News

  1. Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds (hannahilea.com)
  2. Bitchat Is Now on Radicle (radicle.network)
  3. The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory (supakeen.com)
  4. MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad (www.augmental.tech)
  5. Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB (kitsumed.github.io)
  6. ARC-AGI Leaderboard (arcprize.org)
  7. Extinct Media Museum Tokyo (extinct-media-museum.blog.jp)
  8. UK AISI / Caisi Preliminary Assessment of Kimi K3's Cyber Capabilities (www.nist.gov)
  9. Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach (www.maths.cam.ac.uk)
  10. Quoting Boris Cherny (simonwillison.net)
  11. Introducing Claude Opus 5 (simonwillison.net)
  12. Your Book Review: Breakdown In Pakistan (www.astralcodexten.com)
  13. The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  14. Cranban is a tool for collaborating with robots (patrickweaver.net)
  15. I'm running a programming contest (eieio.games)
  16. The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? (simonwillison.net)
  17. If You're Reading This I'm Free (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  18. Sports Happen So Much (www.bloomberg.com)
  19. Sheena Ringo in Sound & Recording (disk.horse)
  20. What Is Lost When We Make 'The Odyssey' Modern (www.derekthompson.org)
  21. Every exterior shot in *The Taking of Pelham 123* (iafisher.com)
  22. Simple Sudoku Solvers SII, EV: Racket/miniKanren (blog.veitheller.de)
  23. Quoting Thomas Ptacek (simonwillison.net)
  24. OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
  25. Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? (simonwillison.net)
  26. Charles Ross spent 50 yrs building Star Axis naked-eye observatory in New Mexico (www.nytimes.com)
  27. The SEC Pays a Texting Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
  28. Building a Tiny 3D Renderer for a Tiny Handheld (saffroncr.itch.io)
  29. An old patent inspired the new "Y-zipper", a three-sided fastener (news.mit.edu)
  30. Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings (news.mongabay.com)
  31. Links For July 2026 (Part 1) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  32. PyPI Blog: Releases now reject new files after 14 days (blog.pypi.org)
  33. Spatial languages: Writing code in 2D (shukla.io)
  34. My Images Are Dithered (dead.garden)
  35. Back to basics: The Hundred-Page Languages Models Book, Chapter 1 (www.maayanroth.com)
  36. Things I know about beets (lucymcphail.com)
  37. GPT 5.6 + OpenCode vs Claude + Claude Code - First Impressions (hamy.xyz)
  38. Call for lightning talks: Haskell Symposium 2026 (decomposition.al)
  39. LSE Will Trade 22.83 Hours a Day (www.bloomberg.com)
  40. Category Theory Day One (www.robbielyman.com)
  41. Blog Jamboree 2026: The Winners (www.experimental-history.com)
  42. Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac (simonwillison.net)
  43. A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team (simonwillison.net)
  44. Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness (www.astralcodexten.com)
  45. Going Ham: Zero to Amateur Extra in 31 Days (flaviuspopan.com)
  46. Bytecode-to-Source Mapping (tidefield.dev)
  47. No central server, only BitTorrent (www.scannedinavian.com)
  48. Why I Write (bugwhisperer.dev)
  49. Avoid the trap of magical thinking (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  50. Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API) (words.filippo.io)
  51. Some more things about Django I've been enjoying (jvns.ca)
  52. Reverse-engineering is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
  53. Ice Cream Hedging (www.bloomberg.com)
  54. Project Monopoly: King’s Cross Station (gochugarugirl.com)
  55. GC and Exceptions in Wasmtime (bytecodealliance.org)
  56. Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? (simonwillison.net)
  57. How Moats are Built (commoncog.com)
  58. I loved my AI assistant. My friends did not. (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  59. NYC Apartment Aquaponics (erinmurphy.dev)
  60. <a href="/blog/thewildlifetrusts/challenges-abound-new-prime-minister-nature-has-solutions" hreflang="en">Challenges abound for the new Prime Minister – but nature has the solutions</a> (www.wildlondon.org.uk)
  61. Open Thread 443 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  62. Stolen Buttons (anatolyzenkov.com)
  63. The Hallway Track No. 017: Science EIC contra AI hype, data poisoning of research agents, Vancouver Standard for AI disclosure (hallway.aris.pub)
  64. This is the golden age of video games (approximateknowledge.net)
  65. Quoting Sam Altman (simonwillison.net)
  66. The road to epsilon-zero: Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals (blog.plover.com)
  67. Looking for work (tonsky.me)
  68. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making (simonwillison.net)
  69. [New Game] Those Who Wear Red (k-monk.org)
  70. The road to epsilon-zero: ordinals as nim-heaps (blog.plover.com)
  71. Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP (brooker.co.za)