News

  1. "As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice (arxiv.org)
  2. Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election (www.reddit.com)
  3. OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News (authorsguild.org)
  4. What is the size of Yemen? (2024) (theborys.substack.com)
  5. Kākāpō Party (simonwillison.net)
  6. DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec) (arxiv.org)
  7. Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC (www.righto.com)
  8. Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things (github.com)
  9. Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas (tangled.org)
  10. Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model (www.privatemode.ai)
  11. Building Go Tools Without Writing Any Go (niccrane.com)
  12. Go Concurrency Distilled (antonz.org)
  13. Improving site performance by shipping more CSS (github.blog)
  14. How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs (discourse.haskell.org)
  15. Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story (lexontech.org)
  16. Flip Fluid on Flip Dots (mitxela.com)
  17. An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot (alignment.openai.com)
  18. Infecting the Steam Link with NixOS (feyor.sh)
  19. Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons (www.fu-berlin.de)
  20. Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width (ampdot.mesh.host)
  21. Carp in Glamorous Toolkit (blog.veitheller.de)
  22. Your Book Review: Lee Kuan Yew's Memoirs (www.astralcodexten.com)
  23. The commercial applications of embodied conversational agents are gross. (newdelete.alinen.net)
  24. Vinegar-Braised Chicken Wings (www.alisoneroman.com)
  25. Vinegar-Braised Chicken Wings with Zucchini and Herbs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  26. notice of being ghosted (lake.computer)
  27. Quoting John Gruber (simonwillison.net)
  28. L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages (blog.plover.com)
  29. Banana, Walnut and Cardamom Bundt (gochugarugirl.com)
  30. ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 (www.tomshardware.com)
  31. PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock (github.com)
  32. Fall Meetups 2026 - Call For Meetup Organizers (www.astralcodexten.com)
  33. The road to epsilon-zero: “Shortlex” isn't actually a single order (blog.plover.com)
  34. Note on 24th September 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  35. clml, a rust string coloring library (etc.octavore.com)
  36. The Specter Of Neuralese (www.astralcodexten.com)
  37. Morgan Stanley Leaked Some Deals (www.bloomberg.com)
  38. Homemade bagels (merveilles.town)
  39. How China Thinks About AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  40. Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later (www.astralcodexten.com)
  41. Rapid Learning Skill for Code (niccrane.com)
  42. Out Now: Low-tech Magazine Volume IV (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
  43. Platform-independent SIMD in Go (go.dev)
  44. Kalshi Levers the Predictions (www.bloomberg.com)
  45. Building a homelab (wrla.ch)
  46. Noting another house repair chore victory (blog.plover.com)
  47. Delegation and trust (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  48. Hidden Open Thread 452.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  49. The Mundanity of Excellence, Small Wins, and Why You Should Fix Bugs Before Writing New Features (probablydance.com)
  50. SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering (simonwillison.net)
  51. Mysteries Of AI Generalization (www.astralcodexten.com)
  52. Work diary victory (blog.plover.com)
  53. Building a Multiplayer Game of Life with Rust + Datastar (hamy.xyz)
  54. Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war (simonwillison.net)
  55. Who Cares If a Merger Is Fair? (www.bloomberg.com)
  56. Quoting @therealcornpop (simonwillison.net)
  57. Simplicio, Ten Years Later (adagrad.substack.com)
  58. Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models (simonwillison.net)
  59. Open Thread 452 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  60. Solitaire Alone Together (eieio.games)
  61. The Hallway Track No. 026: AI use in science study, astronomy disclosure gap, Paper2Agent, SAIR initiative (hallway.aris.pub)
  62. A First Futamura Projection (blog.veitheller.de)
  63. Tuna and Butterbean Salad (gochugarugirl.com)
  64. weeknotes #66 (olu.online)
  65. Quoting voxium (simonwillison.net)