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Free video-streaming service Tubi lets users share curated watchlists now
User-based recommendations could make it easier to find stuff to watch on Tubi.
Ars Technica — Published
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Steam Deck performance gets a reality check with Valve's new FPS data
Benchmark tools for generic gaming rigs could be coming soon.
Ars Technica — Published
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High oil prices have led to a dip in global carbon emissions
Bucking recent trends, fossil fuel emissions look to be down 0.4 percent.
Ars Technica — Published
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One space station company sues another for copying its work
"NASA advised that Vast’s submission in some locations substituted 'the PAM Provider' for Axiom"
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DeepMind reveals Gemini Robotics 2.5 and open safety benchmark "ASIMOV-jailbreak"
The new model is up to twice as successful at some tasks.
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Nvidia has a Jensen Huang problem—and no obvious successor
Huang faces a board probe as investors fret over Nvidia’s lack of a clear successor.
Ars Technica — Published
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FDA warns GLP-1 drugs may pose risk of rare condition that causes vision loss
The risk appears small and data is mixed, but FDA wants patients to be aware.
Ars Technica — Published
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Polestar has a new look with its Formula 2030 concept
The shape looks like a Saab Aero-X, but the nose previews the next Polestar 2.
Ars Technica — Published
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Just don't lie 2
It's been 5 months since I posted about the Steam AI score idea and its ramifications (#345, #436, #459, #480, #594, #595, #628), and the discourse around AI usage and gaming has progressed enough that I feel confident about how the future will play out. It seems clear to me that the vast majority of…
a327ex — Published
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Ukraine’s fiber-optic drones get squeezed by AI data center demand
Ukraine competes with Russia and data centers for China’s optical fiber supply.
Ars Technica — Published
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Review: Apple's M6 MacBook Pro is good, but it's missing all the exciting stuff
Per usual, the basic MacBook Pro lags behind the flagships where it counts.
Ars Technica — Published
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Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember
Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember Meta AI just launched their entry in the Claude Haiku/GPT Luna category: Muse Ember, which they describe as: [...] our smallest and most efficient model designed for complex reasoning execution and the work agents repeat all day: tool calls,…
Simon Willison — Published
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Quoting Prompting Claude Fable 5.2
Claude Fable 5.2 responds closely to what the prompt says about who owns the code it works on. In Anthropic’s testing on small coding tasks, when a prompt said nothing about ownership or presented the code base as someone else’s, the model tended to add to the existing structure, even when that repeated…
Simon Willison — Published
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Yonkers Rises
Tool: Yonkers Rises I realized I didn't know where Yonkers was, so I looked it up on Google Maps and then, to help embed its location and shape in my head (and to try out Claude Fable 5.2's 3D modeling and animation skills), I prompted Fable 5.2 Medium to: Make a three js animation where yonkers stands…
Simon Willison — Published
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Weekly Update 529: Kids Social Media Bans (and Everything Else)
The kids-and-social-media discussion is just dumb. It's not the premise of delaying their access until 16, but the inability of those who should know better to grasp where the responsibility for enforcement lies. Here's our PM's explainer after the laws passed
Troy Hunt — Published
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LinkedIn for AI
My corner of the web was atwitter lately as a few prominent members of the Apple/iOS developer community decided to announce they were spending time on X again; people got mad. And it’s kind of bothering me how people seem to be talking past each other...
Ash Furrow — Published
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llm-anthropic 0.31
Release: llm-anthropic 0.31 Anthropic released Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 today. Fable 5.2 is currently ranked first on Artificial Analysis. Anthropic say it "solved two open problems in the physics of black holes", so clearly their internal benchmarks have become more ambitious! I've added the new models…
Simon Willison — Published
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Locating the source of a mysterious beep with Claude
Our house has a box room, full of boxes that we still haven't unpacked from our last move. A couple of weeks ago something in that room started intermittently beeping. The beeps were far enough apart that standing in the room and trying to determine the source of the noise was frustrating, and I really…
Simon Willison — Published
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lunarpunk
I recently learned about lunarpunk and I can’t stop thinking about it. It’s solarpunk’s nocturnal brethren, cyberpunk’s more utopian twin. I’ve always been a fan of solarpunk ethos and aesthetic. It has this mix of sun-drenched anarchy and verdant optimism. Sustainability, solar panels, solutions for…
Lee Byron — Published — Updated
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DCU shake-up: James Gunn and Peter Safran out post-merger
Producer and former Kevin Feige protege Jeremy Latcham will replace Gunn and Safran.
