News

  1. BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising (consumerrights.wiki)
  2. How to Exist (www.raptitude.com)
  3. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (simonwillison.net)
  4. Your Book Review: The Epic Of Gilgamesh (www.astralcodexten.com)
  5. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp) (simonwillison.net)
  6. About Interactives: Inquiries.link (www.fractalkitty.com)
  7. Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3 (code.intellios.ai)
  8. Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison (simonwillison.net)
  9. smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses (simonwillison.net)
  10. Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion (tailscale.com)
  11. Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types (github.com)
  12. Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video] (media.ccc.de)
  13. Termixer (TUI DJ Mixer) (github.com)
  14. June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more (servo.org)
  15. qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work (github.com)
  16. Friday Baking Day (gochugarugirl.com)
  17. Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio (www.jeffgeerling.com)
  18. Big Food vs. the People (www.lighthousereports.com)
  19. Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy (www.theexamination.org)
  20. Algorithms on billion-scale graph using 10GB RAM: I love DataFusion (semyonsinchenko.github.io)
  21. Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons? (www.quantamagazine.org)
  22. Elevators (john.fun)
  23. The most official water costs $120k a gallon (signoregalilei.com)
  24. help wanted (lake.computer)
  25. Authorize, don't authenticate (blog.marcua.net)
  26. Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s (github.com)
  27. links #8: how you know it's good (etc.octavore.com)
  28. RE: “The robots work at night”: How AI helps the world’s poorest, and where it falls short (olu.online)
  29. The End of my Suno Era (read.alonzo.zip)
  30. Progressive Web Components (arielsalminen.com)
  31. The Four Horsemen of the AI Bubble Apocalypse (www.derekthompson.org)
  32. Let's make the worst Htmx (zserge.com)
  33. do more random elective medical stuff (adagrad.substack.com)
  34. there is a poker-shaped hole in your heart (adagrad.substack.com)
  35. In Which I Lose My Mind Over Embeddings (HPLM Chapter 2) (www.maayanroth.com)
  36. Writing dumber (liquidbrain.net)
  37. Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (simonwillison.net)
  38. Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (simonwillison.net)
  39. Links For July 2026 (Part 2) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  40. I have something to say about grilled meat (www.alisoneroman.com)
  41. Grilled Tomatillo Salsa (www.alisoneroman.com)
  42. Charred Broccoli Salad with Garlic and Basil (www.alisoneroman.com)
  43. Quoting Bruce Schneier (simonwillison.net)
  44. Topologies, Groups, Graphs (www.robbielyman.com)
  45. The Situation Deteriorated (www.bloomberg.com)
  46. Thursday Night Dinner (gochugarugirl.com)
  47. Highlights From The Discourse On The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  48. Hidden Open Thread 444.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  49. this edge of the earth (toground.link)
  50. AI Worming through Word (simonwillison.net)
  51. Quoting Matthew Green (simonwillison.net)
  52. Announcing PCBEval (blog.greg.technology)
  53. SpaceX Crash Insurance (www.bloomberg.com)
  54. Everyone's Tables Suck (404wolf.com)
  55. The Next Miracle Drug Might Already Be in Your Medicine Cabinet (www.derekthompson.org)
  56. Eventual Consistency (thornberry.io)
  57. Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT (simonwillison.net)
  58. How Much OpenCode + GPT 5.6 Usage Do You Get With OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro Subscription? (hamy.xyz)
  59. Lorenz and Little: How Much Does Your Tail Cost? (brooker.co.za)
  60. Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude (simonwillison.net)
  61. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident (simonwillison.net)
  62. Project Monopoly: Euston Road (gochugarugirl.com)
  63. Elevators Won’t Repair Themselves (www.bloomberg.com)
  64. RE: knitting the web: we need interlinkers (olu.online)
  65. Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine (www.astralcodexten.com)
  66. State of multi-player Wayland (blinry.org)
  67. The inliner is yielding benefits for ZJIT (bernsteinbear.com)
  68. If AI Writes All the Code, What Do the Programmers Do? (probablydance.com)
  69. moonshotai/Kimi-K3 (simonwillison.net)
  70. An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff (simonwillison.net)
  71. A Merger Closing Mystery (www.bloomberg.com)
  72. Project Monopoly: The Angel Islington (gochugarugirl.com)
  73. What Does It Look Like When You Handle Disruption Well? (commoncog.com)
  74. “Steph Curry: fluke or breakthrough” ten years later (blog.plover.com)
  75. Blog Newsletter Restored (punchagan.muse-amuse.in)
  76. Open Thread 444 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  77. Tactical Decision Game with John Schmitt (commoncog.com)
  78. The Hallway Track No. 018: Genesis Mission $5B, Challengescape problem directory, team science vs. solo AI agents (hallway.aris.pub)
  79. Mid-Training and the Middle-End (blog.veitheller.de)
  80. An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud (simonwillison.net)
  81. Doing Okay-ish with AI at the AI-proof competition (blog.greg.technology)
  82. weeknotes #62 (olu.online)
  83. Invention 2 by J. S. Bach (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  84. Production ML-DSA Verification in 350 Lines of Python (words.filippo.io)
  85. It gets better: A letter to my younger self (bugwhisperer.dev)
  86. Porting Super Hexagon to the Playdate (captnemo.in)
  87. Some vegan recipes (kevingal.com)
  88. Welcome to the Classroom of Meritocratic Supremacy (read.alonzo.zip)
  89. The road to epsilon-zero: Infinite Nim as a coin-moving game (blog.plover.com)
  90. Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds (hannahilea.com)