News

  1. Homemade bagels (merveilles.town)
  2. The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi (www.xda-developers.com)
  3. Two-Tier Encryption in the UK – Identical Apple Devices, Different Protection (macanorak.com)
  4. How China Thinks About AI (www.derekthompson.org)
  5. Nokia Design Archive (2025) (nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi)
  6. Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta (www.reddit.com)
  7. Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net (transluce.org)
  8. Contrastive Language Models (contrastive-lm.notion.site)
  9. Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later (www.astralcodexten.com)
  10. Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop (lwn.net)
  11. OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says (www.bbc.com)
  12. Virtio-nvgpu: Near-native Nvidia GPU access inside a KVM guest (github.com)
  13. Meta VR Glasses (www.meta.com)
  14. ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit (blog.arxiv.org)
  15. Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series (www.qualcomm.com)
  16. Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second (artificialanalysis.ai)
  17. VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) (fly.io)
  18. Kalshi Levers the Predictions (www.bloomberg.com)
  19. Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats (www.anthropic.com)
  20. A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  21. Making Tailscale Faster (tailscale.com)
  22. Building a homelab (wrla.ch)
  23. Why 'What's Opera, Doc?' looks like that (animationobsessive.substack.com)
  24. Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock (pointinthecloud.com)
  25. Noting another house repair chore victory (blog.plover.com)
  26. Delegation and trust (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  27. Hidden Open Thread 452.5 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  28. The Mundanity of Excellence, Small Wins, and Why You Should Fix Bugs Before Writing New Features (probablydance.com)
  29. SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering (simonwillison.net)
  30. Mysteries Of AI Generalization (www.astralcodexten.com)
  31. Work diary victory (blog.plover.com)
  32. Building a Multiplayer Game of Life with Rust + Datastar (hamy.xyz)
  33. Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war (simonwillison.net)
  34. Who Cares If a Merger Is Fair? (www.bloomberg.com)
  35. Quoting @therealcornpop (simonwillison.net)
  36. RAM: the forgotten history (2024) (blog.coredump.cx)
  37. Simplicio, Ten Years Later (adagrad.substack.com)
  38. Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models (simonwillison.net)
  39. Open Thread 452 (www.astralcodexten.com)
  40. Solitaire Alone Together (eieio.games)
  41. The Hallway Track No. 026: AI use in science study, astronomy disclosure gap, Paper2Agent, SAIR initiative (hallway.aris.pub)
  42. A First Futamura Projection (blog.veitheller.de)
  43. Tuna and Butterbean Salad (gochugarugirl.com)
  44. weeknotes #66 (olu.online)
  45. Quoting voxium (simonwillison.net)
  46. Reading Log #6 (vishnubharathi.codes)
  47. 0061: i'm not a cat, artificial adventures, synthetic sagas, anthropic, sponsors (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  48. Synthetic sagas (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  49. Artsy Math: Squaring Square Patterns (www.fractalkitty.com)
  50. Processing Community Day NYC 2026 • MIDI Workshop Preview (george.mand.is)
  51. Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI (simonwillison.net)
  52. Your Book Review: This Is Going To Hurt (www.astralcodexten.com)
  53. “Shoppy Shop” Thoughts (www.alisoneroman.com)
  54. Note on 18th September 2026 (simonwillison.net)
  55. Quoting Thariq Shihipar (simonwillison.net)
  56. A Model for Winning Survivor (victoriaritvo.com)
  57. Project Monopoly: Fleet Street (gochugarugirl.com)
  58. Mrs Perkins' Quilt (www.fractalkitty.com)
  59. How To Write With An LLM (simonwillison.net)
  60. Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries (simonwillison.net)
  61. The Whole Indian Options Trade Was Too Good (www.bloomberg.com)