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  1. Boeing "incredibly excited" to serve as nation's only astronaut transportation

    "We couldn't provide detailed pricing to the CLD suppliers."

    Ars Technica — Published

  2. Claude Sonnet 5.5

    Claude Sonnet 5.5 New Sonnet model from Anthropic today. They say it "runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work" - it's priced the same as Sonnet 5 but appears to beat it on every benchmark, and should be cheaper to run as well. Here are some pelicans riding bicycles. Sonnet 5.5 suffered…

    Simon Willison — Published

  3. Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump

    China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.

    Ars Technica — Published

  4. SpaceX's Starship goes orbital, deploying first next-gen Starlinks

    Starship had already flown 99 percent of the way to low-Earth orbit. Monday's flight added the last bit.

    Ars Technica — Published

  5. #Corpowid and #Skynet Technologies Will Get You Sued

    The market is flooded with so many accessibility overlays that it’s impossible to keep up. I’ve written about the biggest players (plus some also-rans) and provided enough technical details that most readers should know how to quickly evaluate their false claims and poor technology. Never mind their…

    Adrian Roselli — Published

  6. Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development

    State says LLMs threaten civilization as "the greatest public nuisance ever created."

    Ars Technica — Published

  7. New device captures carbon dioxide by pumping it across a battery

    The design requires less energy to capture CO2 than current systems.

    Ars Technica — Published

  8. To keep drug prices high, pharma has been piling up the patents

    Add-on patents have increased drug patent periods from two years to over six.

    Ars Technica — Published

  9. Trump cuts fuel economy standards back to 2014 levels

    In 2020, Trump cut CAFE to 40 mpg. Now he’s cut it again to just 35 mpg.

    Ars Technica — Published

  10. Quoting @joedaroo

    To say that we were surprised at the jump and suddenness of the capabilities of our models when it came to “cyber” or “swarming” or “message boards” or anything else related to the incidents is an understatement. Security posture takes time to develop. It’s not just about hardening the systems at play…

    Simon Willison — Published

  11. Kalshi loses again as judges rule prediction markets must obey gambling laws

    Kalshi's defiance of state gambling laws may be headed to Supreme Court.

    Ars Technica — Published

  12. Google seemingly confirms plans to kill ChromeOS in 2034

    Google support maps out how Googlebooks can take over where ChromeOS left off.

    Ars Technica — Published

  13. Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery

    19th century Nature account of 1841 train delayed by geomagnetic storm got year wrong—due to a typo.

    Ars Technica — Published

  14. F1 in Azerbaijan: That was almost a close-run thing

    Kimi Antonelli could not repeat his Monza magic after a crash in qualifying.

    Ars Technica — Published

  15. OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents

    US Government websites among "dozens of third parties" OpenAI has recently notified.

    Ars Technica — Published

  16. NASA 'troubleshooting' transporter for space station's robotic arm [Updated]

    NASA isn't saying much. The problem may be temporary.

    Ars Technica — Published

  17. Dutch Police Arrest ‘Reformed’ Hacker in Shiny Hunters Investigation

    Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested a 23-year-old convicted cybercriminal on suspicion of aiding in data thefts and extortions by the prolific hacker group ShinyHunters. In the days immediately following the suspect's arrest, remaining ShinyHunters members dramatically escalated their attacks…

    Brian Krebs — Published

  18. Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs

    “Microsoft claims to want to be a good neighbor, but the jury is still out."

    Ars Technica — Published

  19. There are no "rogue" AI agents [link]

    I've read so many posts in the last few months about AI agents going "rogue" and this post does a good job of calling absolute bullshit on the language being used by media outlets (and the tech companies themselves). AI cannot think for itself, nor can it take independent actions. But anthropomorphizing…

    Remy Sharp — Published

  20. Weekly Update 523: Live From a Norwegian Fjord

    How's that view?! With NDC Oslo now done, it's a little bit of sightseeing before heading to Denmark for GOTO in Copenhagen for Scott's and my "Cyber-broken" talk. In the meantime, this week is mostly about the ShinyHunters trajectory targeting both

    Troy Hunt — Published

  21. Quoting Muse AI Agent

    Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating. Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's…

    Simon Willison — Published

  22. Loneliness and the act of listening

    Note about loneliness and listening.

