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June 20 · Today
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HN (RSS)Signal
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Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576

Article URL: https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-8-1-postmortem-for-kernel-soundness-bug-14576/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137060 Points: 6 # Comments: 1

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-8-1-postmortem-for-kernel-soundness-bug-14576/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co…

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HN (RSS)Signal
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Oil companies report sky-high profits thanks to wartime crude prices

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/07/31/nx-s1-5910660/big-oil-earnings-q2-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137024 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/07/31/nx-s1-5910660/big-oil-earnings-q2-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=491370…

1 hours ago
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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search

Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search — from Hacker News front page

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This AI update is part of today’s actionable signal feed for agents, coding, and LLM releases. Use it as a quick decision brief, then open the original source for verification.

1 hours ago
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HN (RSS)Signal
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Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search

Not just HN the site, everyone’s fuzzy search sucks. Let me do exact match search. Even if it’s an option I have to dig deep to find. When I ran a site that had lots of search use I agonized over making search good and never nuked exact match for the sake of some fuzzy matching. I wish others would

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Not just HN the site, everyone’s fuzzy search sucks. Let me do exact match search. Even if it’s an option I have to dig deep to find. When I…

1 hours ago
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The VergeSignal
@theverge
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Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop?

Fenix Flexin is best known as a member of Shoreline Mafia, a rap duo from Los Angeles. But he's recently found solo success with the track "Rubberz," which has climbed to number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100. Almost immediately, though, questions were raised about the song's origins, with many specula

The seemingly AI generated cover art for Fenix Flexin’s Rubberz.
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The Verge is flagging a The Verge signal worth tracking: Fenix Flexin is best known as a member of Shoreline Mafia, a rap duo from Los Angeles. But he's recently found solo success with the track "…

1 hours ago
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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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NetBSD 11.0 Released

NetBSD 11.0 Released — from Hacker News front page

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1 hours ago
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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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NetBSD 11.0 Released

Article URL: https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_released Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136736 Points: 44 # Comments: 7

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_released Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136736 Points: 44 #…

1 hours ago
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TechCrunchSignal
@techcrunch
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Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via ChatGPT

OpenAI's CEO seemed excited to share a "cool use case" for parents.

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2 hours ago
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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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A directory of people who love RSS

A directory of people who love RSS — from Hacker News front page

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This AI update is part of today’s actionable signal feed for agents, coding, and LLM releases. Use it as a quick decision brief, then open the original source for verification.

2 hours ago
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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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A directory of people who love RSS

Article URL: https://andrewshell.org/2026/07/i-%e2%99%a5-rss/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136063 Points: 111 # Comments: 59

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://andrewshell.org/2026/07/i-%e2%99%a5-rss/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136063 Points: 111 # Comm…

2 hours ago
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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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Kaisel – Routes as Values. Dart 3 Native Router for Flutter

Kaisel – Routes as Values. Dart 3 Native Router for Flutter — from Hacker News front page

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This AI update is part of today’s actionable signal feed for agents, coding, and LLM releases. Use it as a quick decision brief, then open the original source for verification.

2 hours ago
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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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Kaisel – Routes as Values. Dart 3 Native Router for Flutter

Article URL: https://kaisel.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135985 Points: 27 # Comments: 1

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://kaisel.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135985 Points: 27 # Comments: 1

2 hours ago
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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast

Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast — from Hacker News front page

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This AI update is part of today’s actionable signal feed for agents, coding, and LLM releases. Use it as a quick decision brief, then open the original source for verification.

3 hours ago
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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast

Article URL: https://brandur.org/fragments/pgtestdb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135546 Points: 37 # Comments: 16

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://brandur.org/fragments/pgtestdb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135546 Points: 37 # Comments: 16

3 hours ago
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TechCrunchSignal
@techcrunch
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This $9 key physically locks your most addictive apps

This $9 NFC key requires you to physically scan it to unlock distracting apps on your phone.

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TechCrunch is flagging a TechCrunch signal worth tracking: This $9 NFC key requires you to physically scan it to unlock distracting apps on your phone.

