News

1. France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls (www.lemonde.fr)
2. 1st Sept 2026: An Increase in Membership Prices (commoncog.com)
3. Recycle – Floppydisks (www.floppydisk.com)
4. H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon (github.com)
5. Chicken Scheme 6.0 (code.call-cc.org)
6. Scallops with Corn, Hazelnuts, and Brown Butter Chermoula (www.alisoneroman.com)
7. Black Bass with Salty, Spicy Celery (www.alisoneroman.com)
8. Quick Weeknight Fish Stew with Olives (www.alisoneroman.com)
9. Introducing Muse Glimmer (simonwillison.net)
10. Spring Seafood Stew with Peas, New Potatoes, and Tarragon (www.alisoneroman.com)
11. Whole Roasted Snapper with Harissa and Sun Gold Tomatoes (www.alisoneroman.com)
12. The UK's war on anonymity has come to America (www.effort.news)
13. Grilled Branzino with Lemons All of the Ways (www.alisoneroman.com)
14. Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states (everycube.alen.is)
15. As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing (thewalrus.ca)
16. How Claude marks AI-generated content (support.claude.com)
17. Littleneck Clams with Green Garlic Butter and Leftover Wine (www.alisoneroman.com)
18. Shrimp in the Shells with Lots of Garlic and Probably Too Much Butter (www.alisoneroman.com)
19. Cold Soba with Cucumbers, Watercress, and Sesame (www.alisoneroman.com)
20. Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor (arachnoid.com)
21. Stone Soup (gochugarugirl.com)
22. You Can Fix Email (thefloatingcontinent.com)
23. Rust SIMD on the GPU (www.vectorware.com)
24. Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities (www.anthropic.com)
25. Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots (cactuscompute.com)
26. The Situation Is Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
27. What's the best programming language for coding agents? (danluu.com)
28. Open Thread 446 (www.astralcodexten.com)
29. Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt (github.com)
30. Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline (github.com)
31. Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's (www.bbc.com)
32. Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models (www.ft.com)
33. Squeak 6.1 (squeak.org)
34. Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (2025) (lwn.net)
35. Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows (research.meta.ai)
36. Just Another Girl – The Killers (read.alonzo.zip)
37. The Hallway Track No. 020: Astra solves ten open math problems, AI agents fail at open-ended research, peer review under strain (hallway.aris.pub)
38. sterno (approximateknowledge.net)
39. Quoting OpenClaw (simonwillison.net)
40. Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt (simonwillison.net)
41. weeknotes #64 (olu.online)
42. GitHub Models is now retired (simonwillison.net)
43. A Walk Around Covent Garden (gochugarugirl.com)
44. and in a flash, you took off (toground.link)
45. I cannot see beyond it (clarionsong.substack.com)
46. Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans (simonwillison.net)
47. Project Monopoly: The Three Oranges (gochugarugirl.com)
48. Reading Log #2 (vishnubharathi.codes)
49. help unexpected (lake.computer)
50. Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
51. Baked Pasta with Artichokes, Greens, and Too Much Cheese (www.alisoneroman.com)
52. Pasta with Crispy Squid, Lemon, and Chile (www.alisoneroman.com)
53. Wrote a new blog post about our live show with Monochromatic Pool (palomakop.tv)
54. Getting off the Modernization Treadmill (unplannedobsolescence.com)
55. Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
56. Roasted Tomato and Anchovy Bucatini (www.alisoneroman.com)
57. Whole-Wheat Pasta with Brown-Buttered Mushrooms, Buckwheat, and Egg Yolk (www.alisoneroman.com)
58. Clam Pasta with Chorizo and Walnuts (www.alisoneroman.com)
59. Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra) (simonwillison.net)
60. Sour Cream Flatbread (www.alisoneroman.com)
61. I'm Building an Official Shopify Theme! (brianagude.substack.com)
62. The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI (simonwillison.net)
63. The 9 Questions I’m Obsessed With Right Now: AI, Politics, Movies, Drugs, and Western Civilization (www.derekthompson.org)
64. MacGregor The Bridge Builder (www.astralcodexten.com)
65. A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs (bernsteinbear.com)
66. things to say to someone who says they're vegan (lake.computer)
67. Fake SpaceX Stock Isn’t Worth as Much (www.bloomberg.com)
68. Counter or gauge? (cceckman.com)
69. Open Questions On Open Weights (www.astralcodexten.com)
70. Art Prompts: Hailstone Arabesques (www.fractalkitty.com)
71. Hidden Open Thread 445.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
72. An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing (simonwillison.net)
73. Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (simonwillison.net)
74. Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models (simonwillison.net)
75. Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing (simonwillison.net)
76. The road to epsilon-zero: Coin-moving games with no coins (blog.plover.com)
77. Notes from the AI Coding Transition (emschwartz.me)
78. One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5 (simonwillison.net)
79. SpaceX Unlocks Tomorrow (www.bloomberg.com)
80. Incentives are for losers (www.experimental-history.com)
81. Text editor architecture from ed to jupyterlab (tyoverby.com)
82. How Much Faster is Coding with AI Agents? (from a Senior Software Engineer) (hamy.xyz)
83. New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging (simonwillison.net)
84. The Beauty Of Settled Science (www.astralcodexten.com)
85. Project Monopoly: Three Purples and Marylebone Station (gochugarugirl.com)
86. PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx (simonwillison.net)
87. My Impressions of Loop Engineering (debamitro.github.io)
88. Leveraged ETF Crash Hedging ETF (www.bloomberg.com)