Monthly Highlights
181.
Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network (techno-fandom.org)
182.
I designed my own fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave (themaister.net)
183.
Ollama Turbo (ollama.com)
184.
My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup (simonwillison.net)
185.
Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England (news.sky.com)
186.
The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers (simonwillison.net)
187.
Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny (techcrunch.com)
188.
We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application (mitchellh.com)
189.
Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial (trial.medpath.com)
190.
It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean) (news.sparkfun.com)
191.
ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links (tracker.archiveteam.org)
192.
RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession (JapaneseNostalgicCar.com)
193.
Line scan camera image processing for train photography (daniel.lawrence.lu)
194.
Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death (energyvanguard.com)
195.
FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons (github.com)
196.
Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts (petapixel.com)
197.
Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds (science.org)
198.
Windows XP Professional (win32.run)
199.
Debian switches to 64-bit time for everything (theregister.com)
200.
I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer (danielchasehooper.com)
201.
GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models [pdf] (arxiv.org)
202.
Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos (github.com)
203.
Gemma 3 270M re-implemented in pure PyTorch for local tinkering (github.com)
204.
MCP overlooks hard-won lessons from distributed systems (julsimon.medium.com)
205.
95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend (thedailyadda.com)
206.
The Math Is Haunted (overreacted.io)
207.
Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models (anthropic.com)
208.
So you want to parse a PDF? (eliot-jones.com)
209.
Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
210.
4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC (bbc.co.uk)