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Simon Willison’s Weblog

1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6

Quoting Craig Mod

Shopify/liquid: Performance: 53% faster parse+render, 61% fewer allocations

Jeff Geerling

Restoring an Xserve G5: When Apple built real servers

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Big tech engineers need big egos

Daring Fireball

Tim Cook: ‘50 Years of Thinking Different’

NYT: ‘Meta Delays Rollout of New AI Model After Performance Concerns’
Sports Programming Accounts for Almost 30 Percent of All Ad-Supported TV Viewing

Claim Chowder: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on the Percentage of Code Being Generated by AI Today

‘Software Bonkers’

‘Grief and the AI Split’

iDiallo.com

It’s Work that taught me how to think

🍵 Maurycy’s Blog

The web in 1000 lines of C

Pluralistic: Three more AI psychoses (12 Mar 2026)

Terence Eden’s Blog

An odd font rendering bug in Firefox and Safari

The Old New Thing

Windows stack limit checking retrospective: MIPS

John D. Cook

Typesetting sheet music with AI

Westenberg.

Everything’s Casino

Andrew Nesbitt

Forge

Dwarkesh Podcast

Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute

Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At

Premium: The Hater’s Guide To The SaaSpocalypse

The Digital Antiquarian

This Week on The Analog Antiquarian

The Silicon Underground

Microsoft’s 1986 IPO

Bert Hubert’s writings

Btw: Software, turnkey, beheerd, as a service

Martin Alderson

How to use the Qwen 3.5 LLMs to OCR documents

Anil Dash

What do coders do after AI?

Open Source Projects - Latest Discoveries

Undetectable Chromium that passes all thirty bot detection tests
Automate your full development stack with three AI models and one CLI
The open-source desktop client for PostgreSQL Redis and ClickHouse
Run untrusted AI agent code in secure WebAssembly sandboxes
Turn any messaging platform into a powerful AI assistant instantly
Run one-bit large language models locally on your own hardware
Train any agent simply by talking
Spec-driven development (SDD) for AI coding assistants
The official Android TV remote for your Home Assistant dashboard

DEV Community

Improving my MVCC Transactional Map
Routing Medical Claims with an Intelligent Agent: Deterministic Logic Meets Structured AI Output
Construindo um Ecossistema de Microserviços: Simulador de Corretora de Valores (My Broker B3)
Before Your AI Agent Trusts Another Agent, Run This Check
How to Build an AI Research Agent That Works While You Sleep (Karpathy’s Autoresearch Method)
I spent 6 months thinking about this problem. Then built the solution in a day.
From Dialogue to Execution: Building an AI Healthcare Agent with GPT-4o-mini and Playwright
The Upgradeable Contract Kill Chain: How Uninitialized Proxies Became DeFi’s $200M+ Recurring Nightmare
How I stopped blindly trusting AI agents in 3 minutes.
Farewell to Spaghetti Code: PSL 5.0 Shatters PHP’s Performance and Security Ceiling
The Missing Role in Crypto: AI Agent Operators
Turning Plans Into Code: My Week 2 Progress on Bloom After

Hacker News: Launches

💬 Launch HN: Captain (YC W26) – Automated RAG for Files
💬 Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas

Hacker News: Best

🔥 Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
🔥 The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” by NSA Under Section 702
🔥 E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May
🔥 Can I run AI locally?
🔥 Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
🔥 TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool
🔥 Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act
🔥 Bucketsquatting is finally dead
🔥 Vite 8.0 Is Out
🔥 “This is not the computer for you”