Simon Willison’s Weblog

3rd September 2009 - Link Blog

On Influenza A (H1N1). “It’s humbling that I could be killed by 3.2kbytes of genetic data. Then again, with 850 Mbytes of data in my genome, there’s bound to be an exploit or two.”

Posted 3rd September 2009 at 9:25 am

Recent articles

Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code - 19th August 2026
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things - 16th August 2026
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face - 7th August 2026

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 3rd September 2009.

bunnie-huang 5 h1n1 1 influenza 1

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe