News

  1. Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence (blog.curiousquail.com)
  2. College EA Meetups Everywhere: Call For Organizers (www.astralcodexten.com)
  3. The August 17 outage, and the work ahead (github.blog)
  4. Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI (www.danielvaughn.dev)
  5. Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study (www.rathbiotaclan.com)
  6. Why aren't smart people happier? (2022) (www.experimental-history.com)
  7. Consumer Rights Wiki (consumerrights.wiki)
  8. I should have loved biology (2020) (jsomers.net)
  9. Melon with Crispy Ham and Ricotta Salata (www.alisoneroman.com)
  10. Tomatoes Dressed in Toasted Fennel and Anchovy (www.alisoneroman.com)
  11. Summer Squash with Basil, Parmesan, and Toasted Buckwheat (www.alisoneroman.com)
  12. Smashed Cucumbers with Sizzled Turmeric and Garlic (www.alisoneroman.com)
  13. Crushed Peas with Burrata and Black Olives (www.alisoneroman.com)
  14. Vinegared Apples with Persimmon and White Cheddar (www.alisoneroman.com)
  15. Celery Salad with Cilantro and Sesame (www.alisoneroman.com)
  16. How to compromise your system with a job interview (www.codedge.de)
  17. Linux 7.2 (www.igalia.com)
  18. A shot-scraper-style JSON API on Bun 1.4's new Bun.WebView (simonwillison.net)
  19. Citrusy Cucumbers with Red Onion and Toasted Sesame (www.alisoneroman.com)
  20. Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM (github.com)
  21. Celery and Fennel with Walnuts and Blue Cheese (www.alisoneroman.com)
  22. Salted Citrus Salad with Fennel, Radish, and Olive (www.alisoneroman.com)
  23. Iceberg with Pecorino, Crushed Olives, and Pickled Chile (www.alisoneroman.com)
  24. Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful (blog.yaros.ae)
  25. Little Gems with Garlicky Lemon and Pistachio (www.alisoneroman.com)
  26. Lemony Watercress with Raw and Toasted Fennel (www.alisoneroman.com)
  27. Chicories with Preserved Lemon, Yogurt, and Mint (www.alisoneroman.com)
  28. Escarole with Mustard and Spicy Guanciale Bread Crumbs (www.alisoneroman.com)
  29. Hacking with Claude on a $27 smart watch (www.mikekasberg.com)
  30. Every Model Cheats (dreadnode.io)
  31. DiffusionGemma Technical Report (arxiv.org)
  32. Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload (safedep.io)
  33. Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device (simedw.com)
  34. AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (blog.laserphile.com)
  35. yankee (approximateknowledge.net)
  36. How to fix Claude 5's token vomit (zachahn.com)
  37. CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s (www.wsj.com)
  38. smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript (simonwillison.net)
  39. Quoting Jeremy Morrell (simonwillison.net)
  40. Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code (simonwillison.net)
  41. Welcome to Pouch Issue #3 (vrklovespaper.substack.com)
  42. HTML Can Do That (chrisburnell.com)
  43. Make Me A Memory (gochugarugirl.com)
  44. How to Survive the AI Cyberpocalypse (www.derekthompson.org)
  45. Why I'm Staying Out Of The Substack Religion Debate (www.astralcodexten.com)
  46. Go 1.27 is released (go.dev)
  47. Git at any scale (cursor.com)
  48. I like 'em thick (www.experimental-history.com)
  49. Regretfully, Captain Obvious (daringfireball.net)
  50. Linkedin-maxxing early-stage GTM guide to sell quicker (nmn.gl)
  51. Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (simonwillison.net)
  52. Open Thread 447 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  53. We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility (simonwillison.net)
  54. Jackdaw Release DELAYED (charlie-volow.com)
  55. Due diligence for charitable giving (iafisher.com)
  56. The Hallway Track No. 021: AI peer review ensembles, Riemann zeta bound, VibeMathed registry (hallway.aris.pub)
  57. What If It's Just This? (read.alonzo.zip)
  58. The benchmarkpocalypse (danluu.com)
  59. Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things (simonwillison.net)
  60. Quoting Dario Amodei (simonwillison.net)
  61. Reading Log #3 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  62. The Creation of Abulafia (blog.veitheller.de)
  63. CORS Chat (simonwillison.net)
  64. Getting MIDI sync working (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  65. Rhythm games (sygi.xyz)
  66. Your Book Review: The Escape Artist (www.astralcodexten.com)
  67. Crunchy Tenderstem Broccoli (gochugarugirl.com)
  68. Don't classify. Hallucinate! (simonwillison.net)
  69. The American Sports Plutocracy Is Bullshit (www.derekthompson.org)
  70. The road to epsilon-zero: Productive programs and well-founded orders (blog.plover.com)
  71. Technology optimism hour (macwright.com)
  72. The Foothills Of Bay Area House Party (www.astralcodexten.com)