    Protesilaos Stavrou — Published

  23. 2026 in LLMs (so far)

    On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological exploration of everything that happened in 2026. The video is on YouTube; here are my annotated slides and notes to accompany the…

    Simon Willison — Published

  24. S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past

    My comment on S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past — Hacker News.One thing I find notable about S3 today is that, while it used to drop in price reasonably often, there hasn't been a price drop in a full decade: 2006-03-14 $0.150/GB-month 2010-11-01 $0.140/GB-month 2012-02-01 $0.125/GB-month 2012-12-01 …

    Simon Willison — Published

  25. Humane Interfaces

    So there I am reading Unsung when I come across this quote from Jef Raskin: An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties. This articulation perfectly captures why I recoil at modern “growth tactics” in user interfaces and experiences: they are designed…

    Jim Nielsen — Published

  26. Bluesky reply bot checker

    Tool: Bluesky reply bot checker Automated reply bots on Twitter are a scourge - as someone with a decent number of followers I attract a swarm of these, such that anything I post there attracts dozens of mindless automated replies. They've started manifesting on Bluesky as well. Unlike Twitter, Bluesky…

    Simon Willison — Published

  27. How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump’s culture war

    The Smithsonian has faced withering pressure from the Trump administration.

    Ars Technica — Published

  28. A Trump team wants to automate U.S. Web Design System accessibility testing. Experts are worried. [link]

    This is gut wrenching. This is another example of cost cutting exercises that affect minorities. This isn't a story about AI, it's (another) story about pulling funding from the places that need to support those that need it to increase the profits of those who don't. Most accessibility testing is evaluating…

    Remy Sharp — Published

  29. Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights

    Hello! Recently I needed bike lights for my bike. And I remembered that I already had rechargeable bike lights that I bought ten years ago, that I hadn’t tried in a long time. I tried to recharge them, but after fully charging them, they only worked for maybe 5 minutes before they turned off again. I…

    Julia Evans — Published

  30. Français: La vitalité

    Une petite note sur le sujet de la vitalité.

    Protesilaos Stavrou — Published

  31. Emacs live at the ‘Root Access’ stream on 2026-09-27 at 21:00 Europe/Athens

    I will join @linkarzu and the folks over at the Root Access podcast series to do a live stream about Emacs.

    Protesilaos Stavrou — Published

  32. I updated my ‘About me’ page with a ‘guest appearances’ section

    Announcement about the new 'guest appearances' section in my 'about me' page.

    Protesilaos Stavrou — Published

  33. Kākāpō Party

    Tool: Kākāpō Party I presented a closing keynote for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America yesterday. As a STAR moment I decided to weave in references to the record breaking kākāpō breeding season we had in 2026. For my closing slide I wanted to celebrate, and I had seen some buzz around…

    Simon Willison — Published

  34. Tesla’s big electric truck faces an even bigger infrastructure challenge

    The 500-mile Semi arrives as charging gaps still limit electric trucking.

    Ars Technica — Published

  35. Redesign: fonts, alignment and nav [blog]

    As I continue occasionally tinker on the redesign I've started (and often think "what's the point, current design is fine"), I wanted to share some of the problems I've run in to. Problems mostly for me because I'm not a designer, and I don't have the wiring to know what works.

    Remy Sharp — Published

  36. Emacs: I am experimenting with a Denote cache

    Information about the experimental 'denote-data' feature I am working on.

    Protesilaos Stavrou — Published

  37. Comments on Dao, pattern, and the simple life

    An essay I wrote to a friend in 2022, which I am now sharing.

    Protesilaos Stavrou — Published

  38. Can Trump ever be wrong? His pick to lead FDA refused to say.

    Heidi Overton faced questions focused on vaccines, birth control, and vapes.

    Ars Technica — Published

  39. U.S. Soldier Gets 70 Months in Prison for AT&T, Verizon Extortions

    A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty to hacking into multiple telecommunications companies and stealing mobile call and text metadata for more than 100 million AT&T customers in 2024 was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison today and ordered to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution to victims.