Ars Technica — Published
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Man who lost $308,000 on sports bets sues Kalshi for offering illegal gambling
Lawsuit demands Kalshi return losses because online betting is illegal in Washington.
Ars Technica — Published
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A Sam Altman parody offers an amusing lesson in memory management
We verified the RAM numbers are real without sending any emails to OpenAI.
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Vulnerability that lets hackers SSH into Linux devices is under active exploitation
"*sshole" poses a serious threat to Internet security.
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Pentagon mulls placing fleet of military satellites around the Moon
"Please jump on my cislunar bandwagon because I need some more friends here."
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Claude Code is accidentally exposing secrets all over GitHub
"Do not ask again" prompt leads to passwords, API keys, and more being shared.
Ars Technica — Published
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SpaceX now fundamentally an "infrastructure company," senior official says
"Grok analyzing the same video is 99.9 percent perfect."
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Nvidia CEO's affair becomes a national security problem
Nvidia is probing whether Chinese intelligence targeted its CEO through an affair.
Ars Technica — Published
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F1 in Brazil: You’ve got to keep your tires alive
A topsy-turvy grid and intermittent rain resulted in a very entertaining race.
Ars Technica — Published
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On Receiving Letters
In my beginners guide to writing snail mail, I hand out a few tips for getting started with letter writing as a lovely way of conversing with friends and strangers. I’ve sent 21 letters since then, but the fun doesn’t stop there: receiving a reply is just as exciting. Many people dismiss letter writing…
Wouter Groeneveld — Published
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New Democratic Congress will likely strip the gilding from Trump's Golden Dome
"There’s no doubt that whatever it’s going to be called, it won’t be called Golden Dome."
Ars Technica — Published
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The Web Is More Than Enough, by Paul Ford
My comment on The Web Is More Than Enough, by Paul Ford — Hacker News.OK, this comment convinced me to give that a shot. Here's a thing I made in Three.js this morning - a Nudibranch themed Faberge Egg: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/Hidden-Reef-Egg... (77KB) I just asked Claude (Opus 5.5…
Simon Willison — Published
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Hide your slop PR descriptions behind
Most of the changes I make to my projects these days come in the form of PRs opened for me by Claude Code or Codex. The PR is my unit of work - I use them to bundle commits together, iterating on them until a feature is complete, document decisions and then merge the finished result. Today's coding agents…
Simon Willison — Published
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Photo Blog Migration
In 2013, when it was still in beta, I signed up for Exposure. This is a web publishing tool for photographers, to organize their work into photo blog posts. It does a lot more than that, especially as they’ve added new features over the years, but I’ve...
Ash Furrow — Published
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Agency
I’ve been writing more lately, as I work through my feelings about changes to the software development industry. After Cory Doctorow was eviscerated about his use of a local for spellcheck I shut my mouth about them. And I’m tired of that. This post is...
Ash Furrow — Published
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On the trade-conquest continuum, Western empire, and the political centre
Analysis on strategy with a focus on Western politics that covers geopolitics, history, economics, and insights into human nature.
Protesilaos Stavrou — Published
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parse_number() as a SQLite extension: C vs Rust
Research: parse_number() as a SQLite extension: C vs Rust I was out walking the dog when I got curious about how easy/difficult it would be to write a SQLite C extension that adds a parse_number() function for turning strings like -$1,234.56 or '12.5%' into numeric values that could be summed and sorted…
Simon Willison — Published
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RIP, Harvest
I’ve been a self-employed contractor for about a decade now, and I’m bummed about Harvest. Harvest was a time-tracking and invoicing service. You’d track how many hours or weeks you spent on a project, put together an invoice, email it to the client, and close it out when they paid. There was a little…
Kyle Kingsbury — Published
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Addition By Subtraction
I still think saying no is important. In that vein, here’s something I shipped by removing functionality (and I think my site is better for it). For the longest time on my icon gallery sites, you could view a list of icons in four pixel dimensions: 56×56 128×128 256×256 512×512 Each of these sizes could…
Jim Nielsen — Published
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Corruption Is A Cost-of-Living Issue: App Store Edition
While I'm not shy about my pro-democracy, anti-authoritarian politics, this blog has kept to a more technical lane, veering into policy only out of necessity. As the scale of the web's setbacks at the hands of proprietary forces became clear, it became urgent to explain them and raise the alarm. But…
Alex Russell — Published
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EmacsConf 2026 community panel comments I made
Recollection of comments I made during the EmacsConf 2026 community panel.
