News

  1. Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose (w4g1.dev)
  2. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers (news.ycombinator.com)
  3. A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better" (rvembedded.com)
  4. NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers (www.science.org)
  5. The weekend is 100 years old (www.theguardian.com)
  6. St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (www.wptv.com)
  7. Quoting Dario Amodei (simonwillison.net)
  8. GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost (www.newyorker.com)
  9. The AI Credit Resale Economy (vectoral.com)
  10. Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (support.mozilla.org)
  11. Claude: System Prompts (platform.claude.com)
  12. Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" (scholar.google.com)
  13. A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator (ei3lh.eu)
  14. Reading Log #3 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  15. The Creation of Abulafia (blog.veitheller.de)
  16. CORS Chat (simonwillison.net)
  17. Getting MIDI sync working (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  18. Rhythm games (sygi.xyz)
  19. Your Book Review: The Escape Artist (www.astralcodexten.com)
  20. Crunchy Tenderstem Broccoli (gochugarugirl.com)
  21. Don't classify. Hallucinate! (simonwillison.net)
  22. The American Sports Plutocracy Is Bullshit (www.derekthompson.org)
  23. Pasta e Ceci Salad (www.alisoneroman.com)
  24. Pasta e Ceci Salad (www.alisoneroman.com)
  25. The road to epsilon-zero: Productive programs and well-founded orders (blog.plover.com)
  26. Technology optimism hour (macwright.com)
  27. The Foothills Of Bay Area House Party (www.astralcodexten.com)
  28. Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware (hwbusters.com)
  29. llm-gemini 0.33 (simonwillison.net)
  30. Bilateral OTC Goat Hedge (www.bloomberg.com)
  31. Thoughts on the "in-between" (brianagude.substack.com)
  32. Links from The Internship (cceckman.com)
  33. 24 things I believe (clarionsong.substack.com)
  34. The Quest For Caffeine You Can Have At Night (www.astralcodexten.com)
  35. Another partial SSI trick with canonicalize (bernsteinbear.com)
  36. Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga (nnamgreb.de)
  37. A fully legible mind (blog.veitheller.de)
  38. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter) (simonwillison.net)
  39. A Walk In Primrose Hill (gochugarugirl.com)
  40. Sorbet in Grapefruit Cups (www.alisoneroman.com)
  41. Reading together, unsupervised (brian.abelson.live)
  42. Anchovy-Butter Chicken with Chicken Fat Croutons (www.alisoneroman.com)
  43. Bacon-Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Caraway’d Cabbage and Apples (www.alisoneroman.com)
  44. Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane (www.nature.com)
  45. AI-Backed Securities (www.bloomberg.com)
  46. Hanger Steak with Dandelion, Arugula, and Grana Padano (www.alisoneroman.com)
  47. Lamb Stew with Fennel, Preserved Lemon, and Crispy Fried Bread (www.alisoneroman.com)
  48. Pork and Red Chile Stew with Tomatillos (www.alisoneroman.com)
  49. Slow-Roasted Pork Shoulder with Garlic, Citrus, and Cilantro (www.alisoneroman.com)
  50. Crispy Chicken Legs with Rosemary, Tiny Potatoes, and Sour Cream (www.alisoneroman.com)
  51. Quoting Florian Herrengt (simonwillison.net)
  52. Paprika-Rubbed Sheet-Pan Chicken with Lemon (www.alisoneroman.com)
  53. Cumin Lamb Chops with Charred Scallions and Peanuts (www.alisoneroman.com)
  54. Asus Bike Booster (www.asus.com)
  55. A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem (arxiv.org)
  56. Topologies on Free Products (www.robbielyman.com)
  57. My Daily Routine as a Software Engineer and Dad of a 1-Year-Old (hamy.xyz)
  58. There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text (simonwillison.net)
  59. Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs (simonwillison.net)
  60. Vinegar-Braised Chicken with Farro and Watercress (www.alisoneroman.com)
  61. There are two kinds of theorems (blog.plover.com)
  62. Pick-and-Shovel Seller Financing (www.bloomberg.com)
  63. Reflections on AI (blog.greg.technology)
  64. Perfect Steak with Buttered Radish Toast (www.alisoneroman.com)
  65. Fennel-Rubbed Pork Chops for Two (www.alisoneroman.com)
  66. Ergonomic SSH development (miccah.io)
  67. The Great American AI Rebellion (www.derekthompson.org)
  68. How AI Changes the Economics of JIT Compilers (malisper.me)
  69. 1st Sept 2026: An Increase in Membership Prices (commoncog.com)
  70. Simple Sudoku Solvers SII, EVI: SQL (blog.veitheller.de)
  71. Introducing Muse Glimmer (simonwillison.net)
  72. Stone Soup (gochugarugirl.com)
  73. You Can Fix Email (thefloatingcontinent.com)
  74. The Situation Is Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
  75. Open Thread 446 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  76. Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work (duckdb.org)
  77. Just Another Girl – The Killers (read.alonzo.zip)
  78. 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)
  79. Writing 300k+ lines of code per month is the new normal, i guess (nmn.gl)
  80. sterno (approximateknowledge.net)
  81. Quoting OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6) (simonwillison.net)
  82. Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt (simonwillison.net)
  83. weeknotes #64 (olu.online)
  84. GitHub Models is now retired (simonwillison.net)
  85. A Walk Around Covent Garden (gochugarugirl.com)