    Brian Krebs — Published

  40. Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features

    "Overly constrained AI models" could cause military operations to fail, judges say.

    Ars Technica — Published

  41. Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements

    Despite challenges, Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus robots per week by end of 2026.

    Ars Technica — Published

  42. Your uncle’s frozen Mac says it’s infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?

    Ads appearing all over the Internet are trying to scam people.

    Ars Technica — Published

  43. Using an LLM to Automate the Process of Archiving New macOS App Icons

    Whenever a new version of macOS drops, I find myself archiving the new app icons for my macOS icon gallery. In the past, the work to do this was a bit tedious. First, I’d find the app in the “Applications” folder (or elsewhere on the Mac), right click and choose “Get Info”: Right-click the app icon in…

    Jim Nielsen — Published

  44. Quoting John Gruber

    Muse is getting a lot of attention — including mine — because it’s both groundbreaking technically (each user gets their own entire persistent Linux VM running in Meta’s cloud) and because it’s packaged in an easy-to-install easy-to-use way. It’s literally presented as a cute mascot. It’s the first consumer…

    Simon Willison — Published

  45. Undersung Hero: M. Frog

    I bought this LP because of its Milton Glaser-designed cover featuring the colored pencil musical notations of composer/synthesist and former monk Jean-Yves Labat, alias M. Frog. It was 1973; I was about to become a high school senior, and I had hitchhiked to New York City with my friend Al Crump. The…

    Jeffrey Zeldman — Published

  46. Our Family No Longer Is A Vegetarian One

    During the summer holiday of 2010, I read Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals. I remember it well: we were visiting the Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, a region that is also known for its local meat produce. Of course we took advantage of that and stocked up on sausages in the cottage we rented.…

    Wouter Groeneveld — Published

  47. Northern Gannet, Great Blue Heron, California Brown Pelican

    Northern Gannet, Great Blue Heron, California Brown Pelican, in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, CA, US, CANew 200-800mm Canon EF lens got me my best photo of Morris yet. They really like hanging out under that sign in the harbor! Tags: photography, wildlife

    Simon Willison — Published

  48. Emacs live with Sacha Chua and Pedro about Org LaTeX export on 2026-10-02 at 13:00 Europe/Athens

    We will talk about Pedro's work on the Org LaTeX exporter.

    Protesilaos Stavrou — Published

  49. Emacs: find a file in the ‘denote-directory’

    Code samples that let you quickly find a file in the 'denote-directory'.

    Protesilaos Stavrou — Published

  50. Note on 24th September 2026

    The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder. We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge. Tags: coding-agents, ai, llms

    Simon Willison — Published

  51. commit-rewriter 0.2

    Release: commit-rewriter 0.2 Support for branches other than the default branch. Use uvx commit-rewriter --branch other to run against another branch. #3 Tags: git

    Simon Willison — Published

  52. datasette 1.0a41

    Release: datasette 1.0a41 Alec Garcia added support for OpenTelemetry to Datasette in this release. I've also refactored all of Datasette's modal dialogs to a single Web Component, which is now documented for other plugins to use. Tags: javascript, datasette, web-components, alex-garcia, opentelemetry

    Simon Willison — Published

  53. Français: La superficialité

    La superficialité caractérise les plusieurs affaires humaines. Mais nous voudrons ça qui n'a pas de prix.

    Protesilaos Stavrou — Published

  54. Comment on tutelary figures

    A comment on what are tutelary figures and how they function in society.

    Protesilaos Stavrou — Published

  55. You Own the Outcome: Product Engineering in the Age of AI

    Agents are great at producing code. The valuable work left for you is deciding what should exist, how it should behave, and what you're willing to trade for it.