Protesilaos Stavrou — Published
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datasette #3046: Don't serve link: rel=next HTTP headers to Firefox for HTML pages
datasette #3046: Don't serve link: rel=next HTTP headers to Firefox for HTML pages I was looking at the Firefox network panel today when I noticed that requests to a Datasette table page were triggering an HTTP prefetch to the next page of rows in that table. This was happening because Datasette pages…
Simon Willison — Published
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Terry Pratchett's Study
My comment on Terry Pratchett's Study — Hacker News.Terry Pratchett once wrote about the concept of "horizontal wealth". Vertical wealth is where you spend money on rich people stuff - yachts and suchlike. Horizontal wealth is where you spend more money on the things you liked before you got rich: https…
Simon Willison — Published
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Wealthsimple Native App Rebuild
Last week, at Wealthsimple Presents, my employer announced the project I’ve been working on: a new native app! Here’s a timestamped link. I’m really excited for this! Expect big things. At times, I’ve told an iOS developer that Wealthsimple’s app is...
Ash Furrow — Published
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About effort and contentment
An entry from my journal in which I comment about the sincerity of effort and the resulting emotional stability.
Protesilaos Stavrou — Published
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Quoting Nilay Patel
The products aren't good enough to sell people on the costs. You cannot tell people that you have to listen to the whine of a data center in their backyard for AI overviews and some of the most hilarious deep fake slop in history. It's not worth it. It just isn't worth it to anyone. And agents aren't…
Simon Willison — Published
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We Know 15,579 Websites Are Infected. How Do We Tell Them?
We've identified 15,579 websites that are currently infected with malicious JavaScript and between them, we conservatively estimate that they receive more than 135 million visits every month.We know they're infected, and we have the evidence to back that up, but there's a
Scott Helme — Published
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*sshole, or when are we finally going to get rid of C?
Original art by Genildo Ronchi. Yet another day, yet another vulnerability in core C code. This one happened due to two different conditions using the same sentinel value: On Unix, a password hash of "*" has meant a locked account since the very early days. Since 2012, musl libc’s crypt function has…
Rain — Published
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Fançais: Comme d’habitude
J'aime faire des choses avec patience e persistance.
Protesilaos Stavrou — Published
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Quoting Paul Ford
The web browser is very, very, very powerful software for applications, and the cost of accessing that power is going down seemingly every day. — Paul Ford, The Web Is More Than Enough Tags: browsers, paul-ford, web-development
Simon Willison — Published
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♫ You Can’t Always Get What You Want by Rolling Stones
♫ You Can’t Always Get What You Want by Rolling StonesBut if you try sometimes, you’ll find you get what you need.
Paul Robert Lloyd — Published
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Sometimes, Look at the Keys
I wrote a post several years ago called Don’t Look at the Keys. I wrote it after having a minor breakthrough when starting to get back into a regular piano practice. When I was quite young, my first piano teacher used to tell me: “Don’t look at the keys when you’re playing the piano.” At the time I wrote…
Ben Congdon — Published
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Want to Rent an Internet Address at the White House?
Several staffers at the White House are using computers or mobile devices equipped with residential proxy services that render their internet address available for others to rent, security experts warned today. One of the proxy services is a Russian company whose founder's web hosting business was ground…
Brian Krebs — Published
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Untitled
10 long months of torturing myself. Enough. Enough now.
Paul Robert Lloyd — Published
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We can do better than line-buffered output
Buffered output typically comes in two flavors: fully buffered and line buffered. If output goes to a terminal then the implementation automatically selects line buffering, flushing its buffer when a line is completed so that it reaches the user immediately. Otherwise it fully buffers, holding output…
Chris Wellons — Published
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Français: Pour toi et moi
Un petit note en sujet de communication.
