News

  1. I dumped Apple’s word list (helgesver.re)
  2. Preparing for the Flipper One Kickstarter and opening pre-orders (flipper.net)
  3. How Much Should Anthropic Pop? (www.bloomberg.com)
  4. Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data (github.com)
  5. Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot (neufangled.com)
  6. Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too (simonwillison.net)
  7. Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws (arstechnica.com)
  8. Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI (www.nytimes.com)
  9. Tiny Basic for Arduino (dilshan.github.io)
  10. BIG NEWS! Plus, how to work with others when you work alone (vrklovespaper.substack.com)
  11. Mac at Any Scale (namespace.so)
  12. Practice speaking Japanese with real YouTube videos, graded line by line (jivx.com)
  13. The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading (honnibal.dev)
  14. Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996? (nicholas.carlini.com)
  15. A Second Futamura Projection (blog.veitheller.de)
  16. Nov 02: Fifteen Minutes Before Work (tinylogger.com)
  17. llm 0.37 (simonwillison.net)
  18. find more color in the slough (toground.link)
  19. In 5 days, Reclaim your Power (kolamcreativecollective.com)
  20. maybe (olu.online)
  21. Writing seen in PHerc. 306B, for the first time in 2000 years (scrollprize.substack.com)
  22. Binance Got Some Money Back (www.bloomberg.com)
  23. Nyquist Limit - the frequency of changes in tech is invalidating our understanding (www.ryanprior.com)
  24. Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time (blog.nns.ee)
  25. You Can Read Everything (miguelconner.substack.com)
  26. Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand (arstechnica.com)
  27. The U.S. Census Bureau and “Super Intelligence” (simonwillison.net)
  28. Why I Don't Use AI for Games (sarah.engineer)
  29. A Food Trail From Bermondsey to Borough (gochugarugirl.com)
  30. Antimony: CAD Software Evolved from Lisp Machines and Not Drafting Tables (2015) (www.mattkeeter.com)
  31. Open Thread 458 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  32. 43 Days at Recurse Center (blog.log101.dev)
  33. Externationalization (blog.log101.dev)
  34. Test and verification technique effectiveness with GPT-6 Astra (danluu.com)
  35. The Hallway Track No. 032: Distributed agents on Perturb-seq, LLMs as peer reviewers, agent platforms for science (hallway.aris.pub)
  36. Nov 01: Year Four (tinylogger.com)
  37. weeknotes #70 (olu.online)
  38. Replacing the battery on a 2013 MacBook Pro (ninad.pundaliks.in)
  39. Quoting Kyle Kingsbury (simonwillison.net)
  40. some subtle mental adjustments (clarionsong.substack.com)
  41. Garbagely incompetent (blog.greg.technology)
  42. GoodReads removed their RSS feeds :( (aaronstrick.com)
  43. Resisting Cognitive Surrender (knlb.dev)
  44. Cycling Vermont (macwright.com)
  45. Portable chargers are a good default gift idea (liquidbrain.net)
  46. cyberwitchery (blog.veitheller.de)
  47. Build Standalone Lua Applications with Zig and fnlpack (www.ryanprior.com)
  48. dbreunig/nesformer (simonwillison.net)
  49. Anthropic's IPO: Can unprecedented revenue growth outrun 'irresponsibly large' investment? (leonlins.com)
  50. Your Book Review: The History And Adventures Of An Atom (www.astralcodexten.com)
  51. Big Changes (writing.natwelch.com)
  52. parsing the final fantasy 1 NES world map (part 1) (djan.org)
  53. API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions (simonwillison.net)
  54. Programming at Light Speed: Building the Gravity Query Engine (malisper.me)
  55. Run on the Law Firm (www.bloomberg.com)
  56. Building a multiplayer game world with autonomous Fable-class models (simonwillison.net)
  57. Links For October 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  58. Adding swing to my Yocto sequencer (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  59. Breakout (cceckman.com)
  60. Quoting Ben Hylak (simonwillison.net)
  61. sleep; eating babies; many short story recs (todaythings.substack.com)
  62. The Better Technology (podviaznikov.com)
  63. Ever Failed (blog.veitheller.de)
  64. Quoting Ted Sanders (simonwillison.net)
  65. Where did internet directories go? (mohamedmohey.com)
  66. GPUs aren’t infrastructure; they’re fuel (minhanhday.substack.com)
  67. Not Your Keys, Not Your DAT (www.bloomberg.com)
  68. GitHub Octoverse 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  69. Fake it ‘til you make it (and then keep faking it) (www.experimental-history.com)
  70. My California Ballot, 2026 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  71. The October inflection point for vibe game development (simonwillison.net)
  72. Can you read every book? (mohamedmohey.com)
  73. Quoting Terk Terkowitz (simonwillison.net)
  74. You Already Don't Understand Your Code (george.mand.is)
  75. Announcing rainy city publishing (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  76. Building a Fullstack Rust Web App Boilerplate for Coding Agents (hamy.xyz)