News

1. Counter or gauge? (cceckman.com)
2. Baked Eggs with Crushed Chickpeas, Chorizo, and Bread Crumbs (www.alisoneroman.com)
3. Fennel and Grapefruit Salad with Honey and Mint (www.alisoneroman.com)
4. Blood Oranges with Crunchy Red Onion and Avocado (www.alisoneroman.com)
5. Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs (scalex.dev)
6. Mario Meets Pareto (www.mayerowitz.io)
7. On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails (github.com)
8. Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't (www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)
9. Open Questions On Open Weights (www.astralcodexten.com)
10. Art Prompts: Hailstone Arabesques (www.fractalkitty.com)
11. Hidden Open Thread 445.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
12. An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing (simonwillison.net)
13. Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (simonwillison.net)
14. Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models (simonwillison.net)
15. Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing (simonwillison.net)
16. The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing (randsinrepose.com)
17. NVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose (chipsandcheese.com)
18. Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent (www.primeintellect.ai)
19. Watermelon and Cucumbers with Spicy Sumac Salt (www.alisoneroman.com)
20. Persimmons and Pears with Blue Cheese and Spicy Pecans (www.alisoneroman.com)
21. The road to epsilon-zero: Coin-moving games with no coins (blog.plover.com)
22. Notes from the AI Coding Transition (emschwartz.me)
23. One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5 (simonwillison.net)
24. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (research.meta.ai)
25. Zed DeltaDB (zed.dev)
26. Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage (blog.fogus.me)
27. Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models (neon.com)
28. SpaceX Unlocks Tomorrow (www.bloomberg.com)
29. Apple and Endive Salad with Parsley and Salted Almonds (www.alisoneroman.com)
30. Raw and Roasted Kale with Pistachios and Creamy Pecorino (www.alisoneroman.com)
31. Vinegared Romaine with Sour Cream, Bacon, and Herbs (www.alisoneroman.com)
32. Little Gems and Cabbage with Pickled Turnips and Lemony Tahini Dressing (www.alisoneroman.com)
33. Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls (www.promptarmor.com)
34. Chicories with Anchovy Bread Crumbs and Egg Yolk (www.alisoneroman.com)
35. Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects (github.com)
36. Grilled Eggplant Dressed with Garlicky Walnuts and Lots of Basil (www.alisoneroman.com)
37. Grilled Corn Salad with Fresh Cheese and Corn Nuts (www.alisoneroman.com)
38. Discovery Loop (www.discoveryloop.com)
39. Raw and Roasted Carrots and Fennel with Feta and Pistachios (www.alisoneroman.com)
40. Baked Summer Squash with Cream and Parmesan Bread Crumbs (www.alisoneroman.com)
41. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (blog.google)
42. Cucumbers and Kohlrabi in Crunchy Chili Oil (www.alisoneroman.com)
43. Incentives are for losers (www.experimental-history.com)
44. Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work (blog.cloudflare.com)
45. Text editor architecture from ed to jupyterlab (tyoverby.com)
46. How Much Faster is Coding with AI Agents? (from a Senior Software Engineer) (hamy.xyz)
47. New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging (simonwillison.net)
48. The Beauty Of Settled Science (www.astralcodexten.com)
49. Project Monopoly: Three Purples and Marylebone Station (gochugarugirl.com)
50. PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx (simonwillison.net)
51. My Impressions of Loop Engineering (debamitro.github.io)
52. Leveraged ETF Crash Hedging ETF (www.bloomberg.com)
53. How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 (phoboslab.org)
54. Quoting Steve Yegge (simonwillison.net)
55. A More Immediate Intuitive Appeal (blog.veitheller.de)
56. Don't be a meat proxy (simonwillison.net)
57. Does Forecasting Have Room At The Top? (www.astralcodexten.com)
58. Learning to fly FPV drones with AI flight coach (blog.divyendusingh.com)
59. Writing my own sequencer for the Yocto drum machine (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
60. Hedgehog Hedge Fund (www.bloomberg.com)
61. Death by side quests (jesusgollonet.com)
62. Open Thread 445 (www.astralcodexten.com)
63. Quoting David Crawshaw's prompt (simonwillison.net)
64. Devtools must be open source (exe.dev) (simonwillison.net)
65. Monday Cleaning Day (gochugarugirl.com)
66. Rebuilding Postgres for 300x faster analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
67. Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If (www.greyblake.com)
68. Subway arrival times in my living room with Raspberry Pi (iafisher.com)
69. The Hallway Track No. 019: AlphaFold team disbanded, verification as the bottleneck, Tao's ICM caution (hallway.aris.pub)
70. Seven books I keep close because I love them (blog.plover.com)
71. Who's afraid of a non sofic group (www.robbielyman.com)
72. Project Monopoly: Pentonville Road (gochugarugirl.com)
73. weeknotes #63 (olu.online)
74. Open letters about AI development (simonwillison.net)
75. Adding Go's defer to the TypeScript Compiler (healeycodes.com)
76. Getting a Working SICP environment in Emacs in 2026 (www.blog.jamesgisele.com)
77. Reading Log #1 (vishnubharathi.codes)
78. Quoting Greg Brockman (simonwillison.net)
79. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (simonwillison.net)
80. Pendants (figbert.com)
81. My NixOS dev machine (miccah.io)
82. July Life Update (seinwave.com)
83. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (simonwillison.net)
84. Your Book Review: The Epic Of Gilgamesh (www.astralcodexten.com)
85. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp) (simonwillison.net)
86. About Interactives: Inquiries.link (www.fractalkitty.com)
87. Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation) (andrewkelley.me)
88. Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer (nanochess.org)
89. Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison (simonwillison.net)
90. smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses (simonwillison.net)
91. Friday Baking Day (gochugarugirl.com)
92. help wanted (lake.computer)
93. links #8: how you know it's good (etc.octavore.com)
94. RE: “The robots work at night”: How AI helps the world’s poorest, and where it falls short (olu.online)
95. The End of my Suno Era (read.alonzo.zip)
96. The Four Horsemen of the AI Bubble Apocalypse (www.derekthompson.org)
97. do more random elective medical stuff (adagrad.substack.com)
98. there is a poker-shaped hole in your heart (adagrad.substack.com)
99. In Which I Lose My Mind Over Embeddings (HPLM Chapter 2) (www.maayanroth.com)
100. Writing dumber (liquidbrain.net)
101. Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (simonwillison.net)
102. Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (simonwillison.net)
103. Links For July 2026 (Part 2) (www.astralcodexten.com)
104. Quoting Bruce Schneier (simonwillison.net)
105. Topologies, Groups, Graphs (www.robbielyman.com)
106. The Situation Deteriorated (www.bloomberg.com)
107. Thursday Night Dinner (gochugarugirl.com)