News

  1. Using an open model feels surprisingly good (matthewsaltz.com)
  2. If AI Writes All the Code, What Do the Programmers Do? (probablydance.com)
  3. moonshotai/Kimi-K3 (simonwillison.net)
  4. Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise (nypost.com)
  5. Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month missions (spacedaily.com)
  6. DConf 2026 in London (dconf.org)
  7. Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench (github.com)
  8. A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months (arstechnica.com)
  9. Our position on open-weights models (www.anthropic.com)
  10. An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff (simonwillison.net)
  11. Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals (www.rise-reforming.com)
  12. Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions (gregoryszorc.com)
  13. A Merger Closing Mystery (www.bloomberg.com)
  14. Project Monopoly: The Angel Islington (gochugarugirl.com)
  15. What Does It Look Like When You Handle Disruption Well? (commoncog.com)
  16. “Steph Curry: fluke or breakthrough” ten years later (blog.plover.com)
  17. How real are real numbers? (2004) (arxiv.org)
  18. Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles (eaton-works.com)
  19. Open Thread 444 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  20. Tactical Decision Game with John Schmitt (commoncog.com)
  21. The Hallway Track No. 018: Genesis Mission $5B, Challengescape problem directory, team science vs. solo AI agents (hallway.aris.pub)
  22. Mid-Training and the Middle-End (blog.veitheller.de)
  23. An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud (simonwillison.net)
  24. weeknotes #62 (olu.online)
  25. Invention 2 by J. S. Bach (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  26. Production ML-DSA Verification in 350 Lines of Python (words.filippo.io)
  27. It gets better: A letter to my younger self (bugwhisperer.dev)
  28. Porting Super Hexagon to the Playdate (captnemo.in)
  29. Some vegan recipes (kevingal.com)
  30. Welcome to the Classroom of Meritocratic Supremacy (read.alonzo.zip)
  31. Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds (hannahilea.com)
  32. Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap (theconsensus.dev)
  33. Quoting Boris Cherny (simonwillison.net)
  34. Introducing Claude Opus 5 (simonwillison.net)
  35. RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB (gpusolutions.net)
  36. Your Book Review: Breakdown In Pakistan (www.astralcodexten.com)
  37. The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  38. Cranban is a tool for collaborating with robots (patrickweaver.net)
  39. I'm running a programming contest (eieio.games)
  40. The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? (simonwillison.net)
  41. If You're Reading This I'm Free (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  42. Sports Happen So Much (www.bloomberg.com)
  43. Sheena Ringo in Sound & Recording (disk.horse)
  44. What Is Lost When We Make 'The Odyssey' Modern (www.derekthompson.org)
  45. Securing Services with Rootless Containers (blog.coderspirit.xyz)
  46. Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages (gpuopen.com)
  47. Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol (cen.acs.org)
  48. Every exterior shot in *The Taking of Pelham 123* (iafisher.com)
  49. Exercises in benchmarking and evals, part 7: DeepSWE, Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires (danluu.com)
  50. Simple Sudoku Solvers SII, EV: Racket/miniKanren (blog.veitheller.de)
  51. Quoting Thomas Ptacek (simonwillison.net)
  52. OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
  53. Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? (simonwillison.net)
  54. The computer that helped win World War II (spectrum.ieee.org)
  55. The SEC Pays a Texting Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
  56. Links For July 2026 (Part 1) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  57. Back to basics: The Hundred-Page Languages Models Book, Chapter 1 (www.maayanroth.com)
  58. Things I know about beets (lucymcphail.com)
  59. GPT 5.6 + OpenCode vs Claude + Claude Code - First Impressions (hamy.xyz)
  60. Call for lightning talks: Haskell Symposium 2026 (decomposition.al)
  61. LSE Will Trade 22.83 Hours a Day (www.bloomberg.com)
  62. Category Theory Day One (www.robbielyman.com)
  63. Blog Jamboree 2026: The Winners (www.experimental-history.com)
  64. Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac (simonwillison.net)
  65. A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team (simonwillison.net)
  66. Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness (www.astralcodexten.com)
  67. Going Ham: Zero to Amateur Extra in 31 Days (flaviuspopan.com)