News

1. GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks (successfulsoftware.net)
2. F-Droid 2.0 (f-droid.org)
3. Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center (www.bloomberg.com)
4. Homemade bagels (merveilles.town)
5. Hackers influence ChatGPT and Gemini to direct users to scam centers (medium.com)
6. The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi (www.xda-developers.com)
7. Two-tier encryption in the UK (macanorak.com)
8. How China Thinks About AI (www.derekthompson.org)
9. Nokia Design Archive (2025) (repo.aalto.fi)
10. The Year of Internal Tools (www.geocod.io)
11. Contrastive Language Models (contrastive-lm.notion.site)
12. Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later (www.astralcodexten.com)
13. Rapid Learning Skill for Code (niccrane.com)
14. Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop (lwn.net)
15. ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit (blog.arxiv.org)
16. Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series (www.qualcomm.com)
17. VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) (fly.io)
18. Kalshi Levers the Predictions (www.bloomberg.com)
19. Building a homelab (wrla.ch)
20. The science of Monkey Island: can grog dissolve a metal mug that fast? (jgeekstudies.org)
21. Why 'What's Opera, Doc?' looks like that (animationobsessive.substack.com)
22. Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock (pointinthecloud.com)
23. Noting another house repair chore victory (blog.plover.com)
24. Delegation and trust (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
25. Hidden Open Thread 452.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
26. The Mundanity of Excellence, Small Wins, and Why You Should Fix Bugs Before Writing New Features (probablydance.com)
27. SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering (simonwillison.net)
28. Mysteries Of AI Generalization (www.astralcodexten.com)
29. Work diary victory (blog.plover.com)
30. Building a Multiplayer Game of Life with Rust + Datastar (hamy.xyz)
31. Out Now: Low-tech Magazine Volume IV (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
32. Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war (simonwillison.net)
33. Who Cares If a Merger Is Fair? (www.bloomberg.com)
34. Enjoy Every Sandwich (bradmontague.substack.com)
35. Quoting @therealcornpop (simonwillison.net)
36. RAM: the forgotten history (2024) (blog.coredump.cx)
37. When the Debugger Lies (danielmangum.com)
38. Simplicio, Ten Years Later (adagrad.substack.com)
39. The "Windows XP Box" (2003) (www.mini-itx.com)
40. Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models (simonwillison.net)
41. Open Thread 452 (www.astralcodexten.com)
42. Solitaire Alone Together (eieio.games)
43. The Hallway Track No. 026: AI use in science study, astronomy disclosure gap, Paper2Agent, SAIR initiative (hallway.aris.pub)
44. A First Futamura Projection (blog.veitheller.de)
45. Tuna and Butterbean Salad (gochugarugirl.com)
46. weeknotes #66 (olu.online)
47. Quoting voxium (simonwillison.net)
48. Reading Log #6 (vishnubharathi.codes)
49. 0061: i'm not a cat, artificial adventures, synthetic sagas, anthropic, sponsors (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
50. Synthetic sagas (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
51. Artsy Math: Squaring Square Patterns (www.fractalkitty.com)
52. Processing Community Day NYC 2026 • MIDI Workshop Preview (george.mand.is)
53. Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI (simonwillison.net)
54. Your Book Review: This Is Going To Hurt (www.astralcodexten.com)
55. “Shoppy Shop” Thoughts (www.alisoneroman.com)
56. Note on 18th September 2026 (simonwillison.net)
57. Quoting Thariq Shihipar (simonwillison.net)
58. A Model for Winning Survivor (victoriaritvo.com)
59. Project Monopoly: Fleet Street (gochugarugirl.com)
60. Mrs Perkins' Quilt (www.fractalkitty.com)
61. How To Write With An LLM (simonwillison.net)
62. Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries (simonwillison.net)
63. The Whole Indian Options Trade Was Too Good (www.bloomberg.com)