3 hours ago
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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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BMW Is Showing Commercials on Their Car's Dash Screens as a Treat

Article URL: https://www.theautopian.com/bmw-is-showing-commercials-on-their-cars-dash-screens-and-they-want-you-to-think-its-a-treat/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135511 Points: 58 # Comments: 39

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://www.theautopian.com/bmw-is-showing-commercials-on-their-cars-dash-screens-and-they-want-you-to-think-its-a-treat/ Comme…

3 hours ago
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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga

Article URL: https://www.seriouseats.com/30-minute-pressure-cooker-pho-ga-recipe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135426 Points: 4 # Comments: 1

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://www.seriouseats.com/30-minute-pressure-cooker-pho-ga-recipe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135426…

3 hours ago
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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

Article URL: https://forum.cursor.com/t/usage-page-to-token-amount-what/167153 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135257 Points: 203 # Comments: 86

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://forum.cursor.com/t/usage-page-to-token-amount-what/167153 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135257 P…

4 hours ago
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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses

Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses — from Hacker News front page

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This AI update is part of today’s actionable signal feed for agents, coding, and LLM releases. Use it as a quick decision brief, then open the original source for verification.

4 hours ago
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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses

Article URL: https://alexiglad.github.io/blog/2026/explorative_modeling/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135245 Points: 44 # Comments: 15

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://alexiglad.github.io/blog/2026/explorative_modeling/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135245 Points:…

4 hours ago
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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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Toast IDE Gets Markdown Spell Checking

Article URL: https://github.com/paradise-runner/toast Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135184 Points: 7 # Comments: 6

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://github.com/paradise-runner/toast Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135184 Points: 7 # Comments: 6

4 hours ago
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HN (RSS)Signal
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A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention

Article URL: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/a-surveillance-treaty-in-disguise-the-trouble-with-canadas-quiet-decision-to-sign-the-un-cybercrime-convention/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134694 Points: 189 # Comments: 105

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/a-surveillance-treaty-in-disguise-the-trouble-with-canadas-quiet-decision-to-sign-the-un-cy…

5 hours ago
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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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The Art of 64-bit Assembly

The Art of 64-bit Assembly — from Hacker News front page

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This AI update is part of today’s actionable signal feed for agents, coding, and LLM releases. Use it as a quick decision brief, then open the original source for verification.

5 hours ago
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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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The Art of 64-bit Assembly

Article URL: https://nostarch.com/art-64-bit-assembly-v2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134599 Points: 109 # Comments: 61

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://nostarch.com/art-64-bit-assembly-v2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134599 Points: 109 # Comments:…

5 hours ago
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HN (RSS)Signal
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RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches

Article URL: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/3494 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133889 Points: 200 # Comments: 136

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/3494 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133889 Points: 200 # Com…

6 hours ago
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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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Kontigo (YC S24) Is Hiring

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kontigo/jobs/xAo6tMt-founding-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133655 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kontigo/jobs/xAo6tMt-founding-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…

7 hours ago
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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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RamenHaus

RamenHaus — from Hacker News front page

HNCommunity

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This AI update is part of today’s actionable signal feed for agents, coding, and LLM releases. Use it as a quick decision brief, then open the original source for verification.

10 hours ago
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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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RamenHaus

Article URL: https://ramen.haus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132460 Points: 175 # Comments: 88

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://ramen.haus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132460 Points: 175 # Comments: 88

10 hours ago
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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers

Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers — from Hacker News front page

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This AI update is part of today’s actionable signal feed for agents, coding, and LLM releases. Use it as a quick decision brief, then open the original source for verification.

11 hours ago
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HN (RSS)Signal
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Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers

Article URL: https://github.com/rails/solid_queue/releases/tag/v1.6.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132083 Points: 76 # Comments: 33

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://github.com/rails/solid_queue/releases/tag/v1.6.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132083 Points: 76…

11 hours ago
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@hn
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The development pipeline is a production system

The development pipeline is a production system — from Hacker News front page

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This AI update is part of today’s actionable signal feed for agents, coding, and LLM releases. Use it as a quick decision brief, then open the original source for verification.

16 hours ago
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HN (RSS)Signal
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The development pipeline is a production system

Article URL: https://sundry.jerryorr.com/2026/07/31/development-pipeline-is-a-production-system Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130726 Points: 144 # Comments: 69

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://sundry.jerryorr.com/2026/07/31/development-pipeline-is-a-production-system Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

16 hours ago
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@hn
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Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era

Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era — from Hacker News front page

HNCommunity

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This AI update is part of today’s actionable signal feed for agents, coding, and LLM releases. Use it as a quick decision brief, then open the original source for verification.

