News

  1. clml, a rust string coloring library (etc.octavore.com)
  2. The Specter Of Neuralese (www.astralcodexten.com)
  3. Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance (koi.rest)
  4. California is chasing wealth that has feet (blog.landeconomics.org)
  5. Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos (launchvideo.io)
  6. Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html) (blog.arusekk.pl)
  7. Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters (resobscura.substack.com)
  8. Morgan Stanley Leaked Some Deals (www.bloomberg.com)
  9. Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design (github.com)
  10. Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative? (dynomight.substack.com)
  11. F-Droid 2.0 (f-droid.org)
  12. Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead' (www.afr.com)
  13. Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space (blog.google)
  14. Homemade bagels (merveilles.town)
  15. Two-tier encryption in the UK (macanorak.com)
  16. How China Thinks About AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  17. Nokia Design Archive (2025) (repo.aalto.fi)
  18. Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net (transluce.org)
  19. Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later (www.astralcodexten.com)
  20. Rapid Learning Skill for Code (niccrane.com)
  21. Out Now: Low-tech Magazine Volume IV (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
  22. Platform-independent SIMD in Go (go.dev)
  23. Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard (bastardica.mitpit.com)
  24. Toyota is taking the Corolla electric (electrek.co)
  25. Geothermal heat map of US hot springs (www.soakingsprings.com)
  26. Kalshi Levers the Predictions (www.bloomberg.com)
  27. Building a homelab (wrla.ch)
  28. Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video] (www.youtube.com)
  29. Noting another house repair chore victory (blog.plover.com)
  30. WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations (github.com)
  31. Delegation and trust (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  32. Hidden Open Thread 452.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  33. The Mundanity of Excellence, Small Wins, and Why You Should Fix Bugs Before Writing New Features (probablydance.com)
  34. SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering (simonwillison.net)
  35. Mysteries Of AI Generalization (www.astralcodexten.com)
  36. Work diary victory (blog.plover.com)
  37. Building a Multiplayer Game of Life with Rust + Datastar (hamy.xyz)
  38. Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war (simonwillison.net)
  39. Who Cares If a Merger Is Fair? (www.bloomberg.com)
  40. Quoting @therealcornpop (simonwillison.net)
  41. My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps (ahmedhossamdev.com)
  42. 2DWillNeverDie (2dwillneverdie.com)
  43. Simplicio, Ten Years Later (adagrad.substack.com)
  44. Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models (simonwillison.net)
  45. Open Thread 452 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  46. Solitaire Alone Together (eieio.games)
  47. The Hallway Track No. 026: AI use in science study, astronomy disclosure gap, Paper2Agent, SAIR initiative (hallway.aris.pub)
  48. A First Futamura Projection (blog.veitheller.de)
  49. Tuna and Butterbean Salad (gochugarugirl.com)
  50. weeknotes #66 (olu.online)
  51. Quoting voxium (simonwillison.net)
  52. Reading Log #6 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  53. 0061: i'm not a cat, artificial adventures, synthetic sagas, anthropic, sponsors (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  54. Synthetic sagas (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  55. Artsy Math: Squaring Square Patterns (www.fractalkitty.com)
  56. Processing Community Day NYC 2026 • MIDI Workshop Preview (george.mand.is)
  57. Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI (simonwillison.net)
  58. Your Book Review: This Is Going To Hurt (www.astralcodexten.com)
  59. “Shoppy Shop” Thoughts (www.alisoneroman.com)
  60. Note on 18th September 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  61. Quoting Thariq Shihipar (simonwillison.net)
  62. A Model for Winning Survivor (victoriaritvo.com)
  63. Project Monopoly: Fleet Street (gochugarugirl.com)
  64. Mrs Perkins' Quilt (www.fractalkitty.com)