News

  1. NP-Overrated (gruhn.me)
  2. Understanding is the new bottleneck (www.geoffreylitt.com)
  3. Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes (github.com)
  4. Bilateral OTC Goat Hedge (www.bloomberg.com)
  5. Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast (www.cerebras.ai)
  6. Thoughts on the "in-between" (brianagude.substack.com)
  7. How Compaction Works in Pi (earendil.com)
  8. Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out (0.mk)
  9. Choose Boring Technology (2015) (mcfunley.com)
  10. Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory (donkeybas.com)
  11. Gemini 3.7 Flash (blog.google)
  12. Tocharian Online (lrc.la.utexas.edu)
  13. Mistral OCR 4.1 (docs.mistral.ai)
  14. AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps (jdagostino.github.io)
  15. Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations (oxide.computer)
  16. Spaghettifying DRAM (github.com)
  17. Links from The Internship (cceckman.com)
  18. Gloomberb (gloom.sh)
  19. I built a 500k-domain search engine for makers in a weekend for $10 (alexmorleyfinch.github.io)
  20. Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data (current.org)
  21. Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results (www.netlify.com)
  22. DeepSeek Harness developer preview (deepseek.com)
  23. Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding Agent (www.codewithbullet.com)
  24. 24 things I believe (clarionsong.substack.com)
  25. The Quest For Caffeine You Can Have At Night (www.astralcodexten.com)
  26. Another partial SSI trick with canonicalize (bernsteinbear.com)
  27. A fully legible mind (blog.veitheller.de)
  28. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter) (simonwillison.net)
  29. A Walk In Primrose Hill (gochugarugirl.com)
  30. Sorbet in Grapefruit Cups (www.alisoneroman.com)
  31. Reading together, unsupervised (brian.abelson.live)
  32. Anchovy-Butter Chicken with Chicken Fat Croutons (www.alisoneroman.com)
  33. Bacon-Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Caraway’d Cabbage and Apples (www.alisoneroman.com)
  34. AI-Backed Securities (www.bloomberg.com)
  35. Hanger Steak with Dandelion, Arugula, and Grana Padano (www.alisoneroman.com)
  36. Lamb Stew with Fennel, Preserved Lemon, and Crispy Fried Bread (www.alisoneroman.com)
  37. Pork and Red Chile Stew with Tomatillos (www.alisoneroman.com)
  38. Slow-Roasted Pork Shoulder with Garlic, Citrus, and Cilantro (www.alisoneroman.com)
  39. Crispy Chicken Legs with Rosemary, Tiny Potatoes, and Sour Cream (www.alisoneroman.com)
  40. Quoting Florian Herrengt (simonwillison.net)
  41. Paprika-Rubbed Sheet-Pan Chicken with Lemon (www.alisoneroman.com)
  42. Cumin Lamb Chops with Charred Scallions and Peanuts (www.alisoneroman.com)
  43. Topologies on Free Products (www.robbielyman.com)
  44. My Daily Routine as a Software Engineer and Dad of a 1-Year-Old (hamy.xyz)
  45. There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text (simonwillison.net)
  46. Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs (simonwillison.net)
  47. Vinegar-Braised Chicken with Farro and Watercress (www.alisoneroman.com)
  48. There are two kinds of theorems (blog.plover.com)
  49. Pick-and-Shovel Seller Financing (www.bloomberg.com)
  50. Reflections on AI (blog.greg.technology)
  51. Perfect Steak with Buttered Radish Toast (www.alisoneroman.com)
  52. Fennel-Rubbed Pork Chops for Two (www.alisoneroman.com)
  53. Impostor al Pastor (www.alisoneroman.com)
  54. Skillet Chicken with Crushed Olives and Sumac (www.alisoneroman.com)
  55. Ergonomic SSH development (miccah.io)
  56. The Great American AI Rebellion (www.derekthompson.org)
  57. How AI Changes the Economics of JIT Compilers (malisper.me)
  58. 1st Sept 2026: An Increase in Membership Prices (commoncog.com)
  59. Simple Sudoku Solvers SII, EVI: SQL (blog.veitheller.de)
  60. Introducing Muse Glimmer (simonwillison.net)
  61. Stone Soup (gochugarugirl.com)
  62. You Can Fix Email (thefloatingcontinent.com)
  63. The Situation Is Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
  64. Open Thread 446 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  65. Just Another Girl – The Killers (read.alonzo.zip)
  66. The Hallway Track No. 020: Astra solves ten open math problems, AI agents fail at open-ended research, peer review under strain (hallway.aris.pub)
  67. sterno (approximateknowledge.net)
  68. Quoting OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6) (simonwillison.net)
  69. Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt (simonwillison.net)
  70. weeknotes #64 (olu.online)
  71. GitHub Models is now retired (simonwillison.net)
  72. A Walk Around Covent Garden (gochugarugirl.com)
  73. and in a flash, you took off (toground.link)
  74. I cannot see beyond it (clarionsong.substack.com)
  75. How do programming languages impact token efficiency and correctness? (danluu.com)
  76. Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans (simonwillison.net)
  77. Project Monopoly: The Three Oranges (gochugarugirl.com)
  78. Reading Log #2 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  79. help unexpected (lake.computer)
  80. Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
  81. Wrote a new blog post about our live show with Monochromatic Pool (palomakop.tv)
  82. Getting off the Modernization Treadmill (unplannedobsolescence.com)
  83. Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
  84. Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra) (simonwillison.net)
  85. I'm Building an Official Shopify Theme! (brianagude.substack.com)
  86. The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI (simonwillison.net)
  87. The 9 Questions I’m Obsessed With Right Now: AI, Politics, Movies, Drugs, and Western Civilization (www.derekthompson.org)
  88. MacGregor The Bridge Builder (www.astralcodexten.com)
  89. A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs (bernsteinbear.com)