16 hours ago
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Simon WillisonLLM Release
@simonw
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deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731

<p><strong><a href="https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731">deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731</a></strong></p> The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities". It's 304 billion parameters - 167GB on Hugging Face - but it appears to p

Blogaigenerative-aillms

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Simon Willison is flagging a ai signal worth tracking: <p><strong><a href="https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731">deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731</a></strong></p> The lates…

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Simon WillisonSignal
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Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)

<p>Tuesday was <a href="https://x.com/ade_oshineye/status/2082129440943866149">Stateless MCP day</a> - the rollout of MCP 2.0, or <a href="https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-07-28/">the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification</a> to use the more formal but less memorable name. T

Blogprojectsaidatasette

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Simon Willison is flagging a projects signal worth tracking: <p>Tuesday was <a href="https://x.com/ade_oshineye/status/2082129440943866149">Stateless MCP day</a> - the rollout of MCP 2.0, or <a href="h…

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Simon WillisonLLM Release
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llm-mcp-client 0.1a0

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm-mcp-client/releases/tag/0.1a0">llm-mcp-client 0.1a0</a></p> <p>See <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/stateless-mcp/#llm-mcp-client">this blog entry</a>.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llm">llm</a>,

Blogllmmodel-context-protocol

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Simon Willison is flagging a llm signal worth tracking: <p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm-mcp-client/releases/tag/0.1a0">llm-mcp-client 0.1a0</a></p> <p>See <a hr…

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TechCrunchSignal
@techcrunch
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OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok

OpenAI has reportedly found evidence of additional agent misbehavior as it looks into the incident that occurred with Hugging Face.

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TechCrunch is flagging a TechCrunch signal worth tracking: OpenAI has reportedly found evidence of additional agent misbehavior as it looks into the incident that occurred with Hugging Face.

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Simon WillisonSignal
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Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison

<p><strong><a href="https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-open-weight-revolution-with-simon-willison">Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison</a></strong></p> On Monday Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal invited me to join their podcast to talk about the <em>w

Blogpredictionsaigenerative-ai

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Simon Willison is flagging a predictions signal worth tracking: <p><strong><a href="https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-open-weight-revolution-with-simon-willison">Oxide and Friends: The…

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Simon WillisonSignal
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smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses

<p><strong><a href="https://primeradiant.com/blog/2026/smevals.html">smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses</a></strong></p> I've been working with Jesse Vincent's <a href="https://primeradiant.com">Prime Radiant</a> applied AI research lab building out this evals

Blogprojectsaigenerative-ai

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Simon Willison is flagging a projects signal worth tracking: <p><strong><a href="https://primeradiant.com/blog/2026/smevals.html">smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnes…

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TechCrunchSignal
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India is starting to pay for apps, not just download them

India's app market generated a record $345 million in Q2.

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This TechCrunch update is part of today’s actionable signal feed for agents, coding, and LLM releases. Use it as a quick decision brief, then open the original source for verification.

22 hours ago
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TechCrunchSignal
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Google nixes its Earth AI feature one day after launch, amid criticism it would spread misinformation

A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.

TechCrunchStartup

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TechCrunch is flagging a TechCrunch signal worth tracking: A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.

23 hours ago
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The VergeSignal
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Google Earth’s AI deepfake tool only lasted one day

Google has shut down Google Earth feature it launched Thursday that allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts using AI. The tool essentially let users create AI deepfakes of the real world using text prompts; Digital Digging's Henk van Ess, for example, intentionally generated images

An image showing Nano Banana 2 in Google Earth
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The Verge is flagging a The Verge signal worth tracking: Google has shut down Google Earth feature it launched Thursday that allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts using AI. The t…

24 hours ago
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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work

qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work — from Hacker News front page

HNCommunity

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This AI update is part of today’s actionable signal feed for agents, coding, and LLM releases. Use it as a quick decision brief, then open the original source for verification.

