News

  1. DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec) (arxiv.org)
  2. Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things (github.com)
  3. Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas (tangled.org)
  4. Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave (techcrunch.com)
  5. Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe (www.economist.com)
  6. Building Go Tools Without Writing Any Go (niccrane.com)
  7. OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites (www.bbc.com)
  8. Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free (gultsch.de)
  9. How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs (discourse.haskell.org)
  10. Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story (lexontech.org)
  11. Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service (floci.io)
  12. Infecting the Steam Link with NixOS (feyor.sh)
  13. We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  14. Carp in Glamorous Toolkit (blog.veitheller.de)
  15. Your Book Review: Lee Kuan Yew's Memoirs (www.astralcodexten.com)
  16. Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face (swarmtraces.org)
  17. The commercial applications of embodied conversational agents are gross. (newdelete.alinen.net)
  18. Vinegar-Braised Chicken Wings (www.alisoneroman.com)
  19. Vinegar-Braised Chicken Wings with Zucchini and Herbs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  20. notice of being ghosted (lake.computer)
  21. Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models (ollaya.dev)
  22. Quoting John Gruber (simonwillison.net)
  23. L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages (blog.plover.com)
  24. Banana, Walnut and Cardamom Bundt (gochugarugirl.com)
  25. Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red (jev-pokemon.vercel.app)
  26. ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 (www.tomshardware.com)
  27. PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock (github.com)
  28. Fall Meetups 2026 - Call For Meetup Organizers (www.astralcodexten.com)
  29. Plan mode is dead (www.aymannadeem.com)
  30. The road to epsilon-zero: “Shortlex” isn't actually a single order (blog.plover.com)
  31. Note on 24th September 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  32. The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
  33. clml, a rust string coloring library (etc.octavore.com)
  34. The Specter Of Neuralese (www.astralcodexten.com)
  35. How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments (thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com)
  36. Morgan Stanley Leaked Some Deals (www.bloomberg.com)
  37. A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward (www.movingimagearchive.com)
  38. Homemade bagels (merveilles.town)
  39. How China Thinks About AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  40. Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later (www.astralcodexten.com)
  41. Rapid Learning Skill for Code (niccrane.com)
  42. Out Now: Low-tech Magazine Volume IV (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
  43. Platform-independent SIMD in Go (go.dev)
  44. Kalshi Levers the Predictions (www.bloomberg.com)
  45. Building a homelab (wrla.ch)
  46. Noting another house repair chore victory (blog.plover.com)
  47. Delegation and trust (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  48. Hidden Open Thread 452.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  49. The Mundanity of Excellence, Small Wins, and Why You Should Fix Bugs Before Writing New Features (probablydance.com)
  50. SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering (simonwillison.net)
  51. Mysteries Of AI Generalization (www.astralcodexten.com)
  52. Work diary victory (blog.plover.com)
  53. Building a Multiplayer Game of Life with Rust + Datastar (hamy.xyz)
  54. Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war (simonwillison.net)
  55. Who Cares If a Merger Is Fair? (www.bloomberg.com)
  56. Quoting @therealcornpop (simonwillison.net)
  57. Simplicio, Ten Years Later (adagrad.substack.com)
  58. Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models (simonwillison.net)
  59. Open Thread 452 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  60. Solitaire Alone Together (eieio.games)
  61. The Hallway Track No. 026: AI use in science study, astronomy disclosure gap, Paper2Agent, SAIR initiative (hallway.aris.pub)
  62. A First Futamura Projection (blog.veitheller.de)
  63. Tuna and Butterbean Salad (gochugarugirl.com)
  64. weeknotes #66 (olu.online)
  65. Quoting voxium (simonwillison.net)
  66. Continuing blub studies (upvalue.io)
  67. Reading Log #6 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  68. 0061: i'm not a cat, artificial adventures, synthetic sagas, anthropic, sponsors (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  69. Synthetic sagas (www.scattered-thoughts.net)