News

  1. New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging (simonwillison.net)
  2. AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol (www.africanews.com)
  3. The Beauty Of Settled Science (www.astralcodexten.com)
  4. Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024) (www.troyhunt.com)
  5. I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel (twitter.com)
  6. Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) (www.sec.gov)
  7. Project Monopoly: Three Purples and Marylebone Station (gochugarugirl.com)
  8. PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx (simonwillison.net)
  9. Waymo in Dallas (waymo.com)
  10. My Impressions of Loop Engineering (debamitro.github.io)
  11. Why some people mow a lawn better than others (pudding.cool)
  12. Leveraged ETF Crash Hedging ETF (www.bloomberg.com)
  13. Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game (hop.earth)
  14. Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
  15. When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation (arxiv.org)
  16. Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
  17. Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees (www.thisandthat.chat)
  18. Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)
  19. Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack (www.aikido.dev)
  20. DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com)
  21. Quoting Steve Yegge (simonwillison.net)
  22. A More Immediate Intuitive Appeal (blog.veitheller.de)
  23. Don't be a meat proxy (simonwillison.net)
  24. Does Forecasting Have Room At The Top? (www.astralcodexten.com)
  25. Learning to fly FPV drones with AI flight coach (blog.divyendusingh.com)
  26. Grilled Tomatillo Salsa (www.alisoneroman.com)
  27. Writing my own sequencer for the Yocto drum machine (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  28. Hedgehog Hedge Fund (www.bloomberg.com)
  29. Death by side quests (jesusgollonet.com)
  30. Open Thread 445 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  31. Quoting David Crawshaw's prompt (simonwillison.net)
  32. Devtools must be open source (exe.dev) (simonwillison.net)
  33. Monday Cleaning Day (gochugarugirl.com)
  34. Rebuilding Postgres for 300x faster analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
  35. Subway arrival times in my living room with Raspberry Pi (iafisher.com)
  36. The Hallway Track No. 019: AlphaFold team disbanded, verification as the bottleneck, Tao's ICM caution (hallway.aris.pub)
  37. Seven books I keep close because I love them (blog.plover.com)
  38. Who's afraid of a non sofic group (www.robbielyman.com)
  39. Project Monopoly: Pentonville Road (gochugarugirl.com)
  40. weeknotes #63 (olu.online)
  41. Open letters about AI development (simonwillison.net)
  42. Adding Go's defer to the TypeScript Compiler (healeycodes.com)
  43. Getting a Working SICP environment in Emacs in 2026 (www.blog.jamesgisele.com)
  44. Reading Log #1 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  45. Quoting Greg Brockman (simonwillison.net)
  46. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (simonwillison.net)
  47. Pendants (figbert.com)
  48. My NixOS dev machine (miccah.io)
  49. July Life Update (seinwave.com)
  50. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (simonwillison.net)
  51. Your Book Review: The Epic Of Gilgamesh (www.astralcodexten.com)
  52. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp) (simonwillison.net)
  53. About Interactives: Inquiries.link (www.fractalkitty.com)
  54. Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation) (andrewkelley.me)
  55. Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison (simonwillison.net)
  56. smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses (simonwillison.net)
  57. Friday Baking Day (gochugarugirl.com)
  58. help wanted (lake.computer)
  59. links #8: how you know it's good (etc.octavore.com)
  60. RE: “The robots work at night”: How AI helps the world’s poorest, and where it falls short (olu.online)
  61. The End of my Suno Era (read.alonzo.zip)
  62. The Four Horsemen of the AI Bubble Apocalypse (www.derekthompson.org)
  63. do more random elective medical stuff (adagrad.substack.com)
  64. there is a poker-shaped hole in your heart (adagrad.substack.com)
  65. In Which I Lose My Mind Over Embeddings (HPLM Chapter 2) (www.maayanroth.com)
  66. Writing dumber (liquidbrain.net)
  67. Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (simonwillison.net)
  68. Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (simonwillison.net)
  69. Links For July 2026 (Part 2) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  70. I have something to say about grilled meat (www.alisoneroman.com)
  71. Charred Broccoli Salad with Garlic and Basil (www.alisoneroman.com)
  72. Quoting Bruce Schneier (simonwillison.net)
  73. Topologies, Groups, Graphs (www.robbielyman.com)
  74. The Situation Deteriorated (www.bloomberg.com)
  75. Thursday Night Dinner (gochugarugirl.com)
  76. Published my first Digital Snippet for AV Club (palomakop.tv)
  77. Highlights From The Discourse On The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  78. Hidden Open Thread 444.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  79. this edge of the earth (toground.link)
  80. AI Worming through Word (simonwillison.net)
  81. Quoting Matthew Green (simonwillison.net)
  82. Announcing PCBEval (blog.greg.technology)
  83. SpaceX Crash Insurance (www.bloomberg.com)
  84. Everyone's Tables Suck (404wolf.com)
  85. The Next Miracle Drug Might Already Be in Your Medicine Cabinet (www.derekthompson.org)
  86. Eventual Consistency (thornberry.io)
  87. Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT (simonwillison.net)
  88. How Much OpenCode + GPT 5.6 Usage Do You Get With OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro Subscription? (hamy.xyz)