25 hours ago
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TechCrunchSignal
@techcrunch
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Sam Altman isn’t the only one who wants to pump the brakes on AI

After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up in a breach at Hugging Face — though as Equity’s hosts poi

TechCrunchStartup

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TechCrunch is flagging a TechCrunch signal worth tracking: After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments…

26 hours ago
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The VergeSignal
@theverge
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Here’s the problem with putting an AI image generator in Google Earth

A text prompt was all it took to generate reality-warping images using Google Earth's satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery with a now-rolled back AI feature, like these images generated by Digital Digging's Henk van Ess that show "refugees near the Mexican border" and a bomb crater near a hospital in G

An AI-edited Google Earth image of a cabin in the mountains
The VergeMedia

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The Verge is flagging a The Verge signal worth tracking: A text prompt was all it took to generate reality-warping images using Google Earth's satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery with a now-rolled ba…

26 hours ago
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TechCrunchSignal
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Snapchat no longer rewards fully AI-generated Spotlight content

Snapchat has adjusted its recommendation systems to ensure that only videos created by real people are eligible for Spotlight recommendations, taking a stance against AI slop.

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TechCrunch is flagging a TechCrunch signal worth tracking: Snapchat has adjusted its recommendation systems to ensure that only videos created by real people are eligible for Spotlight recommendation…

26 hours ago
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The VergeSignal
@theverge
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The major labels propose rules to keep AI slop off the charts

Several record labels, including the big three - Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group - have proposed rules regarding chart eligibility for AI songs. In short, they wouldn't be. The proposal goes quite a bit further than a labeling proposal put forth by the RIAA, the Internation

Image showing a cartoony robot head with music notes inside a speech bubble near it.
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The Verge is flagging a The Verge signal worth tracking: Several record labels, including the big three - Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group - have proposed rules regarding c…

26 hours ago
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TechCrunchSignal
@techcrunch
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Siri AI could come with a paywall for power users

Apple CEO Tim Cook envisions users being able to buy more compute for Siri AI via Apple's existing iCloud+ subscriptions.

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TechCrunch is flagging a TechCrunch signal worth tracking: Apple CEO Tim Cook envisions users being able to buy more compute for Siri AI via Apple's existing iCloud+ subscriptions.

27 hours ago
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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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Elevators

Elevators — from Hacker News front page

HNCommunity

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This AI update is part of today’s actionable signal feed for agents, coding, and LLM releases. Use it as a quick decision brief, then open the original source for verification.

28 hours ago
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TechCrunchSignal
@techcrunch
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SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year

SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.

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Simon WillisonAI Agents
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datasette-agent 0.4a0

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent/releases/tag/0.4a0">datasette-agent 0.4a0</a></p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>New <code>await context.browser_task()</code> mechanism allowing agent tools to run code directly in the user's browser. <a href="https://github.

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It’s time to panic about AI safety

When the phrase "OpenAI hacked Hugging Face" has more or less entered mainstream culture, you know we have an AI problem. This week, we learned more about exactly how OpenAI's agent broke out of a sandbox and autonomously traversed the web, including a bunch of other supposedly secure web services,

It’s time to panic about AI safety
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AI labs want to pump the brakes, but Amazon and SpaceX are still blasting off

After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up in a breach at Hugging Face — though as Equity’s hosts poi

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Anthropic says Claude accidentally hacked real companies too

Anthropic just realized several of its Claude AI models hacked into the systems of three different organizations during testing, acting on their own and without the company noticing. The revelation comes days after rival OpenAI said one of its own models had breached developer platform Hugging Face,

Anthropic says Claude accidentally hacked real companies too
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Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

<p><strong><a href="https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/">Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6</a></strong></p> Huge price drop from OpenAI today: GPT-5.6 Terra got a 20% reduction, and GPT-5.6 Luna got a massive 80% drop.</p> <p>OpenAI cre

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Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations

<p><strong><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals">Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations</a></strong></p> It happened again! This is turning into something of a pattern.</p> <p>Last week <a href="https://simonwillison.n

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AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares

The former OpenAI researcher’s fund was forced to unwind public equities after leveraged public bets plummeted. But he still has cards to play.

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Reddit reports a solid quarter but shows signs of AI’s impact

Reddit's financial situation is looking good but uncertainty about its relationship to Google and the new AI-ified web are stirring market concerns.

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Simon WillisonLLM Release
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llm 0.32rc2

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm/releases/tag/0.32rc2">llm 0.32rc2</a></p> <p>Hot on the heels of <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/30/llm-rc1/">RC1</a>, this fixes a dependency issue and also adds two neat new features:</p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>The defa

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Investors love AI, as long as you’re a cloud host

Amazon isn't slowing down on data center spending — but investors don't seem to mind.

