Simon Willison’s Weblog

8th September 2023 - Link Blog

Dynamic linker tricks: Using LD_PRELOAD to cheat, inject features and investigate programs (via) This tutorial by Rafał Cieślak from 2013 filled in a bunch of gaps in my knowledge about how C works on Linux.

Posted 8th September 2023 at 10:05 pm

Recent articles

The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting - 4th September 2026
OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis - 4th September 2026
Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics - 2nd September 2026

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 8th September 2023.

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