News

  1. Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA (nand2mario.github.io)
  2. German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol (rheinmetall.github.io)
  3. Jean-Pierre Serre turns 100 (mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)
  4. Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month (codyho.dev)
  5. WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages (github.com)
  6. Introducing System One Models and Jev (typesafe.ai)
  7. Learning to solve hard problems in RL for LLMs by never giving up (mnoukhov.github.io)
  8. Chopping up books when they're physically too big (attainablefelicity.mattkirkland.com)
  9. Not All the Susquehanna Puts Were Bad (www.bloomberg.com)
  10. We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub in 25 minutes (www.strix.ai)
  11. An update on Wayback Machine access (blog.archive.org)
  12. Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (blog.google)
  13. The Inference Hardware Revolution of 2026 (spectrum.ieee.org)
  14. Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite (withcapsule.app)
  15. Show HN: Hacking a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device (bkovac.github.io)
  16. There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy (www.experimental-history.com)
  17. Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations (github.com)
  18. Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption (www.bbc.com)
  19. Let's make quality the norm again (www.forbrukerradet.no)
  20. Aside from that (push.cx)
  21. King Ludd (www.astralcodexten.com)
  22. The contagion of fear (simonwillison.net)
  23. A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals (www.effort.news)
  24. AI Labs Want Someone to Stop Them (www.bloomberg.com)
  25. Quoting Laurie Voss (simonwillison.net)
  26. Most people prefer traditional architecture (www.worksinprogress.news)
  27. Bad Feelings (www.derekthompson.org)
  28. The Hallway Track No. 025: Navier-Stokes provenance dispute, Fields Medalists declaration, AI peer review (hallway.aris.pub)
  29. A tale of two talks (blog.veitheller.de)
  30. Open Thread 451 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  31. weeknotes #65 (olu.online)
  32. The Zeitgeist of September 2026 (adagrad.substack.com)
  33. Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)
  34. George Orwell's essay on the atomic bomb anticipates Nineteen Eighty-Four (blog.plover.com)
  35. Quoting Paul Ford (simonwillison.net)
  36. A Decade in Cardiff (francisco.wiki)
  37. OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May (simonwillison.net)
  38. Metacarp (blog.veitheller.de)
  39. So you want to use OpenRouter? (simonwillison.net)
  40. Quoting Boris Cherny (simonwillison.net)
  41. Braised Chicken Piccata (www.alisoneroman.com)
  42. Braised Chicken Piccata (www.alisoneroman.com)
  43. Feeling sad about AI (simonwillison.net)
  44. Why Harvard's Dean 'Encourages' Students to Use AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  45. Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases (simonwillison.net)
  46. Mathober 2026 Prompts (www.fractalkitty.com)
  47. Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify (simonwillison.net)
  48. Introducing mapsnap: Automated Georeferencing for Historic Sanborn Insurance Maps (danvk.github.io)
  49. Dallas Gets Some Equities (www.bloomberg.com)
  50. More Pollinators (cceckman.com)
  51. Royce On San Francisco (www.astralcodexten.com)
  52. AI Safety Is Having a Moment (www.derekthompson.org)
  53. A Logic GUI (occasionallycogent.com)
  54. Quoting Calif Research (simonwillison.net)
  55. .blend URL Viewer (simonwillison.net)
  56. AAA AI (www.bloomberg.com)
  57. Exploring Subtyping in Implicit Polarized F with Rocq (jtm.cx)
  58. Peter, I Meant To Say This (aaronstrick.com)
  59. showing online-go.com games on an e-ink inkplate display (djan.org)