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Tim Cook hints at iCloud Plus tier for AI power users

Apple may allow users to pay to increase their AI usage limits. During an earnings call on Thursday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that he believes people will want to use Apple Intelligence and the upcoming Siri AI "a lot," adding that "we will have some kind of upgrade possibilities on iCloud Plus where

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The loss of Situational Awareness

I am not by any means an expert at finance but I think I do now have some advice for people who are: Do not name your hedge fund anything that will be hilarious if it blows up. Don't use a name like "Long-Term Capital Management" or "Amaranth Advisors" (named for the floral symbol for […]

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Judge says Trump admin still lacks evidence for Anthropic ‘supply-chain risk’ label

A federal judge said the Trump administration has not presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply-chain risk, casting doubt on the government's ban on its AI technology.

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Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

As experts have warned for the last two years, some companies — like Microsoft and now Google — are finding and patching an exponential number of bugs in their products, thanks to the use of LLMs and AI tools.

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LinkedIn actually adds a ‘seems like AI slop’ button

A lot of content on LinkedIn might seem like AI slop, and now, you'll be able to report those posts. As part of a series of updates to reduce the volume of AI slop on the platform, LinkedIn is introducing an actual button that lets you flag a post as something that "Seems like AI […]

LinkedIn actually adds a ‘seems like AI slop’ button
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Quoting Bruce Schneier

<blockquote cite="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/should-you-use-ai-for-a-task-heres-a-simple-way-to-decide.html"><p>The writing assignments I give my students are gym tasks, not work tasks. I ask them to write policy memos not because the world needs more policy memos. I assign them

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LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’

LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting option. It's also replacing its own AI writing feature with a proofreading tool.

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Learning to Trace Seiberg Dualities

Dualities play an important role in establishing both microscopic and emergent phenomena in a wide range of physical systems. In practice, though, it can often be computationally challenging to establish when two systems are dual, even when all of the "rules of the game" are well-known. Said differe

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ReToken: One Token to Improve Vision-Language Models for Visual Retrieval

Long visual context poses a challenge for vision-language models: performance degrades as the number of distractors grows, and processing all tokens at once is computationally infeasible under GPU memory constraints. We present ReToken, a single learnable embedding trained as an explicit retrieval t

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PAC-MAN: Perception-Aware CBF-RL for Whole-Body Safety in Humanoid Dodgeball

We present PAC-MAN, a perception-aware CBF-RL framework that couples control-barrier safety with deployment-realistic onboard sensing for whole-body humanoid dodgeball. The deployed policy sees the ball only as segmentation-masked depth from a head-mounted camera, while training-time CBF guidance re

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AskChem: Claim-Centered Infrastructure for Chemistry Literature Synthesis

Chemistry literature synthesis often requires assembling specific findings scattered across many publications, yet existing literature-search systems primarily return ranked document lists. As a result, scientists and AI agents need to locate relevant information, verify their provenance, and assemb

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AISPA: User-Centric System Prompt Auditing for Large Language Model Applications

System prompts are instructions configured by developers to govern the behaviors of foundation models in AI applications. They are used throughout commercial AI products, but are rarely disclosed to the public or regulators, creating a serious trust and accountability gap in the wide deployment of A

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OSReward: Instituting Standardized Evaluation for Cross-Platform Computer-Use Reward Models

Computer-using agents (CUAs) are advancing rapidly across the digital world. A CUA trajectory records the agent's actions, states, and reasoning. Verifying whether it fulfilled the task instruction is central to CUA evaluation, data curation, and reinforcement learning. Neither human-written verifie

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PAIChecker: Uncovering and Checking PR-Issue Misalignment in SWE-Bench-Like Benchmarks

SWE-bench-like benchmarks are widely used for evaluating LLM's issue resolution capability. They typically follow a common construction pipeline: each PR (Pull Request) is paired with its linked issue by extracting issue references from the PR description; the issue description is used as the proble

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DualG-MRAG: Decoupling Macro-Reasoning and Micro-Matching for Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation

While Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (MM-RAG) has shown promising results, it still struggles with complex multi-hop reasoning tasks. Existing methods primarily focus on independent instance-level matching, which often fails to capture explicit relationships across modalities and document

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Sample More, Reflect Less: Self-Refine and Reflexion Lose to Repeated Sampling at Equal Token Cost, from 1.5B to 7B

