Understanding ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)
Startup Anti-Patterns (www.itamarnovick.com)
“I just chose words carefully” (unsung.aresluna.org)
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Benjamin Franklin’s alter egos gave him the most freedom (www.smithsonianmag.com)
The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change (economist.com)
Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds (komoroske.com)
METR and Redwood Offer Holy % Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack (thezvi.wordpress.com)
Algorithmic rent-pricing litigation expands under new state and local laws (www.morganlewis.com)
Haiku R1/beta6 has been released (www.haiku-os.org)
Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root (0xcc.io)
Europe''s summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat (fortune.com)
European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy (reclaimthenet.org)
Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default (github.com)
Quantifying Colour (ekunazanu.foo)
Creepy Crawlies (people.kernel.org)
No AI Fridays (noaifridays.com)
Hacking IKEA Furniture (greenlightning.eu)
Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel (www.qubes-os.org)
Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns (dl.acm.org)
Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018) (arxiv.org)
Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private (www.theregister.com)
FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued (freecore.org)
The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations (www.dwarkesh.com)
California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law (www.tomshardware.com)
Bug Blindness (danluu.com)
Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online (defrag98.com)
Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms (www.latimes.com)
Lawmakers added 1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras (www.texastribune.org)
vLLM v0.28.0 (github.com)
I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul (sfstandard.com)
Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role (tucker.wales)
Manifesto – who we are and what do we want (2002) (www.inventati.org)
Flock CEO''s Address Spread Online as Surveillance Backlash Explodes (www.gadgetreview.com)
Tencent Releases and Open-Sources Tencent Hy4 Preview (www.tencent.com)
Police officer arrested after tracking ex-girlfriend on Flock over 2k times (www.cnn.com)
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (science.nasa.gov)
DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions (www.theguardian.com)
Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI (newsletter.eng-leadership.com)
The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now (www.stephendiehl.com)
GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE) (bsky.app)
Don''t use musl if you care about performance (blog.brokk.ai)
Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI" (lwn.net)
Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU (www.bbc.com)
You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It (matduggan.com)
Samsung''s Processing-in-Memory (PIM) (chipsandcheese.com)
StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator (github.com)
TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store (github.com)
Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events? (www.vectorian.be)
Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment (arxiv.org)
Run Qwen3.8 27B locally: real numbers from my Mac Studio (terminalbytes.com)
I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis (pwning.systems)
9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight (azmirror.com)
Corporate profits hit highest share since WWII, as worker payouts wilt (www.ft.com)
Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX (openai.com)
Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple''s Virtualization.framework (github.com)
EasyEffects can improve laptop speaker sound quality (www.osnews.com)
Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need (geekyschmidt.com)
Stopping the smart TV from being used against you (www.s-config.com)
Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise (www.nature.com)
25,000 Lbs. Of Chicken Products Recalled in 5 States: USDA (www.thehealthy.com)
An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations (www.audubon.org)
State of the Map 2026 (2026.stateofthemap.org)
HTTPX2 – A next-generation HTTP client for Python (github.com)
Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days (anil.recoil.org)
GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven (ckardaris.com)
The Twelve-Factor App (12factor.net)
Htmx 4.0.0 (four.htmx.org)
Interactive Warhammer 40k Galaxy Map – Cartographia Imperialis (cartographia40k.com)
GLM-5.3 is now open-weight (twitter.com)
Autistici/Inventati''s main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation (mastodon.bida.im)
I Used AWS Cognito for a Startup. I Wouldn''t Do It Again (joshkaramuth.com)
Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions (www.orbify.eu)
Get your Windows license refund (en.refund4freedom.org)
EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws (www.epa.gov)
U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective (www.inventati.org)
OpenAI: Migrating to HTTPX2 (github.com)
"IT WoRKs BeTter in the App " (shkspr.mobi)
Climate change is strengthening El Niño, coral records suggest (www.science.org)
Pentagon''s blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, US judge rules (www.reuters.com)
Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice (blog.luanti.org)
Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem (alyssarosenzweig.ca)
USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida (cbsaustin.com)
Select * from Internet.blogposts (pfrazee.leaflet.pub)
Terminal-Bench-Science: Evaluating AI agents on scientific research workflows (www.terminal-bench-science.ai)
Autism mutations drive neurodevelopmental pathology (www.science.org)
The mechanics of the Nepali flash flood (www.economist.com)
Silicon Valley is in denial in face of widespread backlash (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
Sovereign Tech Agency invests 500k in Flatpak (modal.cx)
AI Engineer Notebooks – free, framework-free RAG/agents/evals on Colab (github.com)
Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards (economist.com)
Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal (www.newscientist.com)
Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds to food additives (acs.digitellinc.com)
Stripe said to abandon 50B pursuit of PayPal (www.bloomberg.com)
Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV (neilalexander.dev)
Previewing the Model Hardware Standard (www.anthropic.com)
OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance (github.com)
Voronoi Go (voronoigo.com)
Judge Rules Trump Administration’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal (www.nytimes.com)
