News

  1. Banana, Walnut and Cardamom Bundt (gochugarugirl.com)
  2. Classified Estimates Show the NSA Is Paying Billions to Test AI Models (www.washingtonsun.com)
  3. Factorio that you can touch (factorio.com)
  4. Allow Carriers on Planes (www.jefftk.com)
  5. First Principles Thinking (sunilsadasivan.com)
  6. The Test (tante.cc)
  7. Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git (github.com)
  8. Ink and Switch Interactive Homepage (www.inkandswitch.com)
  9. Boards of Casio (www.ambionix.com)
  10. Special Projects (2016) (openai.com)
  11. Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS (www.dawo.community)
  12. Amiga Screens: A Primer (www.datagubbe.se)
  13. Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini (nyaa.sh)
  14. CVE-2025-13032: Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2 (www.safateam.com)
  15. Fall Meetups 2026 - Call For Meetup Organizers (www.astralcodexten.com)
  16. The road to epsilon-zero: “Shortlex” isn't actually a single order (blog.plover.com)
  17. Note on 24th September 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  18. clml, a rust string coloring library (etc.octavore.com)
  19. The Specter Of Neuralese (www.astralcodexten.com)
  20. Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos (launchvideo.io)
  21. Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters (resobscura.substack.com)
  22. Morgan Stanley Leaked Some Deals (www.bloomberg.com)
  23. Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design (github.com)
  24. Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative? (dynomight.substack.com)
  25. F-Droid 2.0 (f-droid.org)
  26. Homemade bagels (merveilles.town)
  27. Two-tier encryption in the UK (macanorak.com)
  28. How China Thinks About AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  29. Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later (www.astralcodexten.com)
  30. Rapid Learning Skill for Code (niccrane.com)
  31. Out Now: Low-tech Magazine Volume IV (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
  32. Platform-independent SIMD in Go (go.dev)
  33. Kalshi Levers the Predictions (www.bloomberg.com)
  34. Building a homelab (wrla.ch)
  35. Noting another house repair chore victory (blog.plover.com)
  36. Delegation and trust (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  37. Hidden Open Thread 452.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  38. The Mundanity of Excellence, Small Wins, and Why You Should Fix Bugs Before Writing New Features (probablydance.com)
  39. SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering (simonwillison.net)
  40. Mysteries Of AI Generalization (www.astralcodexten.com)
  41. Work diary victory (blog.plover.com)
  42. Building a Multiplayer Game of Life with Rust + Datastar (hamy.xyz)
  43. Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war (simonwillison.net)
  44. Who Cares If a Merger Is Fair? (www.bloomberg.com)
  45. Quoting @therealcornpop (simonwillison.net)
  46. Simplicio, Ten Years Later (adagrad.substack.com)
  47. Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models (simonwillison.net)
  48. Open Thread 452 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  49. Solitaire Alone Together (eieio.games)
  50. The Hallway Track No. 026: AI use in science study, astronomy disclosure gap, Paper2Agent, SAIR initiative (hallway.aris.pub)
  51. A First Futamura Projection (blog.veitheller.de)
  52. Tuna and Butterbean Salad (gochugarugirl.com)
  53. weeknotes #66 (olu.online)
  54. Quoting voxium (simonwillison.net)
  55. Reading Log #6 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  56. 0061: i'm not a cat, artificial adventures, synthetic sagas, anthropic, sponsors (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  57. Synthetic sagas (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  58. Artsy Math: Squaring Square Patterns (www.fractalkitty.com)
  59. Processing Community Day NYC 2026 • MIDI Workshop Preview (george.mand.is)
  60. Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI (simonwillison.net)
  61. Your Book Review: This Is Going To Hurt (www.astralcodexten.com)
  62. “Shoppy Shop” Thoughts (www.alisoneroman.com)
  63. Note on 18th September 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  64. Quoting Thariq Shihipar (simonwillison.net)