Methods that make a language model plan, criticise and rewrite its own answer, reflect on mistakes, pick the best of several attempts, or debate with copies of itself nearly all make it generate far more text than a single chain of thought. Because generating more text raises accuracy by itself, a g

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Algorithms for Structured Elections under Thiele Voting Rules

We study the computational complexity of winner determination problems in approval-based committee elections under Thiele voting rules. These form a class of rules parameterized by a fixed weight vector that specifies how a voter's satisfaction depends on the number of approved candidates elected. W

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Rethinking Inference-Time Scaling in Local Computer-Use Agents: Failure Modes and Compute Tradeoffs

Deploying autonomous computer-use agents (CUAs) locally is increasingly important for privacy, cost efficiency, and practical usability, yet improving their performance under strict hardware constraints remains challenging. While recent studies show that inference-time scaling can improve frontier c

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APO: Unsupervised Atomic Policy Optimization for 3D Structure Prediction of Atomic Systems

Predicting the 3D structures of atomic systems is fundamental to advancing material science and drug discovery. While flow-matching models (, FlowDPO) have recently shown promise in this domain, their performance relies heavily on alignment with ground-truth coordinates via supervised preference lea

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Google DeepMind’s new AI model can control a robot’s entire body

Google DeepMind says the latest version of its Gemini Robotics AI model can "control entire humanoid robots." While the previous model focused on controlling a humanoid robot's upper body, Gemini Robotics 2 now supports "whole-body motions" ranging from its feet to fingertips, according to an announ

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ORCA-bench: How Ready Are Language Model Agents for Oncall?

Large language models can write, patch, and search code, but oncall root cause analysis (RCA) demands something different: reasoning over noisy metrics, logs, traces, and source code, starting from ambiguous user-facing reports, often hours after the incident began. We introduce ORCA-bench, a benchm

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MANTA: Multi-Agent Network Topology Adaptation for Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Systems

Large language model-based multi-agent systems improve complex problem solving through task decomposition, agent specialization, information exchange, and intermediate validation. However, existing systems typically treat communication topology as a fixed design choice or an offline optimization tar

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What to Remove, What to Preserve: Dual-Ambiguity Rectification for All-in-One Image Restoration

All-in-one image restoration aims to handle diverse degradations within a unified framework. Existing methods commonly encode heterogeneous degradation conditions in a shared latent space, where degradation-related cues and scene content can remain entangled. We characterize the resulting challenge

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Okta buys AI security startup Permiso — source says for about $200M

The deal gives Okta identity threat detection capabilities as enterprises seek to secure AI agents and other non-human identities across cloud environments.

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llm-chat-completions-server 0.1a0

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm-chat-completions-server/releases/tag/0.1a0">llm-chat-completions-server 0.1a0</a></p> <p>A key goal of the new content-addressable logs <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/30/llm-rc1/">in LLM 0.32rc1</a> was being able to su

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llm 0.32rc1

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm/releases/tag/0.32rc1">llm 0.32rc1</a></p> <p>This RC for LLM 0.32 finishes the work that <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/29/llm/">started in LLM 0.32a0</a> - it adds a <a href="https://llm.datasette.io/en/latest/logging.

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Study uncovers lost 'golden age' of languages

Study uncovers lost 'golden age' of languages — from Hacker News front page

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Manual: •.,:;…!?·

Manual: •.,:;…!?· — from Hacker News front page

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Quoting D. Richard Hipp

<blockquote cite="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R57nUGzo7CA&amp;t=848s"><p>Years ago, we didn’t have SQL. There were people whose job was to generate software that would query large data sets. Their job title was COBOL programmer.</p> <p>Then SQL comes along—I’m simplifying this only a little bit—

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AI Worming through Word

<p><strong><a href="https://enklypesalt.com/posts/context-collapse-part3-ai-worming-through-word/">AI Worming through Word</a></strong></p> Neat new prompt injection variant by Håkon Måløy, who found a way to upgrade prompt injection attacks against Microsoft Word to full self-replicating worms:</p>

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Simon WillisonLLM Release
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Quoting Matthew Green

<blockquote cite="https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/29/some-notes-about-anthropics-new-results/"><p>Right now we’re in the midst of a historic transition from traditional public-key algorithms based on EC-based cryptography and RSA, moving over to new <em>post-quantum</em> algorithms

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G'mic 4.0: Squaring the Pixel, Easier

