News

  1. Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers (simonwillison.net)
  2. South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones (www.wsj.com)
  3. Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil (www.space.com)
  4. Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation (2014) (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  5. Isar Aerospace launch into orbit [video] (www.youtube.com)
  6. LLMs as a Cognitive Virus (arxiv.org)
  7. Learn Programming with OCaml (usr.lmf.cnrs.fr)
  8. Using Blender with coding agents on macOS (simonwillison.net)
  9. The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025) (devquasar.com)
  10. Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory (sofiabelen.github.io)
  11. .gitignore Everything by Default (packagemain.tech)
  12. Making hypothesis testing make sense (minireference.com)
  13. A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads (buttondown.com)
  14. Terpstra Keyboard (terpstrakeyboard.com)
  15. Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns (codeberg.org)
  16. The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting (simonwillison.net)
  17. Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions (nvd.nist.gov)
  18. Statichost.eu – European static site hosting (www.statichost.eu)
  19. The LLM Architecture Problem (riskmusings.substack.com)
  20. Can AI design circuit boards yet? (eebench.org)
  21. Your Book Review: The Tale Of Genji (www.astralcodexten.com)
  22. OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis (simonwillison.net)
  23. Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board (collusion.wiki)
  24. Infinite Lives, 1986: Arkanoid (approximateknowledge.net)
  25. Support Local Variables (bernsteinbear.com)
  26. GPT‑6 Astra (simonwillison.net)
  27. The Clippers Got Some Consulting (www.bloomberg.com)
  28. Balrogg: Demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor (github.com)
  29. College EA Meetups Everywhere: Times & Places (www.astralcodexten.com)
  30. AI Enablement Theater™ (george.mand.is)
  31. Grilled Artichokes with Preserved Lemon Yogurt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  32. Perfect Pancakes, Perfect Waffles (www.alisoneroman.com)
  33. A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found (www.nationalgeographic.com)
  34. The ETF Dividend Flip (www.bloomberg.com)
  35. Kinda-Sweet Granola with Coconut and Turmeric (www.alisoneroman.com)
  36. Decidedly Not Sweet Granola (www.alisoneroman.com)
  37. Four-Bean Salad with Green Romesco (www.alisoneroman.com)
  38. Cold Garlicky Pasta with Capers and Salsa Verde (www.alisoneroman.com)
  39. Delidded Intel I9-14900KS CT Scan (www.lttlabs.com)
  40. Chicken Soup with Toasted Garlic, Mushrooms, and Celery (www.alisoneroman.com)
  41. llm-gemini 0.34 (simonwillison.net)
  42. Seared Short Ribs with Kimchi and Sesame Salt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  43. Turmeric-Roasted Lamb Shoulder and Carrots with All the Fixings (www.alisoneroman.com)
  44. Any Excuse to Make Shrimp Cocktail (www.alisoneroman.com)
  45. Smashed Eggs and Fancy Fish on Crackers (www.alisoneroman.com)
  46. Creamy Goat Cheese with Lemony Za’atar (www.alisoneroman.com)
  47. A Better Garlic Bread / Caramelized Garlic on Toast with Anchovies (www.alisoneroman.com)
  48. Spicy Red Cabbage with Sweet Onion and Lime (www.alisoneroman.com)
  49. Festive Yellow Sheet Cake (www.alisoneroman.com)
  50. Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics (simonwillison.net)
  51. Absurd Adventure And Amygdalectomy Advocacy (www.astralcodexten.com)
  52. Quoting Rick Brewster (simonwillison.net)
  53. GTM hack: steal engagement with Claude (nmn.gl)
  54. What Makes LLM Tokenization Slow? (healeycodes.com)
  55. Art Works (www.fauxtrots.com)
  56. Goroutine Leak Profiles (go.dev)
  57. Tracing np.add, all the way down (blog.veitheller.de)
  58. Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican (simonwillison.net)
  59. Codex bundles LibreOffice (simonwillison.net)
  60. Amazon Charged the First Price (www.bloomberg.com)
  61. Quoting Tarn Adams (simonwillison.net)
  62. Scour - August Update (emschwartz.me)
  63. We Can't Let AI Writing Take Over the Internet (www.derekthompson.org)
  64. Nicholas Decker In Hell (www.astralcodexten.com)
  65. Picolibrary: a very small press (novalis.org)
  66. A Tetrational Self-Cleaning Turing Machine (nickdrozd.github.io)
  67. How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? (danluu.com)
  68. Don’t Hedge the KPIs (www.bloomberg.com)
  69. Pasta and Sausage Meatballs (gochugarugirl.com)
  70. Published a new Digital Snippet for AV Club (palomakop.tv)
  71. Open Thread 449 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  72. Host more and co-host more (liquidbrain.net)
  73. The Hallway Track No. 023: Co-Scientist, Terminal-Bench Science, AI in peer review (hallway.aris.pub)
  74. The joy of Compiler Development (theslowpath.pages.dev)
  75. ↗ Any user process can escalate to root (www.vesto.me)
  76. Understanding ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)
  77. Bug blindness (danluu.com)
  78. Why I am no longer letting Claude Code add itself as Co-author in my commits (indradhanush.github.io)