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  1. Every exterior shot in *The Taking of Pelham 123* (iafisher.com)
  2. Petals: Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style (petals.dev)
  3. Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects (codeberg.org)
  4. Quoting Thomas Ptacek (simonwillison.net)
  5. OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
  6. Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? (simonwillison.net)
  7. Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years (www.cnn.com)
  8. All 253 Patterns from Christopher Alexander's a Pattern Language Summarized (claytondorge.com)
  9. Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You (yummymelon.com)
  10. Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support (nondescriptpointer.com)
  11. John C. Dvorak has died (twitter.com)
  12. Clarity didn't work, trying mysterianism (2012) (gwern.net)
  13. The SEC Pays a Texting Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
  14. Show HN: Cactus Hybrid: We taught Gemma 4 to know when it's wrong (github.com)
  15. Everyone should know SIMD (mitchellh.com)
  16. Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample (chatgpt.com)
  17. GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization (github.com)
  18. Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? (dylancastillo.co)
  19. Making (beej.us)
  20. Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab) (bento.page)
  21. Links For July 2026 (Part 1) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  22. Ghost Cut – or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere (ishmael.textualize.io)
  23. Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop (resobscura.substack.com)
  24. Back to Kagi (blog.melashri.net)
  25. Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns (blog.fiddery.com)
  26. The startup's Postgres survival guide (hatchet.run)
  27. Back to basics: The Hundred-Page Languages Models Book, Chapter 1 (www.maayanroth.com)
  28. Things I know about beets (lucymcphail.com)
  29. GPT 5.6 + OpenCode vs Claude + Claude Code - First Impressions (hamy.xyz)
  30. Call for lightning talks: Haskell Symposium 2026 (decomposition.al)
  31. LSE Will Trade 22.83 Hours a Day (www.bloomberg.com)
  32. Category Theory Day One (www.robbielyman.com)
  33. Blog Jamboree 2026: The Winners (www.experimental-history.com)
  34. Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac (simonwillison.net)
  35. A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team (simonwillison.net)
  36. Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness (www.astralcodexten.com)
  37. Going Ham: Zero to Amateur Extra in 31 Days (flaviuspopan.com)
  38. Bytecode-to-Source Mapping (tidefield.dev)
  39. Why I Write (bugwhisperer.dev)
  40. Avoid the trap of magical thinking (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  41. Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API) (words.filippo.io)
  42. Some more things about Django I've been enjoying (jvns.ca)
  43. Reverse-engineering is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
  44. Ice Cream Hedging (www.bloomberg.com)
  45. Project Monopoly: King’s Cross Station (gochugarugirl.com)
  46. Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? (simonwillison.net)
  47. How Moats are Built (commoncog.com)
  48. I loved my AI assistant. My friends did not. (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  49. <a href="/blog/thewildlifetrusts/challenges-abound-new-prime-minister-nature-has-solutions" hreflang="en">Challenges abound for the new Prime Minister – but nature has the solutions</a> (www.wildlondon.org.uk)
  50. Open Thread 443 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  51. The Hallway Track No. 017: Science EIC contra AI hype, data poisoning of research agents, Vancouver Standard for AI disclosure (hallway.aris.pub)
  52. This is the golden age of video games (approximateknowledge.net)
  53. Quoting Sam Altman (simonwillison.net)
  54. The road to epsilon-zero: Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals (blog.plover.com)
  55. Looking for work (tonsky.me)
  56. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making (simonwillison.net)
  57. [New Game] Those Who Wear Red (k-monk.org)
  58. The road to epsilon-zero: ordinals as nim-heaps (blog.plover.com)
  59. Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP (brooker.co.za)
  60. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 3 (Gardens) (gochugarugirl.com)
  61. Claude make Fable 5 permanent (simonwillison.net)
  62. 202607-social-media-algorithms-accumulated-aesthetic-artifacts (henderson.lol)
  63. What I Learned From Getting Knocked Down (cranberrymuffin.io)
  64. Great Chicken Parmesan (www.alisoneroman.com)
  65. For Everyone Cooking on Vacation (www.alisoneroman.com)
  66. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 2 (Historic Houses) (gochugarugirl.com)
  67. Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures (www.astralcodexten.com)
  68. Quoting Kimi K3 (simonwillison.net)
  69. LLM cliché highlighter (simonwillison.net)
  70. Spot birds not golf (simonwillison.net)
  71. Learning a few things about running SQLite (jvns.ca)
  72. Firefox in WebAssembly (simonwillison.net)
  73. Against "Stochastic Terrorism" (www.astralcodexten.com)
  74. Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark (simonwillison.net)
  75. Shorts Will Sell You SpaceX (www.bloomberg.com)
  76. Quoting Thibault Sottiaux (simonwillison.net)
  77. Inkling: Our open-weights model (simonwillison.net)
  78. Quoting Linus Torvalds (simonwillison.net)
  79. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 1 (Food) (gochugarugirl.com)