📰 AI Blog Daily Digest — 2026-06-30¶

⚠️ Degraded run. AI scoring failed for every batch — rankings and categories below are placeholder defaults, not AI-judged.

From 92 top tech blogs (curated by Karpathy), AI-selected Top 14

🏆 Must Read¶

🥇 Count the number of Safari tabs

simonwillison.net · 3h ago · 📝 Other

Tiniest TIL, using AppleScript to count the number of open browser tabs in Safari: osascript -e 'tell application "Safari" to count tabs of every window' Tags: safari , til , applescript

🥈 Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding

simonwillison.net · 6h ago · 📝 Other

Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding This is an interesting new open weights (MIT licensed) model, the first model release from DeepReinforce. [...] with variants including 9B Dense, 3

🥉 Daniel Agee: ‘Remembering Om’

daringfireball.net · 21h ago · 📝 Other

Daniel Agee, an early member of the team at Glass, writing on the Glass blog: It’s not lost on us that Om’s photography , often taken in frozen lands in or around the arctic circle, was the polar oppo

📊 Data Overview¶

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Category Distribution¶

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📝 Other¶

1. Count the number of Safari tabs¶

Link — simonwillison.net · 3h ago · ⭐ 15/30

Tiniest TIL, using AppleScript to count the number of open browser tabs in Safari: osascript -e 'tell application "Safari" to count tabs of every window' Tags: safari , til , applescript

2. Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding¶

Link — simonwillison.net · 6h ago · ⭐ 15/30

Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding This is an interesting new open weights (MIT licensed) model, the first model release from DeepReinforce. [...] with variants including 9B Dense, 3

3. Daniel Agee: ‘Remembering Om’¶

Link — daringfireball.net · 21h ago · ⭐ 15/30

Daniel Agee, an early member of the team at Glass, writing on the Glass blog: It’s not lost on us that Om’s photography , often taken in frozen lands in or around the arctic circle, was the polar oppo

4. Matt Mullenweg: ‘All Roads Lead to Om’¶

Link — daringfireball.net · 21h ago · ⭐ 15/30

Matt Mullenweg: Fundamentally, Om was a lover of humanity. He became a fast “regular” everywhere he went. He wouldn’t just buy coffee, he would also learn the name and story of every barista, the dogs

5. The New York Times: ‘Om Malik, Whose Blog Shaped How Silicon Valley Saw Itself, Dies at 59’¶

Link — daringfireball.net · 22h ago · ⭐ 15/30

Clay Risen, writing for The New York Times (gift link): Mr. Malik started his blog just as the dot-com bubble burst, leading to a recession that also took down many of the journalism start-ups that wr

6. I turned my prologue into a short video¶

Link — idiallo.com · 20h ago · ⭐ 15/30

It's hard to write a whole book. So for now at least, I've turned the prologue of my book into a short video. I hope you enjoy it.

7. Pluralistic: Gemini is better than search because Google enshittified search (29 Jun 2026)¶

Link — pluralistic.net · 5h ago · ⭐ 15/30

Today's links Gemini is better than search because Google enshittified search: We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Microsoft anti

8. Off for adventures¶

Link — garymarcus.substack.com · 8h ago · ⭐ 15/30

Leaving you with a couple laughs

9. Who you gonna believe: Grok or the docs?¶

Link — johndcook.com · 10h ago · ⭐ 15/30

The calculator utility bc has a minimal math library. For example, there’s no tangent function because you’re expected take the ratio of sine and cosine. (The Gnu version of bc does have a function fo

10. Unbundling the standard library¶

Link — nesbitt.io · 12h ago · ⭐ 15/30

Batteries no longer included, available separately on aisle four

11. Notes from Bryan Cantrill’s “Intelligence is not Enough”¶

Link — blog.jim-nielsen.com · 1 days ago · ⭐ 15/30

I quite enjoyed this talk from Bryan Cantrill where he discusses the difficult engineering problems they overcame while working on their company Oxide . Some of the problems they ran into were bugs. B

12. What happened to Altavista¶

Link — dfarq.homeip.net · 11h ago · ⭐ 15/30

For as long as I can remember, my home page has been about:blank. But for a good chunk of the 1990s, I would have done well to set it to altavista.digital.com. Here’s what happened to Altavista, the s

13. My favorite keyboards¶

Link — fabiensanglard.net · 1 days ago · ⭐ 15/30

14. Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD¶

Link — oldvcr.blogspot.com · 1 days ago · ⭐ 15/30

Behold: the Guru of GNU ! (Photo by Habib Mhenni, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.) True enlightment only comes from a truly free computing experience, probably! And while there is no nerd who lacks a

Generated on 2026-06-30 | Scanned 87 sources → Found 2573 articles → Selected 14 articles Based on Hacker News Popularity Contest 2025 RSS feeds list, curated by Andrej Karpathy. Created by "Understand AI".