News

  1. Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude (simonwillison.net)
  2. Underwater oxygen loss threatens earth's stability, researchers warn (scripps.ucsd.edu)
  3. Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript (github.com)
  4. Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Max (github.com)
  5. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident (simonwillison.net)
  6. Project Monopoly: Euston Road (gochugarugirl.com)
  7. Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9 (mac-classic.com)
  8. Codex Security (github.com)
  9. Pacing the frontier (www.pacingthefrontier.com)
  10. MCP 2026-07-28 Specification: transport going stateless (blog.modelcontextprotocol.io)
  11. Elevators Won’t Repair Themselves (www.bloomberg.com)
  12. RE: knitting the web: we need interlinkers (olu.online)
  13. The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade (www.apple.com)
  14. Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude (www.anthropic.com)
  15. WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C's journey of fonts on the web (www.w3.org)
  16. Substack writers, you need a website (elizabethtai.com)
  17. How Do I Profile eBPF Code? (naveensrinivasan.com)
  18. Show HN: XY – A Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated interactive plotting library (github.com)
  19. Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes (sebastianraschka.com)
  20. Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals (mlugg.co.uk)
  21. Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012) (arxiv.org)
  22. Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong? (anthropeum.com)
  23. Now is the time to give LLMs access to the ACM digital library (cacm.acm.org)
  24. Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine (www.astralcodexten.com)
  25. State of multi-player Wayland (blinry.org)
  26. The inliner is yielding benefits for ZJIT (bernsteinbear.com)
  27. If AI Writes All the Code, What Do the Programmers Do? (probablydance.com)
  28. moonshotai/Kimi-K3 (simonwillison.net)
  29. An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff (simonwillison.net)
  30. A Merger Closing Mystery (www.bloomberg.com)
  31. Project Monopoly: The Angel Islington (gochugarugirl.com)
  32. What Does It Look Like When You Handle Disruption Well? (commoncog.com)
  33. “Steph Curry: fluke or breakthrough” ten years later (blog.plover.com)
  34. Blog Newsletter Restored (punchagan.muse-amuse.in)
  35. Open Thread 444 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  36. Tactical Decision Game with John Schmitt (commoncog.com)
  37. The Hallway Track No. 018: Genesis Mission $5B, Challengescape problem directory, team science vs. solo AI agents (hallway.aris.pub)
  38. Mid-Training and the Middle-End (blog.veitheller.de)
  39. An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud (simonwillison.net)
  40. Doing Okay-ish with AI at the AI-proof competition (blog.greg.technology)
  41. weeknotes #62 (olu.online)
  42. Invention 2 by J. S. Bach (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  43. Production ML-DSA Verification in 350 Lines of Python (words.filippo.io)
  44. It gets better: A letter to my younger self (bugwhisperer.dev)
  45. Porting Super Hexagon to the Playdate (captnemo.in)
  46. Some vegan recipes (kevingal.com)
  47. Welcome to the Classroom of Meritocratic Supremacy (read.alonzo.zip)
  48. Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds (hannahilea.com)
  49. Quoting Boris Cherny (simonwillison.net)
  50. Introducing Claude Opus 5 (simonwillison.net)
  51. Your Book Review: Breakdown In Pakistan (www.astralcodexten.com)
  52. The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  53. Cranban is a tool for collaborating with robots (patrickweaver.net)
  54. Cranban is kanban for humans collaborating with robots (patrickweaver.net)
  55. I'm running a programming contest (eieio.games)
  56. The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? (simonwillison.net)
  57. If You're Reading This I'm Free (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  58. Sports Happen So Much (www.bloomberg.com)
  59. Sheena Ringo in Sound & Recording (disk.horse)
  60. What Is Lost When We Make 'The Odyssey' Modern (www.derekthompson.org)
  61. Every exterior shot in *The Taking of Pelham 123* (iafisher.com)
  62. Exercises in benchmarking and evals, part 7: DeepSWE, Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires (danluu.com)
  63. Simple Sudoku Solvers SII, EV: Racket/miniKanren (blog.veitheller.de)
  64. Quoting Thomas Ptacek (simonwillison.net)
  65. OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
  66. Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? (simonwillison.net)
  67. The SEC Pays a Texting Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
  68. Links For July 2026 (Part 1) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  69. Back to basics: The Hundred-Page Languages Models Book, Chapter 1 (www.maayanroth.com)
  70. Things I know about beets (lucymcphail.com)
  71. GPT 5.6 + OpenCode vs Claude + Claude Code - First Impressions (hamy.xyz)