News

  1. Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300 (www.wafer.ai)
  2. Open letters about AI development (simonwillison.net)
  3. Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America (old.reddit.com)
  4. Plug-in solar is coming. Plug-in batteries should follow (www.regen.co.uk)
  5. Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built (github.com)
  6. Go 1.27 Interactive Tour (victoriametrics.com)
  7. Reading Log #1 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  8. RFC 10015: Deprecating Obsolete Key Exchange Methods in TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2 (www.rfc-editor.org)
  9. Unraveling the mysteries of habit formation (www.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
  10. Quoting Greg Brockman (simonwillison.net)
  11. AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions (mitsloan.mit.edu)
  12. Seedance 2.5 (seed.bytedance.com)
  13. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (simonwillison.net)
  14. Diátaxis (diataxis.fr)
  15. But can your calculator run Linux? (raymii.org)
  16. Pendants (figbert.com)
  17. Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576 (leodemoura.github.io)
  18. How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) (openrss.org)
  19. NetBSD 11.0 (blog.netbsd.org)
  20. Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga (www.seriouseats.com)
  21. Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses (alexiglad.github.io)
  22. The Art of 64-bit Assembly (nostarch.com)
  23. My NixOS dev machine (miccah.io)
  24. July Life Update (seinwave.com)
  25. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (simonwillison.net)
  26. Your Book Review: The Epic Of Gilgamesh (www.astralcodexten.com)
  27. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp) (simonwillison.net)
  28. About Interactives: Inquiries.link (www.fractalkitty.com)
  29. Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation) (andrewkelley.me)
  30. Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison (simonwillison.net)
  31. smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses (simonwillison.net)
  32. Friday Baking Day (gochugarugirl.com)
  33. help wanted (lake.computer)
  34. links #8: how you know it's good (etc.octavore.com)
  35. RE: “The robots work at night”: How AI helps the world’s poorest, and where it falls short (olu.online)
  36. The End of my Suno Era (read.alonzo.zip)
  37. The Four Horsemen of the AI Bubble Apocalypse (www.derekthompson.org)
  38. do more random elective medical stuff (adagrad.substack.com)
  39. there is a poker-shaped hole in your heart (adagrad.substack.com)
  40. In Which I Lose My Mind Over Embeddings (HPLM Chapter 2) (www.maayanroth.com)
  41. Writing dumber (liquidbrain.net)
  42. Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (simonwillison.net)
  43. Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (simonwillison.net)
  44. Links For July 2026 (Part 2) (www.astralcodexten.com)
  45. I have something to say about grilled meat (www.alisoneroman.com)
  46. Grilled Tomatillo Salsa (www.alisoneroman.com)
  47. Charred Broccoli Salad with Garlic and Basil (www.alisoneroman.com)
  48. Quoting Bruce Schneier (simonwillison.net)
  49. Topologies, Groups, Graphs (www.robbielyman.com)
  50. The Situation Deteriorated (www.bloomberg.com)
  51. Thursday Night Dinner (gochugarugirl.com)
  52. Highlights From The Discourse On The Hugging Face Incident (www.astralcodexten.com)
  53. Hidden Open Thread 444.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  54. this edge of the earth (toground.link)
  55. AI Worming through Word (simonwillison.net)
  56. Quoting Matthew Green (simonwillison.net)
  57. Announcing PCBEval (blog.greg.technology)
  58. SpaceX Crash Insurance (www.bloomberg.com)
  59. Everyone's Tables Suck (404wolf.com)
  60. The Next Miracle Drug Might Already Be in Your Medicine Cabinet (www.derekthompson.org)
  61. Eventual Consistency (thornberry.io)
  62. Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT (simonwillison.net)
  63. How Much OpenCode + GPT 5.6 Usage Do You Get With OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro Subscription? (hamy.xyz)
  64. Lorenz and Little: How Much Does Your Tail Cost? (brooker.co.za)
  65. Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude (simonwillison.net)
  66. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident (simonwillison.net)
  67. Project Monopoly: Euston Road (gochugarugirl.com)
  68. Elevators Won’t Repair Themselves (www.bloomberg.com)
  69. RE: knitting the web: we need interlinkers (olu.online)
  70. Glyphs 4 – the leading Mac font editor (glyphsapp.com)
  71. Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine (www.astralcodexten.com)
  72. State of multi-player Wayland (blinry.org)
  73. The inliner is yielding benefits for ZJIT (bernsteinbear.com)
  74. If AI Writes All the Code, What Do the Programmers Do? (probablydance.com)
  75. moonshotai/Kimi-K3 (simonwillison.net)
  76. An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff (simonwillison.net)
  77. A Merger Closing Mystery (www.bloomberg.com)
  78. Project Monopoly: The Angel Islington (gochugarugirl.com)
  79. What Does It Look Like When You Handle Disruption Well? (commoncog.com)
  80. “Steph Curry: fluke or breakthrough” ten years later (blog.plover.com)
  81. Blog Newsletter Restored (punchagan.muse-amuse.in)
  82. Open Thread 444 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  83. Tactical Decision Game with John Schmitt (commoncog.com)
  84. The Hallway Track No. 018: Genesis Mission $5B, Challengescape problem directory, team science vs. solo AI agents (hallway.aris.pub)
  85. Mid-Training and the Middle-End (blog.veitheller.de)
  86. An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud (simonwillison.net)
  87. Doing Okay-ish with AI at the AI-proof competition (blog.greg.technology)
  88. weeknotes #62 (olu.online)
  89. Invention 2 by J. S. Bach (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  90. Production ML-DSA Verification in 350 Lines of Python (words.filippo.io)