News

  1. AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them (davidepiffer.com)
  2. The Dutch Community Where People Live on Strips of Land in a Lake (www.core77.com)
  3. A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms (www.nature.com)
  4. Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk (alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
  5. A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode (www.dampfkraft.com)
  6. At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  7. Could a computer scientist build a brain? (stankerstjens.github.io)
  8. Getting MIDI sync working (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  9. Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel (sankalp.bearblog.dev)
  10. Working with AI Feels More Like Leadership Than Coding (allen.bargi.org)
  11. Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II (uecker.codeberg.page)
  12. The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist (conic.al)
  13. Rhythm games (sygi.xyz)
  14. Your Book Review: The Escape Artist (www.astralcodexten.com)
  15. Crunchy Tenderstem Broccoli (gochugarugirl.com)
  16. Don't classify. Hallucinate! (simonwillison.net)
  17. The American Sports Plutocracy Is Bullshit (www.derekthompson.org)
  18. Pasta e Ceci Salad (www.alisoneroman.com)
  19. Pasta e Ceci Salad (www.alisoneroman.com)
  20. Qwen 3.8 27B (huggingface.co)
  21. RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better (dmitry.gr)
  22. The road to epsilon-zero: Productive programs and well-founded orders (blog.plover.com)
  23. Technology optimism hour (macwright.com)
  24. The Foothills Of Bay Area House Party (www.astralcodexten.com)
  25. llm-gemini 0.33 (simonwillison.net)
  26. Bilateral OTC Goat Hedge (www.bloomberg.com)
  27. Thoughts on the "in-between" (brianagude.substack.com)
  28. Links from The Internship (cceckman.com)
  29. 24 things I believe (clarionsong.substack.com)
  30. The Quest For Caffeine You Can Have At Night (www.astralcodexten.com)
  31. Another partial SSI trick with canonicalize (bernsteinbear.com)
  32. A fully legible mind (blog.veitheller.de)
  33. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter) (simonwillison.net)
  34. A Walk In Primrose Hill (gochugarugirl.com)
  35. Sorbet in Grapefruit Cups (www.alisoneroman.com)
  36. Reading together, unsupervised (brian.abelson.live)
  37. Anchovy-Butter Chicken with Chicken Fat Croutons (www.alisoneroman.com)
  38. Bacon-Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Caraway’d Cabbage and Apples (www.alisoneroman.com)
  39. AI-Backed Securities (www.bloomberg.com)
  40. Hanger Steak with Dandelion, Arugula, and Grana Padano (www.alisoneroman.com)
  41. Lamb Stew with Fennel, Preserved Lemon, and Crispy Fried Bread (www.alisoneroman.com)
  42. Pork and Red Chile Stew with Tomatillos (www.alisoneroman.com)
  43. Slow-Roasted Pork Shoulder with Garlic, Citrus, and Cilantro (www.alisoneroman.com)
  44. Crispy Chicken Legs with Rosemary, Tiny Potatoes, and Sour Cream (www.alisoneroman.com)
  45. Quoting Florian Herrengt (simonwillison.net)
  46. Paprika-Rubbed Sheet-Pan Chicken with Lemon (www.alisoneroman.com)
  47. Cumin Lamb Chops with Charred Scallions and Peanuts (www.alisoneroman.com)
  48. In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace (www.popularmechanics.com)
  49. Topologies on Free Products (www.robbielyman.com)
  50. My Daily Routine as a Software Engineer and Dad of a 1-Year-Old (hamy.xyz)
  51. There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text (simonwillison.net)
  52. Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs (simonwillison.net)
  53. Vinegar-Braised Chicken with Farro and Watercress (www.alisoneroman.com)
  54. There are two kinds of theorems (blog.plover.com)
  55. Pick-and-Shovel Seller Financing (www.bloomberg.com)
  56. Reflections on AI (blog.greg.technology)
  57. Perfect Steak with Buttered Radish Toast (www.alisoneroman.com)
  58. Fennel-Rubbed Pork Chops for Two (www.alisoneroman.com)
  59. The Color of White Light (ludens.cl)
  60. Ergonomic SSH development (miccah.io)
  61. The Great American AI Rebellion (www.derekthompson.org)
  62. How AI Changes the Economics of JIT Compilers (malisper.me)
  63. 1st Sept 2026: An Increase in Membership Prices (commoncog.com)
  64. Simple Sudoku Solvers SII, EVI: SQL (blog.veitheller.de)
  65. Introducing Muse Glimmer (simonwillison.net)
  66. Stone Soup (gochugarugirl.com)
  67. You Can Fix Email (thefloatingcontinent.com)
  68. The Situation Is Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
  69. Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum (baselashraf81.github.io)
  70. Open Thread 446 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  71. Möbius Strips and Differential Equations (hidden-phenomena.com)
  72. Just Another Girl – The Killers (read.alonzo.zip)
  73. The Hallway Track No. 020: Astra solves ten open math problems, AI agents fail at open-ended research, peer review under strain (hallway.aris.pub)
  74. What do the 12,000 lines per day I write actually do (nmn.gl)
  75. sterno (approximateknowledge.net)
  76. Quoting OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6) (simonwillison.net)
  77. Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt (simonwillison.net)
  78. weeknotes #64 (olu.online)
  79. The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves (linebender.org)
  80. GitHub Models is now retired (simonwillison.net)
  81. A Walk Around Covent Garden (gochugarugirl.com)
  82. and in a flash, you took off (toground.link)
  83. I cannot see beyond it (clarionsong.substack.com)
  84. What's the best programming language for coding agents? (danluu.com)
  85. Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans (simonwillison.net)
  86. Project Monopoly: The Three Oranges (gochugarugirl.com)