News

  1. AI Worming through Word (simonwillison.net)
  2. Quoting Matthew Green (simonwillison.net)
  3. SpaceX Crash Insurance (www.bloomberg.com)
  4. Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice (www.digitalfoundry.net)
  5. Everyone's Tables Suck (404wolf.com)
  6. Superlogical (www.superlogical.com)
  7. Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac (github.com)
  8. Anatomy of a frontier-lab agent intrusion (huggingface.co)
  9. GPT-5.6 vs. Claude Fable 5 for Physical AI, which performs best? (juliahub.com)
  10. A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands (www.nytimes.com)
  11. Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution (aistack.imec-int.com)
  12. Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents (arxiv.org)
  13. Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem (www.claire-blackshaw.com)
  14. Darktable (www.darktable.org)
  15. Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word (enklypesalt.com)
  16. KOReader (koreader.rocks)
  17. SpecForge – A Platform for Authoring Formal Specifications (docs.imiron.io)
  18. Amiga Graphics Archive (amiga.lychesis.net)
  19. The Next Miracle Drug Might Already Be in Your Medicine Cabinet (www.derekthompson.org)
  20. More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle (tailscale.com)
  21. User Interfaces of the Demo Scene (www.datagubbe.se)
  22. Eventual Consistency (thornberry.io)
  23. Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT (simonwillison.net)
  24. How Much OpenCode + GPT 5.6 Usage Do You Get With OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro Subscription? (hamy.xyz)
  25. Lorenz and Little: How Much Does Your Tail Cost? (brooker.co.za)
  26. Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude (simonwillison.net)
  27. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident (simonwillison.net)
  28. Project Monopoly: Euston Road (gochugarugirl.com)
  29. Elevators Won’t Repair Themselves (www.bloomberg.com)
  30. RE: knitting the web: we need interlinkers (olu.online)
  31. Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine (www.astralcodexten.com)
  32. State of multi-player Wayland (blinry.org)
  33. The inliner is yielding benefits for ZJIT (bernsteinbear.com)
  34. If AI Writes All the Code, What Do the Programmers Do? (probablydance.com)
  35. moonshotai/Kimi-K3 (simonwillison.net)
  36. An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff (simonwillison.net)
  37. A Merger Closing Mystery (www.bloomberg.com)
  38. Project Monopoly: The Angel Islington (gochugarugirl.com)
  39. What Does It Look Like When You Handle Disruption Well? (commoncog.com)
  40. “Steph Curry: fluke or breakthrough” ten years later (blog.plover.com)
  41. Blog Newsletter Restored (punchagan.muse-amuse.in)
  42. Open Thread 444 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  43. Hamburg's Stadtpark: A Park Built to Be Used (alsterrunde.com)
  44. Tactical Decision Game with John Schmitt (commoncog.com)
  45. The Hallway Track No. 018: Genesis Mission $5B, Challengescape problem directory, team science vs. solo AI agents (hallway.aris.pub)
  46. Mid-Training and the Middle-End (blog.veitheller.de)
  47. An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud (simonwillison.net)
  48. Doing Okay-ish with AI at the AI-proof competition (blog.greg.technology)
  49. Lisp moving Forth moving Lisp (letoverlambda.com)
  50. weeknotes #62 (olu.online)
  51. Invention 2 by J. S. Bach (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  52. Production ML-DSA Verification in 350 Lines of Python (words.filippo.io)
  53. It gets better: A letter to my younger self (bugwhisperer.dev)
  54. Porting Super Hexagon to the Playdate (captnemo.in)
  55. Some vegan recipes (kevingal.com)
  56. Welcome to the Classroom of Meritocratic Supremacy (read.alonzo.zip)
  57. The road to epsilon-zero: Infinite Nim as a coin-moving game (blog.plover.com)
  58. Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds (hannahilea.com)
  59. The Rust on ESP Book (docs.espressif.com)
  60. Quoting Boris Cherny (simonwillison.net)
  61. Introducing Claude Opus 5 (simonwillison.net)
  62. Your Book Review: Breakdown In Pakistan (www.astralcodexten.com)
  63. The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  64. Cranban is a tool for collaborating with robots (patrickweaver.net)
  65. Cranban is kanban for humans collaborating with robots (patrickweaver.net)
  66. I'm running a programming contest (eieio.games)
  67. The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? (simonwillison.net)
  68. If You're Reading This I'm Free (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  69. Sports Happen So Much (www.bloomberg.com)
  70. Sheena Ringo in Sound & Recording (disk.horse)
  71. What Is Lost When We Make 'The Odyssey' Modern (www.derekthompson.org)
  72. Every exterior shot in *The Taking of Pelham 123* (iafisher.com)
  73. Exercises in benchmarking and evals, part 7: DeepSWE, Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires (danluu.com)
  74. Simple Sudoku Solvers SII, EV: Racket/miniKanren (blog.veitheller.de)
  75. Quoting Thomas Ptacek (simonwillison.net)
  76. OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
  77. Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? (simonwillison.net)