News

  1. Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models (bfl.ai)
  2. Nothing works and everyone is euphoric (ptrchm.com)
  3. The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010) (sive.rs)
  4. It's getting harder to focus every day (glyphack.com)
  5. The PImpl idiom and the C++26 std:indirect type (mariusbancila.ro)
  6. Flux 3 (bfl.ai)
  7. The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  8. Claude Cookbook (platform.claude.com)
  9. The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? (simonwillison.net)
  10. If You're Reading This I'm Free (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  11. Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models (news.ycombinator.com)
  12. Sports Happen So Much (www.bloomberg.com)
  13. Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models (obsoletesony.substack.com)
  14. What happened to TheNumbers.com (stephenfollows.com)
  15. Sheena Ringo in Sound & Recording (disk.horse)
  16. Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough) (github.com)
  17. Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI (www.politico.com)
  18. Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI (github.com)
  19. Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL (learnopengl.com)
  20. Writing by hand is good for your brain (nealstephenson.substack.com)
  21. Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ (haqr.eu)
  22. I regret migrating to Codeberg (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
  23. DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 (www.darpa.mil)
  24. What Is Lost When We Make 'The Odyssey' Modern (www.derekthompson.org)
  25. Every exterior shot in *The Taking of Pelham 123* (iafisher.com)
  26. Simple Sudoku Solvers SII, EV: Racket/miniKanren (blog.veitheller.de)
  27. Quoting Thomas Ptacek (simonwillison.net)
  28. OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
  29. Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? (simonwillison.net)
  30. The SEC Pays a Texting Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
  31. Links For July 2026 (Part 1) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  32. The Beam Engine (glinscott.github.io)
  33. Things I know about beets (lucymcphail.com)
  34. GPT 5.6 + OpenCode vs Claude + Claude Code - First Impressions (hamy.xyz)
  35. Call for lightning talks: Haskell Symposium 2026 (decomposition.al)
  36. LSE Will Trade 22.83 Hours a Day (www.bloomberg.com)
  37. Category Theory Day One (www.robbielyman.com)
  38. Blog Jamboree 2026: The Winners (www.experimental-history.com)
  39. Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac (simonwillison.net)
  40. A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team (simonwillison.net)
  41. Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness (www.astralcodexten.com)
  42. Going Ham: Zero to Amateur Extra in 31 Days (flaviuspopan.com)
  43. Bytecode-to-Source Mapping (tidefield.dev)
  44. No central server, only BitTorrent (www.scannedinavian.com)
  45. Why I Write (bugwhisperer.dev)
  46. Avoid the trap of magical thinking (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  47. Quickly rewrite Git repository history (github.com)
  48. Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API) (words.filippo.io)
  49. Reverse-engineering is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
  50. Ice Cream Hedging (www.bloomberg.com)
  51. Project Monopoly: King’s Cross Station (gochugarugirl.com)
  52. Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? (simonwillison.net)
  53. How Moats are Built (commoncog.com)
  54. I loved my AI assistant. My friends did not. (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  55. <a href="/blog/thewildlifetrusts/challenges-abound-new-prime-minister-nature-has-solutions" hreflang="en">Challenges abound for the new Prime Minister – but nature has the solutions</a> (www.wildlondon.org.uk)
  56. Open Thread 443 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  57. The Hallway Track No. 017: Science EIC contra AI hype, data poisoning of research agents, Vancouver Standard for AI disclosure (hallway.aris.pub)
  58. This is the golden age of video games (approximateknowledge.net)
  59. Quoting Sam Altman (simonwillison.net)
  60. The road to epsilon-zero: Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals (blog.plover.com)
  61. Looking for work (tonsky.me)
  62. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making (simonwillison.net)
  63. [New Game] Those Who Wear Red (k-monk.org)
  64. The road to epsilon-zero: ordinals as nim-heaps (blog.plover.com)
  65. Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP (brooker.co.za)
  66. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 3 (Gardens) (gochugarugirl.com)
  67. Claude make Fable 5 permanent (simonwillison.net)
  68. 202607-social-media-algorithms-accumulated-aesthetic-artifacts (henderson.lol)
  69. Great Chicken Parmesan (www.alisoneroman.com)
  70. For Everyone Cooking on Vacation (www.alisoneroman.com)
  71. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 2 (Historic Houses) (gochugarugirl.com)
  72. Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures (www.astralcodexten.com)
  73. Quoting Kimi K3 (simonwillison.net)