News

  1. Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers (www.theguardian.com)
  2. Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them (nonfunctional.substack.com)
  3. weeknotes #67 (olu.online)
  4. A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her (www.inc.com)
  5. The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening (twitter.com)
  6. Cartographers of North Korea (2019) (cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so)
  7. So, You’d Like To Sell Your Print Issues Of The Onion? (theonion.com)
  8. Chapter 1 of Ways of Seeing by John Berger (www.ways-of-seeing.com)
  9. Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers (nanolathe.gg)
  10. NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect (www.nyc.gov)
  11. apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper (github.com)
  12. How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect (epestr.com)
  13. The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME (disconnect3d.pl)
  14. Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac (betterwispr.com)
  15. IRCv3 (ircv3.net)
  16. Artist Residency: Day 1 (www.fauxtrots.com)
  17. 500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter (momo5502.com)
  18. IDRs as records of intent (wrla.ch)
  19. Quoting The New York Times (simonwillison.net)
  20. Your Book Review: We Present Television (www.astralcodexten.com)
  21. What is the Future of SaaS in an Agent First World? (www.mattambrogi.com)
  22. I guess I'm using WebP now? (anderegg.ca)
  23. Quoting Matthew Green (simonwillison.net)
  24. A new feature for my blog, built using my voice (simonwillison.net)
  25. ttok 1.0 (simonwillison.net)
  26. Dual-Use Tools and Epistemic Horror (blog.veitheller.de)
  27. ttok 0.4 (simonwillison.net)
  28. Ballots Everywhere: Times & Places (www.astralcodexten.com)
  29. Quoting Carson Gross (simonwillison.net)
  30. Pre-IPO Perpetual Futures Swap ETF (www.bloomberg.com)
  31. The 26 Most Important Facts About AI and the Economy (www.derekthompson.org)
  32. Reading Roundup: Color and Text (cceckman.com)
  33. dashboard (approximateknowledge.net)
  34. Once the Cheat Code Is There (blog.veitheller.de)
  35. Top Forecasters On The Plague (www.astralcodexten.com)
  36. Hidden Open Thread 454.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  37. Claude Haiku 5.5 (simonwillison.net)
  38. ESG Gets More Illegal (www.bloomberg.com)
  39. Quoting Jake Boggan (simonwillison.net)
  40. Announcing the Centre for Cryptographic Trust Infrastructure (CCTI) (martin.kleppmann.com)
  41. OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects (simonwillison.net)
  42. Durable Context, Disposable Code - Building Systems with Speed and Quality in the Agentic Era (hamy.xyz)
  43. Quoting Victoria Kim (simonwillison.net)
  44. An Open Letter To Steven Pinker On AI (www.astralcodexten.com)
  45. Sneaky Town Overview (V4 Edition) (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  46. EmbeddingGemma 2 (simonwillison.net)
  47. Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk (simonwillison.net)
  48. Treasury Futures Might Switch (www.bloomberg.com)
  49. Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo (blog.plover.com)
  50. Scrimshaw Jukebox (simonwillison.net)
  51. You May Now Listen to Commoncog Cases (commoncog.com)
  52. Dealing with Recessions (commoncog.com)
  53. Did live visuals for a concert in a large church (palomakop.tv)
  54. Extend Lua with Zig 1: Hello World (www.robbielyman.com)
  55. Quoting Felix Rieseberg (simonwillison.net)
  56. Charlie's Meatballs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  57. Charlie's Meatballs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  58. Mergers and Acqui-hires (www.bloomberg.com)
  59. Open Thread 454 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  60. I rode my bike from NYC to Montréal (Part 2) (missfunmi.com)
  61. The Hallway Track No. 028: arXiv rate limit, AI paper mills, Google FluSight (hallway.aris.pub)