News

  1. Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI (blog.google)
  2. DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update (api-docs.deepseek.com)
  3. Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like? (marbleos.com)
  4. JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master (github.com)
  5. do more random elective medical stuff (adagrad.substack.com)
  6. there is a poker-shaped hole in your heart (adagrad.substack.com)
  7. The session you cannot take with you (earendil.com)
  8. Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (simonwillison.net)
  9. The Religion of Speed (graybeard.ing)
  10. Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (simonwillison.net)
  11. The AI Aesthetic (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
  12. I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals (geospatialml.com)
  13. Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free (rune.build)
  14. Saber-toothed cats became inbred–and struggled to move–before they went extinct (www.science.org)
  15. Links For July 2026 (Part 2) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  16. I have something to say about grilled meat (www.alisoneroman.com)
  17. Grilled Tomatillo Salsa (www.alisoneroman.com)
  18. Charred Broccoli Salad with Garlic and Basil (www.alisoneroman.com)
  19. UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions (www.uefa.com)
  20. Quoting Bruce Schneier (simonwillison.net)
  21. Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it (www.ctgt.ai)
  22. Topologies, Groups, Graphs (www.robbielyman.com)
  23. The Situation Deteriorated (www.bloomberg.com)
  24. CodePen 2.0 (chriscoyier.net)
  25. Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick (krebsonsecurity.com)
  26. Thursday Night Dinner (gochugarugirl.com)
  27. Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub (github.blog)
  28. Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up (www.quantamagazine.org)
  29. Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots (deepmind.google)
  30. The Economic Benefit of Refactoring (martinfowler.com)
  31. The lost civic life of movie rental stores (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
  32. Highlights From The Discourse On The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  33. Hidden Open Thread 444.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  34. this edge of the earth (toground.link)
  35. AI Worming through Word (simonwillison.net)
  36. Quoting Matthew Green (simonwillison.net)
  37. Announcing PCBEval (blog.greg.technology)
  38. SpaceX Crash Insurance (www.bloomberg.com)
  39. Everyone's Tables Suck (404wolf.com)
  40. The Next Miracle Drug Might Already Be in Your Medicine Cabinet (www.derekthompson.org)
  41. Eventual Consistency (thornberry.io)
  42. Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT (simonwillison.net)
  43. How Much OpenCode + GPT 5.6 Usage Do You Get With OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro Subscription? (hamy.xyz)
  44. Lorenz and Little: How Much Does Your Tail Cost? (brooker.co.za)
  45. Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude (simonwillison.net)
  46. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident (simonwillison.net)
  47. Project Monopoly: Euston Road (gochugarugirl.com)
  48. Elevators Won’t Repair Themselves (www.bloomberg.com)
  49. RE: knitting the web: we need interlinkers (olu.online)
  50. Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine (www.astralcodexten.com)
  51. State of multi-player Wayland (blinry.org)
  52. The inliner is yielding benefits for ZJIT (bernsteinbear.com)
  53. If AI Writes All the Code, What Do the Programmers Do? (probablydance.com)
  54. moonshotai/Kimi-K3 (simonwillison.net)
  55. An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff (simonwillison.net)
  56. A Merger Closing Mystery (www.bloomberg.com)
  57. Project Monopoly: The Angel Islington (gochugarugirl.com)
  58. What Does It Look Like When You Handle Disruption Well? (commoncog.com)
  59. “Steph Curry: fluke or breakthrough” ten years later (blog.plover.com)
  60. Blog Newsletter Restored (punchagan.muse-amuse.in)
  61. Open Thread 444 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  62. Tactical Decision Game with John Schmitt (commoncog.com)
  63. The Hallway Track No. 018: Genesis Mission $5B, Challengescape problem directory, team science vs. solo AI agents (hallway.aris.pub)
  64. Mid-Training and the Middle-End (blog.veitheller.de)
  65. An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud (simonwillison.net)
  66. Doing Okay-ish with AI at the AI-proof competition (blog.greg.technology)
  67. weeknotes #62 (olu.online)
  68. Invention 2 by J. S. Bach (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  69. Production ML-DSA Verification in 350 Lines of Python (words.filippo.io)
  70. It gets better: A letter to my younger self (bugwhisperer.dev)
  71. Porting Super Hexagon to the Playdate (captnemo.in)
  72. Some vegan recipes (kevingal.com)
  73. Welcome to the Classroom of Meritocratic Supremacy (read.alonzo.zip)
  74. The road to epsilon-zero: Infinite Nim as a coin-moving game (blog.plover.com)
  75. Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds (hannahilea.com)
  76. Quoting Boris Cherny (simonwillison.net)
  77. Introducing Claude Opus 5 (simonwillison.net)
  78. Your Book Review: Breakdown In Pakistan (www.astralcodexten.com)
  79. GCC steering committee announces AI policy (lwn.net)