News

  1. moonshotai/Kimi-K3 (simonwillison.net)
  2. A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months (arstechnica.com)
  3. Our position on open-weights models (www.anthropic.com)
  4. An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff (simonwillison.net)
  5. Forth (xkcd.com)
  6. Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals (www.rise-reforming.com)
  7. Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions (gregoryszorc.com)
  8. Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped (www.techdirt.com)
  9. A Merger Closing Mystery (www.bloomberg.com)
  10. Project Monopoly: The Angel Islington (gochugarugirl.com)
  11. Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library (usefeyn.com)
  12. MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH (microsoft.ai)
  13. What Does It Look Like When You Handle Disruption Well? (commoncog.com)
  14. “Steph Curry: fluke or breakthrough” ten years later (blog.plover.com)
  15. Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles (eaton-works.com)
  16. Open Thread 444 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  17. Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines (github.com)
  18. Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023) (misago-project.org)
  19. Tactical Decision Game with John Schmitt (commoncog.com)
  20. Mid-Training and the Middle-End (blog.veitheller.de)
  21. An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud (simonwillison.net)
  22. Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap (theconsensus.dev)
  23. Quoting Boris Cherny (simonwillison.net)
  24. Introducing Claude Opus 5 (simonwillison.net)
  25. Your Book Review: Breakdown In Pakistan (www.astralcodexten.com)
  26. The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  27. Printing tiny photos for paper journals (macwright.com)
  28. The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? (simonwillison.net)
  29. Sports Happen So Much (www.bloomberg.com)
  30. What Is Lost When We Make 'The Odyssey' Modern (www.derekthompson.org)
  31. Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages (gpuopen.com)
  32. Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol (cen.acs.org)
  33. Exercises in benchmarking and evals, part 7: DeepSWE, Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires (danluu.com)
  34. Simple Sudoku Solvers SII, EV: Racket/miniKanren (blog.veitheller.de)
  35. Quoting Thomas Ptacek (simonwillison.net)
  36. OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
  37. Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? (simonwillison.net)
  38. The computer that helped win World War II (spectrum.ieee.org)
  39. The SEC Pays a Texting Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
  40. Links For July 2026 (Part 1) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  41. LSE Will Trade 22.83 Hours a Day (www.bloomberg.com)
  42. Blog Jamboree 2026: The Winners (www.experimental-history.com)
  43. Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac (simonwillison.net)
  44. A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team (simonwillison.net)
  45. Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness (www.astralcodexten.com)