News

1. How I use LLMs to learn complex topics (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
2. Saying No (rozumem.xyz)
3. OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment (openchamber.dev)
4. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) (news.ycombinator.com)
5. FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US (www.tomshardware.com)
6. Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud (pubsonline.informs.org)
7. Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone (www.techeblog.com)
8. Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (www.w3.org)
9. John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (kibotronics.net)
10. Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (blog.terrygodier.com)
11. Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com)
12. The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998) (halfhill.com)
13. There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order (gukov.dev)
14. Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port (github.com)
15. and in a flash, you took off (toground.link)
16. I cannot see beyond it (clarionsong.substack.com)
17. Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans (simonwillison.net)
18. Project Monopoly: The Three Oranges (gochugarugirl.com)
19. Reading Log #2 (vishnubharathi.codes)
20. help unexpected (lake.computer)
21. Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
22. Baked Pasta with Artichokes, Greens, and Too Much Cheese (www.alisoneroman.com)
23. Pasta with Crispy Squid, Lemon, and Chile (www.alisoneroman.com)
24. Wrote a new blog post about our live show with Monochromatic Pool (palomakop.tv)
25. Getting off the Modernization Treadmill (unplannedobsolescence.com)
26. Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
27. Roasted Tomato and Anchovy Bucatini (www.alisoneroman.com)
28. Whole-Wheat Pasta with Brown-Buttered Mushrooms, Buckwheat, and Egg Yolk (www.alisoneroman.com)
29. Clam Pasta with Chorizo and Walnuts (www.alisoneroman.com)
30. Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra) (simonwillison.net)
31. Sour Cream Flatbread (www.alisoneroman.com)
32. Spelt with Crispy Sausage, Flowering Broccoli, and Green Garlic (www.alisoneroman.com)
33. Buttered Zucchini Omelette (www.alisoneroman.com)
34. Split Pea Salad (www.alisoneroman.com)
35. I'm Building an Official Shopify Theme! (brianagude.substack.com)
36. Crispy Chickpeas and Lamb with Greens and Garlicky Yogurt (www.alisoneroman.com)
37. The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI (simonwillison.net)
38. Cooking for One (www.alisoneroman.com)
39. The 9 Questions I’m Obsessed With Right Now: AI, Politics, Movies, Drugs, and Western Civilization (www.derekthompson.org)
40. MacGregor The Bridge Builder (www.astralcodexten.com)
41. A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs (bernsteinbear.com)
42. things to say to someone who says they're vegan (lake.computer)
43. Fake SpaceX Stock Isn’t Worth as Much (www.bloomberg.com)
44. Eggs and Kale Fried in Chicken Fat (www.alisoneroman.com)
45. Counter or gauge? (cceckman.com)
46. Fennel and Grapefruit Salad with Honey and Mint (www.alisoneroman.com)
47. Blood Oranges with Crunchy Red Onion and Avocado (www.alisoneroman.com)
48. Open Questions On Open Weights (www.astralcodexten.com)
49. Art Prompts: Hailstone Arabesques (www.fractalkitty.com)
50. Hidden Open Thread 445.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
51. An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing (simonwillison.net)
52. Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (simonwillison.net)
53. Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models (simonwillison.net)
54. Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing (simonwillison.net)
55. Watermelon and Cucumbers with Spicy Sumac Salt (www.alisoneroman.com)
56. The road to epsilon-zero: Coin-moving games with no coins (blog.plover.com)
57. Notes from the AI Coding Transition (emschwartz.me)
58. One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5 (simonwillison.net)
59. SpaceX Unlocks Tomorrow (www.bloomberg.com)
60. Incentives are for losers (www.experimental-history.com)
61. The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground (practical.engineering)
62. Text editor architecture from ed to jupyterlab (tyoverby.com)
63. How Much Faster is Coding with AI Agents? (from a Senior Software Engineer) (hamy.xyz)
64. New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging (simonwillison.net)
65. The Beauty Of Settled Science (www.astralcodexten.com)
66. Project Monopoly: Three Purples and Marylebone Station (gochugarugirl.com)
67. PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx (simonwillison.net)
68. My Impressions of Loop Engineering (debamitro.github.io)
69. Leveraged ETF Crash Hedging ETF (www.bloomberg.com)
70. Stylized GGX Shading (alexandrelamure.github.io)
71. Quoting Steve Yegge (simonwillison.net)
72. A More Immediate Intuitive Appeal (blog.veitheller.de)
73. Don't be a meat proxy (simonwillison.net)
74. Does Forecasting Have Room At The Top? (www.astralcodexten.com)
75. Learning to fly FPV drones with AI flight coach (blog.divyendusingh.com)
76. Writing my own sequencer for the Yocto drum machine (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
77. Hedgehog Hedge Fund (www.bloomberg.com)
78. Death by side quests (jesusgollonet.com)
79. Open Thread 445 (www.astralcodexten.com)
80. Quoting David Crawshaw's prompt (simonwillison.net)
81. Devtools must be open source (exe.dev) (simonwillison.net)
82. Monday Cleaning Day (gochugarugirl.com)
83. Rebuilding Postgres for 300x faster analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)
84. Subway arrival times in my living room with Raspberry Pi (iafisher.com)
85. The Hallway Track No. 019: AlphaFold team disbanded, verification as the bottleneck, Tao's ICM caution (hallway.aris.pub)
86. Seven books I keep close because I love them (blog.plover.com)
87. Who's afraid of a non sofic group (www.robbielyman.com)
88. Project Monopoly: Pentonville Road (gochugarugirl.com)