News

  1. Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking (www.wired.com)
  2. Position: LLMs Can't Jump (openreview.net)
  3. Helsinki Hacker News Meetup (calpaterson.com)
  4. Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents (arxiv.org)
  5. How Much Faster is Coding with AI Agents? (from a Senior Software Engineer) (hamy.xyz)
  6. Bugtraq is back (lists.securityfocus.com)
  7. New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging (simonwillison.net)
  8. Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI (queue.acm.org)
  9. IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay (mysk.blog)
  10. libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months (blog.hartwork.org)
  11. We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars (seg6.space)
  12. Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage (earendil.com)
  13. DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023) (techascent.com)
  14. AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol (www.africanews.com)
  15. The Beauty Of Settled Science (www.astralcodexten.com)
  16. Project Monopoly: Three Purples and Marylebone Station (gochugarugirl.com)
  17. Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone (deepgrove.ai)
  18. PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx (simonwillison.net)
  19. My Impressions of Loop Engineering (debamitro.github.io)
  20. Leveraged ETF Crash Hedging ETF (www.bloomberg.com)
  21. Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
  22. Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
  23. Quoting Steve Yegge (simonwillison.net)
  24. A More Immediate Intuitive Appeal (blog.veitheller.de)
  25. Don't be a meat proxy (simonwillison.net)
  26. Does Forecasting Have Room At The Top? (www.astralcodexten.com)
  27. Learning to fly FPV drones with AI flight coach (blog.divyendusingh.com)
  28. Grilled Tomatillo Salsa (www.alisoneroman.com)
  29. Writing my own sequencer for the Yocto drum machine (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  30. Hedgehog Hedge Fund (www.bloomberg.com)
  31. Death by side quests (jesusgollonet.com)
  32. Open Thread 445 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  33. Quoting David Crawshaw's prompt (simonwillison.net)
  34. Devtools must be open source (exe.dev) (simonwillison.net)
  35. Monday Cleaning Day (gochugarugirl.com)
  36. Rebuilding Postgres for 300x faster analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
  37. Subway arrival times in my living room with Raspberry Pi (iafisher.com)
  38. The Hallway Track No. 019: AlphaFold team disbanded, verification as the bottleneck, Tao's ICM caution (hallway.aris.pub)
  39. Seven books I keep close because I love them (blog.plover.com)
  40. Who's afraid of a non sofic group (www.robbielyman.com)
  41. Project Monopoly: Pentonville Road (gochugarugirl.com)
  42. weeknotes #63 (olu.online)
  43. Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power (sharedobject.blog)
  44. Open letters about AI development (simonwillison.net)
  45. Adding Go's defer to the TypeScript Compiler (healeycodes.com)
  46. Getting a Working SICP environment in Emacs in 2026 (www.blog.jamesgisele.com)
  47. Reading Log #1 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  48. Quoting Greg Brockman (simonwillison.net)
  49. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (simonwillison.net)
  50. Pendants (figbert.com)
  51. My NixOS dev machine (miccah.io)
  52. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (simonwillison.net)
  53. July Life Update (seinwave.com)
  54. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (simonwillison.net)
  55. Your Book Review: The Epic Of Gilgamesh (www.astralcodexten.com)
  56. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp) (simonwillison.net)
  57. About Interactives: Inquiries.link (www.fractalkitty.com)
  58. Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation) (andrewkelley.me)
  59. Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison (simonwillison.net)
  60. smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses (simonwillison.net)
  61. Friday Baking Day (gochugarugirl.com)
  62. help wanted (lake.computer)
  63. Why is it all in the kernel? (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
  64. links #8: how you know it's good (etc.octavore.com)
  65. RE: “The robots work at night”: How AI helps the world’s poorest, and where it falls short (olu.online)
  66. The End of my Suno Era (read.alonzo.zip)
  67. The Four Horsemen of the AI Bubble Apocalypse (www.derekthompson.org)
  68. do more random elective medical stuff (adagrad.substack.com)
  69. there is a poker-shaped hole in your heart (adagrad.substack.com)
  70. In Which I Lose My Mind Over Embeddings (HPLM Chapter 2) (www.maayanroth.com)
  71. Writing dumber (liquidbrain.net)
  72. Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (simonwillison.net)
  73. Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (simonwillison.net)
  74. Links For July 2026 (Part 2) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  75. I have something to say about grilled meat (www.alisoneroman.com)
  76. Charred Broccoli Salad with Garlic and Basil (www.alisoneroman.com)
  77. Quoting Bruce Schneier (simonwillison.net)
  78. Topologies, Groups, Graphs (www.robbielyman.com)
  79. The Situation Deteriorated (www.bloomberg.com)
  80. Thursday Night Dinner (gochugarugirl.com)
  81. Published my first Digital Snippet for AV Club (palomakop.tv)
  82. Highlights From The Discourse On The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  83. Hidden Open Thread 444.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  84. this edge of the earth (toground.link)
  85. AI Worming through Word (simonwillison.net)
  86. Quoting Matthew Green (simonwillison.net)
  87. Announcing PCBEval (blog.greg.technology)
  88. SpaceX Crash Insurance (www.bloomberg.com)
  89. Everyone's Tables Suck (404wolf.com)