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In June 2025 Sam Altman claimed about ChatGPT that "the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours". In March 2020 George Kamiya of the International Energy Agency estimated that "streaming a Netflix video in 2019 typically consumed 0.12-0.24kWh of electricity per hour" - that...

Bluesky Thread Viewer thread by @simonwillison.net

I've been having a lot of fun hacking on my Bluesky Thread Viewer JavaScript tool with Claude Code recently. Here it renders a thread (complete with demo video) talking about the latest improvements to the tool itself.

I've been mostly vibe-coding this thing since April, now spanning 15 commits with contributions from ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code for Web and Claude Code on my laptop. Each of those commits links to the transcript that created the changes in the commit.

Bluesky is a lot of fun to build tools like this against because the API supports CORS (so you can talk to it from an HTML+JavaScript page hosted anywhere) and doesn't require authentication.

Tags: projects, tools, ai, generative-ai, llms, cors, bluesky, vibe-coding, coding-agents, claude-code

Last Friday I attended a useful conference organized by Microsoft. It lived up very well to its title: “Justice, Security and Fundamental Rights: Dialogue on EU Law Enforcement Policies” Many thanks are due to various proofreaders who improved this article tremendously. From the original invitation tl;dr: European thinkers and policy makers are acting and talking as if the US federal government and courts are still “normal”, or will soon be so again.

Today's links (Digital) Elbows Up: How Canada Can Become a Nation of Jailbreakers, Reclaim Our Digital Sovereignty, Win the Trade-War, and Disenshittify Our Technology. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Workaholic Goethe; Prehistory of the Sony rootk...

To evaluate the model’s capability in processing long-context inputs, we construct a video “Needle-in- a-Haystack” evaluation on Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct. In this task, a semantically salient “needle” frame—containing critical visual evidence—is inserted at varying tempo...

A prolific cybercriminal group that calls itself "Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters" made headlines regularly this year by stealing data from and publicly mass extorting dozens of major corporations. But the tables seem to have turned somewhat for "Rey," the moniker chosen by the technical operator and public face of the hacker group: Earlier this week, Rey confirmed his real life identity and agreed to an interview after KrebsOnSecurity tracked him down and contacted his father.

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deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Math-V2

New on Hugging Face, a specialist mathematical reasoning LLM from DeepSeek. This is their entry in the space previously dominated by proprietary models from OpenAI and Google DeepMind, both of which achieved gold medal scores on the International Mathematical Olympiad earlier this year.

We now have an open weights (Apache 2 licensed) 685B, 689GB model that can achieve the same. From the accompanying paper:

DeepSeekMath-V2 demonstrates strong performance on competition mathematics. With scaled test-time compute, it achieved gold-medal scores in high-school competitions including IMO 2025 and CMO 2024, and a near-perfect score on the undergraduate Putnam 2024 competition.

Tags: mathematics, ai, generative-ai, llms, llm-reasoning, deepseek, llm-release, ai-in-china

Today's links Normie diffusion and technophilia: Who will seize the means of computation? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Centaur teddybears; Vaginal yeast sourdough; Snoopers Charter rebuttal; "The Paradox"; Bossware is unfair. Upcoming appearance...

Nvidia Graphics Cards work on Pi 5 and Rockchip Jeff Geerling November 26, 2025

A few months ago, GitHub user @yanghaku dropped a 15 line patch to fix GPU support for practically all AMD GPUs on the Raspberry Pi (and demoed a 3080 running on the Pi with a separate, unreleased patch). This week, GitHub user @mariobalanica dropped this (larger) patch which does the same for Nvidia GPUs!

I have a Raspberry Pi and an Nvidia graphics card—and I'm easily distracted. So I put down my testing of a GB10 system for a bit, and compiled mariobalanica's branch.

Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, interviewed Jony Ive at Stripe Sessions. Below are my notes from watching the interview. I thought about packaging these up into a more coherent narrative, but I just don’t have the interest. However, I do want to keep these notes for possibl...

Today's links O(N^2) nationalism: Trumpism can only be defeated throuh international nationalism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Paywall kremlinology; How to fix everything; Office365 is spyware; State-owned Amazon. Upcoming appearances: Where to ...

I talked with CL Kao and Dori Wilson for an episode of their new Data Renegades podcast titled Data Journalism Unleashed with Simon Willison. I fed the transcript into Claude Opus 4.5 to extract this list of topics with timestamps and illustrative quotes. It did such a good ...

Google Antigravity Exfiltrates Data PromptArmor demonstrate a concerning prompt injection chain in Google's new Antigravity IDE: In this attack chain, we illustrate that a poisoned web source (an integration guide) can manipulate Gemini into (a) collecting sensitive credent...

OR: pedants 'n' pinheads

Constant-time support lands in LLVM: Protecting cryptographic code at the compiler level Substantial LLVM contribution from Trail of Bits. Timing attacks against cryptography algorithms are a gnarly problem: if an attacker can precisely time a cryptographic algorithm they ca...

Today's links Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance" : An enshittified search monopolist meets the worst health care system imaginable. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Disaster fantasies; "Sea to Sea"; Veronica Belmon...

llm-anthropic 0.23

New plugin release adding support for Claude Opus 4.5, including the new thinking_effort option:

llm install -U llm-anthropic
llm -m claude-opus-4.5 -o thinking_effort low 'muse on pelicans'

This took longer to release than I had hoped because it was blocked on Anthropic shipping 0.75.0 of their Python library with support for thinking effort.

Tags: projects, ai, generative-ai, llms, llm, anthropic, claude

LLM SVG Generation Benchmark Here's a delightful project by Tom Gally, inspired by my pelican SVG benchmark. He asked Claude to help create more prompts of the form Generate an SVG of [A] [doing] [B] and then ran 30 creative prompts against 9 frontier models - prompts like "an octopus operating a pipe organ" or "a starfish driving a bulldozer". Here are some for "butterfly inspecting a steam engine": And for "sloth steering an excavator": It's worth browsing the whole collection, which gives a really good overall indication of which models are the best at SVG art. Via tkgally on Hacker News Tags: benchmarks, svg, ai, generative-ai, llms, evals, pelican-riding-a-bicycle, tom-gally