News

  1. Project Monopoly: King’s Cross Station (gochugarugirl.com)
  2. Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? (simonwillison.net)
  3. How Moats are Built (commoncog.com)
  4. Over 30% of new ArXiv submissions now read as AI-written (unslop.run)
  5. I loved my AI assistant. My friends did not. (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  6. Czechia moves to ban mobile phones in schools from September 2027 (www.expats.cz)
  7. The Voice of Google (www.newyorker.com)
  8. Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling (www.emergingtrajectories.com)
  9. Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012) (nothings.org)
  10. China's open-weights AI strategy is winning (werd.io)
  11. Perfection Is Not Over-Engineering (var0.xyz)
  12. Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding (github.com)
  13. Shinjuku Station in 3D (satoshi7190.github.io)
  14. Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database (news.risky.biz)
  15. We're Squandering LEDs' Potential to Save Our Night Skies (spectrum.ieee.org)
  16. The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel (edri.org)
  17. <a href="/blog/thewildlifetrusts/challenges-abound-new-prime-minister-nature-has-solutions" hreflang="en">Challenges abound for the new Prime Minister – but nature has the solutions</a> (www.wildlondon.org.uk)
  18. Open Thread 443 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  19. Airport Simulator (airport.apunen.com)
  20. Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25 (slcyber.io)
  21. The Hallway Track No. 017: Science EIC contra AI hype, data poisoning of research agents, Vancouver Standard for AI disclosure (hallway.aris.pub)
  22. Quoting Sam Altman (simonwillison.net)
  23. The road to epsilon-zero: Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals (blog.plover.com)
  24. Looking for work (tonsky.me)
  25. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making (simonwillison.net)
  26. [New Game] Those Who Wear Red (k-monk.org)
  27. The road to epsilon-zero: ordinals as nim-heaps (blog.plover.com)
  28. Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP (brooker.co.za)
  29. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 3 (Gardens) (gochugarugirl.com)
  30. Canarat rebuild / repair finished (slinkp.com)
  31. Claude make Fable 5 permanent (simonwillison.net)
  32. 202607-social-media-algorithms-accumulated-aesthetic-artifacts (henderson.lol)
  33. What I Learned From Getting Knocked Down (cranberrymuffin.io)
  34. Great Chicken Parmesan (www.alisoneroman.com)
  35. What does the Riemann zeta function have to do with the distribution of primes? (hidden-phenomena.com)
  36. For Everyone Cooking on Vacation (www.alisoneroman.com)
  37. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 2 (Historic Houses) (gochugarugirl.com)
  38. Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures (www.astralcodexten.com)
  39. Quoting Kimi K3 (simonwillison.net)
  40. LLM cliché highlighter (simonwillison.net)
  41. Spot birds not golf (simonwillison.net)
  42. Learning a few things about running SQLite (jvns.ca)
  43. Firefox in WebAssembly (simonwillison.net)
  44. Against "Stochastic Terrorism" (www.astralcodexten.com)
  45. Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark (simonwillison.net)
  46. Shorts Will Sell You SpaceX (www.bloomberg.com)
  47. Quoting Thibault Sottiaux (simonwillison.net)
  48. Inkling: Our open-weights model (simonwillison.net)
  49. Quoting Linus Torvalds (simonwillison.net)
  50. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 1 (Food) (gochugarugirl.com)
  51. Six Slightly Skew Boogeymen (www.astralcodexten.com)
  52. Metrics, Life, and Money (blog.veitheller.de)
  53. xai-org/grok-build, now open source (simonwillison.net)
  54. Basil! (gochugarugirl.com)
  55. Keeping Mergers Under the Radar (www.bloomberg.com)
  56. How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets (simonwillison.net)
  57. AI Chip Regulation Is Not A Dystopian Surveillance State (www.astralcodexten.com)
  58. simonw/pedalican (simonwillison.net)
  59. Banks Made a Lot of Money on Stocks (www.bloomberg.com)
  60. Quoting Armin Ronacher (simonwillison.net)
  61. A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird (www.derekthompson.org)
  62. DOOMQL (simonwillison.net)
  63. datasette code-frequency chart on GitHub (simonwillison.net)
  64. Turns Out, I Still Cook (www.alisoneroman.com)
  65. ETFs Are for Bets (www.bloomberg.com)