News

  1. Patrick Stewart has died (www.nytimes.com)
  2. The importance of communities around software (lumi.codeberg.page)
  3. Programming at Light Speed: Building the Gravity Query Engine (malisper.me)
  4. Run on the Law Firm (www.bloomberg.com)
  5. Alleged Chinese spy had 'close relationship' with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang (nypost.com)
  6. After 28 years walking across the globe, he's almost home (www.nytimes.com)
  7. Building a multiplayer game world with autonomous Fable-class models (simonwillison.net)
  8. Tomáš Mikolov awarded the Medal of Merit by the President of the Czech Republic (www.vut.cz)
  9. Links For October 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  10. 16colo.rs – ANSI/ASCII art archive (16colo.rs)
  11. Adding swing to my Yocto sequencer (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  12. Breakout (cceckman.com)
  13. H.264 Is Magic (2016) (sidbala.com)
  14. Grace Blackwell needs a new scheduler: 27% more usable GPUs from the same racks (skypilot.ai)
  15. Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from (trakkr.ai)
  16. LLM Voice (martinfowler.com)
  17. Keplearn: Extract Equations from Data in Seconds (github.com)
  18. We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 (mistral.ai)
  19. Quoting Ben Hylak (simonwillison.net)
  20. DoorDash to acquire Instacart (about.doordash.com)
  21. If IPv4 were land (iptrust.co)
  22. NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto (mastodon.sdf.org)
  23. sleep; eating babies; many short story recs (todaythings.substack.com)
  24. Chained PHP2Shell exploit roots 25 servers, including US Government servers (dreamgroup.com)
  25. What we know so far about Spain train crash (www.bbc.com)
  26. The Better Technology (podviaznikov.com)
  27. Ever Failed (blog.veitheller.de)
  28. Quoting Ted Sanders (simonwillison.net)
  29. Where did internet directories go? (mohamedmohey.com)
  30. noalloc: Tooling and libraries to enforce zero heap allocations in Golang (github.com)
  31. Not Your Keys, Not Your DAT (www.bloomberg.com)
  32. GitHub Octoverse 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  33. Fake it ‘til you make it (and then keep faking it) (www.experimental-history.com)
  34. My California Ballot, 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  35. The October inflection point for vibe game development (simonwillison.net)
  36. Can you read every book? (mohamedmohey.com)
  37. Quoting Terk Terkowitz (simonwillison.net)
  38. You Already Don't Understand Your Code (george.mand.is)
  39. Announcing rainy city publishing (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  40. Building a Fullstack Rust Web App Boilerplate for Coding Agents (hamy.xyz)
  41. Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge (simonwillison.net)
  42. Musk’s Mars Merger Pay (www.bloomberg.com)
  43. Website update (mrcoles.com)
  44. What Is 'You Can See Everything' Really About? (www.derekthompson.org)
  45. Edit an SQLite database in your browser (editsqlite.com)
  46. Spaces of constant curvature (www.robbielyman.com)
  47. GPT-6.1 Terra (simonwillison.net)
  48. Open Thread 457 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  49. Quoting Jason Koebler (simonwillison.net)
  50. Anthropic Raises Concerns (www.bloomberg.com)
  51. Spiced Pumpkin Cake (gochugarugirl.com)
  52. ↗ Avoid negativity echo chambers (www.vesto.me)
  53. My First Mountain Bike Ride - A Beginner Perspective (bradleydettmer.me)
  54. My First Mountain Bike Ride: A Beginner's Perspective (www.bradleydettmer.me)
  55. The Hallway Track No. 031: Simons Foundation AI math initiative, authorship disclosure norms, EditorCheck peer review audit (hallway.aris.pub)
  56. weeknotes #69 (olu.online)
  57. Our Response To The eMudhra Key Disclosure Incident (go.dev)
  58. Constellation (vishnubharathi.codes)
  59. Perspicacity (vishnubharathi.codes)
  60. What does a newborn career look like? (approximateknowledge.net)
  61. An Autumn Apple and Hazelnut Cake (gochugarugirl.com)
  62. oblique strategies for managing complex trauma (clarionsong.substack.com)
  63. 2026 NYC General Election: Judicial Candidates (harihareswara.net)
  64. Decompiling Fast Food Tycoon 2: Drawing the World (healeycodes.com)
  65. “We should be more ambitious with the software we build” (danluu.com)
  66. Your Book Review: The Ghost In My Brain (www.astralcodexten.com)
  67. the price of community is not inconvenience (olu.online)
  68. 2026 NYC Election Ballot Proposals: What I Think And Why (harihareswara.net)
  69. Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro (simonwillison.net)
  70. The AI Story Wall Street Doesn’t Want to Hear (www.derekthompson.org)
  71. What’s the value of measuring ARR? (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  72. Indian government sites are serving revoked eMudhra certificates (captnemo.in)
  73. Animations for System Builders: Metastability and Lost Writes (brooker.co.za)