News

1. Pick-and-Shovel Seller Financing (www.bloomberg.com)
2. Perfect Steak with Buttered Radish Toast (www.alisoneroman.com)
3. Why Go Is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering (developers.googleblog.com)
4. Fennel-Rubbed Pork Chops for Two (www.alisoneroman.com)
5. Impostor al Pastor (www.alisoneroman.com)
6. Skillet Chicken with Crushed Olives and Sumac (www.alisoneroman.com)
7. Swordfish-Like Steak with Crispy Capers (www.alisoneroman.com)
8. Show HN: Git-knife – edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet (github.com)
9. Dad’s Scotch Gravlax (www.alisoneroman.com)
10. Smoked Trout with Mustard and Apples (www.alisoneroman.com)
11. Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: 11–16× Faster LLM Inference with Llama.cpp (github.com)
12. Soy-Brined Halibut with Mustard Greens, Sesame, and Lime (www.alisoneroman.com)
13. Federal vendor with $50M in contracts leaves portal broken for a month (www.propublica.org)
14. Manus will return to operating as an independent company (manus.im)
15. Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (huggingface.co)
16. Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs (stolen-thoughts.com)
17. England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C (www.bbc.com)
18. The Great American AI Rebellion (www.derekthompson.org)
19. What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy (www.lighthousenewsletter.com)
20. How AI Changes the Economics of JIT Compilers (malisper.me)
21. Nvidia's Risky Business (stratechery.com)
22. France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls (www.lemonde.fr)
23. 1st Sept 2026: An Increase in Membership Prices (commoncog.com)
24. H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon (github.com)
25. Chicken Scheme 6.0 (code.call-cc.org)
26. Scallops with Corn, Hazelnuts, and Brown Butter Chermoula (www.alisoneroman.com)
27. Black Bass with Salty, Spicy Celery (www.alisoneroman.com)
28. Quick Weeknight Fish Stew with Olives (www.alisoneroman.com)
29. Simple Sudoku Solvers SII, EVI: SQL (blog.veitheller.de)
30. Introducing Muse Glimmer (simonwillison.net)
31. Spring Seafood Stew with Peas, New Potatoes, and Tarragon (www.alisoneroman.com)
32. Whole Roasted Snapper with Harissa and Sun Gold Tomatoes (www.alisoneroman.com)
33. Grilled Branzino with Lemons All of the Ways (www.alisoneroman.com)
34. Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states (everycube.alen.is)
35. As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing (thewalrus.ca)
36. How Claude marks AI-generated content (support.claude.com)
37. Littleneck Clams with Green Garlic Butter and Leftover Wine (www.alisoneroman.com)
38. Stone Soup (gochugarugirl.com)
39. You Can Fix Email (thefloatingcontinent.com)
40. Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots (cactuscompute.com)
41. The Situation Is Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
42. Open Thread 446 (www.astralcodexten.com)
43. Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models (www.ft.com)
44. Just Another Girl – The Killers (read.alonzo.zip)
45. The Hallway Track No. 020: Astra solves ten open math problems, AI agents fail at open-ended research, peer review under strain (hallway.aris.pub)
46. sterno (approximateknowledge.net)
47. Quoting OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6) (simonwillison.net)
48. Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt (simonwillison.net)
49. weeknotes #64 (olu.online)
50. GitHub Models is now retired (simonwillison.net)
51. A Walk Around Covent Garden (gochugarugirl.com)
52. and in a flash, you took off (toground.link)
53. I cannot see beyond it (clarionsong.substack.com)
54. Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo (photosynthesis.camera)
55. Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans (simonwillison.net)
56. Project Monopoly: The Three Oranges (gochugarugirl.com)
57. Reading Log #2 (vishnubharathi.codes)
58. Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme (jolt-lang.github.io)
59. help unexpected (lake.computer)
60. Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
61. Wrote a new blog post about our live show with Monochromatic Pool (palomakop.tv)
62. Getting off the Modernization Treadmill (unplannedobsolescence.com)
63. Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
64. Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra) (simonwillison.net)
65. I'm Building an Official Shopify Theme! (brianagude.substack.com)
66. The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI (simonwillison.net)
67. The 9 Questions I’m Obsessed With Right Now: AI, Politics, Movies, Drugs, and Western Civilization (www.derekthompson.org)
68. MacGregor The Bridge Builder (www.astralcodexten.com)
69. A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs (bernsteinbear.com)
70. things to say to someone who says they're vegan (lake.computer)
71. Fake SpaceX Stock Isn’t Worth as Much (www.bloomberg.com)
72. Counter or gauge? (cceckman.com)
73. Open Questions On Open Weights (www.astralcodexten.com)
74. Art Prompts: Hailstone Arabesques (www.fractalkitty.com)
75. Hidden Open Thread 445.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
76. An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing (simonwillison.net)
77. Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (simonwillison.net)
78. Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models (simonwillison.net)
79. Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing (simonwillison.net)
80. The road to epsilon-zero: Coin-moving games with no coins (blog.plover.com)
81. Notes from the AI Coding Transition (emschwartz.me)
82. One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5 (simonwillison.net)
83. SpaceX Unlocks Tomorrow (www.bloomberg.com)
84. Incentives are for losers (www.experimental-history.com)
85. Text editor architecture from ed to jupyterlab (tyoverby.com)
86. How Much Faster is Coding with AI Agents? (from a Senior Software Engineer) (hamy.xyz)
87. New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging (simonwillison.net)
88. The Beauty Of Settled Science (www.astralcodexten.com)
89. Project Monopoly: Three Purples and Marylebone Station (gochugarugirl.com)
90. PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx (simonwillison.net)