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07 Sep 2026 edition

78 articles · 19 sources · 6 papers ·

Top topics: JavaScript · AI · React

Python AI Django

llm 0.35

Release: llm 0.35 New OpenAI model: gpt-6-astra for GPT-6 Astra. Tags: openai, llm, gpt-6-astra

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

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…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

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…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Rust

Configure deny-all lint rule for cargo lints

Recently cargo-lints were stabilized. How do I configure these lints to do the same equivalent of cargo clippy -- -Dwarnings for my CI run? I have checked the lints reference which seems to list all existing lints, and…

Source: Rust Users Forum WorldSEnder
Rust

Is it safe to transmute `Option<MyEnum>` to `u8` and back?

I wonder if the following code is sound: use core::mem::transmute; #[derive(Debug)] #[repr(u8)] enum MyEnum { A, B, C, } const { assert!(size_of::<Option<MyEnum>>() == 1) } let a = Some(MyEnum::B); // SAFETY: ??? let t:…

Source: Rust Users Forum newpavlov
Python AI Django

Video compressor

Tool: Video compressor I recorded a short demo video of my Equal Earth animation on my phone and wanted to publish an optimized version of that video (using FFMPEG) on my blog, so I had Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

Mercator ↔ Equal Earth

Tool: Mercator ↔ Equal Earth I got curious about the Equal Earth map projection that was recently voted on at the UN so I had GPT-6 Astra (medium) in ChatGPT Work build me this animated transition between Mercator and…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Rust

Given an `impl FromIterator`, find item type

I'm trying to wrap an external generic API, which has a FromRepresentation trait implemented for most primitive types[1]. I'd like to add a way for this wrapper to collect items from this API into a collection. My first…

Source: Rust Users Forum Cerber-Ursi
Java

Java Annotated Monthly – September 2026

This month’s Java Annotated Monthly brings you the latest Java news, a generous dose of AI-focused articles, Kotlin updates, and highlights from a variety of technologies and frameworks, plus plenty more worth adding to…

Source: IntelliJ IDEA Blog Irina Mariasova
Java

Nobody Brags About Not Walking

"AI engineers" established a new genre of bragging: how little of the code was written by hand, what percentage the agent generated, how many days since the last manually typed line. The proportion of generated code…

Source: Adam Bien Blog
Rust

Wgpu WriteOnly vs bytemuch vs encase

Ref: rend3-hp/rend3/src/util/scatter_copy.rs at 5480169a3dad0092b8b8da18429358177f3a0470 · John-Nagle/rend3-hp · GitHub I'm trying to update rend3-hp (my fork of abandoned rend3) to wgpu 30, from wgpu 24. There were…

Source: Rust Users Forum John_Nagle
JavaScript

Được index nhưng không được AI trích dẫn: sửa từ đâu

Originally published on NextFuture Bạn mở Search Console, thấy trang vẫn có impression, vị trí vẫn ổn. Nhưng hỏi ChatGPT hay Perplexity đúng câu mà trang đó trả lời, nó trích dẫn ba site khác và không có bạn. Xếp hạng…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed BeanBean
JavaScript

Add a responsive revenue chart with Orchid Charts

I maintain Orchid Charts, a JavaScript library for SVG charts in dashboards and reports. Give it labels and values, and it renders a chart with axes and tooltips that follows its container’s width. CSS variables let you…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Alexandr

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