News

  1. Apple is getting this wrong (openai.com)
  2. Quoting Steve Yegge (simonwillison.net)
  3. Don't be a meat proxy (simonwillison.net)
  4. Does Forecasting Have Room At The Top? (www.astralcodexten.com)
  5. Learning to fly FPV drones with AI flight coach (blog.divyendusingh.com)
  6. Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage (virtuallyfun.com)
  7. LLMs reward expertise (www.seangoedecke.com)
  8. Grilled Tomatillo Salsa (www.alisoneroman.com)
  9. Writing my own sequencer for the Yocto drum machine (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  10. Hedgehog Hedge Fund (www.bloomberg.com)
  11. Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale (blog.cloudflare.com)
  12. Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (changelog.complete.org)
  13. Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone (github.com)
  14. Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents (hoplite.sh)
  15. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (openai.com)
  16. Open Thread 445 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  17. Quoting David Crawshaw's prompt (simonwillison.net)
  18. Devtools must be open source (exe.dev) (simonwillison.net)
  19. Twenty Years of Pandoc (pandoc.org)
  20. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026) (news.ycombinator.com)
  21. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) (news.ycombinator.com)
  22. Monday Cleaning Day (gochugarugirl.com)
  23. Devtools must be open source (blog.exe.dev)
  24. Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs (clickhouse.com)
  25. MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video (blog.comfy.org)
  26. Rebuilding Postgres for 300x faster analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
  27. Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code (ankursethi.com)
  28. Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library (github.com)
  29. More German than many Germans (mertbulan.com)
  30. Subway arrival times in my living room with Raspberry Pi (iafisher.com)
  31. The Hallway Track No. 019: AlphaFold team disbanded, verification as the bottleneck, Tao's ICM caution (hallway.aris.pub)
  32. Seven books I keep close because I love them (blog.plover.com)
  33. Who's afraid of a non sofic group (www.robbielyman.com)
  34. Project Monopoly: Pentonville Road (gochugarugirl.com)
  35. weeknotes #63 (olu.online)
  36. Open letters about AI development (simonwillison.net)
  37. Adding Go's defer to the TypeScript Compiler (healeycodes.com)
  38. Getting a Working SICP environment in Emacs in 2026 (www.blog.jamesgisele.com)
  39. Reading Log #1 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  40. Quoting Greg Brockman (simonwillison.net)
  41. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (simonwillison.net)
  42. Pendants (figbert.com)
  43. My NixOS dev machine (miccah.io)
  44. 200 Milliseconds (200ms.thenodebook.com)
  45. July Life Update (seinwave.com)
  46. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (simonwillison.net)
  47. Your Book Review: The Epic Of Gilgamesh (www.astralcodexten.com)
  48. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp) (simonwillison.net)
  49. About Interactives: Inquiries.link (www.fractalkitty.com)
  50. Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation) (andrewkelley.me)
  51. Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison (simonwillison.net)
  52. smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses (simonwillison.net)
  53. Friday Baking Day (gochugarugirl.com)
  54. Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed (defector.com)
  55. help wanted (lake.computer)
  56. links #8: how you know it's good (etc.octavore.com)
  57. RE: “The robots work at night”: How AI helps the world’s poorest, and where it falls short (olu.online)
  58. The End of my Suno Era (read.alonzo.zip)
  59. The Four Horsemen of the AI Bubble Apocalypse (www.derekthompson.org)
  60. do more random elective medical stuff (adagrad.substack.com)
  61. there is a poker-shaped hole in your heart (adagrad.substack.com)
  62. In Which I Lose My Mind Over Embeddings (HPLM Chapter 2) (www.maayanroth.com)
  63. Writing dumber (liquidbrain.net)
  64. Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (simonwillison.net)
  65. Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (simonwillison.net)
  66. Links For July 2026 (Part 2) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  67. I have something to say about grilled meat (www.alisoneroman.com)
  68. Charred Broccoli Salad with Garlic and Basil (www.alisoneroman.com)
  69. Quoting Bruce Schneier (simonwillison.net)
  70. Topologies, Groups, Graphs (www.robbielyman.com)
  71. The Situation Deteriorated (www.bloomberg.com)
  72. Thursday Night Dinner (gochugarugirl.com)
  73. Highlights From The Discourse On The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  74. Hidden Open Thread 444.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  75. this edge of the earth (toground.link)
  76. AI Worming through Word (simonwillison.net)
  77. Quoting Matthew Green (simonwillison.net)
  78. Announcing PCBEval (blog.greg.technology)
  79. SpaceX Crash Insurance (www.bloomberg.com)
  80. Everyone's Tables Suck (404wolf.com)
  81. The Next Miracle Drug Might Already Be in Your Medicine Cabinet (www.derekthompson.org)
  82. Eventual Consistency (thornberry.io)
  83. Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT (simonwillison.net)
  84. How Much OpenCode + GPT 5.6 Usage Do You Get With OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro Subscription? (hamy.xyz)
  85. Lorenz and Little: How Much Does Your Tail Cost? (brooker.co.za)
  86. Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude (simonwillison.net)
  87. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident (simonwillison.net)
  88. Project Monopoly: Euston Road (gochugarugirl.com)
  89. Elevators Won’t Repair Themselves (www.bloomberg.com)
  90. RE: knitting the web: we need interlinkers (olu.online)
  91. Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine (www.astralcodexten.com)