News

  1. Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents (www.wired.com)
  2. Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections (arstechnica.com)
  3. Not Your Keys, Not Your DAT (www.bloomberg.com)
  4. Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons? (nullpt.rs)
  5. MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch (www.apple.com)
  6. Gemini 4 Carbon (blog.google)
  7. GitHub Octoverse 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  8. Meta censored the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide campaign (paulfwalsh.substack.com)
  9. Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments (surgehq.ai)
  10. Fake it ‘til you make it (and then keep faking it) (www.experimental-history.com)
  11. Archive.today links going forward (www.reddit.com)
  12. My California Ballot, 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  13. Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: open ASR for 40 languages (huggingface.co)
  14. CNC Stone Carving (carmelitegothic.com)
  15. AlpineBSD (wiki.alpinebsd.org)
  16. The Agent SDK (cursor.com)
  17. The October inflection point for vibe game development (simonwillison.net)
  18. Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI (religionnews.com)
  19. Emacs Turns 50 (www.technologyreview.com)
  20. Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates (emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com)
  21. Quoting Terk Terkowitz (simonwillison.net)
  22. You Already Don't Understand Your Code (george.mand.is)
  23. Announcing rainy city publishing (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  24. Building a Fullstack Rust Web App Boilerplate for Coding Agents (hamy.xyz)
  25. Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge (simonwillison.net)
  26. Musk’s Mars Merger Pay (www.bloomberg.com)
  27. Website update (mrcoles.com)
  28. What Is 'You Can See Everything' Really About? (www.derekthompson.org)
  29. Spaces of constant curvature (www.robbielyman.com)
  30. GPT-6.1 Terra (simonwillison.net)
  31. Open Thread 457 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  32. Quoting Jason Koebler (simonwillison.net)
  33. Anthropic Raises Concerns (www.bloomberg.com)
  34. Spiced Pumpkin Cake (gochugarugirl.com)
  35. The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand (www.circuithub.com)
  36. ↗ Avoid negativity echo chambers (www.vesto.me)
  37. My First Mountain Bike Ride - A Beginner Perspective (bradleydettmer.me)
  38. The Hallway Track No. 031: Simons Foundation AI math initiative, authorship disclosure norms, EditorCheck peer review audit (hallway.aris.pub)
  39. weeknotes #69 (olu.online)
  40. Our Response To The eMudhra Key Disclosure Incident (go.dev)
  41. Constellation (vishnubharathi.codes)
  42. Perspicacity (vishnubharathi.codes)
  43. What does a newborn career look like? (approximateknowledge.net)
  44. An Autumn Apple and Hazelnut Cake (gochugarugirl.com)
  45. Decompiling Fast Food Tycoon 2: Drawing the World (healeycodes.com)
  46. oblique strategies for managing complex trauma (clarionsong.substack.com)
  47. 2026 NYC General Election: Judicial Candidates (harihareswara.net)
  48. “We should be more ambitious with the software we build” (danluu.com)
  49. Your Book Review: The Ghost In My Brain (www.astralcodexten.com)
  50. the price of community is not inconvenience (olu.online)
  51. 2026 NYC Election Ballot Proposals: What I Think And Why (harihareswara.net)
  52. Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro (simonwillison.net)
  53. Gaussian Splats part 3: There's always a bigger scene (www.magnopus.com)
  54. Start Doing Graph Theory (vertex.degree)
  55. The AI Story Wall Street Doesn’t Want to Hear (www.derekthompson.org)
  56. What’s the value of measuring ARR? (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  57. Indian government sites are serving revoked eMudhra certificates (captnemo.in)
  58. Animations for System Builders: Metastability and Lost Writes (brooker.co.za)
  59. San Francisco Meetup This Saturday (www.astralcodexten.com)
  60. DE STAAT - FREEDOM (Official Music Video) (simonwillison.net)
  61. Zuckerberg Wants to Keep His Votes (www.bloomberg.com)
  62. Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation (simonwillison.net)
  63. pgrust v0.4-beta: Gravity, Columnar Indexes, Automatic Memory, and Developing in the Open (malisper.me)
  64. Important Tomato Sauce News! (www.alisoneroman.com)
  65. Quoting Armin Ronacher (simonwillison.net)
  66. #34: Bitter Lessoned in Automated Theorem Proving (essays.johnloeber.com)
  67. A Tiny AI Model in Your Browser (bradleydettmer.me)
  68. Successful Software Rewrites With AI (debamitro.github.io)
  69. Deserializing quirky JSON in Rust (orgnizedmess.net)
  70. Metacarp Makes Some Noise (blog.veitheller.de)