Protesilaos Stavrou — Published
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“It Gives Great Demo”
There’s that famous video of Steve Jobs explaining why they don’t didn’t make touchscreen MacBooks: We thought about [a touch screen MacBook] years ago. We’ve done tons of user testing on this and it turns out it doesn’t work! Touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical. It gives great demo. But after a…
Jim Nielsen — Published
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datasette-llm 0.1a10
Release: datasette-llm 0.1a10 Fixes a bug that affected my agent.datasette.io demo site, where the set of available LLM models was not correctly restricted to just those in the configuration. Tags: llm, datasette
Simon Willison — Published
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Favourites of October 2026
Boo! Happy Halloween. See you next year for another scare. In the meantime, life slogs, and sometimes rushes, on. We’ve had the pleasure to experience the grand opening of the flu season resulting in more sleep deprivation whilst trying to take care of the sick kids. As you can imagine, dodging sickness…
Wouter Groeneveld — Published
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Voice is Underutilized
Speech is a useful medium for communicating with AI, both as an input/output channel and as back-and-forth. Over 2026 I’ve been increasing the amount of speech I/O and have collected a fair number of use cases. Input Voice is, of course, great for rambling at coding agents. Oftentimes the transactional…
Ben Congdon — Published
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#1's smell
All attempts in It Follows were based on real encounters I had in real life. Most of them were changed to serve the story better and fit the curse's rules, but I tried to keep them as close to reality as possible. For example, attempt #17, which I believe was the rape, happened in real life up to the…
a327ex — Published
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datasette-apps 0.3a0
Release: datasette-apps 0.3a0 Datasette Apps adds support for hosting and editing custom HTML applications inside of Datasette. These can be created by hand, but it's easier to create them using LLMs via Datasette Agent. This release improves that integration: Apps can now be tagged in Datasette Agent…
Simon Willison — Published
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Fortune Telling and Speculative Design
Practical tools for design engineers to explore possible futures through speculative design
Maggie Appleton — Published
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From European austerity to warmongering
Analysis of the politics of the Euro Area and how those create incentives for Europe to go to war with Russia and other countries.
Protesilaos Stavrou — Published
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Reply to Emacs questions about configuration, Evil, and more
A detailed response to questions about my Emacs configuration and various preferences thereof.
Protesilaos Stavrou — Published
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datasette-agent 0.5a0
Release: datasette-agent 0.5a0 This is a significant release of Datasette Agent. The most notable new feature is called the panel - it lets the agent chat open and then sit next to pages from Datasette, for example a table or query page. When combined with datasette-apps this means you can prompt a database…
Simon Willison — Published
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llm 0.37.1
Release: llm 0.37.1 A bugfix release for LLM, with contributions from Steven Huang, Tao An, Arjan Mossel, and XQ. Tags: llm
Simon Willison — Published
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AI is destroying my CS degree
My comment on AI is destroying my CS degree — Hacker News.I don't envy educators right now. AI clearly means you need to change how you teach and evaluate students. We are only a few years in though, and it's still extremely unclear what effective teaching with these tools looks like. The worst part…
Simon Willison — Published
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Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too
Yesterday's hot paper was Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab. The paper (OK, the authors classify is as a "blog post", but it's paper-shaped) found that frontier models, in particular GPT…
Simon Willison — Published
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Why this Obscure Audio Codec is a Perfect Fit for the N64
Sorry for the clickbait title. I promise this post delivers: 44100 Hz stereo with near-Opus bitrates using about 4% of the N64’s CPU time. But first, some history: The options for playing and storing audio data on the N64 were dire. The PlayStation could just stream uncompressed redbook audio straight…
Dominic Szablewski — Published
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Why Review AI-Generated Code?