900M paid out to end wind farm project going to firm run by Mar-a-Lago neighbor (www.independent.co.uk)
M5Stack Launches PaperMono (shop.m5stack.com)
Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS (morphing.cloud)
We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model (github.com)
Launching Route 53 Files (www.daemonology.net)
Meta Paid 17B – Gets to Write Safety Rules for Other SocMedia Platform (www.techdirt.com)
MIT''s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training (aiandeducation.mit.edu)
Gemini-3.5-Transcribe (blog.google)
Peter Cullen, Voice of Optimus Prime in ''Transformers,'' Dies at 85 (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Aphantasia Beginner''s Guide (aphantasia.com)
Nvidia projects 673B in sales as AI demand widens (forgeeks.net)
We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer (code.ffmpeg.org)
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash (blog.google)
Harness Engineering (habitat-thinking.github.io)
Flock CEO gets his house blurred out on Google Maps and Zillow (twitter.com)
Suica, Japan''s First IC Transit Card (www.tokyodev.com)
Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days (blog.chrislewis.au)
Two German airport workers die of malaria after ''mosquito arrives on plane'' (www.bbc.com)
Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1''s DNS cache (blog.cloudflare.com)
Small Models Have Arrived (calv.info)
Yayoi Kusama has died (www.bbc.com)
Software engineering is about managing complexity (hack8s.com)
Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode (rahuljuliato.com)
Australia Bans Generative A.I. From Official Music Charts (www.nytimes.com)
CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem (www.comaps.app)
The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude (louisabraham.github.io)
507 Mechanical Movements (507movements.com)
US Government Designates Host of Noblogs.org a "Global Terrorist" (crimethinc.com)
Trade (and Tariffs) (xkcd.com)
Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity (humanprogress.org)
Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down (news.ycombinator.com)
Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck (pollen-robotics.com)
PayPal Blocks GrapheneOS (news.ycombinator.com)
The Harness Is the Thing (scott-fryxell.github.io)
Kusama Yayoi Dies at 97 (news.jp)
Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker (arxiv.org)
Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022 (nhess.copernicus.org)
Stripe acquires Clerky (www.clerky.com)
IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE (newsroom.ibm.com)
Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers (acceptmarkdown.com)
CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO (github.com)
Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2 (asahilinux.org)
Zohran and the Short Link (iamwillwang.com)
Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for 13B (www.businessinsider.com)
Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30 (www.mturk.com)
YouTube Format IDs (gist.github.com)
Access to Urban Woodlands Linked with Lower Use of Antidepressants (e360.yale.edu)
US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati (home.treasury.gov)
GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked? (isgithubcooked.com)
The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead (openai.com)
Dallas startup enriches Uranium (www.actinideinc.com)
LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements (wiki.documentfoundation.org)
FDA Approves First in Class Targeted Therapy for Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer (www.fda.gov)
The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada (thetariffcost.com)
PageRank explained (praveshkoirala.com)
CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela (hotosm.org)
11,000-year-old sculpture of man riding a leopard found in Turkey (www.thehistoryblog.com)
Study Reveals UnitedHealth''s Profit Margins Four Times What It Claimed [pdf] (insurancewatchdogcoalition.com)
U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications (www.wsj.com)
It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI (www.ssp.sh)
VMs won''t contain cyber-capable agents (blog.trailofbits.com)
Tailcat (github.com)
An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation (lwn.net)
The turbulent AI era is here (www.gatesnotes.com)
GLM-5.3-Flash Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)
Tim Curry has died (www.theguardian.com)
Taylor Farms: How One Company''s Reach Became a National Risk (farmaction.us)
Disruption with Some GitHub Services (www.githubstatus.com)
Nebula Sans (www.nebulasans.com)
Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account (twitterwebviewer.com)
France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026 (cartefibre.arcep.fr)
GLM-5.3-Flash (z.ai)
Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here (www.gatesnotes.com)
Meta reaches 16.68B settlement over social media harms to children (www.reuters.com)
AWS Acquires DuckDB (ducklabs.com)
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency (qwen.ai)
Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues (blog.happyfellow.dev)
Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda (www.theguardian.com)
U.S. gov''t moves to suppress pushback on data centers (www.tomshardware.com)
Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights (www.bloomberg.com)
XCancel and Nitter are receiving C&D letters from XCorp (news.ycombinator.com)
Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project (openstreetmap.us)
RAG Is Simpler Than You Think (www.lighthousenewsletter.com)
More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding (www.psu.edu)
Queryable Executables (fzakaria.com)
Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others (github.com)
TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM (github.com)
When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python (sethmlarson.dev)
C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality (www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)
Visualizing Binary Files (movq.de)
Tracking Costco gas prices (www.jack.bio)
I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI (github.com)
LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases (github.com)
Python''s pre-declared constants are kinda weird (sebsite.pw)
Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it (blog.master.dev)
XCancel also down, at least for time being (news.ycombinator.com)
Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for 4/month (nil.wallyjones.com)
FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels (www.fda.gov)
Black hole singularity is a surface not a point (arxiv.org)
Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms (groups.google.com)
Starbase, LA (www.spacex.com)
OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
