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Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic with warning about safety

2026-09-09 @ 08:43:27Points: 71Comments: 94

How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

2026-09-09 @ 07:22:46Points: 106Comments: 83

On Really Trying (2009)

2026-09-09 @ 06:58:44Points: 86Comments: 54

Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished

2026-09-09 @ 06:31:28Points: 275Comments: 258

“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain

2026-09-09 @ 06:02:07Points: 157Comments: 91

A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1)

2026-09-09 @ 04:43:46Points: 80Comments: 19

27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter

2026-09-09 @ 01:14:50Points: 103Comments: 32

A Topological Picture Book, Rendered

2026-09-08 @ 22:28:14Points: 123Comments: 12

Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration

2026-09-08 @ 21:47:38Points: 185Comments: 96

How to build a printer

2026-09-08 @ 21:22:11Points: 400Comments: 86

Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI

2026-09-08 @ 21:00:52Points: 424Comments: 364

Mercury 2.5

2026-09-08 @ 20:14:52Points: 227Comments: 44

Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

2026-09-08 @ 19:25:00Points: 567Comments: 623

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

2026-09-08 @ 17:13:21Points: 1301Comments: 1048

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/8/on-navier-stokes/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49621697

https://twitter.com/sama/status/2097385167002415140, https://xcancel.com/sama/status/2097385167002415140

Into the depths of C: Elaborating the de facto standards (2016)

2026-09-08 @ 15:49:57Points: 30Comments: 1

AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA

2026-09-08 @ 14:55:45Points: 580Comments: 124

https://deepmind.google/blog/alphagenome-atlas-a-predictive-...

https://deepmind.google.com/science/alphagenome/atlas

Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses

2026-09-08 @ 14:49:19Points: 274Comments: 128

I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

2026-09-08 @ 14:13:26Points: 492Comments: 337

DaVinci Resolve 21.1

2026-09-08 @ 13:36:53Points: 422Comments: 189

Maak.el: Lisp machine command runner in Emacs, infinitely extensible and Scheme

2026-09-08 @ 09:28:35Points: 22Comments: 4

Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]

2026-09-08 @ 05:42:28Points: 1832Comments: 756

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/8/on-navier-stokes/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49621697

The Helicopter with Radioactive Blades

2026-09-07 @ 17:44:33Points: 190Comments: 57

The origins of Partner’s computer case

2026-09-07 @ 12:51:57Points: 37Comments: 4

The Microeconomics of Artificial Intelligence (2025)

2026-09-06 @ 21:24:23Points: 67Comments: 39

Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field

2026-09-05 @ 21:14:18Points: 64Comments: 27

Ganon's Mysterious Origins (Revisited)

2026-09-05 @ 20:33:29Points: 38Comments: 19

An Accidental Blackboard

2026-09-05 @ 18:50:25Points: 73Comments: 35

We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

2026-09-05 @ 18:44:40Points: 553Comments: 352

Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-Bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster

2026-09-05 @ 12:32:06Points: 135Comments: 54

Tension wood: A 'muscle' that can both bend and straighten plants

2026-09-03 @ 07:29:40Points: 142Comments: 35

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