News

  1. When did Google get so weird? (sancho.bearblog.dev)
  2. Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi (loficities.com)
  3. Ember-1 (fireworks.ai)
  4. Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out (tinyaiarena.com)
  5. PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura (nura.eco)
  6. The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures (www.ihatethefuture.com)
  7. On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted (unsung.aresluna.org)
  8. In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life (www.nytimes.com)
  9. Show HN: Building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web (www.markdown.beauty)
  10. Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights (jvns.ca)
  11. Kākāpō Party (simonwillison.net)
  12. Video CDs Break Windows Explorer (clydesnotes.blogspot.com)
  13. My Six Favorite YouTube IDs (blog.greg.technology)
  14. Building Go Tools Without Writing Any Go (niccrane.com)
  15. Go Concurrency Distilled (antonz.org)
  16. Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests (fakecloud.dev)
  17. Improving site performance by shipping more CSS (github.blog)
  18. Flip Fluid on Flip Dots (mitxela.com)
  19. Infecting the Steam Link with NixOS (feyor.sh)
  20. Carp in Glamorous Toolkit (blog.veitheller.de)
  21. Your Book Review: Lee Kuan Yew's Memoirs (www.astralcodexten.com)
  22. The commercial applications of embodied conversational agents are gross. (newdelete.alinen.net)
  23. Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013) (asawicki.info)
  24. Vinegar-Braised Chicken Wings (www.alisoneroman.com)
  25. Vinegar-Braised Chicken Wings with Zucchini and Herbs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  26. notice of being ghosted (lake.computer)
  27. Quoting John Gruber (simonwillison.net)
  28. L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages (blog.plover.com)
  29. Banana, Walnut and Cardamom Bundt (gochugarugirl.com)
  30. C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake (pikuma.com)
  31. Fall Meetups 2026 - Call For Meetup Organizers (www.astralcodexten.com)
  32. The road to epsilon-zero: “Shortlex” isn't actually a single order (blog.plover.com)
  33. Note on 24th September 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  34. clml, a rust string coloring library (etc.octavore.com)
  35. The Specter Of Neuralese (www.astralcodexten.com)
  36. Morgan Stanley Leaked Some Deals (www.bloomberg.com)
  37. Homemade bagels (merveilles.town)
  38. How China Thinks About AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  39. Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later (www.astralcodexten.com)
  40. Rapid Learning Skill for Code (niccrane.com)
  41. Out Now: Low-tech Magazine Volume IV (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
  42. Platform-independent SIMD in Go (go.dev)
  43. Kalshi Levers the Predictions (www.bloomberg.com)
  44. Building a homelab (wrla.ch)
  45. Noting another house repair chore victory (blog.plover.com)
  46. Delegation and trust (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  47. Hidden Open Thread 452.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  48. The Mundanity of Excellence, Small Wins, and Why You Should Fix Bugs Before Writing New Features (probablydance.com)
  49. SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering (simonwillison.net)
  50. Mysteries Of AI Generalization (www.astralcodexten.com)
  51. Work diary victory (blog.plover.com)
  52. Building a Multiplayer Game of Life with Rust + Datastar (hamy.xyz)
  53. Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war (simonwillison.net)
  54. Who Cares If a Merger Is Fair? (www.bloomberg.com)
  55. Quoting @therealcornpop (simonwillison.net)
  56. Simplicio, Ten Years Later (adagrad.substack.com)
  57. Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models (simonwillison.net)
  58. Open Thread 452 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  59. Solitaire Alone Together (eieio.games)
  60. The Hallway Track No. 026: AI use in science study, astronomy disclosure gap, Paper2Agent, SAIR initiative (hallway.aris.pub)
  61. A First Futamura Projection (blog.veitheller.de)
  62. Tuna and Butterbean Salad (gochugarugirl.com)
  63. weeknotes #66 (olu.online)
  64. Quoting voxium (simonwillison.net)