News

  1. Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM (pixelcluster.dev)
  2. The Benchmarkpocalypse (danluu.com)
  3. Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (simonwillison.net)
  4. Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items (www.repaircafe.org)
  5. How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots (timmarinin.net)
  6. Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full (fabiensanglard.net)
  7. Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera (catcrafts.net)
  8. GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% (openrouter.ai)
  9. Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots (responsiblestatecraft.org)
  10. Open Thread 447 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  11. AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) (www.rickmanelius.com)
  12. India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions (www.bbc.com)
  13. Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia (www.newyorker.com)
  14. GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast (arxiv.org)
  15. Brown Butter–Buttermilk Cake (www.alisoneroman.com)
  16. An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail (moddedbear.com)
  17. Blueberry Cake with Almond and Cinnamon (www.alisoneroman.com)
  18. Lemon Shaker Tart (www.alisoneroman.com)
  19. Pistachio-Plum Crisp (www.alisoneroman.com)
  20. Rhubarb-Almond Galette (www.alisoneroman.com)
  21. Everyone’s Favorite Celebration Cake (www.alisoneroman.com)
  22. Sun Clock (sunclock.net)
  23. Caramelized Honey with Figs and Ice Cream (www.alisoneroman.com)
  24. Honey-Yogurt Pound Cake with Raspberries (www.alisoneroman.com)
  25. Cocoa Banana Bread (www.alisoneroman.com)
  26. Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data (current.org)
  27. Chocolate-Tahini Tart with Crunchy Salt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  28. Frozen Blackberries and Labne with Honey (www.alisoneroman.com)
  29. Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI (speko.ai)
  30. We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility (simonwillison.net)
  31. AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira (www.wiz.io)
  32. How to disable or avoid intrusive AI (www.librarian.net)
  33. A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 (duckdb.org)
  34. GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released (blog.roboflow.com)
  35. Jackdaw Release DELAYED (charlie-volow.com)
  36. Due diligence for charitable giving (iafisher.com)
  37. The Hallway Track No. 021: AI peer review ensembles, Riemann zeta bound, VibeMathed registry (hallway.aris.pub)
  38. What If It's Just This? (read.alonzo.zip)
  39. Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things (simonwillison.net)
  40. Quoting Dario Amodei (simonwillison.net)
  41. Reading Log #3 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  42. The Creation of Abulafia (blog.veitheller.de)
  43. CORS Chat (simonwillison.net)
  44. Getting MIDI sync working (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  45. Rhythm games (sygi.xyz)
  46. Your Book Review: The Escape Artist (www.astralcodexten.com)
  47. Crunchy Tenderstem Broccoli (gochugarugirl.com)
  48. Don't classify. Hallucinate! (simonwillison.net)
  49. The American Sports Plutocracy Is Bullshit (www.derekthompson.org)
  50. Pasta e Ceci Salad (www.alisoneroman.com)
  51. Pasta e Ceci Salad (www.alisoneroman.com)
  52. The road to epsilon-zero: Productive programs and well-founded orders (blog.plover.com)
  53. Technology optimism hour (macwright.com)
  54. The Foothills Of Bay Area House Party (www.astralcodexten.com)
  55. llm-gemini 0.33 (simonwillison.net)
  56. Bilateral OTC Goat Hedge (www.bloomberg.com)
  57. Thoughts on the "in-between" (brianagude.substack.com)
  58. Links from The Internship (cceckman.com)
  59. 24 things I believe (clarionsong.substack.com)
  60. The Quest For Caffeine You Can Have At Night (www.astralcodexten.com)
  61. Another partial SSI trick with canonicalize (bernsteinbear.com)
  62. A fully legible mind (blog.veitheller.de)
  63. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter) (simonwillison.net)
  64. A Walk In Primrose Hill (gochugarugirl.com)
  65. Sorbet in Grapefruit Cups (www.alisoneroman.com)
  66. Reading together, unsupervised (brian.abelson.live)
  67. Anchovy-Butter Chicken with Chicken Fat Croutons (www.alisoneroman.com)
  68. AI-Backed Securities (www.bloomberg.com)
  69. Quoting Florian Herrengt (simonwillison.net)
  70. <a href="/blog/thewildlifetrusts/we-drained-britain-dry-now-we-are-watching-it-burn" hreflang="en">We drained Britain dry. Now we are watching it burn</a> (www.wildlondon.org.uk)
  71. Topologies on Free Products (www.robbielyman.com)
  72. My Daily Routine as a Software Engineer and Dad of a 1-Year-Old (hamy.xyz)
  73. There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text (simonwillison.net)
  74. Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs (simonwillison.net)
  75. There are two kinds of theorems (blog.plover.com)
  76. Pick-and-Shovel Seller Financing (www.bloomberg.com)
  77. Reflections on AI (blog.greg.technology)
  78. Ergonomic SSH development (miccah.io)
  79. The Great American AI Rebellion (www.derekthompson.org)