    Kent C. Dodds — Published

  56. We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary

    My comment on We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary — Hacker News.I've been wanting this from Cloudflare for years. The classic problem here is if you do that thing where user agents that send "accept: text/html" get HTML, while user agents that don't get JSON or some other format…

    Simon Willison — Published

  57. Make Money to Make More Websites

    I was listening to the episode “Make Your Own Thing” from the Off Protocol podcast where Jim Ray interviews John Gruber. They cover a variety of topics, including Gruber’s thoughts on the dilution of personal brand by publishing through “chain” platforms like Substack (I quite enjoyed the metaphor of…

    Jim Nielsen — Published

  58. Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground

    Tool: Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground Google released two new Gemini text-to-speech models today - gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts. They come with a library of over 2,000 voices, plus the ability to create a custom voice with "just a 30-second audio sample of your voice or a voice you have…

    Simon Willison — Published

  59. Shadow roots, explained with live examples

    Tool: Shadow roots, explained with live examples Prompt to Fable 5.1 Medium: Build an artifact to explain shadow roots in CSS with interactive examples Tags: css

    Simon Willison — Published

  60. Weekly Update 522: Live From Oslo with Scott Helme

    Heads up: the first 7 mins is a bit quiet until we worked out the external mic was misbehaving - sorry! But get through that and have a listen to Scott's experiences with how Report URI is identifying malware-infected machines within orgs, all due to CSP reporting. It&

    Troy Hunt — Published

  61. SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering

    SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering I'm hosting an evening event with Jesse Vincent in San Francisco on Wednesday 14th October for people who are building weird and interesting things with and on top of coding agents. Think of it as an agentic show-and-tell: ​Compare…

    Simon Willison — Published

  62. Why is Hacker News like that?

    Hacker News (aka HN) is a link aggregator where “hackers”1 gather to discuss technology, politics, and anything which “good hackers would find interesting”. HN is a means by which its host, prominent startup incubator Y Combinator, projects soft power, promotes startups it funds, and feeds people with…

    Drew DeVault — Published

  63. Français: M’immerger dans la culture locale (inscrire les paroles d’une chanson de Joe Dassin)

    J'explique pourquoi je cherche des oeuvres artistiques de la culture française.

    Protesilaos Stavrou — Published

  64. Emacs: sxhkdrc-mode version 1.3.0

    Information about the latest version of my Emacs major mode for editing the Simple X Hot Key Daemon files.

    Protesilaos Stavrou — Published

  65. Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war

    Yesterday was Grok 4.7 (pelicans) and MiMo v2.6 Flash/Pro (more pelicans). Today Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, and around an hour later OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. It's going to take a while to get a good read on all of these new models, but here are my impressions so far. GPT-6 Sol…

    Simon Willison — Published

  66. llm 0.36

    Release: llm 0.36 New OpenAI models: gpt-6-sol for GPT-6 Sol and gpt-6-luna for GPT-6 Luna. #1702 Model plugins can now declare supports_conversation = False for models that only accept single-turn prompts. LLM raises llm.ConversationNotSupported when these models receive assistant or tool history, and…

    Simon Willison — Published

  67. Quoting @therealcornpop

    Hey, you know it's like super obvious if you're using AI to write your scripts for TikTok and YouTube, right? [...] It's not just the general AI-isms of "it's not X, it's Y", or the rule of three, or the really weird broken staccato-like way of writing where you just say a lot of things with all these…

    Simon Willison — Published

  68. llm-anthropic 0.29

    Release: llm-anthropic 0.29 Adds support for Claude Opus 5.5: llm -m claude-opus-5.5 "prompt goes here" Tags: llm, anthropic

    Simon Willison — Published

  69. llm-typesafe 0.1a0

    Release: llm-typesafe 0.1a0 I built this new plugin for LLM to add support for TypeSafe AI's new Jev model. Install it like this: llm install llm-typesafe Then set an API key (get one here, the waitlist seems to move pretty fast): llm keys set typesafe # Paste key And now you can ask yes/no "noul" questions…

    Simon Willison — Published

  70. About Europe teaching the values it does not have

    Comment on the importance of collectivism and why European liberal democracy cannot support its beliefs.

