News

1. eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear (www.arrl.org)
2. 90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks (www.mercor.com)
3. JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases (jakearchibald.com)
4. US Rep Announces Congressional Legislation to Protect Video Game Ownership (ritchietorres.house.gov)
5. Inside Polymarket's paid quote-retweet esports program (www.readergrev.com)
6. Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix (www.theregister.com)
7. Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD (calif.io)
8. What on Earth Is Dekton? (www.worksinprogress.news)
9. Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft (starskirmish.com)
10. Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio (machinelearning.apple.com)
11. RFC8950: Announce IPv4 with an IPv6 next-hop (anuragbhatia.com)
12. I Love Software Rendering (www.jamesfmackenzie.com)
13. Chilli Con Carne (gochugarugirl.com)
14. Meetups Everywhere 2026: Times & Places (www.astralcodexten.com)
15. Tesla Roadster (www.tesla.com)
16. Interactive refactoring in gopls (go.dev)
17. Is Liquid Metal Killing Our PCs? Scientific Analysis and a 2-Year Test [video] (www.youtube.com)
18. Hummingbird Bundt (gochugarugirl.com)
19. Chirp Pong (simonwillison.net)
20. Private Markets Are the New AI Markets (www.bloomberg.com)
21. How gyroscopes got so small [video] (www.youtube.com)
22. Anthropic tells investors quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO (simonwillison.net)
23. Published a new Digital Snippet for AV Club: Human-instrument control surfaces (palomakop.tv)
24. I Know Why the Mathematicians Weep (www.derekthompson.org)
25. AI Safety Is Not A Corporate Plot (www.astralcodexten.com)
26. Simple Sudoku Solvers SIII, EII: Assembly (blog.veitheller.de)
27. Tree Appreciator (simonwillison.net)
28. Bank of America Missed Some Bad Guys (www.bloomberg.com)
29. Credit Where Credit is Due (thefloatingcontinent.com)
30. AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary. (simonwillison.net)
31. The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire (www.michelecoscia.com)
32. Thirty Six Hours in SF (debamitro.github.io)
33. Context Architecture - Aligning Humans and Agents at Scale (hamy.xyz)
34. Better HTTP/1 connection reuse (go.dev)
35. Redesigning source control at Anthropic (simonwillison.net)
36. llm-gemini 0.35 (simonwillison.net)
37. Claude, don’t touch my lump (www.experimental-history.com)
38. Yet another way to invoke functions without parentheses (blog.ikaes.de)
39. They Found Some Walter Victims (www.bloomberg.com)
40. A statement on our project's collaboration with maybe fascists, and on how we really don't want to end that collaboration, as awkward as it may be (for us too) (lake.computer)
41. Stolen Renoir paintings found hidden, and damaged, behind cinder block wall (www.cbsnews.com)
42. Quoting Geoffrey Huntley (simonwillison.net)
43. Straight Lines (adagrad.substack.com)
44. Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video] (www.youtube.com)
45. Open Thread 455 (www.astralcodexten.com)
46. llm-meta-ai 0.2 (simonwillison.net)
47. Don’t Bet Against the Sports Bets (www.bloomberg.com)
48. web-edit 0.1a0 (simonwillison.net)
49. (Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers (words.filippo.io)
50. Why Americans Stopped Falling in Love (www.derekthompson.org)
51. How AI has changed my engineering leadership role (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
52. I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI BOT traffic (www.sammystraus.com)
53. The Hallway Track No. 029: OpenAI math manuscripts, inquiry narrowing, virtual biology initiative (hallway.aris.pub)
54. weeknotes #67 (olu.online)
55. Artist Residency: Day 1 (www.fauxtrots.com)
56. IDRs as records of intent (wrla.ch)
57. Quoting The New York Times (simonwillison.net)
58. Your Book Review: We Present Television (www.astralcodexten.com)
59. Debugging Breakout paddle bounces (jdkaplan.dev)