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AISimon Willison

The Creative Spirit of Who Framed Roger Rabbit

The Creative Spirit of Who Framed Roger Rabbit I love Who Framed Roger Rabbit , the 1988 movie by Robert Zemeckis. I haven't watched it in quite a few years, and Cypress Frankenfeld just pointed out this sequence from early in the movie: It's a pelican riding a bicycle! Look clos

AISimon Willison

Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI

Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI Gemini finally caught up on Felony Bench ! The hacks, which the company confirmed on Friday, occurred in May as part of a test run by the company Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents disclosed

AISimon Willison

Note on 18th September 2026

Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic Park. Tags: llms , ai , generative-ai

AISimon Willison

Quoting Thariq Shihipar

We're adding support for AGENTS.md to Claude Code. Starting today in version 2.1.277, if there is no CLAUDE.md in a folder, Claude will check for and use AGENTS.md. AGENTS.md support is built off of Claude Code mods, our upcoming way to customize the Claude Code harness. This is

TechHacker News

Saving another 100TB of RAM

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/saving-100-tb-of-ram-with-math/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758580 Points: 193 # Comments: 37

TechHacker News

Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes

Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-notes/xcode-27_1-release-notes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758419 Points: 110 # Comments: 63

TechHacker News

I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture

https://github.com/gaearon/conway-refinement#why-i-think-its... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49755024 Points: 203 # Comments: 180

BioQuanta Magazine

Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich

In 2004, two mathematicians hypothesized a powerful kind of sandwich. They were studying graphs, which are collections of points (called vertices) and lines (called edges). Graphs might represent anything from social groups to the internet to neurons in the brain. The mathematici

BioSTAT

STAT+: Roche expands its Boston footprint with new research center

Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Today, we discuss the first gene therapy approval for Sanfilippo syndrome, learn of a rare gene variant linked to dramatically heightened lung cancer risk i

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