News

  1. Show HN: I built a new version of my fun spatial 3D online meeting app (flat.social)
  2. Better Vector Search for Long Documents: Chunking Inside Manticore Search (manticoresearch.com)
  3. GLM Built Its Own Inference Infrastructure (z.ai)
  4. One Year of Sponsored Servo Development (servo.org)
  5. CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3 (events.ccc.de)
  6. OpenAI models secretly generate instructions to ignore constraints (alignment.openai.com)
  7. Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill (github.com)
  8. Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes (ryan.science)
  9. How I Actually Do Agentic Engineering As A Senior Software Engineer (hamy.xyz)
  10. AI Superforecasting Should Transform The FDA (www.astralcodexten.com)
  11. OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework (openspec.dev)
  12. HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? (harnesstax.github.io)
  13. Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs (arxiv.org)
  14. Backups Aren't Simple (filipovski.net)
  15. Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard (mimo.xiaomi.com)
  16. Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres (rohanbansal.com)
  17. Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude (simonwillison.net)
  18. BlackRock Wants Pensions (www.bloomberg.com)
  19. Quoting Mustafa Suleyman (simonwillison.net)
  20. Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust (developer.nvidia.com)
  21. How to Handle Disruptive Change (commoncog.com)
  22. Rabbit Hole: Minimum L-seams (www.fractalkitty.com)
  23. Size-Specialized Memory Allocation (go.dev)
  24. Lucasart's Afterlife (togameforlife.wordpress.com)
  25. The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (johnjwang.com)
  26. My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it (jakeasmith.com)
  27. Not All the Susquehanna Puts Were Bad (www.bloomberg.com)
  28. Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA (global.fujitsu)
  29. Comparison of Malloc() Algorithms (egbert.net)
  30. There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy (www.experimental-history.com)
  31. Aside from that (push.cx)
  32. King Ludd (www.astralcodexten.com)
  33. The contagion of fear (simonwillison.net)
  34. AI Labs Want Someone to Stop Them (www.bloomberg.com)
  35. Quoting Laurie Voss (simonwillison.net)
  36. Bad Feelings (www.derekthompson.org)
  37. The Hallway Track No. 025: Navier-Stokes provenance dispute, Fields Medalists declaration, AI peer review (hallway.aris.pub)
  38. A tale of two talks (blog.veitheller.de)
  39. Open Thread 451 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  40. weeknotes #65 (olu.online)
  41. The Zeitgeist of September 2026 (adagrad.substack.com)
  42. Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)
  43. George Orwell's essay on the atomic bomb anticipates Nineteen Eighty-Four (blog.plover.com)
  44. Quoting Paul Ford (simonwillison.net)
  45. A Decade in Cardiff (francisco.wiki)
  46. OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May (simonwillison.net)
  47. Metacarp (blog.veitheller.de)
  48. So you want to use OpenRouter? (simonwillison.net)
  49. Quoting Boris Cherny (simonwillison.net)
  50. Braised Chicken Piccata (www.alisoneroman.com)
  51. Braised Chicken Piccata (www.alisoneroman.com)
  52. Feeling sad about AI (simonwillison.net)
  53. Why Harvard's Dean 'Encourages' Students to Use AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  54. Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases (simonwillison.net)
  55. Mathober 2026 Prompts (www.fractalkitty.com)
  56. Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify (simonwillison.net)
  57. Introducing mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps (danvk.github.io)
  58. Dallas Gets Some Equities (www.bloomberg.com)