News

  1. Meetups Everywhere 2026: Times & Places (www.astralcodexten.com)
  2. Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad (github.com)
  3. RPKI now protects 70% of internet routes (ipinfo.io)
  4. Business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites Starting Oct. 30 (www.niemanlab.org)
  5. What I self-host (viceconsole.fyi)
  6. Hummingbird Bundt (gochugarugirl.com)
  7. New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing (support.withings.com)
  8. Chirp Pong (simonwillison.net)
  9. Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr (thereallo.dev)
  10. E Ink Kaleido 4 (www.eink.com)
  11. Private Markets Are the New AI Markets (www.bloomberg.com)
  12. Muse Spark Open (research.meta.ai)
  13. Jev meets the Trolley Problem (zachlandes.com)
  14. BIPM decides to stop adding leap seconds to UTC (www.bipm.org)
  15. Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale (www.krea.ai)
  16. Neural networks are clean (already-clean.goodfire.com)
  17. Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran (fortran-lang.org)
  18. Using AI to reverse engineer hardware (blogs.gnome.org)
  19. Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design (github.com)
  20. Anthropic tells investors quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO (simonwillison.net)
  21. Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support (libreboot.org)
  22. Published a new Digital Snippet for AV Club: Human-instrument control surfaces (palomakop.tv)
  23. AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware (citizenlab.ca)
  24. I Know Why the Mathematicians Weep (www.derekthompson.org)
  25. AI Safety Is Not A Corporate Plot (www.astralcodexten.com)
  26. The engineering that allows articulated buses to bend (www.theautopian.com)
  27. Simple Sudoku Solvers SIII, EII: Assembly (blog.veitheller.de)
  28. Tree Appreciator (simonwillison.net)
  29. Bank of America Missed Some Bad Guys (www.bloomberg.com)
  30. Credit Where Credit is Due (thefloatingcontinent.com)
  31. AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary. (simonwillison.net)
  32. Why I Wrote PGP (1991, revised 1999) (philzimmermann.com)
  33. Thirty Six Hours in SF (debamitro.github.io)
  34. Context Architecture - Aligning Humans and Agents at Scale (hamy.xyz)
  35. Better HTTP/1 connection reuse (go.dev)
  36. Delta’s Biscoff cookies were supposed to be temporary (www.seriouseats.com)
  37. Redesigning source control at Anthropic (simonwillison.net)
  38. llm-gemini 0.35 (simonwillison.net)
  39. Claude, don’t touch my lump (www.experimental-history.com)
  40. They Found Some Walter Victims (www.bloomberg.com)
  41. A statement on our project's collaboration with maybe fascists, and on how we really don't want to end that collaboration, as awkward as it may be (for us too) (lake.computer)
  42. Quoting Geoffrey Huntley (simonwillison.net)
  43. Straight Lines (adagrad.substack.com)
  44. Open Thread 455 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  45. llm-meta-ai 0.2 (simonwillison.net)
  46. Don’t Bet Against the Sports Bets (www.bloomberg.com)
  47. web-edit 0.1a0 (simonwillison.net)
  48. (Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers (words.filippo.io)
  49. Why Americans Stopped Falling in Love (www.derekthompson.org)
  50. How AI has changed my engineering leadership role (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  51. I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI BOT traffic (www.sammystraus.com)
  52. The Hallway Track No. 029: OpenAI math manuscripts, inquiry narrowing, virtual biology initiative (hallway.aris.pub)
  53. weeknotes #67 (olu.online)
  54. Artist Residency: Day 1 (www.fauxtrots.com)
  55. IDRs as records of intent (wrla.ch)
  56. Quoting The New York Times (simonwillison.net)
  57. Your Book Review: We Present Television (www.astralcodexten.com)
  58. Debugging Breakout paddle bounces (jdkaplan.dev)
  59. What is the Future of SaaS in an Agent First World? (www.mattambrogi.com)
  60. Quoting Matthew Green (simonwillison.net)
  61. A new feature for my blog, built using my voice (simonwillison.net)