News

  1. Meta VR Glasses (www.meta.com)
  2. Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series (www.qualcomm.com)
  3. We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary (blog.cloudflare.com)
  4. VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) (fly.io)
  5. Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster (claude.dev)
  6. LensVLM: Compressing long context as images, expanding only relevant pages (huggingface.co)
  7. Kalshi Levers the Predictions (www.bloomberg.com)
  8. Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats (www.anthropic.com)
  9. A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  10. Making Tailscale Faster (tailscale.com)
  11. Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy (apnews.com)
  12. 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days (unlisted.careers)
  13. Building a homelab (wrla.ch)
  14. Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech (blog.google)
  15. Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol (radicle.dev)
  16. Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock (pointinthecloud.com)
  17. Noting another house repair chore victory (blog.plover.com)
  18. Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries (advocacy.consumerreports.org)
  19. Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform (stripe.dev)
  20. I don't want the details (michaelheap.com)
  21. Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed] (blog.szypowi.cz)
  22. Z80 REPL (2018) (abagames.github.io)
  23. Tokens too cheap to meter (jyn.dev)
  24. Delegation and trust (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  25. Hidden Open Thread 452.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  26. The Mundanity of Excellence, Small Wins, and Why You Should Fix Bugs Before Writing New Features (probablydance.com)
  27. SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering (simonwillison.net)
  28. Mysteries Of AI Generalization (www.astralcodexten.com)
  29. Work diary victory (blog.plover.com)
  30. Building a Multiplayer Game of Life with Rust + Datastar (hamy.xyz)
  31. Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war (simonwillison.net)
  32. Who Cares If a Merger Is Fair? (www.bloomberg.com)
  33. Quoting @therealcornpop (simonwillison.net)
  34. Simplicio, Ten Years Later (adagrad.substack.com)
  35. Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models (simonwillison.net)
  36. Open Thread 452 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  37. Solitaire Alone Together (eieio.games)
  38. The Hallway Track No. 026: AI use in science study, astronomy disclosure gap, Paper2Agent, SAIR initiative (hallway.aris.pub)
  39. A First Futamura Projection (blog.veitheller.de)
  40. Tuna and Butterbean Salad (gochugarugirl.com)
  41. weeknotes #66 (olu.online)
  42. Quoting voxium (simonwillison.net)
  43. Reading Log #6 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  44. 0061: i'm not a cat, artificial adventures, synthetic sagas, anthropic, sponsors (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  45. Synthetic sagas (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  46. Artsy Math: Squaring Square Patterns (www.fractalkitty.com)
  47. Processing Community Day NYC 2026 • MIDI Workshop Preview (george.mand.is)
  48. Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI (simonwillison.net)
  49. Your Book Review: This Is Going To Hurt (www.astralcodexten.com)
  50. “Shoppy Shop” Thoughts (www.alisoneroman.com)
  51. Note on 18th September 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  52. Quoting Thariq Shihipar (simonwillison.net)
  53. A Model for Winning Survivor (victoriaritvo.com)
  54. Project Monopoly: Fleet Street (gochugarugirl.com)
  55. Mrs Perkins' Quilt (www.fractalkitty.com)
  56. How To Write With An LLM (simonwillison.net)
  57. Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries (simonwillison.net)
  58. The Whole Indian Options Trade Was Too Good (www.bloomberg.com)
  59. LibreOffice on Arch doesn't install fallback fonts by default (www.blog.jamesgisele.com)