News

  1. Open Thread 457 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  2. Somebody please stop the spam texts (notes.npilk.com)
  3. The EPA Is Quietly Killing Its Web Archive (www.motherjones.com)
  4. Quoting Jason Koebler (simonwillison.net)
  5. Skydance offers buyouts, orders return to office (variety.com)
  6. US designates helium as a critical material (apnews.com)
  7. Anthropic Raises Concerns (www.bloomberg.com)
  8. Type Server Protocol (github.com)
  9. Spiced Pumpkin Cake (gochugarugirl.com)
  10. GPT-6.1 Terra (openai.com)
  11. Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11 (blog.enlyth.com)
  12. In Leaked Audio, Flock CEO Tells Cops Backlash to the Company Isn't Real (www.404media.co)
  13. A Man from the Future: Why Johnny Can't Stop Abstracting (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
  14. ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems (www.404media.co)
  15. Nietzschian Debugger (github.com)
  16. Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model (cohere.com)
  17. CSS-Tricks has a new owner (css-tricks.com)
  18. Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models (magazine.sebastianraschka.com)
  19. Anthropic S-1 (www.sec.gov)
  20. Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM (www.ubicloud.com)
  21. Pharo 14 (pharo.org)
  22. Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale (blocks.manifold3d.ch)
  23. The Hallway Track No. 031: Simons Foundation AI math initiative, authorship disclosure norms, EditorCheck peer review audit (hallway.aris.pub)
  24. weeknotes #69 (olu.online)
  25. SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller (shraiwi.com)
  26. Constellation (vishnubharathi.codes)
  27. Perspicacity (vishnubharathi.codes)
  28. What does a newborn career look like? (approximateknowledge.net)
  29. An Autumn Apple and Hazelnut Cake (gochugarugirl.com)
  30. oblique strategies for managing complex trauma (clarionsong.substack.com)
  31. 2026 NYC General Election: Judicial Candidates (harihareswara.net)
  32. Decompiling Fast Food Tycoon 2: Drawing the World (healeycodes.com)
  33. “We should be more ambitious with the software we build” (danluu.com)
  34. Your Book Review: The Ghost In My Brain (www.astralcodexten.com)
  35. Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline (www.bbc.com)
  36. the price of community is not inconvenience (olu.online)
  37. 2026 NYC Election Ballot Proposals: What I Think And Why (harihareswara.net)
  38. Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro (simonwillison.net)
  39. The AI Story Wall Street Doesn’t Want to Hear (www.derekthompson.org)
  40. What’s the value of measuring ARR? (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  41. Indian government sites are serving revoked eMudhra certificates (captnemo.in)
  42. Animations for System Builders: Metastability and Lost Writes (brooker.co.za)
  43. San Francisco Meetup This Saturday (www.astralcodexten.com)
  44. DE STAAT - FREEDOM (Official Music Video) (simonwillison.net)
  45. Zuckerberg Wants to Keep His Votes (www.bloomberg.com)
  46. Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation (simonwillison.net)
  47. pgrust v0.4-beta: Gravity, Columnar Indexes, Automatic Memory, and Developing in the Open (malisper.me)
  48. Important Tomato Sauce News! (www.alisoneroman.com)
  49. Quoting Armin Ronacher (simonwillison.net)
  50. #34: Bitter Lessoned in Automated Theorem Proving (essays.johnloeber.com)
  51. A Tiny AI Model in Your Browser (bradleydettmer.me)
  52. Successful Software Rewrites With AI (debamitro.github.io)
  53. Deserializing quirky JSON in Rust (orgnizedmess.net)
  54. Metacarp Makes Some Noise (blog.veitheller.de)
  55. Why Global Trepanation? (www.astralcodexten.com)
  56. Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security (simonwillison.net)
  57. Obviously SpaceX and Tesla Will Merge (www.bloomberg.com)
  58. Objects, attributes, maps, oh my! (bernsteinbear.com)
  59. Rails is a JIT compiler (bernsteinbear.com)
  60. System Guardrails for Software Factories - Building Pits of Success for Agents and Humans (hamy.xyz)
  61. Help set Go's priorities for next year (go.dev)
  62. Against Against Handover (www.astralcodexten.com)
  63. Battle Drones - a vibe coded RTS with audio-based multiplayer (simonwillison.net)
  64. Someone Has to Take the AI Risk (www.bloomberg.com)
  65. Everything Is Changing, and Nothing Is Changing (www.derekthompson.org)
  66. An AI usage statement for bryanbraun.com (www.bryanbraun.com)
  67. Blanking Beavers: Results and Open Problems (nickdrozd.github.io)
  68. Missing the Psychosis Forest for the AI Trees (figbert.com)
  69. My obituary for programming (simonwillison.net)