News

  1. Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year (www.techdirt.com)
  2. Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (2025) (gwern.net)
  3. GLP-1s are being linked to fewer serious infections, including TB (gizmodo.com)
  4. Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out (armature.tech)
  5. GPT‑6 Astra (simonwillison.net)
  6. The asteroid currently hitting front end web development (nolanlawson.com)
  7. GPT-6 Astra (openai.com)
  8. Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s (inference-docs.cerebras.ai)
  9. The Clippers Got Some Consulting (www.bloomberg.com)
  10. Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60% (www.discoverwildlife.com)
  11. K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models (ifm.ai)
  12. .name Termination (neil.fraser.name)
  13. Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived (anyhumanever.com)
  14. Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly (babyloniantwins.com)
  15. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production? (news.ycombinator.com)
  16. College EA Meetups Everywhere: Times & Places (www.astralcodexten.com)
  17. AI Enablement Theater™ (george.mand.is)
  18. Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap (www.kedglobal.com)
  19. GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet (www.sciencealert.com)
  20. Grilled Artichokes with Preserved Lemon Yogurt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  21. Perfect Pancakes, Perfect Waffles (www.alisoneroman.com)
  22. The ETF Dividend Flip (www.bloomberg.com)
  23. Kinda-Sweet Granola with Coconut and Turmeric (www.alisoneroman.com)
  24. Decidedly Not Sweet Granola (www.alisoneroman.com)
  25. Four-Bean Salad with Green Romesco (www.alisoneroman.com)
  26. Cold Garlicky Pasta with Capers and Salsa Verde (www.alisoneroman.com)
  27. Chicken Soup with Toasted Garlic, Mushrooms, and Celery (www.alisoneroman.com)
  28. llm-gemini 0.34 (simonwillison.net)
  29. Seared Short Ribs with Kimchi and Sesame Salt (www.alisoneroman.com)
  30. Turmeric-Roasted Lamb Shoulder and Carrots with All the Fixings (www.alisoneroman.com)
  31. Any Excuse to Make Shrimp Cocktail (www.alisoneroman.com)
  32. Smashed Eggs and Fancy Fish on Crackers (www.alisoneroman.com)
  33. Creamy Goat Cheese with Lemony Za’atar (www.alisoneroman.com)
  34. A Better Garlic Bread / Caramelized Garlic on Toast with Anchovies (www.alisoneroman.com)
  35. Spicy Red Cabbage with Sweet Onion and Lime (www.alisoneroman.com)
  36. Festive Yellow Sheet Cake (www.alisoneroman.com)
  37. Unusual Suspects (neal.fun)
  38. Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics (simonwillison.net)
  39. Absurd Adventure And Amygdalectomy Advocacy (www.astralcodexten.com)
  40. Quoting Rick Brewster (simonwillison.net)
  41. GTM hack: steal engagement with Claude (nmn.gl)
  42. What Makes LLM Tokenization Slow? (healeycodes.com)
  43. Art Works (www.fauxtrots.com)
  44. Goroutine Leak Profiles (go.dev)
  45. Tracing np.add, all the way down (blog.veitheller.de)
  46. Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican (simonwillison.net)
  47. Codex bundles LibreOffice (simonwillison.net)
  48. The largest electric aircraft just flew [video] (www.youtube.com)
  49. Xanadu was waiting for agents (zed.dev)
  50. Amazon Charged the First Price (www.bloomberg.com)
  51. Quoting Tarn Adams (simonwillison.net)
  52. Scour - August Update (emschwartz.me)
  53. Authorization terminology is a mess: Let's fix it (idpro.org)
  54. We Can't Let AI Writing Take Over the Internet (www.derekthompson.org)
  55. Nicholas Decker In Hell (www.astralcodexten.com)
  56. Picolibrary: a very small press (novalis.org)
  57. A Tetrational Self-Cleaning Turing Machine (nickdrozd.github.io)
  58. How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? (danluu.com)
  59. Recently (macwright.com)
  60. Don’t Hedge the KPIs (www.bloomberg.com)
  61. Pasta and Sausage Meatballs (gochugarugirl.com)
  62. Published a new Digital Snippet for AV Club (palomakop.tv)
  63. Open Thread 449 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  64. How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language (news.mit.edu)
  65. Host more and co-host more (liquidbrain.net)
  66. The Hallway Track No. 023: Co-Scientist, Terminal-Bench Science, AI in peer review (hallway.aris.pub)
  67. The joy of Compiler Development (theslowpath.pages.dev)
  68. ↗ Any user process can escalate to root (www.vesto.me)
  69. Understanding ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)
  70. Why I am no longer letting Claude Code add itself as Co-author in my commits (indradhanush.github.io)
  71. Bug blindness (danluu.com)
  72. Introducing Hy4 Preview (simonwillison.net)
  73. Three Sticky Notes (clarionsong.substack.com)
  74. August Life Update (seinwave.com)
  75. Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days (simonwillison.net)
  76. Your Book Review: Thomas Urquhart’s Translation Of Rabelais (www.astralcodexten.com)