News

1. Treasury Futures Might Switch (www.bloomberg.com)
2. AI is now capable of developing its own inference hardware (github.com)
3. Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo (blog.plover.com)
4. The Early History of Smalltalk (1993) (worrydream.com)
5. Scrimshaw Jukebox (simonwillison.net)
6. Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol (mihai.dinculescu.dev)
7. Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min (www.parseable.com)
8. Mistral Large 4 (mistral.ai)
9. Meta's Muse Is an Adorable Privacy and Security Dumpster Fire (www.techdirt.com)
10. Release of Polars 2.0 (pola.rs)
11. JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history (www.helgilibrary.com)
12. World's First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months (techcrunch.com)
13. Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is vastly overestimated (phys.org)
14. I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity (ajmoon.com)
15. Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen (www.nobelprize.org)
16. Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore (gleam.run)
17. You May Now Listen to Commoncog Cases (commoncog.com)
18. Dealing with Recessions (commoncog.com)
19. Did live visuals for a concert in a large church (palomakop.tv)
20. Extend Lua with Zig 1: Hello World (www.robbielyman.com)
21. Quoting Felix Rieseberg (simonwillison.net)
22. Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend (dbushell.com)
23. Charlie's Meatballs (www.alisoneroman.com)
24. Charlie's Meatballs (www.alisoneroman.com)
25. Find the flattest route between any two points in SF (flattensf.com)
26. Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation (qlabs.sh)
27. Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates (www.vals.ai)
28. Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model (reflection.ai)
29. Mergers and Acqui-hires (www.bloomberg.com)
30. Benchmark in Milliseconds (matklad.github.io)
31. The lamps in my house (arslan.io)
32. Open Thread 454 (www.astralcodexten.com)
33. I rode my bike from NYC to Montréal (Part 2) (missfunmi.com)
34. The Hallway Track No. 028: arXiv rate limit, AI paper mills, Google FluSight (hallway.aris.pub)
35. Qwen3.8 27B addition in words (simonwillison.net)
36. 2026.Q3 Reflection (hamy.xyz)
37. A Game Building Workshop for Kids and Parents (debamitro.github.io)
38. Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder? (brooker.co.za)
39. We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything (simonwillison.net)
40. Using REAPER with ALSA, ignoring Pipewire (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
41. Recent addenda to articles 202609: Errors, omissions, and retractions (blog.plover.com)
42. Biking the Empire State Trail - Schenectady - Albany - Hudson (bradleydettmer.me)
43. Improving My Hardware Workflow With CI and Nix (www.scd31.com)
44. Simple Sudoku Solvers SIII, EI: Agda (blog.veitheller.de)
45. We’re Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI (www.derekthompson.org)
46. Mathober 2026 Art (www.fractalkitty.com)
47. Tips for Biking the Empire State Trail (bradleydettmer.me)
48. What is the Atmosphere: An Untech Introduction (bnb.im)
49. Our AI Midwife (www.astralcodexten.com)
50. Arch-specific SIMD in Go (go.dev)
51. Opening Private Markets to the Public (www.bloomberg.com)
52. The Kio Programming Language (jdevuyst.blogspot.com)
53. Quoting Matthew Green (simonwillison.net)
54. September Life Update (seinwave.com)
55. Fall update (jamiepalatnik.com)
56. Summer Vegetable Soup with Hominy & Lime (www.alisoneroman.com)
57. Summer Ends When I Say It Does (www.alisoneroman.com)
58. AI Agents Will Pay Attention (www.bloomberg.com)
59. Hard times with hard links (iafisher.com)
60. Giving friends custom text buzzes based on morse code (liquidbrain.net)
61. San Francisco Mindset (podviaznikov.com)
62. With AI, Your Imagination is the Limit (hamy.xyz)
63. Quoting Anthropic Frontier Red Team (simonwillison.net)
64. Please add prompt caching to Jev-style models (emschwartz.me)