AI can generate a lot of code quickly. There’s a thought that we can catch its mistakes or other issues by reviewing that code. In theory, this may be true; code review can catch bugs. In practice, it only works if the reviewer knows what to look for, has some context and, well, gives a shit. There's…
David Bryant Copeland — Published
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I discovered a sound that leaks your exact location (and it's everywhere) - YouTube
I discovered a sound that leaks your exact location (and it's everywhere) - YouTube Genius piece of OSINT by Colsto, who demonstrates how you can take almost imperceptible background noise of planes from a video soundtrack, figure out their Doppler curves, then cross reference them against ADS-B data…
Simon Willison — Published
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October sponsors-only newsletter
I sent out the October edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: The October inflection point for vibe game development The vulnerability apocalypse gets hot LLM releases API credits for $100+/month subscriptions…
Simon Willison — Published
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Interpolative Software
Much of the excitement around AI coding is downstream of the fact that a lot of software is interpolative. This has become especially true as of late, with the release of Opus 5.5, which is, I’d argue, superhumanly good at generating mass amounts of high-quality interpolative software.1 This post is…
Ben Congdon — Published
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Tech Firms Dismantle Botnet That Turned 1.3M TV Boxes Into Proxies
Google said today it worked with industry partners to dismantle a botnet made up of more than 1.3 million Android TV set-top boxes that ship with malicious software which secretly rents the user's Internet connection out to strangers and conducts advertising fraud. Experts involved in the takedown say…
Brian Krebs — Published
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Welfare versus warfare considerations in Europe
Essay on the trade-offs that are involved in policy orientations between welfare and warfare.
Protesilaos Stavrou — Published
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llm 0.37
Release: llm 0.37 There's a lot of stuff in this new release of my LLM CLI tool and Python library, representing around two months of accumulated features and fixes. I added gpt-6.1-sol and gpt-6.1-terra, plus a new llm openai endpoint add command to make it easier to configure additional models that…
Simon Willison — Published
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Making features generic in CSS
CSS has two new positional alignment keywords as part of CSS Box Alignment Level 3: flow-start and flow-end. These are defined as aliases for the existing flex-start and flex-end keywords. Therefore, in a supporting browser, the following two lines should align flex items to the end of the flex container…
Rachel Andrew — Published
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The U.S. Census Bureau and “Super Intelligence”
I was reminded today of AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies, a chart produced by Apollo Global Management in September 2025, which appeared to show a slowdown in U.S. corporate AI adoption based on numbers collected by the U.S. Census Bureau. At the time I used that chart to demonstrate…
Simon Willison — Published
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Test and verification technique effectiveness with GPT-6 Astra
When we looked at how well agents used test/verification techniques in August1, we saw that GPT-5.6 Sol generally did what you might call a caricature of various techniques when asked to use a technique or library such as TDD, QuickCheck, Lean 4, etc.; not specifying any particular test method (which…
Dan Luu — Published
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If in doubt, delete the uv.lock file
I've been getting the occasional confusing Python dependency error since switching over to Python 3.15 and the rule I'm having to remember is: If in doubt, delete the uv.lock file Most of my projects are libraries which don't include a uv.lock file, since it's rude for a library dependency to lock versions…
Simon Willison — Published
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Book Number Nineteen
When I said my farewells to Book Number Eighteen that for me just didn’t have the right proportions, I didn’t expect to fill Number Nineteen so quickly. That’s 245 unlined Leuchtturm pages from April to October 2026 which must have been a new record! I’m happy to have picked up the pace again after months…
Wouter Groeneveld — Published
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Quoting Kyle Kingsbury
More broadly, the use of LLMs erodes trust in documentation, in software, and in the organizations which produce them. Perhaps engineers will begin to treat any new software project with suspicion—the signals we used to rely on as markers of a mature system are now easier to counterfeit. [...] In the…
Simon Willison — Published
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The smartphoneless NEET shut-in
So true, I resisted getting a smartphone for as long as I reasonably could, especially because after college I was pretty much a NEET shut-in for a good while, but eventually, if you want to interact with society at all, you need it, and I gave in because my life was becoming more inconvenient without…
a327ex — Published
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Computer Use is Useful Now
The ability for models to steer browsers is now past the threshold of being clearly useful. LLM providers have been advertising computer use capabilities for a couple of years1, but in the times I’d tried, the results were more of a clunky curiosity than something I’d actually use on a daily basis. The…
Ben Congdon — Published
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Untitled
There’s possibly nothing more painful than wanting something you already have.
