News

  1. Sharing AI Progress in Mathematics (openai.com)
  2. An Open Letter To Steven Pinker On AI (www.astralcodexten.com)
  3. Sneaky Town Overview (V4 Edition) (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  4. OpenSSH 10.6 (www.openssh.org)
  5. EmbeddingGemma 2 (simonwillison.net)
  6. Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery (arstechnica.com)
  7. Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk (simonwillison.net)
  8. Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill (citizenlab.ca)
  9. Treasury Futures Might Switch (www.bloomberg.com)
  10. OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI (github.com)
  11. EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model (blog.google)
  12. Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo (blog.plover.com)
  13. The Early History of Smalltalk (1993) (worrydream.com)
  14. Scrimshaw Jukebox (simonwillison.net)
  15. Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer (peterszentkiralyi.eu)
  16. Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min (www.parseable.com)
  17. Mistral Large 4 (mistral.ai)
  18. Mathematics of Geothermal Energy (www.ebsco.com)
  19. Erdosproblems.com Succumbs to the AI Onslaught (www.erdosproblems.com)
  20. What's Earth's dominant species by mass? (signoregalilei.com)
  21. Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP (arxiv.org)
  22. Polars 2.0 (pola.rs)
  23. Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study (phys.org)
  24. Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen (www.nobelprize.org)
  25. Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore (gleam.run)
  26. You May Now Listen to Commoncog Cases (commoncog.com)
  27. Dealing with Recessions (commoncog.com)
  28. Did live visuals for a concert in a large church (palomakop.tv)
  29. Extend Lua with Zig 1: Hello World (www.robbielyman.com)
  30. Quoting Felix Rieseberg (simonwillison.net)
  31. Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades (www.debugbear.com)
  32. Charlie's Meatballs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  33. Charlie's Meatballs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  34. Find the flattest route between any two points in SF (flattensf.com)
  35. Mergers and Acqui-hires (www.bloomberg.com)
  36. Open Thread 454 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  37. I rode my bike from NYC to Montréal (Part 2) (missfunmi.com)
  38. The Hallway Track No. 028: arXiv rate limit, AI paper mills, Google FluSight (hallway.aris.pub)
  39. Qwen3.8 27B addition in words (simonwillison.net)
  40. 2026.Q3 Reflection (hamy.xyz)
  41. A Game Building Workshop for Kids and Parents (debamitro.github.io)
  42. Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder? (brooker.co.za)
  43. We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything (simonwillison.net)
  44. Using REAPER with ALSA, ignoring Pipewire (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  45. Recent addenda to articles 202609: Errors, omissions, and retractions (blog.plover.com)
  46. Biking the Empire State Trail - Schenectady - Albany - Hudson (bradleydettmer.me)
  47. Improving My Hardware Workflow With CI and Nix (www.scd31.com)
  48. Simple Sudoku Solvers SIII, EI: Agda (blog.veitheller.de)
  49. We’re Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  50. Mathober 2026 Art (www.fractalkitty.com)
  51. Tips for Biking the Empire State Trail (bradleydettmer.me)
  52. What is the Atmosphere: An Untech Introduction (bnb.im)
  53. Our AI Midwife (www.astralcodexten.com)
  54. Arch-specific SIMD in Go (go.dev)
  55. Opening Private Markets to the Public (www.bloomberg.com)
  56. The Kio Programming Language (jdevuyst.blogspot.com)
  57. Quoting Matthew Green (simonwillison.net)
  58. September Life Update (seinwave.com)
  59. Fall update (jamiepalatnik.com)
  60. Recently (macwright.com)
  61. Summer Vegetable Soup with Hominy & Lime (www.alisoneroman.com)
  62. Summer Ends When I Say It Does (www.alisoneroman.com)
  63. AI Agents Will Pay Attention (www.bloomberg.com)
  64. Hard times with hard links (iafisher.com)
  65. Giving friends custom text buzzes based on morse code (liquidbrain.net)
  66. San Francisco Mindset (podviaznikov.com)
  67. With AI, Your Imagination is the Limit (hamy.xyz)