News

  1. Norway Should Buy OpenAI (www.onethousandmeans.com)
  2. How does IKEA come up with names for its products? (www.ikea.com)
  3. Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust (github.com)
  4. Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix (asmedigitalcollection.asme.org)
  5. Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion (support.claude.com)
  6. I like 'em thick (www.experimental-history.com)
  7. Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book) (opensource.posit.co)
  8. The Amazon tax (seths.blog)
  9. Fixing a bricked Framework laptop (quantum5.ca)
  10. Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner (philo.gay)
  11. Fairphone is now officially available in the United States (www.fairphone.com)
  12. Regretfully, Captain Obvious (daringfireball.net)
  13. Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM (pixelcluster.dev)
  14. California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year (grist.org)
  15. Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (simonwillison.net)
  16. Open Thread 447 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  17. Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months (www.tomshardware.com)
  18. Brown Butter–Buttermilk Cake (www.alisoneroman.com)
  19. Blueberry Cake with Almond and Cinnamon (www.alisoneroman.com)
  20. Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative (cursor.com)
  21. Lemon Shaker Tart (www.alisoneroman.com)
  22. Pistachio-Plum Crisp (www.alisoneroman.com)
  23. Rhubarb-Almond Galette (www.alisoneroman.com)
  24. Everyone’s Favorite Celebration Cake (www.alisoneroman.com)
  25. Caramelized Honey with Figs and Ice Cream (www.alisoneroman.com)
  26. Honey-Yogurt Pound Cake with Raspberries (www.alisoneroman.com)
  27. Cocoa Banana Bread (www.alisoneroman.com)
  28. Chocolate-Tahini Tart with Crunchy Salt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  29. Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study (ysph.yale.edu)
  30. Frozen Blackberries and Labne with Honey (www.alisoneroman.com)
  31. We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility (simonwillison.net)
  32. Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? (news.ycombinator.com)
  33. Jackdaw Release DELAYED (charlie-volow.com)
  34. Due diligence for charitable giving (iafisher.com)
  35. The Hallway Track No. 021: AI peer review ensembles, Riemann zeta bound, VibeMathed registry (hallway.aris.pub)
  36. What If It's Just This? (read.alonzo.zip)
  37. Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things (simonwillison.net)
  38. Quoting Dario Amodei (simonwillison.net)
  39. Reading Log #3 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  40. The Creation of Abulafia (blog.veitheller.de)
  41. CORS Chat (simonwillison.net)
  42. Splitting a Git Commit (blog.gnoack.org)
  43. Getting MIDI sync working (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  44. Rhythm games (sygi.xyz)
  45. Your Book Review: The Escape Artist (www.astralcodexten.com)
  46. Crunchy Tenderstem Broccoli (gochugarugirl.com)
  47. Don't classify. Hallucinate! (simonwillison.net)
  48. The American Sports Plutocracy Is Bullshit (www.derekthompson.org)
  49. Pasta e Ceci Salad (www.alisoneroman.com)
  50. Pasta e Ceci Salad (www.alisoneroman.com)
  51. We've flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked (arstechnica.com)
  52. The road to epsilon-zero: Productive programs and well-founded orders (blog.plover.com)
  53. The Foothills Of Bay Area House Party (www.astralcodexten.com)
  54. llm-gemini 0.33 (simonwillison.net)
  55. Bilateral OTC Goat Hedge (www.bloomberg.com)
  56. Thoughts on the "in-between" (brianagude.substack.com)
  57. Links from The Internship (cceckman.com)
  58. 24 things I believe (clarionsong.substack.com)
  59. The Quest For Caffeine You Can Have At Night (www.astralcodexten.com)
  60. Another partial SSI trick with canonicalize (bernsteinbear.com)
  61. A fully legible mind (blog.veitheller.de)
  62. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter) (simonwillison.net)
  63. A Walk In Primrose Hill (gochugarugirl.com)
  64. Sorbet in Grapefruit Cups (www.alisoneroman.com)
  65. Reading together, unsupervised (brian.abelson.live)
  66. Anchovy-Butter Chicken with Chicken Fat Croutons (www.alisoneroman.com)
  67. AI-Backed Securities (www.bloomberg.com)
  68. Quoting Florian Herrengt (simonwillison.net)
  69. Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD (tau.dev)
  70. <a href="/blog/thewildlifetrusts/we-drained-britain-dry-now-we-are-watching-it-burn" hreflang="en">We drained Britain dry. Now we are watching it burn</a> (www.wildlondon.org.uk)
  71. Topologies on Free Products (www.robbielyman.com)
  72. My Daily Routine as a Software Engineer and Dad of a 1-Year-Old (hamy.xyz)
  73. There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text (simonwillison.net)
  74. Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs (simonwillison.net)
  75. There are two kinds of theorems (blog.plover.com)