News

  1. Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things (simonwillison.net)
  2. Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing (daringfireball.net)
  3. Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee (www.reuters.com)
  4. The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later (ivan-gavran.github.io)
  5. Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter (www.bloomberg.com)
  6. Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose (w4g1.dev)
  7. Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome (buf.build)
  8. MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent (math-ai-org.github.io)
  9. A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better" (rvembedded.com)
  10. St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (www.wptv.com)
  11. Quoting Dario Amodei (simonwillison.net)
  12. The AI Credit Resale Economy (vectoral.com)
  13. Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (support.mozilla.org)
  14. Claude: System Prompts (platform.claude.com)
  15. A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator (ei3lh.eu)
  16. Reading Log #3 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  17. The Creation of Abulafia (blog.veitheller.de)
  18. CORS Chat (simonwillison.net)
  19. Getting MIDI sync working (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  20. Rhythm games (sygi.xyz)
  21. Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life (commonreader.wustl.edu)
  22. Your Book Review: The Escape Artist (www.astralcodexten.com)
  23. Crunchy Tenderstem Broccoli (gochugarugirl.com)
  24. Don't classify. Hallucinate! (simonwillison.net)
  25. The American Sports Plutocracy Is Bullshit (www.derekthompson.org)
  26. Pasta e Ceci Salad (www.alisoneroman.com)
  27. Pasta e Ceci Salad (www.alisoneroman.com)
  28. The road to epsilon-zero: Productive programs and well-founded orders (blog.plover.com)
  29. Technology optimism hour (macwright.com)
  30. The Foothills Of Bay Area House Party (www.astralcodexten.com)
  31. Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware (hwbusters.com)
  32. llm-gemini 0.33 (simonwillison.net)
  33. Bilateral OTC Goat Hedge (www.bloomberg.com)
  34. Thoughts on the "in-between" (brianagude.substack.com)
  35. Links from The Internship (cceckman.com)
  36. SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX (pikuma.com)
  37. 24 things I believe (clarionsong.substack.com)
  38. The Quest For Caffeine You Can Have At Night (www.astralcodexten.com)
  39. Another partial SSI trick with canonicalize (bernsteinbear.com)
  40. Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga (nnamgreb.de)
  41. A fully legible mind (blog.veitheller.de)
  42. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter) (simonwillison.net)
  43. A Walk In Primrose Hill (gochugarugirl.com)
  44. Sorbet in Grapefruit Cups (www.alisoneroman.com)
  45. Reading together, unsupervised (brian.abelson.live)
  46. Anchovy-Butter Chicken with Chicken Fat Croutons (www.alisoneroman.com)
  47. Bacon-Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Caraway’d Cabbage and Apples (www.alisoneroman.com)
  48. AI-Backed Securities (www.bloomberg.com)
  49. Hanger Steak with Dandelion, Arugula, and Grana Padano (www.alisoneroman.com)
  50. Lamb Stew with Fennel, Preserved Lemon, and Crispy Fried Bread (www.alisoneroman.com)
  51. Pork and Red Chile Stew with Tomatillos (www.alisoneroman.com)
  52. Slow-Roasted Pork Shoulder with Garlic, Citrus, and Cilantro (www.alisoneroman.com)
  53. Crispy Chicken Legs with Rosemary, Tiny Potatoes, and Sour Cream (www.alisoneroman.com)
  54. Quoting Florian Herrengt (simonwillison.net)
  55. Paprika-Rubbed Sheet-Pan Chicken with Lemon (www.alisoneroman.com)
  56. Cumin Lamb Chops with Charred Scallions and Peanuts (www.alisoneroman.com)
  57. Asus Bike Booster (www.asus.com)
  58. A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem (arxiv.org)
  59. Topologies on Free Products (www.robbielyman.com)
  60. My Daily Routine as a Software Engineer and Dad of a 1-Year-Old (hamy.xyz)
  61. There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text (simonwillison.net)
  62. Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs (simonwillison.net)
  63. Vinegar-Braised Chicken with Farro and Watercress (www.alisoneroman.com)
  64. There are two kinds of theorems (blog.plover.com)
  65. Pick-and-Shovel Seller Financing (www.bloomberg.com)
  66. Reflections on AI (blog.greg.technology)
  67. Perfect Steak with Buttered Radish Toast (www.alisoneroman.com)
  68. Fennel-Rubbed Pork Chops for Two (www.alisoneroman.com)
  69. Ergonomic SSH development (miccah.io)
  70. The Great American AI Rebellion (www.derekthompson.org)
  71. How AI Changes the Economics of JIT Compilers (malisper.me)
  72. 1st Sept 2026: An Increase in Membership Prices (commoncog.com)
  73. Simple Sudoku Solvers SII, EVI: SQL (blog.veitheller.de)
  74. Introducing Muse Glimmer (simonwillison.net)
  75. Stone Soup (gochugarugirl.com)
  76. You Can Fix Email (thefloatingcontinent.com)
  77. The Situation Is Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
  78. Open Thread 446 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  79. Just Another Girl – The Killers (read.alonzo.zip)
  80. I wrote 300k+ lines of code this month thanks to AI (nmn.gl)
  81. The Hallway Track No. 020: Astra solves ten open math problems, AI agents fail at open-ended research, peer review under strain (hallway.aris.pub)
  82. sterno (approximateknowledge.net)
  83. Quoting OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6) (simonwillison.net)