News

  1. Grilled Tomatillo Salsa (www.alisoneroman.com)
  2. Charred Broccoli Salad with Garlic and Basil (www.alisoneroman.com)
  3. UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions (www.uefa.com)
  4. Quoting Bruce Schneier (simonwillison.net)
  5. Topologies, Groups, Graphs (www.robbielyman.com)
  6. The Situation Deteriorated (www.bloomberg.com)
  7. We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447 (www.bottlenecklabs.com)
  8. Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (openai.com)
  9. Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick (krebsonsecurity.com)
  10. Thursday Night Dinner (gochugarugirl.com)
  11. Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub (github.blog)
  12. Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up (www.quantamagazine.org)
  13. Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots (deepmind.google)
  14. The Economic Benefit of Refactoring (martinfowler.com)
  15. Hacker Public Radio (hackerpublicradio.org)
  16. Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools (prized.dev)
  17. Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5 (www.projectpluto.com)
  18. RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020) (mnot.net)
  19. Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery? (www.construction-physics.com)
  20. How old is Ann? (quuxplusone.github.io)
  21. Are We Stuck with Lean? (mathoverflow.net)
  22. Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates (select.supply)
  23. 3D Pinball for Windows (1995) (98.js.org)
  24. Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2 (www.grumpygamer.com)
  25. Highlights From The Discourse On The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  26. Hidden Open Thread 444.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  27. this edge of the earth (toground.link)
  28. AI Worming through Word (simonwillison.net)
  29. Quoting Matthew Green (simonwillison.net)
  30. Announcing PCBEval (blog.greg.technology)
  31. SpaceX Crash Insurance (www.bloomberg.com)
  32. Everyone's Tables Suck (404wolf.com)
  33. The Next Miracle Drug Might Already Be in Your Medicine Cabinet (www.derekthompson.org)
  34. Eventual Consistency (thornberry.io)
  35. Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT (simonwillison.net)
  36. How Much OpenCode + GPT 5.6 Usage Do You Get With OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro Subscription? (hamy.xyz)
  37. Lorenz and Little: How Much Does Your Tail Cost? (brooker.co.za)
  38. Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude (simonwillison.net)
  39. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident (simonwillison.net)
  40. Project Monopoly: Euston Road (gochugarugirl.com)
  41. Elevators Won’t Repair Themselves (www.bloomberg.com)
  42. RE: knitting the web: we need interlinkers (olu.online)
  43. Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine (www.astralcodexten.com)
  44. State of multi-player Wayland (blinry.org)
  45. The inliner is yielding benefits for ZJIT (bernsteinbear.com)
  46. If AI Writes All the Code, What Do the Programmers Do? (probablydance.com)
  47. moonshotai/Kimi-K3 (simonwillison.net)
  48. An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff (simonwillison.net)
  49. A Merger Closing Mystery (www.bloomberg.com)
  50. Project Monopoly: The Angel Islington (gochugarugirl.com)
  51. What Does It Look Like When You Handle Disruption Well? (commoncog.com)
  52. “Steph Curry: fluke or breakthrough” ten years later (blog.plover.com)
  53. Blog Newsletter Restored (punchagan.muse-amuse.in)
  54. Open Thread 444 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  55. Tactical Decision Game with John Schmitt (commoncog.com)
  56. The Hallway Track No. 018: Genesis Mission $5B, Challengescape problem directory, team science vs. solo AI agents (hallway.aris.pub)
  57. Mid-Training and the Middle-End (blog.veitheller.de)
  58. An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud (simonwillison.net)
  59. Doing Okay-ish with AI at the AI-proof competition (blog.greg.technology)
  60. weeknotes #62 (olu.online)
  61. Invention 2 by J. S. Bach (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  62. Production ML-DSA Verification in 350 Lines of Python (words.filippo.io)
  63. It gets better: A letter to my younger self (bugwhisperer.dev)
  64. Porting Super Hexagon to the Playdate (captnemo.in)
  65. Some vegan recipes (kevingal.com)
  66. Welcome to the Classroom of Meritocratic Supremacy (read.alonzo.zip)
  67. The road to epsilon-zero: Infinite Nim as a coin-moving game (blog.plover.com)
  68. Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds (hannahilea.com)
  69. Quoting Boris Cherny (simonwillison.net)
  70. Introducing Claude Opus 5 (simonwillison.net)
  71. Your Book Review: Breakdown In Pakistan (www.astralcodexten.com)
  72. The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  73. Cranban is a tool for collaborating with robots (patrickweaver.net)
  74. Cranban is kanban for humans collaborating with robots (patrickweaver.net)
  75. I'm running a programming contest (eieio.games)
  76. Printing tiny photos for paper journals (macwright.com)
  77. The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? (simonwillison.net)
  78. If You're Reading This I'm Free (blog.danielsosebee.com)