News

  1. Grok Outage (status.x.ai)
  2. Ask HN: Why are OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down? Coincidence? (news.ycombinator.com)
  3. Codex Is Down (github.com)
  4. Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived (anyhumanever.com)
  5. ChatGPT Is Throwing 404 (chatgpt.com)
  6. Elevated Errors for Multiple Models (status.claude.com)
  7. Nvidia to Acquire Hugging Face (blogs.nvidia.com)
  8. Audacity 4.0 (github.com)
  9. College EA Meetups Everywhere: Times & Places (www.astralcodexten.com)
  10. Pre-Release of Polars 2.0 (pola.rs)
  11. Muse Spark 1.3 (developer.meta.com)
  12. Grilled Artichokes with Preserved Lemon Yogurt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  13. Perfect Pancakes, Perfect Waffles (www.alisoneroman.com)
  14. The ETF Dividend Flip (www.bloomberg.com)
  15. Kinda-Sweet Granola with Coconut and Turmeric (www.alisoneroman.com)
  16. Decidedly Not Sweet Granola (www.alisoneroman.com)
  17. Four-Bean Salad with Green Romesco (www.alisoneroman.com)
  18. Cold Garlicky Pasta with Capers and Salsa Verde (www.alisoneroman.com)
  19. Chicken Soup with Toasted Garlic, Mushrooms, and Celery (www.alisoneroman.com)
  20. llm-gemini 0.34 (simonwillison.net)
  21. Seared Short Ribs with Kimchi and Sesame Salt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  22. Turmeric-Roasted Lamb Shoulder and Carrots with All the Fixings (www.alisoneroman.com)
  23. Any Excuse to Make Shrimp Cocktail (www.alisoneroman.com)
  24. Smashed Eggs and Fancy Fish on Crackers (www.alisoneroman.com)
  25. Creamy Goat Cheese with Lemony Za’atar (www.alisoneroman.com)
  26. A Better Garlic Bread / Caramelized Garlic on Toast with Anchovies (www.alisoneroman.com)
  27. Spicy Red Cabbage with Sweet Onion and Lime (www.alisoneroman.com)
  28. Festive Yellow Sheet Cake (www.alisoneroman.com)
  29. Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber (blog.google)
  30. Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business (www.nytimes.com)
  31. Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics (simonwillison.net)
  32. Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them (trellner.com)
  33. Absurd Adventure And Amygdalectomy Advocacy (www.astralcodexten.com)
  34. Quoting Rick Brewster (simonwillison.net)
  35. GTM hack: steal engagement with Claude (nmn.gl)
  36. What Makes LLM Tokenization Slow? (healeycodes.com)
  37. Art Works (www.fauxtrots.com)
  38. Goroutine Leak Profiles (go.dev)
  39. Tracing np.add, all the way down (blog.veitheller.de)
  40. Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican (simonwillison.net)
  41. Codex bundles LibreOffice (simonwillison.net)
  42. Amazon Charged the First Price (www.bloomberg.com)
  43. Quoting Tarn Adams (simonwillison.net)
  44. Scour - August Update (emschwartz.me)
  45. The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive (kciter.so)
  46. Invisible Companies (colossus.com)
  47. We Can't Let AI Writing Take Over the Internet (www.derekthompson.org)
  48. Nicholas Decker In Hell (www.astralcodexten.com)
  49. Picolibrary: a very small press (novalis.org)
  50. A Tetrational Self-Cleaning Turing Machine (nickdrozd.github.io)
  51. Florida revokes permits for license plate readers on state highways (www.wusf.org)
  52. Recently (macwright.com)
  53. Fish Bad, Sugar Good and Other Medieval Ideas About Food (lithub.com)
  54. Don’t Hedge the KPIs (www.bloomberg.com)
  55. Pasta and Sausage Meatballs (gochugarugirl.com)
  56. The Computer Museum of America reclamation project (computer-museum.org)
  57. Published a new Digital Snippet for AV Club (palomakop.tv)
  58. Open Thread 449 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  59. Host more and co-host more (liquidbrain.net)
  60. The Hallway Track No. 023: Co-Scientist, Terminal-Bench Science, AI in peer review (hallway.aris.pub)
  61. The joy of Compiler Development (theslowpath.pages.dev)
  62. ↗ Any user process can escalate to root (www.vesto.me)
  63. Intrusive Linked Lists (www.data-structures-in-practice.com)
  64. Understanding ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)
  65. Why I am no longer letting Claude Code add itself as Co-author in my commits (indradhanush.github.io)
  66. Introducing Hy4 Preview (simonwillison.net)
  67. Three Sticky Notes (clarionsong.substack.com)
  68. August Life Update (seinwave.com)
  69. Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days (simonwillison.net)
  70. Your Book Review: Thomas Urquhart’s Translation Of Rabelais (www.astralcodexten.com)
  71. Gatekeepers (podviaznikov.com)
  72. fuck your AI slop: 5 rules of writing cold messages that actually get sales (nmn.gl)
  73. Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode (simonwillison.net)
  74. Hidden Open Thread 448.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  75. AI Refi (www.bloomberg.com)
  76. The Hivemindians, a CAP Theorem tale (thornberry.io)