Paul Robert Lloyd — Published
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Weekly Update 528: Reading AI-generated Code & the Economics of Solar
By pure timing coincidence, the Proton CEO's AI @ Proton, Engineering Manifesto made headlines around the same time as this week's video. The guy's management style and choice of language have really rubbed a lot of people up the wrong way, and deservedly so, IMHO.
Troy Hunt — Published
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Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996?
A fun experiment where I back-port all the improvements we've made to chess engines over the last 30 years and run it on a 1996 Pentium Pro to see what we could have done if only we knew more at the time.
Nicholas Carlini — Published
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My Slow Return to a Swift Career
I recently gave this talk at the SwiftRockies conference in Calgary. This blog post expands on a few points that I didn’t have time for in the presentation, as well as some updates since then. The talk is here. Because I’ll be discussing my work with...
Ash Furrow — Published
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The Memory Police [book]
A weird story. Not quite sure what to make of it! Definitely surreal, and unlike any story I’ve read before. I did find I was trying to make sense of it, wondering if the protagonist was stuck in purgatory, but as the book finished, I don't think that was that was the point. It’s a good story, and engagingly…
Remy Sharp — Published
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Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics: society of spirit and “Prot’s glasses’s”
In this 1-hour video I talk at length about ethics, wellness, goals, rationality, and interpersonal affairs.
Protesilaos Stavrou — Published
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How We Took Over ChatGPT Accounts
How We Took Over ChatGPT Accounts Parameter Labs describe an exploit they found against ChatGPT's implementation of the artifacts pattern (OpenAI used to call this "Canvas" but it looks like the latest revision is called HTML previews), where interactive custom HTML apps are displayed in a sandboxed…
Simon Willison — Published
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datasette-llm 0.1a9
Release: datasette-llm 0.1a9 I have some big upgrades to Datasette Agent in the pipeline, but in the meantime here's a tiny user experience improvement to the underlying datasette-llm plugin. It now picks up the default model used by LLM, which means you can start using Datasette Agent without needing…
Simon Willison — Published
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Prospero: a new coding harness for a more civilized age
I’ve been fascinated with local LLMs for a couple of years now. The better open weight models, including some that inference on regular, higher-end consumer hardware at tolerable speeds, are now reliable enough to handle simpler programming tasks. This requires a coding harness, but so far this year…
Chris Wellons — Published
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Emacs live new Halloween theme for ‘ef-themes’ at 2026-10-31 14:00 Europe/Athens
I will develop at least one new theme for my 'ef-themes' package which will be in the spirit of Halloween.
Protesilaos Stavrou — Published
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Emacs: ef-halloween-dark is in ef-themes.git
I added a new dark theme to my 'ef-themes' package for Emacs.
Protesilaos Stavrou — Published
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dbreunig/nesformer
dbreunig/nesformer Inspired by qwenputer by Divyansh Agrawal, Drew Breunig baked a working emulator for a Nintendo Entertainment System 6502 CPU into the weights of Qwen3.5-4B. You can now play NES ROMs such as Super Mario Bros (very slowly) running inside Qwen! In a comment on Hacker News Drew reveals…
Simon Willison — Published
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Emacs live refinements for Denote at 2026-10-30 14:45 Europe/Athens
I am doing a live stream where I will make some refinements to Denote.
Protesilaos Stavrou — Published
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API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions
API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions Earlier this month Anthropic announced a generous new benefit for their Max and Team subscriptions: $100, $200, and $500 per month subscribers would get the equivalent quantity of (expiring) credits to use with the Anthropic API. OpenAI have now…
Simon Willison — Published
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Celebrating SIM Cards
It’s time to celebrate a little win. The other day, my mom contacted me saying her 10-year-old iPhone wouldn’t turn on. After getting a hold of the device and doing some family IT support, I concluded the battery was dead. So I bought her a new (old) one on Walmart (SE 3rd gen., if you must know). Her…
Jim Nielsen — Published
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Building a multiplayer game world with autonomous Fable-class models
How I Built the Most AI-Pilled Company in the World Don't be put off by the clickbait headline, this piece by Jacob Sansbury describing how they are building Spawn is a fascinating exploration of the bleeding edge of what's possible with agentic engineering against frontier models. Spawn is a massively…
Simon Willison — Published