News

  1. Introducing Claude Opus 5 (simonwillison.net)
  2. Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard (artificialanalysis.ai)
  3. Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales (www.dbos.dev)
  4. Gsxui – Shadcn-style components for Go (ui.gsxhq.dev)
  5. Claude Opus 5 (www.anthropic.com)
  6. Don't Take the Black Pill [video] (www.youtube.com)
  7. Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story (www.theguardian.com)
  8. Unitree As2-W (www.unitree.com)
  9. Your Book Review: Breakdown In Pakistan (www.astralcodexten.com)
  10. Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey (www.thehindu.com)
  11. Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models (www.cnbc.com)
  12. Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS (discuss.haiku-os.org)
  13. My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page (hhh.hn)
  14. The case for MUDs in modern times (2018) (www.andrewzigler.com)
  15. IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center (houseofsaud.com)
  16. Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models (bfl.ai)
  17. Future euro banknote design proposals (www.ecb.europa.eu)
  18. If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse? (ptrchm.com)
  19. The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  20. Cranban is a tool for collaborating with robots (patrickweaver.net)
  21. I'm running a programming contest (eieio.games)
  22. The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? (simonwillison.net)
  23. If You're Reading This I'm Free (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  24. Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out [video] (www.youtube.com)
  25. Sports Happen So Much (www.bloomberg.com)
  26. Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server (twitter.com)
  27. Sheena Ringo in Sound & Recording (disk.horse)
  28. What Is Lost When We Make 'The Odyssey' Modern (www.derekthompson.org)
  29. Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data (globaloilnetwork.staffinganalytics.io)
  30. Every exterior shot in *The Taking of Pelham 123* (iafisher.com)
  31. Simple Sudoku Solvers SII, EV: Racket/miniKanren (blog.veitheller.de)
  32. Quoting Thomas Ptacek (simonwillison.net)
  33. OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
  34. Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? (simonwillison.net)
  35. The SEC Pays a Texting Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
  36. An old patent inspired the new "Y-zipper", a three-sided fastener (news.mit.edu)
  37. Links For July 2026 (Part 1) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  38. Back to basics: The Hundred-Page Languages Models Book, Chapter 1 (www.maayanroth.com)
  39. Things I know about beets (lucymcphail.com)
  40. GPT 5.6 + OpenCode vs Claude + Claude Code - First Impressions (hamy.xyz)
  41. Call for lightning talks: Haskell Symposium 2026 (decomposition.al)
  42. LSE Will Trade 22.83 Hours a Day (www.bloomberg.com)
  43. Category Theory Day One (www.robbielyman.com)
  44. Blog Jamboree 2026: The Winners (www.experimental-history.com)
  45. Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac (simonwillison.net)
  46. A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team (simonwillison.net)
  47. Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness (www.astralcodexten.com)
  48. Going Ham: Zero to Amateur Extra in 31 Days (flaviuspopan.com)
  49. Bytecode-to-Source Mapping (tidefield.dev)
  50. No central server, only BitTorrent (www.scannedinavian.com)
  51. Why I Write (bugwhisperer.dev)
  52. Avoid the trap of magical thinking (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  53. Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API) (words.filippo.io)
  54. Some more things about Django I've been enjoying (jvns.ca)
  55. Reverse-engineering is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
  56. Ice Cream Hedging (www.bloomberg.com)
  57. Project Monopoly: King’s Cross Station (gochugarugirl.com)
  58. Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? (simonwillison.net)
  59. How Moats are Built (commoncog.com)
  60. I loved my AI assistant. My friends did not. (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  61. <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)
  62. Open Thread 443 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  63. The Hallway Track No. 017: Science EIC contra AI hype, data poisoning of research agents, Vancouver Standard for AI disclosure (hallway.aris.pub)
  64. This is the golden age of video games (approximateknowledge.net)
  65. Quoting Sam Altman (simonwillison.net)
  66. The road to epsilon-zero: Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals (blog.plover.com)
  67. Looking for work (tonsky.me)
  68. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making (simonwillison.net)
  69. [New Game] Those Who Wear Red (k-monk.org)
  70. The road to epsilon-zero: ordinals as nim-heaps (blog.plover.com)
  71. Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP (brooker.co.za)
  72. A Wiltshire Weekend – Part 3 (Gardens) (gochugarugirl.com)
  73. Claude make Fable 5 permanent (simonwillison.net)
  74. What I Learned From Getting Knocked Down (cranberrymuffin.io)
  75. 202607-social-media-algorithms-accumulated-aesthetic-artifacts (henderson.lol)