    Protesilaos Stavrou — Published

  71. Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models

    Last week TypeSafe AI unveiled Jev, their first example of a new category of model that they are calling "System One models" (I'm with Maggie Appleton, I think "decision models" is a better name for these). Jev is an interesting variant on the usual LLM format: it still accepts text inputs, but instead…

    Simon Willison — Published

  72. Cloudflare Python Workers are now generally available

    Cloudflare Python Workers are now generally available After a two year preview, Cloudflare's support for running Python code in their server-side Workers platform is now stable: "Python is now a first-class, fully supported language on the Cloudflare Developer Platform". A neat thing about this is how…

    Simon Willison — Published

  73. A Great Story Capturing the Essence of Being Online in 2026

    I made a note of it, but Bryan Cantrill wrote a post about the ex-Anthropic employee who pegged the probability of AI killing humanity in the next decade at >10%. The article is a good one and you should read it, but what I want to capture here is a side story from Cantrill on the Oxide and Friends podcast…

    Jim Nielsen — Published

  74. CMA: The Umpire Strikes Back?

    Because I’m a rock and roll animal, I was invited to an event in London called Time to Reset: Unlocking Growth & Sovereignty Through Digital Competition. It wasn’t really clear to me why a grubby HTML monkey like me was invited, or what it was really about, but as it was in the Financial Times […]

    Bruce Lawson — Published

  75. Arguing about arguments

    Here’s some Rust code: // define a function fn foo (x : i32 , y : i32 ) -> i32 { // body elided } // call it let z = foo ( 5 , 6 ); In programming language jargon, we call x and y parameters and 5 and 6 arguments . Rust does not have many fancy features related to parameters and…

    Steve Klabnik — Published

  76. Français: En cherchant de la réassurance

    J'écris toujours pour moi, parce que l'écriture est une activité solitaire.

    Protesilaos Stavrou — Published

  77. Interpretation of “Street flower” by Maria Spanou or Giorgos Rous

    Translation of---and philosophical commentary on---a Greek song whose translated title is 'Street flower'.

    Protesilaos Stavrou — Published

  78. Markdown in /src

    TLDR Markdown is becoming source code, not documentation That Markdown should be checked in to /src, next to the code it produces Code and tests should be derived from that Markdown, rather than from ephemeral prompts (or at least prompt sessions should eventually turn into persisted Markdown) Intro…

    Carson Gross — Published

  79. Quoting voxium

    It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have…

    Simon Willison — Published

  80. MCP was always a bad idea?

    My comment on MCP was always a bad idea? — Hacker News.This article entirely misses the value that MCP brings today. Sure, there's almost no reason to use MCPs if you are running a full-blown terminal agent (Claude Code, Codex, Meta Muse, OpenClaw etc) with unfettered internet access - just let it call…

    Simon Willison — Published

  81. llm-keys-ui 0.1

    Release: llm-keys-ui 0.1 This plugin solves a very specific problem. I've started using Codex Remote to run coding agents on various machines while controlling them from my phone. Sometimes I use those machines to hack on LLM projects, and occasionally that means I need to configure an API key. I don't…

    Simon Willison — Published

  82. The iPhone Model Hall of Fame

    John Gruber makes his picks for the iPhone Hall of Fame: iPhone (original) iPhone 4 iPhone 5S iPhone X iPhone 17 Pro Ok, my turn. Here’s my iPhone Hall of Fame: iPhone (original) iPhone 4 iPhone X iPhone 12 Mini iPod Touch Notes: How do you not put the OG iPhone at the top spot? It’s like doing a Mount…

    Jim Nielsen — Published

  83. What's been going on in w64devkit the past year

    The past year has been exciting for w64devkit, which like any software distribution is never complete. Peter0x44 joined as co-maintainer, and has pushed the project in good, new directions, with ideas I would never have considered. Many of his improvements have gone back upstream, and so you may benefit…

    Chris Wellons — Published

  84. datasette-explain 0.2.2

    Release: datasette-explain 0.2.2 Explain plans now work on read-only stored-query pages. I upgraded datasette.simonwillison.net to Datasette 1.0a40, which inspired me to ship a new version of this explain plugin. Tags: sqlite, datasette

    Simon Willison — Published

  85. Radiating Intent

    I had a new member of my team join recently and, when I met with them one-on-one for the first time, they complimented me on my standup updates. My team works remotely so standups are an important touchpoint. My colleague and I talked a bit more about...

