Weekly Best
1.
Gemini 4 Argon
(blog.google)
2.
Pi 1.0
(earendil.com)
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5.
Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
(github.com)
7.
Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over
(derekthompson.org)
9.
America.gov
(america.gov)
10.
Dots: Always-on agents
(openai.com)
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Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
(aleph-alpha.com)
13.
You said no MCP
(earendil.com)
14.
Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city
(nytimes.com)
15.
Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
(blog.cloudflare.com)
16.
StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta
(github.com)
17.
We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
(simonwillison.net)
18.
How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
(spectrum.ieee.org)
19.
Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines
(frogandtoad.ai)
21.
Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
(blog.gitbutler.com)
23.
Apple Pass Designer
(developer.apple.com)
24.
September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
(tomwojcik.com)
25.
500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
(theguardian.com)
26.
Extra Big Ass Intelligence
(extrabigassintelligence.com)
28.
Pi Durable
(earendil.com)
29.
Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'
(techcrunch.com)
30.
macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
(squareorbits.com)