News

  1. Artsy Math: Squaring Square Patterns (www.fractalkitty.com)
  2. Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive (erichgrunewald.substack.com)
  3. A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum (github.com)
  4. What Zig felt like, coming from Rust (besok.github.io)
  5. Tin: full-text search for Postgres (planetscale.com)
  6. I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago (laya.convaiinnovations.com)
  7. AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible (john.hartnup.uk)
  8. GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher (www.prinzai.com)
  9. If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  10. Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds (med.stanford.edu)
  11. San Francisco Onion Futures Company (onionfutures.com)
  12. Processing Community Day NYC 2026 • MIDI Workshop Preview (george.mand.is)
  13. SDCC – Small Device C Compiler (sdcc.sourceforge.net)
  14. Science Is Open Software (jepedersen.dk)
  15. Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI (simonwillison.net)
  16. How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip (spectrum.ieee.org)
  17. Your Book Review: This Is Going To Hurt (www.astralcodexten.com)
  18. “Shoppy Shop” Thoughts (www.alisoneroman.com)
  19. Note on 18th September 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  20. Quoting Thariq Shihipar (simonwillison.net)
  21. Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP (grapheneos.social)
  22. Saving another 100TB of RAM (blog.cloudflare.com)
  23. Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots' (www.quantamagazine.org)
  24. A Model for Winning Survivor (victoriaritvo.com)
  25. Cloudflare Quick Tunnels (try.cloudflare.com)
  26. Project Monopoly: Fleet Street (gochugarugirl.com)
  27. Mrs Perkins' Quilt (www.fractalkitty.com)
  28. How To Write With An LLM (simonwillison.net)
  29. How to Write with an LLM (sockpuppet.org)
  30. Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries (simonwillison.net)
  31. The Whole Indian Options Trade Was Too Good (www.bloomberg.com)
  32. The first new cat species discovered in 100 years (www.nationalgeographic.com)
  33. New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb (www.nature.com)
  34. LibreOffice on Arch doesn't install fallback fonts by default (www.blog.jamesgisele.com)
  35. How I Actually Do Agentic Engineering As A Senior Software Engineer (hamy.xyz)
  36. AI Superforecasting Should Transform The FDA (www.astralcodexten.com)
  37. Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude (simonwillison.net)
  38. BlackRock Wants Pensions (www.bloomberg.com)
  39. Quoting Mustafa Suleyman (simonwillison.net)
  40. How to Handle Disruptive Change (commoncog.com)
  41. Rabbit Hole: Minimum L-seams (www.fractalkitty.com)
  42. Size-Specialized Memory Allocation (go.dev)
  43. Not All the Susquehanna Puts Were Bad (www.bloomberg.com)
  44. There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy (www.experimental-history.com)
  45. Aside from that (push.cx)
  46. King Ludd (www.astralcodexten.com)
  47. The contagion of fear (simonwillison.net)
  48. AI Labs Want Someone to Stop Them (www.bloomberg.com)
  49. Quoting Laurie Voss (simonwillison.net)
  50. Bad Feelings (www.derekthompson.org)
  51. The Hallway Track No. 025: Navier-Stokes provenance dispute, Fields Medalists declaration, AI peer review (hallway.aris.pub)
  52. A tale of two talks (blog.veitheller.de)
  53. Open Thread 451 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  54. weeknotes #65 (olu.online)
  55. The Zeitgeist of September 2026 (adagrad.substack.com)
  56. Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)