News

  1. Claude: System Prompts (platform.claude.com)
  2. Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" (scholar.google.com)
  3. What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade? (littlelearner-ll.github.io)
  4. Reading Log #3 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  5. Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems (www.anthropic.com)
  6. Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (tinkerings.org)
  7. Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game (www.micdrop.gg)
  8. The Creation of Abulafia (blog.veitheller.de)
  9. Software Engineering fundamentals matter more (rhonabwy.com)
  10. Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug (michael.stapelberg.ch)
  11. Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023) (www.henrikkarlsson.xyz)
  12. Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter (www.severe-weather.eu)
  13. AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward (www.science.org)
  14. Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk (alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
  15. CORS Chat (simonwillison.net)
  16. A spectre is haunting Unicode (www.dampfkraft.com)
  17. At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  18. Getting MIDI sync working (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  19. Rhythm games (sygi.xyz)
  20. Your Book Review: The Escape Artist (www.astralcodexten.com)
  21. Crunchy Tenderstem Broccoli (gochugarugirl.com)
  22. Don't classify. Hallucinate! (simonwillison.net)
  23. The American Sports Plutocracy Is Bullshit (www.derekthompson.org)
  24. Pasta e Ceci Salad (www.alisoneroman.com)
  25. Pasta e Ceci Salad (www.alisoneroman.com)
  26. RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better (dmitry.gr)
  27. The road to epsilon-zero: Productive programs and well-founded orders (blog.plover.com)
  28. The Foothills Of Bay Area House Party (www.astralcodexten.com)
  29. Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware (hwbusters.com)
  30. llm-gemini 0.33 (simonwillison.net)
  31. Bilateral OTC Goat Hedge (www.bloomberg.com)
  32. Thoughts on the "in-between" (brianagude.substack.com)
  33. Links from The Internship (cceckman.com)
  34. 24 things I believe (clarionsong.substack.com)
  35. The Quest For Caffeine You Can Have At Night (www.astralcodexten.com)
  36. Another partial SSI trick with canonicalize (bernsteinbear.com)
  37. A fully legible mind (blog.veitheller.de)
  38. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter) (simonwillison.net)
  39. A Walk In Primrose Hill (gochugarugirl.com)
  40. Sorbet in Grapefruit Cups (www.alisoneroman.com)
  41. Reading together, unsupervised (brian.abelson.live)
  42. Anchovy-Butter Chicken with Chicken Fat Croutons (www.alisoneroman.com)
  43. Bacon-Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Caraway’d Cabbage and Apples (www.alisoneroman.com)
  44. AI-Backed Securities (www.bloomberg.com)
  45. Hanger Steak with Dandelion, Arugula, and Grana Padano (www.alisoneroman.com)
  46. Lamb Stew with Fennel, Preserved Lemon, and Crispy Fried Bread (www.alisoneroman.com)
  47. Pork and Red Chile Stew with Tomatillos (www.alisoneroman.com)
  48. Slow-Roasted Pork Shoulder with Garlic, Citrus, and Cilantro (www.alisoneroman.com)
  49. Crispy Chicken Legs with Rosemary, Tiny Potatoes, and Sour Cream (www.alisoneroman.com)
  50. Quoting Florian Herrengt (simonwillison.net)
  51. Paprika-Rubbed Sheet-Pan Chicken with Lemon (www.alisoneroman.com)
  52. Cumin Lamb Chops with Charred Scallions and Peanuts (www.alisoneroman.com)
  53. Numba in the Browser: Unlocking a New Scientific Python Stack in JupyterLite (notebook.link)
  54. Asus Bike Booster (www.asus.com)
  55. Topologies on Free Products (www.robbielyman.com)
  56. My Daily Routine as a Software Engineer and Dad of a 1-Year-Old (hamy.xyz)
  57. There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text (simonwillison.net)
  58. Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs (simonwillison.net)
  59. Vinegar-Braised Chicken with Farro and Watercress (www.alisoneroman.com)
  60. There are two kinds of theorems (blog.plover.com)
  61. Pick-and-Shovel Seller Financing (www.bloomberg.com)
  62. Reflections on AI (blog.greg.technology)
  63. Perfect Steak with Buttered Radish Toast (www.alisoneroman.com)
  64. Fennel-Rubbed Pork Chops for Two (www.alisoneroman.com)
  65. Ergonomic SSH development (miccah.io)
  66. The Great American AI Rebellion (www.derekthompson.org)
  67. How AI Changes the Economics of JIT Compilers (malisper.me)
  68. 1st Sept 2026: An Increase in Membership Prices (commoncog.com)
  69. Simple Sudoku Solvers SII, EVI: SQL (blog.veitheller.de)
  70. Introducing Muse Glimmer (simonwillison.net)
  71. Stone Soup (gochugarugirl.com)
  72. You Can Fix Email (thefloatingcontinent.com)
  73. The Situation Is Fine (www.bloomberg.com)
  74. Open Thread 446 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  75. A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer (lapcatsoftware.com)
  76. Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work (duckdb.org)
  77. Just Another Girl – The Killers (read.alonzo.zip)
  78. The Hallway Track No. 020: Astra solves ten open math problems, AI agents fail at open-ended research, peer review under strain (hallway.aris.pub)
  79. What do the 12,000 lines per day I write actually do (nmn.gl)
  80. sterno (approximateknowledge.net)
  81. Quoting OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6) (simonwillison.net)
  82. Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt (simonwillison.net)
  83. weeknotes #64 (olu.online)
  84. GitHub Models is now retired (simonwillison.net)
  85. A Walk Around Covent Garden (gochugarugirl.com)