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06 Oct 2026 edition

118 articles · 20 sources · 4 papers ·

Top topics: Python · JavaScript · AI

Python AI Django

Quoting Victoria Kim

Since the Medicare breach, OpenAI has put in place additional monitoring to allow “immediate intervention” by staff to stop training if the company’s models access the internet in ways they’re not supposed to, Mr. Kwon…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

llm-openai-decisions 0.1a0

Release: llm-openai-decisions 0.1a0 OpenAI released their new Jev-style Decisions API, as previously announced at last week's DevDay. Since I already have an llm-typesafe plugin for talking to Jev, I had GPT-6 Astra…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Rust

Follow-up: tooling to detect failed devirtualization?

I've made a benchmark of the Rust overhead that can be caused by vtable calls. The reality, however, is that Rust can often do a good job of devirtualizing such calls. This benchmark shows an extreme scenario where…

Source: Rust Users Forum amid.ukr
Python AI Django

llm-mistral 0.16

Release: llm-mistral 0.16 Adds support for reasoning models, such as the newly released Mistral Large 4. Tags: llm, mistral, llm-reasoning

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

EmbeddingGemma 2

My comment on EmbeddingGemma 2 — Hacker News. I really appreciate that EmbeddingGemma 2 is under the Apache 2.0 license. For embedding models in particular, I don't think it makes sense to use a closed, proprietary,…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk

Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk Mistral are back in the game. Today they're releasing a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1 trillion parameter, 49 billion active parameter model trained on their own cluster of 3,800…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces

TIL: Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces I saw Parseable in a Show HN today - it's a new observability platform with both an open source (AGPL) Rust implementation (a single ~180MB binary), an…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

Mistral Large 4

My comment on Mistral Large 4 — Hacker News. wren6991: The benchmark is saturated. Frontier models are tested with an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars. OK well I couldn't resist this one: llm -m…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

datasette-atom 0.11a0

Release: datasette-atom 0.11a0 A minor fix for compatibility with the latest Datasette alphas. This meant we could upgrade the datasette.io site to Datasette 1.0a41. Tags: atom, datasette

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

Scrimshaw Jukebox

Tool: Scrimshaw Jukebox I wanted to see if Claude Opus 5.5 could compose music, so I tried this: I want you to write some computer game music for me. First design simple text based format for the music and build an…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Rust

Strategies for dyn trait objects with optional behavior?

I have a trait with optional behavior, and I'm trying to figure out how to use it behind a trait object. trait Trait { fn required_behavior(&self); fn optional_behavior(&self) where Self: Optional; } trait Optional:…

Source: Rust Users Forum rhansen
Rust

Array initialization post declaration

Hello, this is my first forum post. I've been reading through the rust book and trying to work on some basic implementations of linear algebra stuff in rust and came across this code that doesn't compile fn main() { let…

Source: Rust Users Forum beni-f90
Java AI

This Week in Spring - October 6th, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! It's another exciting week in the wonderful community, and this week I'm writing from awesome Antwerp, Belgium, site of the legendary Devoxx Belgium show. I've been coming here for most years since…

Source: Spring Blog joshlong
Python

#499 So many questions??

Topics include PEP 824 brings ?? and ??= to Python for None handling, Python 3.15 Python 3.10, asyncio.shield, and Pyxel: the retro game engine for Python.

Source: Python Bytes Michael Kennedy and Calvin Hendryx-Parker
JavaScript

Scraping App Store and Google Play reviews without an API key

Product teams and indie devs keep asking the same thing: how do I pull reviews for my app (or a competitor's) into a spreadsheet? Both stores have endpoints you can call without any key. Apple App Store Apple still…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed quiethand098

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