News

  1. Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model (multiversecomputing.com)
  2. Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982 (dfarq.homeip.net)
  3. Absurd Adventure And Amygdalectomy Advocacy (www.astralcodexten.com)
  4. Quoting Rick Brewster (simonwillison.net)
  5. The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks (arxiv.org)
  6. What Makes LLM Tokenization Slow? (healeycodes.com)
  7. WebFPGA (2019) (webfpga.io)
  8. Art Works (www.fauxtrots.com)
  9. Seedy Breakfast Cake (www.alisoneroman.com)
  10. Tracing np.add, all the way down (blog.veitheller.de)
  11. Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican (simonwillison.net)
  12. The efficient frontier of LLM inference (www.baseten.co)
  13. Hard-Roasted Pears (www.alisoneroman.com)
  14. FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses (krebsonsecurity.com)
  15. Bananas Foster-ish Bananas (www.alisoneroman.com)
  16. Festive Frozen Yogurt (with Sprinkles!) (www.alisoneroman.com)
  17. Banana Split Ice Cream Cake (www.alisoneroman.com)
  18. Very Iced, Very Frozen Coffee (www.alisoneroman.com)
  19. Frozen Melon with Crushed Berries (www.alisoneroman.com)
  20. Black and White Cookies, or, My Favorite Sugar Cookie (www.alisoneroman.com)
  21. Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos (masteranza.github.io)
  22. Birthday Cookies (www.alisoneroman.com)
  23. Crunchy Chocolate Shortbread (www.alisoneroman.com)
  24. Perfect Salted Shortbread (www.alisoneroman.com)
  25. Cinnamon Sandies (www.alisoneroman.com)
  26. Salted Pistachio Shortbread (www.alisoneroman.com)
  27. Milk and Honey Semolina Pudding (www.alisoneroman.com)
  28. Summer Pudding with Summer Fruit (www.alisoneroman.com)
  29. Codex bundles LibreOffice (simonwillison.net)
  30. Amazon Charged the First Price (www.bloomberg.com)
  31. Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 (www.anthropic.com)
  32. Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development (www.norirobotics.com)
  33. Fine, I'll build my own text editor (dbushell.com)
  34. Quoting Tarn Adams (simonwillison.net)
  35. Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga (moviescenemap.com)
  36. Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS (ambientcss.vercel.app)
  37. Scour - August Update (emschwartz.me)
  38. Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS (blog.mozilla.org)
  39. We Can't Let AI Writing Take Over the Internet (www.derekthompson.org)
  40. Nicholas Decker In Hell (www.astralcodexten.com)
  41. Picolibrary: a very small press (novalis.org)
  42. A Tetrational Self-Cleaning Turing Machine (nickdrozd.github.io)
  43. How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? (danluu.com)
  44. Recently (macwright.com)
  45. Don’t Hedge the KPIs (www.bloomberg.com)
  46. Pasta and Sausage Meatballs (gochugarugirl.com)
  47. You Know Who Hates AI? Insurance Claims Adjusters (www.wired.com)
  48. Open Thread 449 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  49. The joy of Compiler Development (theslowpath.pages.dev)
  50. Understanding ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)
  51. Bug blindness (danluu.com)
  52. Introducing Hy4 Preview (simonwillison.net)
  53. Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days (simonwillison.net)
  54. Sonic Pi (sonic-pi.net)
  55. Your Book Review: Thomas Urquhart’s Translation Of Rabelais (www.astralcodexten.com)
  56. Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode (simonwillison.net)
  57. Hidden Open Thread 448.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  58. AI Refi (www.bloomberg.com)
  59. Take The 2026 ACX Survey (www.astralcodexten.com)
  60. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (simonwillison.net)
  61. Predict the KPIs (www.bloomberg.com)