News

  1. Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay (www.businessinsider.com)
  2. Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – an interactive 3D map of the city centre (p.migdal.pl)
  3. Moving our warehouse off DuckDB (posthog.com)
  4. You Can Read Everything (miguelconner.substack.com)
  5. Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017) (www.quora.com)
  6. WTF Ubuntu? (chalmovsky.com)
  7. Jobless tech workers are being left out of San Francisco's AI boom (www.bloomberg.com)
  8. The U.S. Census Bureau and “Super Intelligence” (simonwillison.net)
  9. If you love a website, back it up (blog.mistys-internet.website)
  10. Why I Don't Use AI for Games (sarah.engineer)
  11. Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse (twitter.com)
  12. Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack (www.theguardian.com)
  13. A Food Trail From Bermondsey to Borough (gochugarugirl.com)
  14. Show HN: I've updated my Linux System Call website and API (syscall.sh)
  15. Open Thread 458 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  16. 43 Days at Recurse Center (blog.log101.dev)
  17. The Hallway Track No. 032: Distributed agents on Perturb-seq, LLMs as peer reviewers, agent platforms for science (hallway.aris.pub)
  18. Nov 01: Year Four (tinylogger.com)
  19. F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix (fosscomics.com)
  20. Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span (www.science.org)
  21. Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed (trigger.dev)
  22. weeknotes #70 (olu.online)
  23. Replacing the battery on a 2013 MacBook Pro (ninad.pundaliks.in)
  24. Quoting Kyle Kingsbury (simonwillison.net)
  25. Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN (hackerbooks.org)
  26. some subtle mental adjustments (clarionsong.substack.com)
  27. Garbagely incompetent (blog.greg.technology)
  28. GoodReads removed their RSS feeds :( (aaronstrick.com)
  29. Resisting Cognitive Surrender (knlb.dev)
  30. Cycling Vermont (macwright.com)
  31. Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved (www.fz-juelich.de)
  32. Portable chargers are a good default gift idea (liquidbrain.net)
  33. Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now (rhaas.blogspot.com)
  34. cyberwitchery (blog.veitheller.de)
  35. Build Standalone Lua Applications with Zig and fnlpack (www.ryanprior.com)
  36. dbreunig/nesformer (simonwillison.net)
  37. Anthropic's IPO: Can unprecedented revenue growth outrun 'irresponsibly large' investment? (leonlins.com)
  38. Your Book Review: The History And Adventures Of An Atom (www.astralcodexten.com)
  39. Big Changes (writing.natwelch.com)
  40. parsing the final fantasy 1 NES world map (part 1) (djan.org)
  41. API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions (simonwillison.net)
  42. Programming at Light Speed: Building the Gravity Query Engine (malisper.me)
  43. Run on the Law Firm (www.bloomberg.com)
  44. Building a multiplayer game world with autonomous Fable-class models (simonwillison.net)
  45. Links For October 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  46. Adding swing to my Yocto sequencer (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  47. Breakout (cceckman.com)
  48. Quoting Ben Hylak (simonwillison.net)
  49. sleep; eating babies; many short story recs (todaythings.substack.com)
  50. The Better Technology (podviaznikov.com)
  51. Ever Failed (blog.veitheller.de)
  52. Quoting Ted Sanders (simonwillison.net)
  53. Where did internet directories go? (mohamedmohey.com)
  54. Not Your Keys, Not Your DAT (www.bloomberg.com)
  55. GitHub Octoverse 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  56. Fake it ‘til you make it (and then keep faking it) (www.experimental-history.com)
  57. My California Ballot, 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  58. The October inflection point for vibe game development (simonwillison.net)
  59. Can you read every book? (mohamedmohey.com)
  60. Quoting Terk Terkowitz (simonwillison.net)
  61. You Already Don't Understand Your Code (george.mand.is)
  62. Announcing rainy city publishing (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  63. Building a Fullstack Rust Web App Boilerplate for Coding Agents (hamy.xyz)
  64. Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge (simonwillison.net)
  65. Musk’s Mars Merger Pay (www.bloomberg.com)
  66. Website update (mrcoles.com)
  67. What Is 'You Can See Everything' Really About? (www.derekthompson.org)
  68. Spaces of constant curvature (www.robbielyman.com)
  69. GPT-6.1 Terra (simonwillison.net)
  70. Open Thread 457 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  71. Quoting Jason Koebler (simonwillison.net)
  72. Anthropic Raises Concerns (www.bloomberg.com)
  73. Spiced Pumpkin Cake (gochugarugirl.com)