News

  1. We're Asking an Appeals Court to Require a Warrant for ALPR Searches (www.eff.org)
  2. datasette-llm 0.1a11 (simonwillison.net)
  3. Nvidia deliberately kept GPU prices high through circular financing deals (www.techspot.com)
  4. How did Woz write the Apple 1 BASIC before building the computer? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
  5. knowember (olu.online)
  6. SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15 (www.spacex.com)
  7. A family tree of software job titles (zwischenzugs.com)
  8. Lovable apps expose passport details and more than 200K private messages (www.crissyfield.de)
  9. PyPI's redesigned project pages with clearer security signals are now live (blog.pypi.org)
  10. Show HN: DeepSeek V3 in ~200 lines of pure Jax (github.com)
  11. Show HN: A terminal-native idle factory game, written in Rust with ratatui (gitlab.com)
  12. Participated in an art show in providence (palomakop.tv)
  13. KDE: The documentary [video] (tube.kockatoo.org)
  14. Advancing science and engineering with Antigravity's /teamwork (research.google)
  15. Project Zero will disclose vulnerabilities 90 days after reporting (projectzero.google)
  16. How AI will change engineering leadership in 2027 (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  17. Nov 13: Mind and Body II (tinylogger.com)
  18. using the inkplate C++ API on ESP32, from zig (djan.org)
  19. RaspberryPi Kiosk, 10 years later (writing.natwelch.com)
  20. Vote In The 2026 Book Review Contest (www.astralcodexten.com)
  21. the winter arc, aka end of year lock in, aka home stretch goals season (olu.online)
  22. The Grothendieck Construction in Pictures Part 1 – Indexed Categories (drewmcneely.github.io)
  23. Why learn web dev skills in 2026 (minireference.com)
  24. LLM use policy (klauria.tech)
  25. Lean in the browser (klauria.tech)
  26. _"consistent, available, partition-tolerant: pick two"_ — not even wrong (cosmo-grant.github.io)
  27. Jolly Dystopia (figbert.com)
  28. Nov 12: Where Are The Good Podcasts? (tinylogger.com)
  29. Simple Sudoku Solvers SIII, EIII: Verilog (blog.veitheller.de)
  30. AI Company Employees Should Unionize (www.astralcodexten.com)
  31. do we really need to measure that? (olu.online)
  32. llm-gemini 0.37 (simonwillison.net)
  33. Nvidia’s Board Had to Do Something (www.bloomberg.com)
  34. 'Grey Rocking': The Life-Improving Power of Being Really, Really Boring (2021) (www.esquire.com)
  35. ‘This Is an Insane Scandal’: How Jensen Huang’s Downfall Could Change Everything (www.derekthompson.org)
  36. Make (no) mistakes (minhanhday.substack.com)
  37. Testing a trash can Faraday cage (www.jefftk.com)
  38. Submitting a patch to GNU sed (miccah.io)
  39. Fixing Postgres’s biggest mistakes (malisper.me)
  40. SSA from bytecode: imperative pearl (bernsteinbear.com)
  41. tinyrenderer-rs (klauria.tech)
  42. Nov 11: Looking Glass, NASA Smash (tinylogger.com)
  43. research as a hobby, blog edition (olu.online)
  44. Personal public transit display on an Adafruit MagTag (hannahilea.com)
  45. Gemini Decisions API (simonwillison.net)
  46. aws-emulator (simonwillison.net)
  47. Browse tools.simonwillison.net by tag (simonwillison.net)
  48. Homelab 2026 (writing.natwelch.com)
  49. Anthropic's IPO roadshow video (simonwillison.net)
  50. Seagate's new hybrid drive raises some old questions (arstechnica.com)
  51. Our current screen time policies (www.bryanbraun.com)
  52. Escaping The “Outside Criticism” Trap (www.astralcodexten.com)
  53. Nov 10: The Worst Flight (tinylogger.com)
  54. Make bad things cost something (jimkang.com)
  55. two way ranging - how it works (awill.co)
  56. Reading Log #9 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  57. Rolling my own self-serve sponsorships for my personal website (hamy.xyz)
  58. what's the point? (olu.online)
  59. llm-gemini 0.36 (simonwillison.net)
  60. Anthropic Has Some Anchor Investors (www.bloomberg.com)
  61. We need more goat sacrifices (www.experimental-history.com)
  62. Generative AI uses more energy on non-English text (news.umich.edu)
  63. Maybe Be Careful (miguelconner.substack.com)
  64. Why get an expensive Pi when I have an old phone? (so.long.thanks.fish)
  65. Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember (simonwillison.net)
  66. Quoting Prompting Claude Fable 5.2 (simonwillison.net)
  67. Mathematicians and Luddites (alok.github.io)
  68. For random numbers on the GPU, encrypt a counter (klauria.tech)
  69. I am searching for a coffee alternative (bernsteinbear.com)
  70. Yonkers Rises (simonwillison.net)
  71. Nov 09: The Right Question (tinylogger.com)
  72. Pamphlets Considered Quite Cool (figbert.com)
  73. Go Turns 17 (go.dev)
  74. llm-anthropic 0.31 (simonwillison.net)
  75. Locating the source of a mysterious beep with Claude (simonwillison.net)
  76. 20-30 minute meditations (qqrs.us)
  77. should learning to code be like learning to read? (olu.online)
  78. Open Thread 459 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  79. Is the Nvidia Affair Securities Fraud? (www.bloomberg.com)
  80. Can Tactical Decision Games Accelerate ... Maths? (commoncog.com)
  81. The Hallway Track No. 033: AutoDNA autonomous lab, mathematics profession at scale, AI cloning benchmarks (hallway.aris.pub)
  82. psychic: a fast file browser with ML-powered ranking (klauria.tech)
  83. The Web Is More Than Enough, by Paul Ford (simonwillison.net)
  84. Hide your slop PR descriptions behind <details><summary> (simonwillison.net)
  85. weeknotes #71 (olu.online)
  86. Recurse Center Week One (ajoellee.com)
  87. Reverse engineering a vintage diode-transistor logic chip (www.righto.com)
  88. Nov 08: Layover (tinylogger.com)
  89. Sanborn keymaps: location priors, if you can read them (danvk.github.io)