News

1. Rebuilding Postgres for 300x faster analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
2. Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code (ankursethi.com)
3. Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library (github.com)
4. The AI Productivity Gap (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
5. Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors (github.com)
6. Don't be a meat proxy (gruhn.me)
7. Subway arrival times in my living room with Raspberry Pi (iafisher.com)
8. The Hallway Track No. 019: AlphaFold team disbanded, verification as the bottleneck, Tao's ICM caution (hallway.aris.pub)
9. Seven books I keep close because I love them (blog.plover.com)
10. Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork (qwen.ai)
11. Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF (sf.isopolis.city)
12. CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K (github.com)
13. Show HN: ssh ssh.place (ssh.place)
14. Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap (www.andreagrandi.it)
15. Who's afraid of a non sofic group (www.robbielyman.com)
16. Project Monopoly: Pentonville Road (gochugarugirl.com)
17. SwiftUI After 7 Years (ykvm.com)
18. The myth of Snow Leopard (www.rubenerd.au)
19. Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM (github.com)
20. weeknotes #63 (olu.online)
21. Open letters about AI development (simonwillison.net)
22. Adding Go's defer to the TypeScript Compiler (healeycodes.com)
23. Getting a Working SICP environment in Emacs in 2026 (www.blog.jamesgisele.com)
24. Reading Log #1 (vishnubharathi.codes)
25. Quoting Greg Brockman (simonwillison.net)
26. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (simonwillison.net)
27. Pendants (figbert.com)
28. My NixOS dev machine (miccah.io)
29. July Life Update (seinwave.com)
30. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (simonwillison.net)
31. Your Book Review: The Epic Of Gilgamesh (www.astralcodexten.com)
32. Read the novels and forget everything else (hedgehogreview.com)
33. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp) (simonwillison.net)
34. About Interactives: Inquiries.link (www.fractalkitty.com)
35. Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation) (andrewkelley.me)
36. Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison (simonwillison.net)
37. smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses (simonwillison.net)
38. Friday Baking Day (gochugarugirl.com)
39. Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines (localai.io)
40. help wanted (lake.computer)
41. Autoregressive Language Model on the 6502 Processor (mattbeton.com)
42. links #8: how you know it's good (etc.octavore.com)
43. RE: “The robots work at night”: How AI helps the world’s poorest, and where it falls short (olu.online)
44. The End of my Suno Era (read.alonzo.zip)
45. The Four Horsemen of the AI Bubble Apocalypse (www.derekthompson.org)
46. Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform (handwritten.blog)
47. do more random elective medical stuff (adagrad.substack.com)
48. there is a poker-shaped hole in your heart (adagrad.substack.com)
49. In Which I Lose My Mind Over Embeddings (HPLM Chapter 2) (www.maayanroth.com)
50. Writing dumber (liquidbrain.net)
51. Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (simonwillison.net)
52. Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (simonwillison.net)
53. Links For July 2026 (Part 2) (www.astralcodexten.com)
54. I have something to say about grilled meat (www.alisoneroman.com)
55. Grilled Tomatillo Salsa (www.alisoneroman.com)
56. Charred Broccoli Salad with Garlic and Basil (www.alisoneroman.com)
57. Quoting Bruce Schneier (simonwillison.net)
58. Topologies, Groups, Graphs (www.robbielyman.com)
59. The Situation Deteriorated (www.bloomberg.com)
60. Thursday Night Dinner (gochugarugirl.com)
61. Highlights From The Discourse On The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
62. Hidden Open Thread 444.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
63. this edge of the earth (toground.link)
64. AI Worming through Word (simonwillison.net)
65. Quoting Matthew Green (simonwillison.net)
66. Announcing PCBEval (blog.greg.technology)
67. SpaceX Crash Insurance (www.bloomberg.com)
68. Everyone's Tables Suck (404wolf.com)
69. Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust (stackoverflow.blog)
70. The Next Miracle Drug Might Already Be in Your Medicine Cabinet (www.derekthompson.org)
71. Eventual Consistency (thornberry.io)
72. Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT (simonwillison.net)
73. How Much OpenCode + GPT 5.6 Usage Do You Get With OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro Subscription? (hamy.xyz)
74. Lorenz and Little: How Much Does Your Tail Cost? (brooker.co.za)
75. Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude (simonwillison.net)
76. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident (simonwillison.net)
77. Project Monopoly: Euston Road (gochugarugirl.com)
78. Elevators Won’t Repair Themselves (www.bloomberg.com)
79. RE: knitting the web: we need interlinkers (olu.online)
80. Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management (unattributed.cc)
81. Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine (www.astralcodexten.com)
82. State of multi-player Wayland (blinry.org)
83. The inliner is yielding benefits for ZJIT (bernsteinbear.com)
84. If AI Writes All the Code, What Do the Programmers Do? (probablydance.com)
85. Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences (www.abc.net.au)
86. moonshotai/Kimi-K3 (simonwillison.net)
87. An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff (simonwillison.net)
88. A Merger Closing Mystery (www.bloomberg.com)
89. Project Monopoly: The Angel Islington (gochugarugirl.com)
90. What Does It Look Like When You Handle Disruption Well? (commoncog.com)
91. “Steph Curry: fluke or breakthrough” ten years later (blog.plover.com)
92. Blog Newsletter Restored (punchagan.muse-amuse.in)
93. Open Thread 444 (www.astralcodexten.com)