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  1. Hidden Open Thread 452.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  2. Jev in 25 Lines of Python (www.nobodywho.ai)
  3. The Mundanity of Excellence, Small Wins, and Why You Should Fix Bugs Before Writing New Features (probablydance.com)
  4. Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel (www.reddit.com)
  5. Data-only attacks are easier than you think (2024) (www.usenix.org)
  6. SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering (simonwillison.net)
  7. Transit rewards (waymo.com)
  8. Mysteries Of AI Generalization (www.astralcodexten.com)
  9. Work diary victory (blog.plover.com)
  10. Building a Multiplayer Game of Life with Rust + Datastar (hamy.xyz)
  11. Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war (simonwillison.net)
  12. The current balance of power in open models (www.interconnects.ai)
  13. Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived (foxscript.org)
  14. Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity (obscura.com)
  15. Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school (www.bloomberg.com)
  16. SAML: A fractal of bad design (blog.trailofbits.com)
  17. Who Cares If a Merger Is Fair? (www.bloomberg.com)
  18. Unreal Agent (unreallabs.ai)
  19. Quoting @therealcornpop (simonwillison.net)
  20. GPT-6 Sol and Luna (openai.com)
  21. 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees (www.404media.co)
  22. Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max) (artificialanalysis.ai)
  23. WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE (github.com)
  24. Claude Opus 5.5 (www.anthropic.com)
  25. OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev (arcturus-labs.com)
  26. Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy (www.techradar.com)
  27. OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005 (www.cryptocellar.org)
  28. Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models (benchmarkheaven.com)
  29. Simplicio, Ten Years Later (adagrad.substack.com)
  30. What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals (www.kqed.org)
  31. Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models (simonwillison.net)
  32. Open Thread 452 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  33. Solitaire Alone Together (eieio.games)
  34. The Hallway Track No. 026: AI use in science study, astronomy disclosure gap, Paper2Agent, SAIR initiative (hallway.aris.pub)
  35. A First Futamura Projection (blog.veitheller.de)
  36. Tuna and Butterbean Salad (gochugarugirl.com)
  37. weeknotes #66 (olu.online)
  38. Quoting voxium (simonwillison.net)
  39. Reading Log #6 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  40. 0061: i'm not a cat, artificial adventures, synthetic sagas, anthropic, sponsors (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  41. Synthetic sagas (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  42. Artsy Math: Squaring Square Patterns (www.fractalkitty.com)
  43. Processing Community Day NYC 2026 • MIDI Workshop Preview (george.mand.is)
  44. Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI (simonwillison.net)
  45. Your Book Review: This Is Going To Hurt (www.astralcodexten.com)
  46. “Shoppy Shop” Thoughts (www.alisoneroman.com)
  47. Note on 18th September 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  48. Quoting Thariq Shihipar (simonwillison.net)
  49. A Model for Winning Survivor (victoriaritvo.com)
  50. Project Monopoly: Fleet Street (gochugarugirl.com)
  51. Mrs Perkins' Quilt (www.fractalkitty.com)
  52. How To Write With An LLM (simonwillison.net)
  53. Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries (simonwillison.net)
  54. The Whole Indian Options Trade Was Too Good (www.bloomberg.com)
  55. LibreOffice on Arch doesn't install fallback fonts by default (www.blog.jamesgisele.com)
  56. How I Actually Do Agentic Engineering As A Senior Software Engineer (hamy.xyz)
  57. AI Superforecasting Should Transform The FDA (www.astralcodexten.com)
  58. Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude (simonwillison.net)
  59. BlackRock Wants Pensions (www.bloomberg.com)
  60. Quoting Mustafa Suleyman (simonwillison.net)
  61. How to Handle Disruptive Change (commoncog.com)