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Simon Willison

Quoting Terence Tao

I wrote recently about how the collection of good, fruitful open problems is now being mined in a non-renewable fashion, leading to the potential scenario of these problems becoming scarce. [...] We have now seen that even the rumor of ...

Maurycyz

A rant about phishing: It's not the user's fault (and not DNS either)

"For safety, don't click suspicious links" Meanwhile, most organization's login flow redirects through: # This is a real example, but I've changed the names to avoid pointing fingers https://www.[name of company].com/squawk/ https://login.[name of company].com/ https://login.smallcrow.com/324aa78a-03a6-66fc-23e1-4124fdsa213 https://experience.crow-cloud.com/[name of company]/auth https://flock.auth.bird-security.com/authorization https://api-deadbeef.bird-security.com/oauth/v1/authorize?token=DeAdBeEf ...

Simon Willison

Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5

Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5 OpenAI's image generation models are apparently used "more than 3 billion images across ChatGPT Images and the GPT‑Image models in the API". This latest release improves their instruction-following ability across multiple turns, responds faster, and "is ...

Jim Nielsen

The Bulldozing of an Interface

Marcin Wichary has a lovely article titled “Photoshop’s challenges with focus, pt. 2”. If you’re into the minutiae of interface design, this is a good ‘un. It perfectly illustrates how impossible it is to try and compare two interfaces side ...

PythonBytes

#495: Banned

Topics covered in this episode: EuroPython 2026 videos are online The State of Django 2026: Boring is so back htmx 4.0.0 has been released 🐍 Functionally Zen Extras Joke Watch on YouTube Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our ...

Daniel Miessler

The Socrates Agent

A charcoal sketch of four slumped people being fed sheets of paper by a tall purple machine, while across the room one person writes at a wooden desk and a small purple Socrates leans in with open, empty hands/images/the-socrates-agent.webp/images/the-socrates-agent.webp One ...

David Bushell

CodePen: exposed!

I promise this post is not merely a comment on a Hacker News submission because good lord that would be desperate but that is where I’m starting: “They send all typed into editor input to codepen.dev almost immediately (you would ...

David Bushell Notes

Question for Svelte enjoyers! Can you help me? I’m migrating from Svelte 4 to 5. I have an old component with a default slot. This is a reduced example: This was used like so: — whereby doTheThing callback was attached ...

Daniel Miessler

Watch the Plot

Charcoal cutaway of a three-story building: a small purple glass lab on top where researchers admire a humanoid robot, and two much larger sienna floors below crowded with a family at a kitchen table, an old man in a sickbed, ...

Daniel Miessler

Humans Aren't Aligned Either

Charcoal sketch of a man in a long coat holding a carpenter's level against an upright purple machine, while behind him a toppled column smokes and small figures huddle in the rubble/images/humans-arent-aligned-either-header.webp/images/humans-arent-aligned-either-header.webp One of the weirdest t...

Simon Willison

Creepy crawlies

Creepy crawlies Konstantin Ryabitsev discusses how bad the "background radiation" of abusive crawlers has become from the perspective of git.kernel.org, the official Git repository for the Linux kernel: TL;DR: we spend more CPU cycles rendering commits for scrapers than we ...

Simon Willison

Quoting Jakub Pachocki

The strongest argument I see for continuing to train much smarter models quickly is the need to build defensive systems against the dangers posed by other AI. [...] We will need powerful, aligned AI for defense; to secure infrastructure, to ...