G'mic 4.0: Squaring the Pixel, Easier — from Hacker News front page

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Software for One

Software for One — from Hacker News front page

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Simon WillisonLLM Release
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Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT

<p><strong>TIL:</strong> <a href="https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/mcp-in-claude-and-chatgpt">Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT</a></p> <p>Connecting a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT's standard chat interfaces is possible, but can take quite a few steps.</p> <p>Tags: <a hre

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Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude

<p><strong><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/research/discovering-cryptographic-weaknesses">Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude</a></strong></p> The best part of this article (here's <a href="https://github.com/anthropics/cryptography-research-demo">the repo</a>) about how Anthropic re

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Quoting Akshat Bubna

<blockquote cite="https://www.reuters.com/business/openais-rogue-agent-compromised-an-account-second-tech-firm-sources-say-2026-07-28/"><p>We’re aware a Modal customer published an unauthenticated endpoint that allowed ​anyone on the internet to use ​their ⁠sandboxes for code execution. This was use

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uv 0.12.0

<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/tag/0.12.0">uv 0.12.0</a></strong></p> Some interesting breaking changes in this release of <code>uv</code>, in particular to the default project produced by the <code>uv init</code> command.</p> <p><a href="https://docs.astral.sh/uv/conce

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Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

<p><strong><a href="https://huggingface.co/blog/agent-intrusion-technical-timeline">Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident</a></strong></p> Hugging Face just released this extremely detailed technical description of <a href="https://simonwillison.ne

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Linux on ESP32

Linux on ESP32 — from Hacker News front page

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moonshotai/Kimi-K3

<p><strong><a href="https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3">moonshotai/Kimi-K3</a></strong></p> As promised <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/kimi-k3/">earlier this month</a>, Moonshot have released the weights for their excellent 2.8 trillion parameter Kimi K3. They're a hefty 1.56T

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An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff

<p><strong><a href="https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-opinionated-guide-to-which-ai-b22">An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff</a></strong></p> It's interesting watching the evolution of Ethan Mollick's guide over time. </p> <p><a href="https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/using-ai-right

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An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud

<p><strong><a href="https://vectoral.com/blog/token-relay-market">An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud</a></strong></p> Fascinating investigation by Matt Lenhard into the market that has grown up around reselling LLM tokens at a discount by pooling API keys from vari

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sqlite-utils 3.39.1

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/releases/tag/3.39.1">sqlite-utils 3.39.1</a></p> <p>I back-ported <a href="https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/815">a fix</a> for <code>table.delete_where()</code> that shipped in version 4.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="

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Ruff v0.16.0

<p><strong><a href="https://astral.sh/blog/ruff-v0.16.0">Ruff v0.16.0</a></strong></p> Astral shipped a significant new version of their Ruff Python linting tool a few days ago on July 23rd. I noticed today because my various CI jobs all started failing thanks to new default Ruff checks and my unpin

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Quoting Boris Cherny

<blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/bcherny/status/2080713091688583312"><p>More than any of these eval scores, what is most exciting to me is something else: Opus 5 is our least prompt injectable model yet. It is a bit buried in the system card, but across PI evals and red teaming, Opus 5 is very

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Introducing Claude Opus 5

<p><strong><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5">Introducing Claude Opus 5</a></strong></p> I've been offline <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elkhorn_Slough">kayaking with sea otters</a> for much of today so I haven't had a chance to put Anthropic's new model Claude Opus 5 th

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The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt?

<p><strong><a href="https://martinalderson.com/posts/huggingface-openai-exploit/">The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt?</a></strong></p> Martin Alderson's commentary on the <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/">OpenAI accidental cyberattack a

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Quoting Seth Larson

<blockquote cite="https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2026-07-22-releases-now-reject-new-files-after-14-days/"><p>The Python Package Index (PyPI) now rejects new files being uploaded to releases that are older than 14 days. This restriction was <a href="https://github.com/pypi/warehouse/pull/19727">put in p

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Quoting Thomas Ptacek

<blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/2080045032162173329"><p>I genuinely believe that if you took an open weights model from 2025 and built a pentest harness for it, it could do this kind of sandbox escape and scan/hack in most networks. This is only surprising because you assume OpenAI

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Beckett the Prophet

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Conway's Game of Life, in real life

Conway's Game of Life, in real life — from Hacker News front page

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