News

  1. Writing my own sequencer for the Yocto drum machine (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  2. Hedgehog Hedge Fund (www.bloomberg.com)
  3. Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (changelog.complete.org)
  4. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (openai.com)
  5. Open Thread 445 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  6. Quoting David Crawshaw's prompt (simonwillison.net)
  7. Devtools must be open source (exe.dev) (simonwillison.net)
  8. Monday Cleaning Day (gochugarugirl.com)
  9. Devtools must be open source (blog.exe.dev)
  10. Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs (clickhouse.com)
  11. MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video (blog.comfy.org)
  12. Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time (www.intellinews.com)
  13. SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop? (research.jfrog.com)
  14. AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU (github.com)
  15. Show HN: Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone (github.com)
  16. Rebuilding Postgres for 300x faster analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
  17. Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code (ankursethi.com)
  18. What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not (senderledger.com)
  19. Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library (github.com)
  20. Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors (github.com)
  21. Don't be a meat proxy (gruhn.me)
  22. Subway arrival times in my living room with Raspberry Pi (iafisher.com)
  23. The Hallway Track No. 019: AlphaFold team disbanded, verification as the bottleneck, Tao's ICM caution (hallway.aris.pub)
  24. Seven books I keep close because I love them (blog.plover.com)
  25. Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork (qwen.ai)
  26. Who's afraid of a non sofic group (www.robbielyman.com)
  27. Project Monopoly: Pentonville Road (gochugarugirl.com)
  28. weeknotes #63 (olu.online)
  29. Open letters about AI development (simonwillison.net)
  30. Adding Go's defer to the TypeScript Compiler (healeycodes.com)
  31. Getting a Working SICP environment in Emacs in 2026 (www.blog.jamesgisele.com)
  32. Reading Log #1 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  33. Quoting Greg Brockman (simonwillison.net)
  34. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (simonwillison.net)
  35. Pendants (figbert.com)
  36. My NixOS dev machine (miccah.io)
  37. July Life Update (seinwave.com)
  38. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (simonwillison.net)
  39. Your Book Review: The Epic Of Gilgamesh (www.astralcodexten.com)
  40. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp) (simonwillison.net)
  41. About Interactives: Inquiries.link (www.fractalkitty.com)
  42. Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation) (andrewkelley.me)
  43. Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison (simonwillison.net)
  44. smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses (simonwillison.net)
  45. Friday Baking Day (gochugarugirl.com)
  46. help wanted (lake.computer)
  47. links #8: how you know it's good (etc.octavore.com)
  48. RE: “The robots work at night”: How AI helps the world’s poorest, and where it falls short (olu.online)
  49. The End of my Suno Era (read.alonzo.zip)
  50. The Four Horsemen of the AI Bubble Apocalypse (www.derekthompson.org)
  51. do more random elective medical stuff (adagrad.substack.com)
  52. there is a poker-shaped hole in your heart (adagrad.substack.com)
  53. In Which I Lose My Mind Over Embeddings (HPLM Chapter 2) (www.maayanroth.com)
  54. Writing dumber (liquidbrain.net)
  55. Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (simonwillison.net)
  56. Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (simonwillison.net)
  57. Links For July 2026 (Part 2) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  58. I have something to say about grilled meat (www.alisoneroman.com)
  59. Grilled Tomatillo Salsa (www.alisoneroman.com)
  60. Charred Broccoli Salad with Garlic and Basil (www.alisoneroman.com)
  61. Quoting Bruce Schneier (simonwillison.net)
  62. Topologies, Groups, Graphs (www.robbielyman.com)
  63. The Situation Deteriorated (www.bloomberg.com)
  64. Thursday Night Dinner (gochugarugirl.com)
  65. Highlights From The Discourse On The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  66. Hidden Open Thread 444.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  67. this edge of the earth (toground.link)
  68. AI Worming through Word (simonwillison.net)
  69. Quoting Matthew Green (simonwillison.net)
  70. Announcing PCBEval (blog.greg.technology)
  71. SpaceX Crash Insurance (www.bloomberg.com)
  72. Everyone's Tables Suck (404wolf.com)
  73. The Next Miracle Drug Might Already Be in Your Medicine Cabinet (www.derekthompson.org)
  74. Eventual Consistency (thornberry.io)
  75. Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT (simonwillison.net)
  76. How Much OpenCode + GPT 5.6 Usage Do You Get With OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro Subscription? (hamy.xyz)
  77. Lorenz and Little: How Much Does Your Tail Cost? (brooker.co.za)
  78. Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude (simonwillison.net)
  79. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident (simonwillison.net)
  80. Project Monopoly: Euston Road (gochugarugirl.com)
  81. Elevators Won’t Repair Themselves (www.bloomberg.com)
  82. RE: knitting the web: we need interlinkers (olu.online)
  83. How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood (www.statsignificant.com)
  84. Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine (www.astralcodexten.com)
  85. State of multi-player Wayland (blinry.org)
  86. The inliner is yielding benefits for ZJIT (bernsteinbear.com)
  87. If AI Writes All the Code, What Do the Programmers Do? (probablydance.com)
  88. moonshotai/Kimi-K3 (simonwillison.net)
  89. An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff (simonwillison.net)