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1. Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
2. Agent skills that bring team coding standards to Claude Code and Codex (github.com)
3. Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)
4. Buckminster Fuller: everything I know (www.bfi.org)
5. AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)
6. Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU (github.com)
7. Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack (www.aikido.dev)
8. Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)
9. Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction (arxiv.org)
10. DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com)
11. "Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023) (www.computerenhance.com)
12. Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement (lilianweng.github.io)
13. A More Immediate Intuitive Appeal (blog.veitheller.de)
14. Quoting Steve Yegge (simonwillison.net)
15. Don't be a meat proxy (simonwillison.net)
16. Does Forecasting Have Room At The Top? (www.astralcodexten.com)
17. Learning to fly FPV drones with AI flight coach (blog.divyendusingh.com)
18. LLMs reward expertise (www.seangoedecke.com)
19. Grilled Tomatillo Salsa (www.alisoneroman.com)
20. Writing my own sequencer for the Yocto drum machine (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
21. Hedgehog Hedge Fund (www.bloomberg.com)
22. Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone (github.com)
23. Death by side quests (jesusgollonet.com)
24. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (openai.com)
25. Open Thread 445 (www.astralcodexten.com)
26. Quoting David Crawshaw's prompt (simonwillison.net)
27. Devtools must be open source (exe.dev) (simonwillison.net)
28. Monday Cleaning Day (gochugarugirl.com)
29. Devtools must be open source (blog.exe.dev)
30. Rebuilding Postgres for 300x faster analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
31. Subway arrival times in my living room with Raspberry Pi (iafisher.com)
32. The Hallway Track No. 019: AlphaFold team disbanded, verification as the bottleneck, Tao's ICM caution (hallway.aris.pub)
33. Seven books I keep close because I love them (blog.plover.com)
34. Who's afraid of a non sofic group (www.robbielyman.com)
35. Project Monopoly: Pentonville Road (gochugarugirl.com)
36. weeknotes #63 (olu.online)
37. Open letters about AI development (simonwillison.net)
38. Adding Go's defer to the TypeScript Compiler (healeycodes.com)
39. Getting a Working SICP environment in Emacs in 2026 (www.blog.jamesgisele.com)
40. Reading Log #1 (vishnubharathi.codes)
41. Quoting Greg Brockman (simonwillison.net)
42. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (simonwillison.net)
43. Pendants (figbert.com)
44. My NixOS dev machine (miccah.io)
45. July Life Update (seinwave.com)
46. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (simonwillison.net)
47. Your Book Review: The Epic Of Gilgamesh (www.astralcodexten.com)
48. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp) (simonwillison.net)
49. Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024) (resobscura.substack.com)
50. About Interactives: Inquiries.link (www.fractalkitty.com)
51. Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation) (andrewkelley.me)
52. Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison (simonwillison.net)
53. smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses (simonwillison.net)
54. Friday Baking Day (gochugarugirl.com)
55. Where .env Went Wrong (secretspec.dev)
56. help wanted (lake.computer)
57. links #8: how you know it's good (etc.octavore.com)
58. RE: “The robots work at night”: How AI helps the world’s poorest, and where it falls short (olu.online)
59. The End of my Suno Era (read.alonzo.zip)
60. The Four Horsemen of the AI Bubble Apocalypse (www.derekthompson.org)
61. do more random elective medical stuff (adagrad.substack.com)
62. there is a poker-shaped hole in your heart (adagrad.substack.com)
63. In Which I Lose My Mind Over Embeddings (HPLM Chapter 2) (www.maayanroth.com)
64. Writing dumber (liquidbrain.net)
65. Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (simonwillison.net)
66. Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (simonwillison.net)
67. Links For July 2026 (Part 2) (www.astralcodexten.com)
68. I have something to say about grilled meat (www.alisoneroman.com)
69. Charred Broccoli Salad with Garlic and Basil (www.alisoneroman.com)
70. Quoting Bruce Schneier (simonwillison.net)
71. Topologies, Groups, Graphs (www.robbielyman.com)
72. The Situation Deteriorated (www.bloomberg.com)
73. Thursday Night Dinner (gochugarugirl.com)
74. Published my first Digital Snippet for AV Club (palomakop.tv)
75. Highlights From The Discourse On The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
76. Hidden Open Thread 444.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
77. this edge of the earth (toground.link)
78. AI Worming through Word (simonwillison.net)
79. Quoting Matthew Green (simonwillison.net)
80. Announcing PCBEval (blog.greg.technology)
81. SpaceX Crash Insurance (www.bloomberg.com)
82. Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area (www.science.org)
83. Everyone's Tables Suck (404wolf.com)
84. The Next Miracle Drug Might Already Be in Your Medicine Cabinet (www.derekthompson.org)
85. Eventual Consistency (thornberry.io)
86. Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT (simonwillison.net)
87. How Much OpenCode + GPT 5.6 Usage Do You Get With OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro Subscription? (hamy.xyz)
88. Lorenz and Little: How Much Does Your Tail Cost? (brooker.co.za)
89. Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude (simonwillison.net)
90. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident (simonwillison.net)
91. Project Monopoly: Euston Road (gochugarugirl.com)
92. Elevators Won’t Repair Themselves (www.bloomberg.com)
93. RE: knitting the web: we need interlinkers (olu.online)