    Ash Furrow — Published

  86. From PrismJS to Better PrismJS to MicroLighter in Three Painless* Steps

    An excellent feature of Eleventy1 is the official PrismJS-based syntax highlighting plugin, which adds painless build-time syntax highlighting. It keeps 11ty sites from worrying about client-side bloat from JS-based highlighters and the common failure mode of over-including language definitions.2 But…

    Alex Russell — Published

  87. About the coolest Seoul neighbourhood and erosion of public spaces

    Comment on the degradation of local culture, city life, gentrification, mass tourism, and ethnicity.

    Protesilaos Stavrou — Published

  88. Emacs: spacious-padding version 0.9.0

    Information about the latest version of my 'spacious-padding' package for GNU Emacs.

    Protesilaos Stavrou — Published

  89. Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1) [book]

    Not something I'd normally pick, but enjoyable. I've never played dungeons and dragons, and in my head, I kept thinking of Minecraft as my rough frame of reference (which I've touched because of the kids but not really played to any real amount). The book follows Carl, who, as we guess from the title…

    Remy Sharp — Published

  90. datasette-auth-github 1.0

    Release: datasette-auth-github 1.0 I run this GitHub login plugin on the agent.datasette.io demo site and I noticed that my authenticated sessions weren't lasting very long. It turned out that the plugin was setting cookies without a Max-Age parameter, so they were expiring at the end of a browser session…

    Simon Willison — Published

  91. California Sea Lion, Brandt's Cormorant

    California Sea Lion, Brandt's Cormorant, in Pillar Point Harbor, CA, USI only noticed this after I had taken the photo: Morris the Northern Gannet is peeking out from behind the base of the sign. Tags: wildlife

    Simon Willison — Published

  92. KTConf 2026 Creative Coding Slides

    Yesterday, I had the pleasure to give a talk for the local Kotlin community on creativity in software engineering and the impact generative AI has on our ability to be creative. KTConf took place in an iconic venue, the M museum in Leuven, so I felt obliged to include a slide about a painting. To my…

    Wouter Groeneveld — Published

  93. Good bye, my dear followers!

    I will stop posting publicly on this website for a while. I have built a nice set of technologies here that I must explore in a few directions, and that exploration will be best done privately. I also just don't feel like speaking anymore. Apologies to the fifty or so regulars who have been reading so…

    a327ex — Published

  94. Finding Bugs

    Are generative (randomized) tests significantly more effective than example-based unit-tests at discovering bugs? There's an interesting discussion about this on lobste.rs. One argument in favor of unit tests is, paraphrasing

    Alex Kladov — Published

  95. Selfie: ten days after the clean shave

    I shaved my hair and beard ten days ago. But I have to do it again, which is too much work.

    Protesilaos Stavrou — Published

  96. About consistency and structure

    A comment on how I write frequently and how this reflects my stability as a person.

    Protesilaos Stavrou — Published

  97. Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI

    Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI Gemini finally caught up on Felony Bench! The hacks, which the company confirmed on Friday, occurred in May as part of a test run by the company Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents disclosed by OpenAI, Anthropic…

    Simon Willison — Published

  98. フロクロ - Do not solve me

    a327ex — Published

  99. Do You Prefer Artificial?

    “Artificial” things can get a bad rap next to their counterparts, but they have their place. For example, artificial light (i.e. not from the sun)? Super useful, especially at night. And when it comes to skiing, I’ll take artificial snow if I have to. Beats no snow. Artificial isn’t necessarily inferior…

    Jim Nielsen — Published

  100. Delve Deep, My Unstoppable Machine!!! 1

    Delve Deep, My Unstoppable Machine!!! 1 Summary A new private Anchor 3 project, born as "emojunky" and renamed at the end to "Delve Deep, My Unstoppable Machine!!!", continued the Reverse Minesweeper prototype and built its player character from scratch: the emoji toolkit's outline-and-shadow pipeline…

    a327ex — Published