News

  1. Queens Public library under ransomware attack e-borrowing suspended (connect.queenslibrary.org)
  2. Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember (simonwillison.net)
  3. Fireworks AI security breach impacts Notion and their customers (www.notion.com)
  4. Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider (strandsagents.com)
  5. Quoting Prompting Claude Fable 5.2 (simonwillison.net)
  6. Your TV can see through walls (maurycyz.com)
  7. Mathematicians and Luddites (alok.github.io)
  8. Ultorg: The User Interface for Relational Databases (www.ultorg.com)
  9. Yonkers Rises (simonwillison.net)
  10. CoreWeave bond yield tops 16% as AI credit stress rises (www.cnbc.com)
  11. Nov 09: The Right Question (tinylogger.com)
  12. Formalizing CPython (broyojo.com)
  13. Pamphlets Considered Quite Cool (figbert.com)
  14. Horible public key tricks (maurycyz.com)
  15. llm-anthropic 0.31 (simonwillison.net)
  16. Locating the source of a mysterious beep with Claude (simonwillison.net)
  17. 20-30 minute meditations (qqrs.us)
  18. should learning to code be like learning to read? (olu.online)
  19. Open Thread 459 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  20. USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons (postalpro.usps.com)
  21. Is the Nvidia Affair Securities Fraud? (www.bloomberg.com)
  22. E-means: Outperforming k-means in one-tenth the epochs (e-means.github.io)
  23. The first 300-millimeter power silicon carbide (SiC) wafer (www.infineon.com)
  24. Google Gemini routes personal Drive files and emails to human annotators (github.com)
  25. Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 (www.anthropic.com)
  26. Muse Ember: Our smallest, most efficient model (research.meta.ai)
  27. Show HN: Every satellite that passed over any place this week, and its photos (www.watched.earth)
  28. Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system (www.payments.ca)
  29. On Being an Engineer in 2026 (twitter.com)
  30. Semi-transparent, colored cadmium telluride photovoltaic panels in agrivoltaics (www.anthropocenemagazine.org)
  31. Foldable Flight: The Best Paper Airplanes (www.foldableflight.com)
  32. Can Tactical Decision Games Accelerate ... Maths? (commoncog.com)
  33. The Hallway Track No. 033: AutoDNA autonomous lab, mathematics profession at scale, AI cloning benchmarks (hallway.aris.pub)
  34. psychic: a fast file browser with ML-powered ranking (klauria.tech)
  35. The Web Is More Than Enough, by Paul Ford (simonwillison.net)
  36. Hide your slop PR descriptions behind <details><summary> (simonwillison.net)
  37. weeknotes #71 (olu.online)
  38. Recurse Center Week One (ajoellee.com)
  39. Nov 08: Layover (tinylogger.com)
  40. Sanborn keymaps: location priors, if you can read them (danvk.github.io)
  41. $16k and a solar panel (blog.greg.technology)
  42. Nov 07: Minimal Tools (tinylogger.com)
  43. how i think (olu.online)
  44. I did a meditation and it sort of changed my personality?! (www.benkuhn.net)
  45. sattolo (cosmo-grant.github.io)
  46. Nov 06: Keep Making Imperfect Stuff (cont.) (tinylogger.com)
  47. Mourning Joe Wahrhaftig (harihareswara.net)
  48. A short history of the Troubled Teen Industry (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  49. Here comes the sun[light]: An ambient Daylight Clock with time and space controls (hannahilea.com)
  50. gambling (olu.online)
  51. Your Book Review: Orality and Literacy (www.astralcodexten.com)
  52. Quoting Nilay Patel (simonwillison.net)
  53. Is AI a Tool? (sarah.engineer)
  54. Creating Worlds: Runes and Spells (www.fractalkitty.com)
  55. Nov 05: Keep Making Imperfect Stuff (tinylogger.com)
  56. Base Power Company (figbert.com)
  57. The Elephant + Goldfish AI Workflow - Simply Explained (hamy.xyz)
  58. The other corridor (blog.veitheller.de)
  59. a little or a lot? (olu.online)
  60. Financial Predictionization (www.bloomberg.com)
  61. Golden Cauliflower Soup with Chickpeas (www.alisoneroman.com)
  62. I Made Lunch (www.alisoneroman.com)
  63. Ashland Nature Center (cceckman.com)
  64. Betting Against The Trend (fafa.bearblog.dev)
  65. Soft Superhuman (alok.github.io)
  66. Deploy Your Own Food Tracking MCP in Minutes (www.bradleydettmer.me)
  67. Nov 04: Stockholm (tinylogger.com)
  68. Links For November 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  69. individuality (olu.online)
  70. The Trump Decade Is Over (www.derekthompson.org)
  71. The Midterm Predictions Were Good (www.bloomberg.com)
  72. Language design and implementation in the time of agents (upvalue.io)
  73. Tokenizer Mono (george.mand.is)
  74. Nov 03: Play It Again (tinylogger.com)
  75. Just Write Rust (hamy.xyz)
  76. A new Go API for JSON (go.dev)
  77. the cost of being online (olu.online)
  78. How Much Should Anthropic Pop? (www.bloomberg.com)
  79. AI is destroying my CS degree (simonwillison.net)
  80. Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too (simonwillison.net)
  81. BIG NEWS! Plus, how to work with others when you work alone (vrklovespaper.substack.com)