News

  1. Long Presumed Dead, a Thriving Coral Reef Is Discovered in West Africa (e360.yale.edu)
  2. Oracle could face $7B collateral bill for Wisconsin data centre (www.ft.com)
  3. Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber (blog.google)
  4. Claude Is Not a Compiler (blog.exe.dev)
  5. Blog Jamboree 2026: The Winners (www.experimental-history.com)
  6. Apple Defeats Liability for Not Scanning iCloud for CSAM (blog.ericgoldman.org)
  7. Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac (simonwillison.net)
  8. PCjs Machines (www.pcjs.org)
  9. A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team (simonwillison.net)
  10. Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness (www.astralcodexten.com)
  11. Going Ham: Zero to Amateur Extra in 31 Days (flaviuspopan.com)
  12. Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge (qwen.ai)
  13. Running Doom on Our Custom CPU and Going Viral (www.armaangomes.com)
  14. A Koi Pond Mosaic Made from 10 Pounds of 3D Printer Waste (www.instructables.com)
  15. Incremental – A library for incremental computations (github.com)
  16. Avoid the trap of magical thinking (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  17. Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API) (words.filippo.io)
  18. I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs (numerlab.org)
  19. Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco (vincentwoo.com)
  20. Reverse-engineering is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
  21. Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled (xenaproject.wordpress.com)
  22. Ice Cream Hedging (www.bloomberg.com)
  23. Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac (blaizzy.github.io)
  24. Project Monopoly: King’s Cross Station (gochugarugirl.com)
  25. Kimi Work (www.kimi.com)
  26. Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? (simonwillison.net)
  27. Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls (jelly-ui.com)
  28. How Moats are Built (commoncog.com)
  29. I loved my AI assistant. My friends did not. (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  30. <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)
  31. Open Thread 443 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  32. Who's afraid of Chinese models? (stratechery.com)
  33. The Hallway Track No. 017: Science EIC contra AI hype, data poisoning of research agents, Vancouver Standard for AI disclosure (hallway.aris.pub)
  34. This is the golden age of video games (approximateknowledge.net)
  35. Quoting Sam Altman (simonwillison.net)
  36. The road to epsilon-zero: Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals (blog.plover.com)
  37. Looking for work (tonsky.me)
  38. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making (simonwillison.net)
  39. [New Game] Those Who Wear Red (k-monk.org)
  40. The road to epsilon-zero: ordinals as nim-heaps (blog.plover.com)
  41. Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP (brooker.co.za)
  42. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 3 (Gardens) (gochugarugirl.com)
  43. Claude make Fable 5 permanent (simonwillison.net)
  44. 202607-social-media-algorithms-accumulated-aesthetic-artifacts (henderson.lol)
  45. What I Learned From Getting Knocked Down (cranberrymuffin.io)
  46. Arduino Launches Plug-and-Play Modules for Long-Range Sensor Projects (www.allaboutcircuits.com)
  47. Great Chicken Parmesan (www.alisoneroman.com)
  48. For Everyone Cooking on Vacation (www.alisoneroman.com)
  49. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 2 (Historic Houses) (gochugarugirl.com)
  50. Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures (www.astralcodexten.com)
  51. Quoting Kimi K3 (simonwillison.net)
  52. LLM cliché highlighter (simonwillison.net)
  53. Spot birds not golf (simonwillison.net)
  54. Learning a few things about running SQLite (jvns.ca)
  55. Firefox in WebAssembly (simonwillison.net)
  56. Against "Stochastic Terrorism" (www.astralcodexten.com)
  57. Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark (simonwillison.net)
  58. Shorts Will Sell You SpaceX (www.bloomberg.com)
  59. Quoting Thibault Sottiaux (simonwillison.net)
  60. Inkling: Our open-weights model (simonwillison.net)
  61. Quoting Linus Torvalds (simonwillison.net)
  62. How pgrust was built: four attempts to rewrite Postgres in Rust with AI (malisper.me)
  63. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 1 (Food) (gochugarugirl.com)
  64. Links #15 (www.bryanbraun.com)
  65. Six Slightly Skew Boogeymen (www.astralcodexten.com)
  66. Metrics, Life, and Money (blog.veitheller.de)
  67. xai-org/grok-build, now open source (simonwillison.net)
  68. Basil! (gochugarugirl.com)
  69. Keeping Mergers Under the Radar (www.bloomberg.com)
  70. How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets (simonwillison.net)
  71. AI Chip Regulation Is Not A Dystopian Surveillance State (www.astralcodexten.com)
  72. Python 3.15's Ultra-Low Overhead Interpreter Profiling Mode – Ken Jin's Blog (fidget-spinner.github.io)
  73. This could be the golden age of the internet. Why not? (www.bryanbraun.com)
  74. How Much I Spend on AI Agents as a Software Engineer (And Is It Worth It?) (hamy.xyz)
  75. simonw/pedalican (simonwillison.net)
  76. Banks Made a Lot of Money on Stocks (www.bloomberg.com)
  77. Buttons vs Links (unplannedobsolescence.com)
  78. LLM Networking with MikroTik (blog.greg.technology)
  79. Quoting Armin Ronacher (simonwillison.net)