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One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill A software developer from Denmark is having an outsized influence on a hotly debated law to break open encrypted apps.

www.politico.eu/article/one-...

08.10.2025 22:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Vibe engineering I feel like vibe coding is pretty well established now as covering the fast, loose and irresponsible way of building software with AI—entirely prompt-driven, and with no attention paid to …

simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/v... so true

08.10.2025 15:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Who needs Git when you have 1M context windows? | Hacker News

Read the top comment from news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4546...

Long-context window logs working as file snapshots is a marvelous side effect

07.10.2025 19:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What's the over-under for Democrats pardoning everyone if we do actually win in 2028 🤡

02.10.2025 18:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The High Representative for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy thinking China and Russia weren't part of the Allied Powers in WWII is wild. 🫠

Knowing history is so important... Did she think Japan and Germany won??

14.09.2025 17:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Okay... I didn't appreciate the Browser Company's handling of certain things via Arc, but Dia skills are incredible.

In the right hands, AI is for sure an amazing enabler for education.

27.08.2025 04:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This framing is wild.

22.08.2025 21:12 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How Caltrain’s Electric Trains Changed Everything
How Caltrain’s Electric Trains Changed Everything YouTube video by Everything Trains

Wow, I didn't know the impact was this big youtu.be/J-3_wP-YFI4

12.08.2025 03:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm pretty sure buy-now, pay-later schemes currently generate profit only because consumers only see the no interest rate payments and don't realize they still pay a flat percentage fee.

12.08.2025 00:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fascism encourages you to think it’s a spectator sport and when it’s too late you realize you’re also on the playing field and always have been.

11.08.2025 20:54 👍 647 🔁 179 💬 5 📌 1

I came across a brilliant quote today.

"老天爷赏饭吃的时候,一定要在最短时间内把盘子都舔干净"

Which translates literally to "When God bestows food, it's essential to lick the plate clean in the shortest amount of time"

More figuratively, "when there's an opportunity or winning strategy, maximize the hell out of it."

05.08.2025 18:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Lenovo’s rollable laptop is the coolest computer I’ve used all year Rock and roll

Why scroll when you can roll? Surprisingly, Lenovo actually productionizes the rollable laptop. www.theverge.com/reviews/7174...

03.08.2025 17:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Or maybe not... I was going to find examples to illustrate this case, but since loan words used in Chinese are usually names that would otherwise expand to 3 characters at least, sometimes the delta in line length isn't that drastic.

03.08.2025 06:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One reason East Asian web design is so different is because of the character-based languages that convey dense information per character while standardizing character lengths.

With the advent of Romanized borrowed words, that's no longer the case.

03.08.2025 06:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

More than anything I love when an author writes fanfic to continue their own work's world because they too love the Story.

31.07.2025 02:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ferrero - Bigger Than You Know
Ferrero - Bigger Than You Know YouTube video by Company Man

After hearing that Ferrero was acquiring Kellogg, I was confused. How big was Ferrero?

Turns out, besides Ferrero Rocher, it also owns Nutella, Tic Tacs, and Kinder (of Kinder Eggs fame).

I knew there would be collaboration synergy for this M&A but wow it makes sense.

youtu.be/F6_PDTW4PZs?...

31.07.2025 01:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Initial thoughts:

- Perfect for getting some specific TODOs knocked out (but doesn't find all the TODOs, issues immediately)
- Perfect for updating tests to pass or adding new tests for the current set of changes
- Would love to run this infinitely on an evergreen prompt like "refactor/clean code"

28.07.2025 16:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage Can Does process matter? We are about to find out.

Relatively interesting article about the bitter lesson that frameworked approaches for humans may not be optimal in an AI-first model. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-bitter...

28.07.2025 16:41 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Vibe scraping and vibe coding a schedule app for Open Sauce 2025 entirely on my phone This morning, working entirely on my phone, I scraped a conference website and vibe coded up an alternative UI for interacting with the schedule using a combination of OpenAI Codex …

Okay I mean BRB trying out OpenAI Codex simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/17/...

23.07.2025 05:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
How to run an LLM on your laptop I talked to Grace Huckins for this piece from MIT Technology Review on running local models. Apparently she enjoyed my dystopian backup plan! Simon Willison has a plan for the …

Um isn't this the start of a sci-fi story? simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/18/...

23.07.2025 05:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Subliminal Learning: Language Models Transmit Behavioral Traits via Hidden Signals in Data This new alignment paper from Anthropic wins my prize for best illustrative figure so far this year: The researchers found that fine-tuning a model on data generated by another model …

Wtf simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/...

23.07.2025 05:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Are there AI filters for Bsky feeds so I can specify the topics I'm interested in? 🤔

19.07.2025 07:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Funders commit $1B toward developing AI tools for frontline workers A coalition of philanthropic funders will spend $1 billion over 15 years to help develop artificial intelligence tools to help spur economic mobility.

It's a weird state right now where AI could help correct human biases but could have biases of its own builtin because of how they were created/trained apnews.com/article/arti...

18.07.2025 07:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Google and Windsurf, Stinky Deals, Chesterton’s Fence and the Silicon Valley Ecosystem Windsurf’s founders and IP are going to Google in the latest stinky deal that is downstream of regulator’s recklessly messing the startup ecosystem.

Learning about Chesterton's fence through reading Ben Thompson's analysis of M&A dynamics 🙂‍↕️ morning well-spent stratechery.com/2025/google-...

17.07.2025 17:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They noticed your market demand 👀

16.07.2025 02:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head This is a brief write-up of a trick I learned that helps me write code faster and more accurately. I say "trick", but it's really something I started to do without noticing as I moved further into my ...

A cute post I read recently - essentially how to think and structure code to be more likely to be correct. the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/to-be-a-bett...

15.07.2025 20:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sometimes I forget that everyone I work with is extraordinary and just assume everyone in the world is like them

Reality has a fun way of proving faulty assumptions wrong 😅

15.07.2025 04:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I guess two focuses - "intent expression" and "last mile CUJs"

14.07.2025 19:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

UX and UI will be geared more towards "last-mile" CUJs while products will need to focus on capabilities that can be delivered via agent integrations.

Product as we know it is going to shift wildly in the next ten years.

14.07.2025 19:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

With all the delegation we'll be doing because of AI, I think leadership skills will be drastically higher in future generations 👀

14.07.2025 08:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0