plague (www.astralcodexten.com)
  7. Hidden Open Thread 454.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  8. Claude Haiku 5.5 (simonwillison.net)
  9. 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth (www.404media.co)
  10. The Mathocalypse (scottaaronson.blog)
  11. Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits (debasishg.github.io)
  12. ESG Gets More Illegal (www.bloomberg.com)
  13. Claude Haiku 5.5 (www.anthropic.com)
  14. GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone (openai.com)
  15. In Vienna and Beijing, the first (thorium) nuclear clocks begin to tick (www.nytimes.com)
  16. Docker Agent (github.com)
  17. Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app (bigwords.page)
  18. Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation (arxiv.org)
  19. Why were Victorian elites so effective? (worksinprogress.co)
  20. Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages (ascii.rest)
  21. Anti-patterns in software blogging (refactoringenglish.com)
  22. House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k (www.readingchronicle.co.uk)
  23. Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome (developer.chrome.com)
  24. Quoting Jake Boggan (simonwillison.net)
  25. Announcing the Centre for Cryptographic Trust Infrastructure (CCTI) (martin.kleppmann.com)
  26. OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects (simonwillison.net)
  27. Durable Context, Disposable Code - Building Systems with Speed and Quality in the Agentic Era (hamy.xyz)
  28. Quoting Victoria Kim (simonwillison.net)
  29. Sharing AI progress in mathematics (openai.com)
  30. An Open Letter To Steven Pinker On AI (www.astralcodexten.com)
  31. Sneaky Town Overview (V4 Edition) (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  32. EmbeddingGemma 2 (simonwillison.net)
  33. Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk (simonwillison.net)
  34. Treasury Futures Might Switch (www.bloomberg.com)
  35. Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo (blog.plover.com)
  36. Scrimshaw Jukebox (simonwillison.net)
  37. You May Now Listen to Commoncog Cases (commoncog.com)
  38. Dealing with Recessions (commoncog.com)
  39. Did live visuals for a concert in a large church (palomakop.tv)
  40. Extend Lua with Zig 1: Hello World (www.robbielyman.com)
  41. Quoting Felix Rieseberg (simonwillison.net)
  42. Charlie's Meatballs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  43. Charlie's Meatballs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  44. Mergers and Acqui-hires (www.bloomberg.com)
  45. Open Thread 454 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  46. I rode my bike from NYC to Montréal (Part 2) (missfunmi.com)
  47. The Hallway Track No. 028: arXiv rate limit, AI paper mills, Google FluSight (hallway.aris.pub)
  48. Qwen3.8 27B addition in words (simonwillison.net)
  49. 2026.Q3 Reflection (hamy.xyz)
  50. A Game Building Workshop for Kids and Parents (debamitro.github.io)
  51. Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder? (brooker.co.za)
  52. We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything (simonwillison.net)
  53. Using REAPER with ALSA, ignoring Pipewire (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  54. Recent addenda to articles 202609: Errors, omissions, and retractions (blog.plover.com)
  55. Biking the Empire State Trail - Schenectady - Albany - Hudson (bradleydettmer.me)
  56. Improving My Hardware Workflow With CI and Nix (www.scd31.com)
  57. Simple Sudoku Solvers SIII, EI: Agda (blog.veitheller.de)
  58. We’re Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  59. Mathober 2026 Art (www.fractalkitty.com)
  60. Tips for Biking the Empire State Trail (bradleydettmer.me)
  61. What is the Atmosphere: An Untech Introduction (bnb.im)
  62. Our AI Midwife (www.astralcodexten.com)
  63. Arch-specific SIMD in Go (go.dev)
  64. Opening Private Markets to the Public (www.bloomberg.com)
  65. The Kio Programming Language (jdevuyst.blogspot.com)