Windows 95 released August 24, 1995 (dfarq.homeip.net)
My Friend Aaron (rorz.io)
Dolly Parton has died (www.theguardian.com)
Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike (www.businessinsider.com)
Nitter project received cease and desist (github.com)
AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds (arstechnica.com)
OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users (9to5mac.com)
Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown (www.imkylelambert.com)
Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia''s coral reefs (e360.yale.edu)
How much of HN is AI? (blog.coredump.cx)
France''s tax agency got hacked (in French) (www.cybernetica.fr)
SiFive''s First Server Platform (chipsandcheese.com)
Apple''s new Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro (www.apple.com)
Headlong: A Microharness for Persistent Agents (www.laude.org)
Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B) (modelscope.cn)
Apple Introduces New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra (www.apple.com)
Don''t Wordle (dontwordle.com)
Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute (www.apple.com)
Credit Card Rewards Became a 9.2B Wealth Transfer (www.library.hbs.edu)
Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art (2024) (kylezhe.ng)
Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020) (daily.jstor.org)
Why some US restaurants are banning tips (www.bbc.com)
Walgit – a Git server that is one binary in front of an object store (github.com)
Training AI to Paint with Code (surya.website)
Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage (github.com)
Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward (blog.archive.org)
Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model (www.thomsonreuters.com)
How Universities Should Prepare Founders (paulgraham.com)
What''s new in Emacs 31.1 (www.masteringemacs.org)
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Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study (journals.plos.org)
LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines (boydkane.com)
PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage (picomq.com)
GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are (glassbox.codecanary.org)
Moon (2024) (ciechanow.ski)
Anger, Anxiety and Agency (lucumr.pocoo.org)
The Future Belongs to the Weird (essays.georgestrakhov.com)
One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed (www.cnn.com)
iCloud Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com (developer.apple.com)
GLM-5.3 (open-weight) beat Anthropic/OpenAI models – for 1/5 the cost (reinvently.co.uk)
Where did all the public bathrooms go? (daily.jstor.org)
Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium (www.bbc.com)
A Blackstone real estate company exposed SSN digits, DOBs, addresses and more (alexschapiro.com)
Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence (gultsch.de)
Oceans hit highest temperature on record (www.bbc.com)
Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical (erikengdahl.se)
A techno machine in one HTML file, with verifiable renders (ssx360.github.io)
Fast drilldown dashboards from a single Parquet file (www.hamiltonulmer.com)
Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras (risky.biz)
The entire city of San Francisco as a video game (sf.thijs.gg)
Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene''s efficiency in engine tests (studyfinds.com)
Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware (securelist.com)
Why do corporate failures always seem to punish the wrong people? (news.ycombinator.com)
SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64 (proofcraft.systems)
The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven? (www.theguardian.com)
Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future (www.modelrepublic.org)
FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer''s disease (medicine.washu.edu)
OCR It – pull text out of un-copyable documents for your LLM (github.com)
New EU-wide product repair rules come into force (www.rte.ie)
Executable Is a SQLite Database (fzakaria.com)
Nearly 3M Teslas recalled in China over hidden door handles (www.bbc.com)
I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me (pantel.is)
Everything I own, owned (schlarp.com)
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Rural Village in Spain Is Welcoming Digital Nomads with Open Arms (www.cntraveler.com)
''The Nerd Reich'' tracks the ''unmasking of Silicon Valley''s true politics'' (www.npr.org)
Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025) (blog.elis.cc)
How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer (lalitm.com)
Fable and the end of the free lunch (www.dbreunig.com)
Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame? (slate.com)
The Vibe Tax (insufferable.dev)
Explain it to me like I''m ten (timharford.com)
Why Sal Khan''t: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling (punyamishra.com)
How Complex Systems Fail (1998) (how.complexsystems.fail)
What Is a Harness? (earendil.com)
I spent 266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day (ericpardee.github.io)
My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes (bookdna.com)
The Sloppification of Peptides (henryaj.substack.com)
AI Chip Architectures (www.jepeake.com)
Things I want in a modern relational query language (sporks.space)
Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance (larsfaye.com)
IPFS Maintainers Winding Down (ipshipyard.com)
MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID (xusheng.dev)
OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) (developers.openai.com)
Anna''s Archive Owes 340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It''s Still Online (torrentfreak.com)
Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded (twitter.com)
How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs (lectronz.com)
Woman stranded in Spain after UK''s eVisa system mistakes her for twin sister (www.theguardian.com)
Over 5,200 Ebola cases recorded in Congo (www.afro.who.int)
I were 17, I''d learn how to build LLMs from scratch (twitter.com)
Anthropic''s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive (www.ft.com)
My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality (fabiensanglard.net)
A website for debloated open source alternatives (debloat.dev)
I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes (www.xda-developers.com)
One night in Uzbekistan: Why was this one data point so influential? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
JIT Compiling Code in 5μs (malisper.me)
The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015) (nappertime.com)
The End of an Athlon (www.os2museum.com)
Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers (marcua.net)
Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn''t chasing speed (www.xda-developers.com)
NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier (www.primeintellect.ai)