News

  1. JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history (www.helgilibrary.com)
  2. Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen (www.nobelprize.org)
  3. Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore (gleam.run)
  4. You May Now Listen to Commoncog Cases (commoncog.com)
  5. Dealing with Recessions (commoncog.com)
  6. Did live visuals for a concert in a large church (palomakop.tv)
  7. Resurrecting iChat Audio and Video Conferencing (blog.pipetogrep.org)
  8. Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language (www.vivienhenz.com)
  9. Extend Lua with Zig 1: Hello World (www.robbielyman.com)
  10. Quoting Felix Rieseberg (simonwillison.net)
  11. Ephemeral Testing (lemire.me)
  12. Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades (www.debugbear.com)
  13. Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally (globalsolaratlas.info)
  14. Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend (dbushell.com)
  15. Charlie's Meatballs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  16. Charlie's Meatballs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  17. Find the flattest route between any two points in SF (flattensf.com)
  18. Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation (qlabs.sh)
  19. Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates (www.vals.ai)
  20. Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model (reflection.ai)
  21. Mergers and Acqui-hires (www.bloomberg.com)
  22. The lamps in my house (arslan.io)
  23. Open Thread 454 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  24. Web Search API (developers.cloudflare.com)
  25. Apple and a hacker's future (stratechery.com)
  26. I rode my bike from NYC to Montréal (Part 2) (missfunmi.com)
  27. The Hallway Track No. 028: arXiv rate limit, AI paper mills, Google FluSight (hallway.aris.pub)
  28. Qwen3.8 27B addition in words (simonwillison.net)
  29. DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit (github.com)
  30. Accountability mechanisms can be joyful (2024) (liquidbrain.net)
  31. Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors (smarthomescene.com)
  32. 2026.Q3 Reflection (hamy.xyz)
  33. A Game Building Workshop for Kids and Parents (debamitro.github.io)
  34. Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder? (brooker.co.za)
  35. We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything (simonwillison.net)
  36. Using REAPER with ALSA, ignoring Pipewire (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  37. An algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot (blog.citp.princeton.edu)
  38. Recent addenda to articles 202609: Errors, omissions, and retractions (blog.plover.com)
  39. Biking the Empire State Trail - Schenectady - Albany - Hudson (bradleydettmer.me)
  40. Improving My Hardware Workflow With CI and Nix (www.scd31.com)
  41. Simple Sudoku Solvers SIII, EI: Agda (blog.veitheller.de)
  42. We’re Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  43. Mathober 2026 Art (www.fractalkitty.com)
  44. Tips for Biking the Empire State Trail (bradleydettmer.me)
  45. What is the Atmosphere: An Untech Introduction (bnb.im)
  46. Our AI Midwife (www.astralcodexten.com)
  47. Arch-specific SIMD in Go (go.dev)
  48. Opening Private Markets to the Public (www.bloomberg.com)
  49. The Kio Programming Language (jdevuyst.blogspot.com)
  50. Quoting Matthew Green (simonwillison.net)
  51. September Life Update (seinwave.com)
  52. Fall update (jamiepalatnik.com)
  53. Recently (macwright.com)
  54. Summer Vegetable Soup with Hominy & Lime (www.alisoneroman.com)
  55. Summer Ends When I Say It Does (www.alisoneroman.com)
  56. AI Agents Will Pay Attention (www.bloomberg.com)
  57. Hard times with hard links (iafisher.com)
  58. Giving friends custom text buzzes based on morse code (liquidbrain.net)
  59. San Francisco Mindset (podviaznikov.com)
  60. With AI, Your Imagination is the Limit (hamy.xyz)
  61. Quoting Anthropic Frontier Red Team (simonwillison.net)
  62. Please add prompt caching to Jev-style models (emschwartz.me)
  63. GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price (simonwillison.net)
  64. Is Existential Risk Securities Fraud? (www.bloomberg.com)
  65. OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog (simonwillison.net)
  66. The Strangest Idea in the World (www.experimental-history.com)
  67. Esther Hermitte: una antropología para el presente (medium.com)