News

  1. Flux 3 (bfl.ai)
  2. The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  3. The Visual 6502 (visual6502.org)
  4. The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? (simonwillison.net)
  5. 98.css (jdan.github.io)
  6. If You're Reading This I'm Free (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  7. Mourning Dan Williams (lwn.net)
  8. Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models (news.ycombinator.com)
  9. Building on ATProto (lukekanies.com)
  10. A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements (pme.uchicago.edu)
  11. Sports Happen So Much (www.bloomberg.com)
  12. Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models (obsoletesony.substack.com)
  13. What happened to TheNumbers.com (stephenfollows.com)
  14. The arguments against open source AI are bad (tombedor.dev)
  15. Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents (news.ycombinator.com)
  16. Sheena Ringo in Sound & Recording (disk.horse)
  17. Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents (github.com)
  18. Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough) (github.com)
  19. Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI (www.politico.com)
  20. Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI (github.com)
  21. Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL (learnopengl.com)
  22. Writing by hand is good for your brain (nealstephenson.substack.com)
  23. Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ (haqr.eu)
  24. I regret migrating to Codeberg (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
  25. What Is Lost When We Make 'The Odyssey' Modern (www.derekthompson.org)
  26. Every exterior shot in *The Taking of Pelham 123* (iafisher.com)
  27. Simple Sudoku Solvers SII, EV: Racket/miniKanren (blog.veitheller.de)
  28. Quoting Thomas Ptacek (simonwillison.net)
  29. OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
  30. Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? (simonwillison.net)
  31. The SEC Pays a Texting Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
  32. Links For July 2026 (Part 1) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  33. Back to basics: The Hundred-Page Languages Models Book, Chapter 1 (www.maayanroth.com)
  34. Things I know about beets (lucymcphail.com)
  35. GPT 5.6 + OpenCode vs Claude + Claude Code - First Impressions (hamy.xyz)
  36. Call for lightning talks: Haskell Symposium 2026 (decomposition.al)
  37. LSE Will Trade 22.83 Hours a Day (www.bloomberg.com)
  38. Category Theory Day One (www.robbielyman.com)
  39. Blog Jamboree 2026: The Winners (www.experimental-history.com)
  40. Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac (simonwillison.net)
  41. A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team (simonwillison.net)
  42. Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness (www.astralcodexten.com)
  43. Going Ham: Zero to Amateur Extra in 31 Days (flaviuspopan.com)
  44. Bytecode-to-Source Mapping (tidefield.dev)
  45. No central server, only BitTorrent (www.scannedinavian.com)
  46. Why I Write (bugwhisperer.dev)
  47. Avoid the trap of magical thinking (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  48. Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API) (words.filippo.io)
  49. Some more things about Django I've been enjoying (jvns.ca)
  50. Reverse-engineering is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
  51. Ice Cream Hedging (www.bloomberg.com)
  52. Project Monopoly: King’s Cross Station (gochugarugirl.com)
  53. Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? (simonwillison.net)
  54. How Moats are Built (commoncog.com)
  55. I loved my AI assistant. My friends did not. (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  56. <a href="/blog/thewildlifetrusts/challenges-abound-new-prime-minister-nature-has-solutions" hreflang="en">Challenges abound for the new Prime Minister – but nature has the solutions</a> (www.wildlondon.org.uk)
  57. Open Thread 443 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  58. The Hallway Track No. 017: Science EIC contra AI hype, data poisoning of research agents, Vancouver Standard for AI disclosure (hallway.aris.pub)
  59. This is the golden age of video games (approximateknowledge.net)
  60. Quoting Sam Altman (simonwillison.net)
  61. The road to epsilon-zero: Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals (blog.plover.com)
  62. Looking for work (tonsky.me)
  63. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making (simonwillison.net)
  64. [New Game] Those Who Wear Red (k-monk.org)
  65. The road to epsilon-zero: ordinals as nim-heaps (blog.plover.com)
  66. Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP (brooker.co.za)
  67. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 3 (Gardens) (gochugarugirl.com)
  68. Canarat rebuild / repair finished (slinkp.com)
  69. Claude make Fable 5 permanent (simonwillison.net)
  70. 202607-social-media-algorithms-accumulated-aesthetic-artifacts (henderson.lol)
  71. What I Learned From Getting Knocked Down (cranberrymuffin.io)
  72. Great Chicken Parmesan (www.alisoneroman.com)
  73. For Everyone Cooking on Vacation (www.alisoneroman.com)
  74. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 2 (Historic Houses) (gochugarugirl.com)
  75. Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures (www.astralcodexten.com)
  76. Quoting Kimi K3 (simonwillison.net)
  77. LLM cliché highlighter (simonwillison.net)