News

  1. postmarketOS Rebrand: Nura (nura.eco)
  2. The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures (www.ihatethefuture.com)
  3. Installing NeoVim caused original Vim undo files to be deleted (unsung.aresluna.org)
  4. 10 Tells of a Slop UI (hereticpleb.vercel.app)
  5. In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life (www.nytimes.com)
  6. "As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice (arxiv.org)
  7. Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI (authorsguild.org)
  8. The internet discovers TLA+. Now what? (reasonable.io)
  9. Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights (jvns.ca)
  10. Kākāpō Party (simonwillison.net)
  11. DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec) (arxiv.org)
  12. My Six Favorite YouTube IDs (blog.greg.technology)
  13. Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things (github.com)
  14. Building Go Tools Without Writing Any Go (niccrane.com)
  15. Go Concurrency Distilled (antonz.org)
  16. Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests (fakecloud.dev)
  17. Flip Fluid on Flip Dots (mitxela.com)
  18. An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot (alignment.openai.com)
  19. Infecting the Steam Link with NixOS (feyor.sh)
  20. Carp in Glamorous Toolkit (blog.veitheller.de)
  21. Exploding variance of means of exponentials: least-squares to the rescue (francisbach.com)
  22. Your Book Review: Lee Kuan Yew's Memoirs (www.astralcodexten.com)
  23. The commercial applications of embodied conversational agents are gross. (newdelete.alinen.net)
  24. Finally, A True Blue Rose Exists (www.sciencenews.org)
  25. Writing Efficient C++ Code (asawicki.info)
  26. Vinegar-Braised Chicken Wings (www.alisoneroman.com)
  27. Vinegar-Braised Chicken Wings with Zucchini and Herbs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  28. notice of being ghosted (lake.computer)
  29. Quoting John Gruber (simonwillison.net)
  30. L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages (blog.plover.com)
  31. Banana, Walnut and Cardamom Bundt (gochugarugirl.com)
  32. PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock (github.com)
  33. Fall Meetups 2026 - Call For Meetup Organizers (www.astralcodexten.com)
  34. The road to epsilon-zero: “Shortlex” isn't actually a single order (blog.plover.com)
  35. Note on 24th September 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  36. clml, a rust string coloring library (etc.octavore.com)
  37. The Specter Of Neuralese (www.astralcodexten.com)
  38. Morgan Stanley Leaked Some Deals (www.bloomberg.com)
  39. Homemade bagels (merveilles.town)
  40. How China Thinks About AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  41. Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later (www.astralcodexten.com)
  42. Rapid Learning Skill for Code (niccrane.com)
  43. Out Now: Low-tech Magazine Volume IV (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
  44. Platform-independent SIMD in Go (go.dev)
  45. Kalshi Levers the Predictions (www.bloomberg.com)
  46. Building a homelab (wrla.ch)
  47. Noting another house repair chore victory (blog.plover.com)
  48. Delegation and trust (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  49. Hidden Open Thread 452.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  50. The Mundanity of Excellence, Small Wins, and Why You Should Fix Bugs Before Writing New Features (probablydance.com)
  51. SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering (simonwillison.net)
  52. Mysteries Of AI Generalization (www.astralcodexten.com)
  53. Work diary victory (blog.plover.com)
  54. Building a Multiplayer Game of Life with Rust + Datastar (hamy.xyz)
  55. Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war (simonwillison.net)
  56. Who Cares If a Merger Is Fair? (www.bloomberg.com)
  57. Quoting @therealcornpop (simonwillison.net)
  58. Simplicio, Ten Years Later (adagrad.substack.com)
  59. Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models (simonwillison.net)
  60. Open Thread 452 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  61. Solitaire Alone Together (eieio.games)
  62. The Hallway Track No. 026: AI use in science study, astronomy disclosure gap, Paper2Agent, SAIR initiative (hallway.aris.pub)
  63. A First Futamura Projection (blog.veitheller.de)
  64. Tuna and Butterbean Salad (gochugarugirl.com)
  65. weeknotes #66 (olu.online)
  66. Quoting voxium (simonwillison.net)