News

  1. The SEC Pays a Texting Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
  2. Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample (chatgpt.com)
  3. GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization (github.com)
  4. Are AI Labs Pelicanmaxxing? (dylancastillo.co)
  5. Does creatine make you smarter? (dynomight.net)
  6. Can a MUD evaluate LLMs? A $99 proof of concept (cruciblebench.ai)
  7. Making (beej.us)
  8. Show HN: HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links (www.orangecrumbs.com)
  9. Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab) (bento.page)
  10. Links For July 2026 (Part 1) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  11. Ghost Cut – or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere (ishmael.textualize.io)
  12. Hologram works. Elixir runs in the browser (hologram.page)
  13. “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3” (twitter.com)
  14. OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor (opennode.com)
  15. Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain (twitter.com)
  16. The startup's Postgres survival guide (hatchet.run)
  17. 10 REM"_(C2SLFF4 (beej.us)
  18. Things I know about beets (lucymcphail.com)
  19. LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps (krebsonsecurity.com)
  20. First Impressions with GPT 5.6 + OpenCode vs Claude + Claude Code (hamy.xyz)
  21. Call for lightning talks: Haskell Symposium 2026 (decomposition.al)
  22. LSE Will Trade 22.83 Hours a Day (www.bloomberg.com)
  23. Category Theory Day One (www.robbielyman.com)
  24. Blog Jamboree 2026: The Winners (www.experimental-history.com)
  25. Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac (simonwillison.net)
  26. A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team (simonwillison.net)
  27. Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness (www.astralcodexten.com)
  28. Going Ham: Zero to Amateur Extra in 31 Days (flaviuspopan.com)
  29. Bytecode-to-Source Mapping (tidefield.dev)
  30. Some more things about Django I've been enjoying (jvns.ca)
  31. Why I Write (bugwhisperer.dev)
  32. Avoid the trap of magical thinking (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  33. Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API) (words.filippo.io)
  34. Reverse-engineering is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
  35. Ice Cream Hedging (www.bloomberg.com)
  36. Project Monopoly: King’s Cross Station (gochugarugirl.com)
  37. Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? (simonwillison.net)
  38. How Moats are Built (commoncog.com)
  39. I loved my AI assistant. My friends did not. (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  40. <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)
  41. Open Thread 443 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  42. The Hallway Track No. 017: Science EIC contra AI hype, data poisoning of research agents, Vancouver Standard for AI disclosure (hallway.aris.pub)
  43. This is the golden age of video games (approximateknowledge.net)
  44. Quoting Sam Altman (simonwillison.net)
  45. The road to epsilon-zero: Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals (blog.plover.com)
  46. Looking for work (tonsky.me)
  47. Introduction to Formal Verification with Lean Part 1 (hashcloak.com)
  48. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making (simonwillison.net)
  49. [New Game] Those Who Wear Red (k-monk.org)
  50. The road to epsilon-zero: ordinals as nim-heaps (blog.plover.com)
  51. Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP (brooker.co.za)
  52. Cornell's Interactive Wall of Birds (academy.allaboutbirds.org)
  53. Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon (morethanmoore.substack.com)
  54. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 3 (Gardens) (gochugarugirl.com)
  55. Claude make Fable 5 permanent (simonwillison.net)
  56. 202607-social-media-algorithms-accumulated-aesthetic-artifacts (henderson.lol)
  57. What I Learned From Getting Knocked Down (cranberrymuffin.io)
  58. Great Chicken Parmesan (www.alisoneroman.com)
  59. For Everyone Cooking on Vacation (www.alisoneroman.com)
  60. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 2 (Historic Houses) (gochugarugirl.com)
  61. Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures (www.astralcodexten.com)
  62. Quoting Kimi K3 (simonwillison.net)
  63. LLM cliché highlighter (simonwillison.net)
  64. ScreenWall – Turn old phones into synced widgets for your space (screenwall.app)
  65. Spot birds not golf (simonwillison.net)
  66. Learning a few things about running SQLite (jvns.ca)
  67. Firefox in WebAssembly (simonwillison.net)
  68. Against "Stochastic Terrorism" (www.astralcodexten.com)
  69. Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark (simonwillison.net)
  70. Shorts Will Sell You SpaceX (www.bloomberg.com)
  71. Quoting Thibault Sottiaux (simonwillison.net)
  72. Inkling: Our open-weights model (simonwillison.net)
  73. Quoting Linus Torvalds (simonwillison.net)
  74. Postgres in Rust: three dead ends before we passed 100% of the regression suite (malisper.me)
  75. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 1 (Food) (gochugarugirl.com)
  76. Links #15 (www.bryanbraun.com)
  77. Six Slightly Skew Boogeymen (www.astralcodexten.com)
  78. Metrics, Life, and Money (blog.veitheller.de)
  79. xai-org/grok-build, now open source (simonwillison.net)