News

  1. Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen (beaksec.github.io)
  2. Quoting The New York Times (simonwillison.net)
  3. Your Book Review: We Present Television (www.astralcodexten.com)
  4. REA Reverse – Engineer Anything (rea.tools)
  5. Clinical trial of a prion disease drug candidate begins enrolling participants (www.broadinstitute.org)
  6. Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice (lwn.net)
  7. Atari Falcon (atarimuseum.nl)
  8. YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops (gizmodo.com)
  9. Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded (carrierexplode.com)
  10. What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reliability & AI (terrytao.wordpress.com)
  11. Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read (readrare.com)
  12. Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists (twitter.com)
  13. What is the Future of SaaS in an Agent First World? (www.mattambrogi.com)
  14. Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B (typesafe.ai)
  15. Triple-A Minesweeper (minesweeper.mikelacher.com)
  16. Quoting Matthew Green (simonwillison.net)
  17. Can you use autoregressive diffusion to generate market data? (blog.janestreet.com)
  18. 'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone (animationobsessive.substack.com)
  19. Our $445M Series D (oxide.computer)
  20. Cloudflare acquires Deno (deno.com)
  21. A new feature for my blog, built using my voice (simonwillison.net)
  22. 100+ reactions to 100+ solutions (proofsandprompts.com)
  23. Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more (jessewaites.com)
  24. Sorry, I'm in a meeting (iminafleeting.com)
  25. ttok 1.0 (simonwillison.net)
  26. Dual-Use Tools and Epistemic Horror (blog.veitheller.de)
  27. ttok 0.4 (simonwillison.net)
  28. Ballots Everywhere: Times & Places (www.astralcodexten.com)
  29. Quoting Carson Gross (simonwillison.net)
  30. Pre-IPO Perpetual Futures Swap ETF (www.bloomberg.com)
  31. The 26 Most Important Facts About AI and the Economy (www.derekthompson.org)
  32. Reading Roundup: Color and Text (cceckman.com)
  33. dashboard (approximateknowledge.net)
  34. Once the Cheat Code Is There (blog.veitheller.de)
  35. Top Forecasters On The Plague (www.astralcodexten.com)
  36. Hidden Open Thread 454.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  37. Claude Haiku 5.5 (simonwillison.net)
  38. ESG Gets More Illegal (www.bloomberg.com)
  39. Quoting Jake Boggan (simonwillison.net)
  40. Announcing the Centre for Cryptographic Trust Infrastructure (CCTI) (martin.kleppmann.com)
  41. OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects (simonwillison.net)
  42. Durable Context, Disposable Code - Building Systems with Speed and Quality in the Agentic Era (hamy.xyz)
  43. Quoting Victoria Kim (simonwillison.net)
  44. An Open Letter To Steven Pinker On AI (www.astralcodexten.com)
  45. Sneaky Town Overview (V4 Edition) (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  46. EmbeddingGemma 2 (simonwillison.net)
  47. Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk (simonwillison.net)
  48. Treasury Futures Might Switch (www.bloomberg.com)
  49. Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo (blog.plover.com)
  50. Scrimshaw Jukebox (simonwillison.net)
  51. You May Now Listen to Commoncog Cases (commoncog.com)
  52. Dealing with Recessions (commoncog.com)
  53. Did live visuals for a concert in a large church (palomakop.tv)
  54. Extend Lua with Zig 1: Hello World (www.robbielyman.com)
  55. Quoting Felix Rieseberg (simonwillison.net)
  56. Charlie's Meatballs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  57. Charlie's Meatballs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  58. Mergers and Acqui-hires (www.bloomberg.com)
  59. Open Thread 454 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  60. I rode my bike from NYC to Montréal (Part 2) (missfunmi.com)
  61. The Hallway Track No. 028: arXiv rate limit, AI paper mills, Google FluSight (hallway.aris.pub)
  62. Qwen3.8 27B addition in words (simonwillison.net)
  63. 2026.Q3 Reflection (hamy.xyz)
  64. A Game Building Workshop for Kids and Parents (debamitro.github.io)
  65. Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder? (brooker.co.za)
  66. We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything (simonwillison.net)
  67. Using REAPER with ALSA, ignoring Pipewire (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  68. Recent addenda to articles 202609: Errors, omissions, and retractions (blog.plover.com)