News

  1. Everyone Should Build Their Own Network Stack (blog.lyc8503.net)
  2. Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private (www.theregister.com)
  3. Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel (www.qubes-os.org)
  4. Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018) (arxiv.org)
  5. California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law (www.tomshardware.com)
  6. FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued (freecore.org)
  7. Bug Blindness (danluu.com)
  8. Introducing Hy4 Preview (simonwillison.net)
  9. Hy4 preview (www.tencent.com)
  10. Three Sticky Notes (clarionsong.substack.com)
  11. Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (science.nasa.gov)
  12. August Life Update (seinwave.com)
  13. Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days (simonwillison.net)
  14. Almost Angel Food Cake (www.alisoneroman.com)
  15. Hibiscus-Roasted Peaches with Brown-Sugar Bread Crumbs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  16. Torn Plum Browned-Butter Cake (www.alisoneroman.com)
  17. Salted Honey Panna Cotta with Crushed Raspberries (www.alisoneroman.com)
  18. Your Book Review: Thomas Urquhart’s Translation Of Rabelais (www.astralcodexten.com)
  19. Gatekeepers (podviaznikov.com)
  20. fuck your AI slop: 5 rules of writing cold messages that actually get sales (nmn.gl)
  21. Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode (simonwillison.net)
  22. Sweet and Salty Cream Cheese Tart (www.alisoneroman.com)
  23. Casual Apple Tart with Caramelized Buttermilk (www.alisoneroman.com)
  24. Hidden Open Thread 448.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  25. Benchmarking Pocket-Scale Inference (artificialanalysis.ai)
  26. AI Refi (www.bloomberg.com)
  27. The Hivemindians, a CAP Theorem tale (thornberry.io)
  28. Upside-Down Apricot Tart (www.alisoneroman.com)
  29. Sour Cherry and Sesame Galette (www.alisoneroman.com)
  30. Crushed Blackberry and Cornmeal Cake (www.alisoneroman.com)
  31. Pollinator season (cceckman.com)
  32. Crispy Buttermilk Chicken (www.alisoneroman.com)
  33. Crispy Buttermilk Chicken (www.alisoneroman.com)
  34. Pizza Night (www.alisoneroman.com)
  35. Ricotta-Stuffed Shells with Burrata, Mushrooms, and Herbs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  36. Pot of Pasta with Broccoli Rabe and Chorizo Bread Crumbs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  37. Sungold Pasta with Lemony Shellfish, Garlic, and Pistachios (www.alisoneroman.com)
  38. Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video] (www.youtube.com)
  39. Take The 2026 ACX Survey (www.astralcodexten.com)
  40. Python `siginterrupt` is confusing (iafisher.com)
  41. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (simonwillison.net)
  42. Lockstep (blog.greg.technology)
  43. Predict the KPIs (www.bloomberg.com)
  44. The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator (2020) (invention.si.edu)
  45. <a href="/blog/thewildlifetrusts/pms-lucky-heron-how-nature-recovery-can-make-english-devolution-success" hreflang="en">The PM’s lucky heron: How nature recovery can make English devolution a success </a> (www.wildlondon.org.uk)
  46. Quoting Paul Dix (simonwillison.net)
  47. Introducing Facet: My first audio plugin (jagi.studio)
  48. Klara and the gift of curiosity (www.bryanbraun.com)
  49. Retro on the AR torture device (metavee.github.io)
  50. Python signal handlers are unexpectedly reentrant (iafisher.com)
  51. Is it safe to call `print` in a Python signal handler? (iafisher.com)
  52. `time.sleep` and signal interrupts (iafisher.com)
  53. To raise VC, think like a VC first (nmn.gl)
  54. Porting my F# Web App to Rust in 2 Hours with AI (hamy.xyz)
  55. Generic Methods (go.dev)
  56. LeBron Bonds (www.bloomberg.com)
  57. Highlights From The Comments On The Substack Religion Debate (www.astralcodexten.com)
  58. Actually good advice (www.experimental-history.com)
  59. Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything") (1999) (www.muppetlabs.com)
  60. Safe signal idioms (iafisher.com)
  61. Why Tactical Decision Games Work (commoncog.com)
  62. Notes on Replacing Guilt (thomasbroadley.com)
  63. JupyterGIS 0.16: a grammar of graphics for maps, and collaborative story maps (blog.jupyter.org)
  64. A Day in Le Cordon Bleu London – Part 2 (gochugarugirl.com)
  65. Can one hear the gauge of a string? (blog.veitheller.de)
  66. Placemark is now fully open source (macwright.com)
  67. Re: Re: Re: Pritchard On Liberal Happiness (www.astralcodexten.com)
  68. SQLite as a Document Database (2020) (dgl.cx)
  69. RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython (blog.python.org)
  70. Who Should Control Anthropic? (www.bloomberg.com)
  71. Python doesn't pass `SA_RESTART` (iafisher.com)
  72. A Day in Le Cordon Bleu London – Part 1 (gochugarugirl.com)
  73. Using LLMs to Make the Emacs Web Browser Great Again (www.sammystraus.com)
  74. Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux (zackbartel.com)
  75. The Hallway Track No. 022: Palomar proof registry, autonomous protein design, synthetic consensus (hallway.aris.pub)
  76. Open Thread 448 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  77. Alignment (read.alonzo.zip)
  78. Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive (simonwillison.net)
  79. Quoting Drew Breunig (simonwillison.net)
  80. Blocking a signal is different than ignoring it (iafisher.com)
  81. Python has two signal handlers (iafisher.com)