News

  1. Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25 (slcyber.io)
  2. How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in (blog.documentfoundation.org)
  3. Xiaomi-Robotics-1 (robotics.xiaomi.com)
  4. LoRA Speedrun – a public wall-clock leaderboard for fine-tuning techniques (github.com)
  5. When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure? (theconversation.com)
  6. The Hallway Track No. 017: Science EIC contra AI hype, data poisoning of research agents, Vancouver Standard for AI disclosure (hallway.aris.pub)
  7. Quoting Sam Altman (simonwillison.net)
  8. Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture (xcancel.com)
  9. Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight (github.com)
  10. The road to epsilon-zero: Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals (blog.plover.com)
  11. Looking for work (tonsky.me)
  12. Orion Browser by Kagi (orionbrowser.com)
  13. HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router (justsomebody.dev)
  14. HMD Touch 4G (www.hmd.com)
  15. C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Goblin Attack (C64 Basic Part 8) (retrogamecoders.com)
  16. Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s (news.ycombinator.com)
  17. Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years (www.bbc.com)
  18. I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens (quesma.com)
  19. I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned (en.andros.dev)
  20. What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard (chipweinberger.com)
  21. Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now (simonwillison.net)
  22. Qwen 3.8 (twitter.com)
  23. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making (simonwillison.net)
  24. [New Game] Those Who Wear Red (k-monk.org)
  25. The road to epsilon-zero: ordinals as nim-heaps (blog.plover.com)
  26. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 3 (Gardens) (gochugarugirl.com)
  27. Canarat rebuild / repair finished (slinkp.com)
  28. Claude make Fable 5 permanent (simonwillison.net)
  29. 202607-social-media-algorithms-accumulated-aesthetic-artifacts (henderson.lol)
  30. What I Learned From Getting Knocked Down (cranberrymuffin.io)
  31. Great Chicken Parmesan (www.alisoneroman.com)
  32. For Everyone Cooking on Vacation (www.alisoneroman.com)
  33. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 2 (Historic Houses) (gochugarugirl.com)
  34. Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures (www.astralcodexten.com)
  35. Quoting Kimi K3 (simonwillison.net)
  36. LLM cliché highlighter (simonwillison.net)
  37. Spot birds not golf (simonwillison.net)
  38. Learning a few things about running SQLite (jvns.ca)
  39. Firefox in WebAssembly (simonwillison.net)
  40. Against "Stochastic Terrorism" (www.astralcodexten.com)
  41. Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark (simonwillison.net)
  42. Shorts Will Sell You SpaceX (www.bloomberg.com)
  43. Quoting Thibault Sottiaux (simonwillison.net)
  44. Inkling: Our open-weights model (simonwillison.net)
  45. Quoting Linus Torvalds (simonwillison.net)
  46. How pgrust was built: four attempts to rewrite Postgres in Rust with AI (malisper.me)
  47. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 1 (Food) (gochugarugirl.com)
  48. Links #15 (www.bryanbraun.com)
  49. Six Slightly Skew Boogeymen (www.astralcodexten.com)
  50. Metrics, Life, and Money (blog.veitheller.de)
  51. xai-org/grok-build, now open source (simonwillison.net)
  52. 11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies' Archive of Americana Architecture (www.openculture.com)
  53. Basil! (gochugarugirl.com)
  54. Keeping Mergers Under the Radar (www.bloomberg.com)
  55. How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets (simonwillison.net)
  56. AI Chip Regulation Is Not A Dystopian Surveillance State (www.astralcodexten.com)
  57. This could be the golden age of the internet. Why not? (www.bryanbraun.com)
  58. How Much I Spend on AI Agents as a Software Engineer (And Is It Worth It?) (hamy.xyz)
  59. simonw/pedalican (simonwillison.net)
  60. Banks Made a Lot of Money on Stocks (www.bloomberg.com)
  61. Buttons vs Links (unplannedobsolescence.com)
  62. LLM Networking with MikroTik (blog.greg.technology)
  63. Quoting Armin Ronacher (simonwillison.net)
  64. A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird (www.derekthompson.org)
  65. DOOMQL (simonwillison.net)
  66. datasette code-frequency chart on GitHub (simonwillison.net)
  67. Turns Out, I Still Cook (www.alisoneroman.com)
  68. ETFs Are for Bets (www.bloomberg.com)