Articles and links that I found interesting.
- *Civil War* (marginalrevolution.com)
- Use an llm to automagically generate meaningful git commit messages (simonwillison.net)
- Proton and Standard Notes are joining forces (proton.me)
- Amir 4.8 Release Notes — the Stable Edition (ashevat.medium.com)
- Schiit Audio’s Newest Tube Amp Costs $150 (audio-head.com)
- AxxSolder 3.0 Now Takes USB Power Delivery (hackaday.com)
- Sci-Fi Author Vernor Vinge, Who First Wrote of the AI Singularity, Dead at 79 (www.wired.com)
- Why are bidets just now getting popular in America? (www.cnn.com)
- Leica SL3 sensor dynamic range test (leicarumors.com)
- You, too, can be the proud parent of Abraham Lincoln’s baby (auren.substack.com)
- The Tokenizer Playground (simonwillison.net)
- Trump Says Some Migrants Are ‘Not People’ and Predicts a ‘Blood Bath’ if He Loses (www.nytimes.com)
- Christo’s “Wrapped Leica” camera to be part of the next Wetzlar auction in October 2024 (leicarumors.com)
- Fearless Engineer Turns 1999 Dodge Viper Into a Rowdy Off-Roader (www.thedrive.com)
- This great HBO crime drama is still overlooked. Here’s why you should watch it now (www.digitaltrends.com)
- Quoting Leopold Aschenbrenner, OpenAI (simonwillison.net)
- Doing This Thing While Talking Is a Sign of Oncoming Dementia, Scientists Find (futurism.com)
- What systems do the people who make your hi-fi use at home? Time to find out (www.whathifi.com)
- Prompt injection and jailbreaking are not the same thing (simonwillison.net)
- Lou Reed’s Widow Resurrected Him as an AI, "Sadly Addicted" to Talking to It (futurism.com)