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1. Littleneck Clams with Green Garlic Butter and Leftover Wine (www.alisoneroman.com)
2. Shrimp in the Shells with Lots of Garlic and Probably Too Much Butter (www.alisoneroman.com)
3. Cold Soba with Cucumbers, Watercress, and Sesame (www.alisoneroman.com)
4. Stone Soup (gochugarugirl.com)
5. Illinois Just Passed a Law That Puts Linux on the Hook for Age Verification (linuxstans.com)
6. Rust SIMD on the GPU (www.vectorware.com)
7. Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots (cactuscompute.com)
8. The Situation Is Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
9. Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers (www.stoaexchange.com)
10. Open Thread 446 (www.astralcodexten.com)
11. Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt (github.com)
12. Extreme 220GHz+Broadband Silicon Capacitor X2SC 0201M 22nF BV11 (pim.murata.com)
13. Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia (earthquake.usgs.gov)
14. Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's (www.bbc.com)
15. Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas (openai.com)
16. Exploring Claude/GPT Knowledge Cutoffs and Pre-Training Timelines (blog.sshh.io)
17. Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models (www.ft.com)
18. Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb (kuber.studio)
19. Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls” (patentsgazette.uspto.gov)
20. 50k Boat Names (www.beautifulpublicdata.com)
21. Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open (bobdahacker.com)
22. Squeak 6.1 (squeak.org)
23. Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (2025) (lwn.net)
24. Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes (ethw.org)
25. Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows (research.meta.ai)
26. Just Another Girl – The Killers (read.alonzo.zip)
27. Quoting OpenClaw (simonwillison.net)
28. Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt (simonwillison.net)
29. weeknotes #64 (olu.online)
30. GitHub Models is now retired (simonwillison.net)
31. A Walk Around Covent Garden (gochugarugirl.com)
32. and in a flash, you took off (toground.link)
33. I cannot see beyond it (clarionsong.substack.com)
34. Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans (simonwillison.net)
35. Project Monopoly: The Three Oranges (gochugarugirl.com)
36. Reading Log #2 (vishnubharathi.codes)
37. help unexpected (lake.computer)
38. Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
39. Baked Pasta with Artichokes, Greens, and Too Much Cheese (www.alisoneroman.com)
40. Pasta with Crispy Squid, Lemon, and Chile (www.alisoneroman.com)
41. Wrote a new blog post about our live show with Monochromatic Pool (palomakop.tv)
42. Getting off the Modernization Treadmill (unplannedobsolescence.com)
43. Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
44. Roasted Tomato and Anchovy Bucatini (www.alisoneroman.com)
45. Whole-Wheat Pasta with Brown-Buttered Mushrooms, Buckwheat, and Egg Yolk (www.alisoneroman.com)
46. Clam Pasta with Chorizo and Walnuts (www.alisoneroman.com)
47. Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra) (simonwillison.net)
48. Sour Cream Flatbread (www.alisoneroman.com)
49. Spelt with Crispy Sausage, Flowering Broccoli, and Green Garlic (www.alisoneroman.com)
50. Buttered Zucchini Omelette (www.alisoneroman.com)
51. Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development? (news.ycombinator.com)
52. Split Pea Salad (www.alisoneroman.com)
53. I'm Building an Official Shopify Theme! (brianagude.substack.com)
54. Crispy Chickpeas and Lamb with Greens and Garlicky Yogurt (www.alisoneroman.com)
55. The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI (simonwillison.net)
56. Cooking for One (www.alisoneroman.com)
57. The 9 Questions I’m Obsessed With Right Now: AI, Politics, Movies, Drugs, and Western Civilization (www.derekthompson.org)
58. MacGregor The Bridge Builder (www.astralcodexten.com)
59. A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs (bernsteinbear.com)
60. things to say to someone who says they're vegan (lake.computer)
61. Fake SpaceX Stock Isn’t Worth as Much (www.bloomberg.com)
62. Eggs and Kale Fried in Chicken Fat (www.alisoneroman.com)
63. Counter or gauge? (cceckman.com)
64. Open Questions On Open Weights (www.astralcodexten.com)
65. Art Prompts: Hailstone Arabesques (www.fractalkitty.com)
66. Hidden Open Thread 445.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
67. An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing (simonwillison.net)
68. Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (simonwillison.net)
69. Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models (simonwillison.net)
70. Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing (simonwillison.net)
71. The road to epsilon-zero: Coin-moving games with no coins (blog.plover.com)
72. Notes from the AI Coding Transition (emschwartz.me)
73. One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5 (simonwillison.net)
74. SpaceX Unlocks Tomorrow (www.bloomberg.com)
75. Incentives are for losers (www.experimental-history.com)
76. Text editor architecture from ed to jupyterlab (tyoverby.com)
77. How Much Faster is Coding with AI Agents? (from a Senior Software Engineer) (hamy.xyz)
78. New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging (simonwillison.net)
79. The Beauty Of Settled Science (www.astralcodexten.com)
80. Project Monopoly: Three Purples and Marylebone Station (gochugarugirl.com)
81. PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx (simonwillison.net)
82. My Impressions of Loop Engineering (debamitro.github.io)
83. Leveraged ETF Crash Hedging ETF (www.bloomberg.com)
84. Quoting Steve Yegge (simonwillison.net)
85. A More Immediate Intuitive Appeal (blog.veitheller.de)
86. Don't be a meat proxy (simonwillison.net)
87. Does Forecasting Have Room At The Top? (www.astralcodexten.com)