News

  1. Open Thread 450 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  2. Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers (itsfoss.com)
  3. TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings (cordcuttersnews.com)
  4. Keep Our Servers Running (blog.archive.org)
  5. Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI (simonwillison.net)
  6. Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes (austinhenley.com)
  7. I Wrote a Package Manager Ten Years Ago (blog.veitheller.de)
  8. Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple (github.com)
  9. It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis (anubis.techaro.lol)
  10. Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings (arxiv.org)
  11. GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard (grapheneos.social)
  12. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files? (news.ycombinator.com)
  13. Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice (github.com)
  14. An Alien Mind (openai.com)
  15. In Practice (read.alonzo.zip)
  16. NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9 (blog.netbsd.org)
  17. Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI (openai.com)
  18. Asahi Linux on M3 (asahilinux.org)
  19. How I Clean My Glasses (hamy.xyz)
  20. zero (approximateknowledge.net)
  21. Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers (simonwillison.net)
  22. Using Blender with coding agents on macOS (simonwillison.net)
  23. Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results? (news.ycombinator.com)
  24. Making hypothesis testing make sense (minireference.com)
  25. The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting (simonwillison.net)
  26. The LLM Architecture Problem (riskmusings.substack.com)
  27. Your Book Review: The Tale Of Genji (www.astralcodexten.com)
  28. OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis (simonwillison.net)
  29. The NX bit is not just about security (purplesyringa.moe)
  30. Reverse engineering the storage format for an undocumented database (blog.glazer.ee)
  31. Infinite Lives, 1986: Arkanoid (approximateknowledge.net)
  32. Support Local Variables (bernsteinbear.com)
  33. GPT‑6 Astra (simonwillison.net)
  34. Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE) (babylonian-collection.yale.edu)
  35. The Clippers Got Some Consulting (www.bloomberg.com)
  36. I'm a seeing-eye dog for a computer (claytonwramsey.com)
  37. Please don't rearrange our shoes when we turn up, paramedics in Japan urge (www.theguardian.com)
  38. College EA Meetups Everywhere: Times & Places (www.astralcodexten.com)
  39. AI Enablement Theater™ (george.mand.is)
  40. Grilled Artichokes with Preserved Lemon Yogurt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  41. Perfect Pancakes, Perfect Waffles (www.alisoneroman.com)
  42. The ETF Dividend Flip (www.bloomberg.com)
  43. Kinda-Sweet Granola with Coconut and Turmeric (www.alisoneroman.com)
  44. Decidedly Not Sweet Granola (www.alisoneroman.com)
  45. Four-Bean Salad with Green Romesco (www.alisoneroman.com)
  46. Cold Garlicky Pasta with Capers and Salsa Verde (www.alisoneroman.com)
  47. Chicken Soup with Toasted Garlic, Mushrooms, and Celery (www.alisoneroman.com)
  48. llm-gemini 0.34 (simonwillison.net)
  49. Seared Short Ribs with Kimchi and Sesame Salt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  50. Turmeric-Roasted Lamb Shoulder and Carrots with All the Fixings (www.alisoneroman.com)
  51. Any Excuse to Make Shrimp Cocktail (www.alisoneroman.com)
  52. Smashed Eggs and Fancy Fish on Crackers (www.alisoneroman.com)
  53. Creamy Goat Cheese with Lemony Za’atar (www.alisoneroman.com)
  54. A Better Garlic Bread / Caramelized Garlic on Toast with Anchovies (www.alisoneroman.com)
  55. Spicy Red Cabbage with Sweet Onion and Lime (www.alisoneroman.com)
  56. Festive Yellow Sheet Cake (www.alisoneroman.com)
  57. Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics (simonwillison.net)
  58. Absurd Adventure And Amygdalectomy Advocacy (www.astralcodexten.com)
  59. Quoting Rick Brewster (simonwillison.net)
  60. GTM hack: steal engagement with Claude (nmn.gl)
  61. What Makes LLM Tokenization Slow? (healeycodes.com)
  62. Art Works (www.fauxtrots.com)
  63. Goroutine Leak Profiles (go.dev)
  64. Tracing np.add, all the way down (blog.veitheller.de)
  65. Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican (simonwillison.net)
  66. Codex bundles LibreOffice (simonwillison.net)
  67. Amazon Charged the First Price (www.bloomberg.com)
  68. Quoting Tarn Adams (simonwillison.net)
  69. Scour - August Update (emschwartz.me)
  70. We Can't Let AI Writing Take Over the Internet (www.derekthompson.org)
  71. Nicholas Decker In Hell (www.astralcodexten.com)
  72. Picolibrary: a very small press (novalis.org)
  73. A Tetrational Self-Cleaning Turing Machine (nickdrozd.github.io)
  74. How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? (danluu.com)
  75. Don’t Hedge the KPIs (www.bloomberg.com)
  76. Pasta and Sausage Meatballs (gochugarugirl.com)
  77. Published a new Digital Snippet for AV Club (palomakop.tv)
  78. Open Thread 449 (www.astralcodexten.com)