News

  1. Avoid the trap of magical thinking (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  2. Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public (www.aclu.org)
  3. Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API) (words.filippo.io)
  4. Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team (forum.jellyfin.org)
  5. I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs (numerlab.org)
  6. Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco (vincentwoo.com)
  7. The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism (www.scottrlarson.com)
  8. Reverse-engineering is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
  9. Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled (xenaproject.wordpress.com)
  10. Ice Cream Hedging (www.bloomberg.com)
  11. Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac (blaizzy.github.io)
  12. The drivers behind software delivery inefficiency (dl.acm.org)
  13. Agent swarms and the new model economics (cursor.com)
  14. Project Monopoly: King’s Cross Station (gochugarugirl.com)
  15. Kimi Work (www.kimi.com)
  16. Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? (simonwillison.net)
  17. Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls (jelly-ui.com)
  18. How Moats are Built (commoncog.com)
  19. How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks (unslop.run)
  20. Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12 (news.ycombinator.com)
  21. I loved my AI assistant. My friends did not. (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  22. The Voice of Google (www.newyorker.com)
  23. Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling (www.emergingtrajectories.com)
  24. Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012) (nothings.org)
  25. China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning (werd.io)
  26. Perfection is not over-engineering (var0.xyz)
  27. Shinjuku Station in 3D (satoshi7190.github.io)
  28. Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database (news.risky.biz)
  29. <a href="/blog/thewildlifetrusts/challenges-abound-new-prime-minister-nature-has-solutions" hreflang="en">Challenges abound for the new Prime Minister – but nature has the solutions</a> (www.wildlondon.org.uk)
  30. Open Thread 443 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  31. The Hallway Track No. 017: Science EIC contra AI hype, data poisoning of research agents, Vancouver Standard for AI disclosure (hallway.aris.pub)
  32. This is the golden age of video games (approximateknowledge.net)
  33. Quoting Sam Altman (simonwillison.net)
  34. The road to epsilon-zero: Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals (blog.plover.com)
  35. Looking for work (tonsky.me)
  36. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making (simonwillison.net)
  37. [New Game] Those Who Wear Red (k-monk.org)
  38. The road to epsilon-zero: ordinals as nim-heaps (blog.plover.com)
  39. Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP (brooker.co.za)
  40. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 3 (Gardens) (gochugarugirl.com)
  41. Canarat rebuild / repair finished (slinkp.com)
  42. Claude make Fable 5 permanent (simonwillison.net)
  43. 202607-social-media-algorithms-accumulated-aesthetic-artifacts (henderson.lol)
  44. What I Learned From Getting Knocked Down (cranberrymuffin.io)
  45. Great Chicken Parmesan (www.alisoneroman.com)
  46. For Everyone Cooking on Vacation (www.alisoneroman.com)
  47. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 2 (Historic Houses) (gochugarugirl.com)
  48. Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures (www.astralcodexten.com)
  49. Quoting Kimi K3 (simonwillison.net)
  50. LLM cliché highlighter (simonwillison.net)
  51. Spot birds not golf (simonwillison.net)
  52. Learning a few things about running SQLite (jvns.ca)
  53. Firefox in WebAssembly (simonwillison.net)
  54. Against "Stochastic Terrorism" (www.astralcodexten.com)
  55. Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark (simonwillison.net)
  56. Shorts Will Sell You SpaceX (www.bloomberg.com)
  57. Quoting Thibault Sottiaux (simonwillison.net)
  58. Inkling: Our open-weights model (simonwillison.net)
  59. Quoting Linus Torvalds (simonwillison.net)
  60. How pgrust was built: four attempts to rewrite Postgres in Rust with AI (malisper.me)
  61. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 1 (Food) (gochugarugirl.com)
  62. Links #15 (www.bryanbraun.com)
  63. Six Slightly Skew Boogeymen (www.astralcodexten.com)
  64. Metrics, Life, and Money (blog.veitheller.de)
  65. xai-org/grok-build, now open source (simonwillison.net)
  66. Basil! (gochugarugirl.com)
  67. Keeping Mergers Under the Radar (www.bloomberg.com)
  68. How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets (simonwillison.net)
  69. AI Chip Regulation Is Not A Dystopian Surveillance State (www.astralcodexten.com)
  70. This could be the golden age of the internet. Why not? (www.bryanbraun.com)
  71. How Much I Spend on AI Agents as a Software Engineer (And Is It Worth It?) (hamy.xyz)
  72. simonw/pedalican (simonwillison.net)
  73. Banks Made a Lot of Money on Stocks (www.bloomberg.com)
  74. Buttons vs Links (unplannedobsolescence.com)
  75. LLM Networking with MikroTik (blog.greg.technology)
  76. Quoting Armin Ronacher (simonwillison.net)
  77. A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird (www.derekthompson.org)