News

  1. Kalshi Levers the Predictions (www.bloomberg.com)
  2. Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats (www.anthropic.com)
  3. UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told (www.bbc.com)
  4. Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy (apnews.com)
  5. 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days (unlisted.careers)
  6. Building a homelab (wrla.ch)
  7. Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech (blog.google)
  8. Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol (radicle.dev)
  9. Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock (pointinthecloud.com)
  10. GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car (drivingbench.com)
  11. Strands Harness (strandsagents.com)
  12. Noting another house repair chore victory (blog.plover.com)
  13. Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries (advocacy.consumerreports.org)
  14. Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform (stripe.dev)
  15. The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022) (michaelheap.com)
  16. I don't want the details (michaelheap.com)
  17. Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed] (blog.szypowi.cz)
  18. Z80 REPL (2018) (abagames.github.io)
  19. Tokens Too Cheap to Meter (jyn.dev)
  20. Delegation and trust (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  21. Hidden Open Thread 452.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  22. Jev in 25 Lines of Python (www.nobodywho.ai)
  23. The Mundanity of Excellence, Small Wins, and Why You Should Fix Bugs Before Writing New Features (probablydance.com)
  24. SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering (simonwillison.net)
  25. Transit rewards (waymo.com)
  26. Mysteries Of AI Generalization (www.astralcodexten.com)
  27. Work diary victory (blog.plover.com)
  28. Building a Multiplayer Game of Life with Rust + Datastar (hamy.xyz)
  29. Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war (simonwillison.net)
  30. Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived (foxscript.org)
  31. SAML: A fractal of bad design (blog.trailofbits.com)
  32. Who Cares If a Merger Is Fair? (www.bloomberg.com)
  33. Quoting @therealcornpop (simonwillison.net)
  34. Simplicio, Ten Years Later (adagrad.substack.com)
  35. Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models (simonwillison.net)
  36. Open Thread 452 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  37. Solitaire Alone Together (eieio.games)
  38. The Hallway Track No. 026: AI use in science study, astronomy disclosure gap, Paper2Agent, SAIR initiative (hallway.aris.pub)
  39. A First Futamura Projection (blog.veitheller.de)
  40. Tuna and Butterbean Salad (gochugarugirl.com)
  41. weeknotes #66 (olu.online)
  42. Quoting voxium (simonwillison.net)
  43. Reading Log #6 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  44. 0061: i'm not a cat, artificial adventures, synthetic sagas, anthropic, sponsors (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  45. Synthetic sagas (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  46. Artsy Math: Squaring Square Patterns (www.fractalkitty.com)
  47. Processing Community Day NYC 2026 • MIDI Workshop Preview (george.mand.is)
  48. Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI (simonwillison.net)
  49. Your Book Review: This Is Going To Hurt (www.astralcodexten.com)
  50. “Shoppy Shop” Thoughts (www.alisoneroman.com)
  51. Note on 18th September 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  52. Quoting Thariq Shihipar (simonwillison.net)
  53. A Model for Winning Survivor (victoriaritvo.com)
  54. Project Monopoly: Fleet Street (gochugarugirl.com)
  55. Mrs Perkins' Quilt (www.fractalkitty.com)
  56. How To Write With An LLM (simonwillison.net)
  57. Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries (simonwillison.net)
  58. The Whole Indian Options Trade Was Too Good (www.bloomberg.com)
  59. LibreOffice on Arch doesn't install fallback fonts by default (www.blog.jamesgisele.com)
  60. How I Actually Do Agentic Engineering As A Senior Software Engineer (hamy.xyz)
  61. AI Superforecasting Should Transform The FDA (www.astralcodexten.com)