August 2026
10 posts: 3 links, 6 quotes, 1 photo
August 1, 2026
I wanted to create a new Slack emoji, and their tool recommends a square that's 128x128 and has a transparent background... so I had Fable build me this simple image editor against those requirements.
— Slack Emoji Maker - Simon Willison
test
August 2, 2026
Open letters about AI development. Good to see some companies not being completely hypocritical on this journey.
August 3, 2026
Developers using Fable seem to often get downgraded because of false positives on cybersecurity or biology questions, but I’ve never seen that on GPT-5.6 Sol until today. Trying to find vulnerabilities in my own code. Fascinating and annoying.
Don't be a meat proxy
Niklas Gruhn coins an excellent new term - meat proxy - for people who blindly copy and paste the output of AI systems to their peers. By all means, prompt AI. But don't just relay the output. Read it, understand it, validate it, and then write a response in your own words (a decent certificate that you've done the prior steps). Making that effort is value you can add.
Via Lobste.rs
— Don't be a meat proxy - Simon Willison
This is perfect!
August 5, 2026
Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2. An update to the muse llms.
August 7, 2026
August 8, 2026
qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work//github comments→
Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF//sf.isopolis comments→
Hacker Public Radio //hackerpublicradio comments→
Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library //github comments→
Harness engineering for self-improvement //lilianweng.github comments→
Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) //sec comments→
Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open //herdr comments→
— Hacker Newsletter #804 - HN Newsletter
Lots of good reading this issue. Also, Herdr is an amazing tool - been using it for quite a while, so it is good to see great things coming to Can.
August 9, 2026
qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work //github comments→
Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF //sf.isopolis comments→
Hacker Public Radio //hackerpublicradio comments→
Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library //github comments→
Harness engineering for self-improvement //lilianweng.github comments→
Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) //sec comments→
Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open //herdr comments→
— Hacker Newsletter #804 - HN Newsletter
This time, with links.
August 10, 2026
Introducing Muse Glimmer
Meta are back in the open weights game! Muse Glimmer is a brand new 30B model under a clean Apache 2.0 license (a step up from the janky Llama licenses of old). They claim to have optimized it for exactly the kind of things I'm looking for in a local model:
End-to-end Agentic Task Completion. Muse Glimmer achieves strong success rates on full-task benchmarks including DeepSearch QA, MCP-Atlas, 𝛕-Bench and SWE-Bench, which measure its ability to work within scaffolds, write and debug code, and resolve multi-turn requests from start to finish. Reliable Tool Use. The model handles a wide range of function calls, invoking tools with precise schemas throughout extended workflows. Multi-Step Reasoning. Muse Glimmer chains reasoning over long horizons, sustaining coherent plans across complex, extended workflows. [...]
— Introducing Muse Glimmer - Simon Willison
Need to try this one.