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<p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935">Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML</a></strong></p> Thought-provoking piece by Thariq Shihipar (on the Claude Code team at Anthropic) advocating for HTML over Markdown as an output format to request from Claude.</p> <p>The article is crammed with interesting examples (collected on <a href="https://thariqs.github.io/html-effectiveness/">this site</a>) and prompt suggestions like this one:</p> <blockquote> <p><code>Help me review this PR by creating an HTML artifact that describes it. I'm not very familiar with the streaming/backpressure logic so focus on that. Render the actual diff with inline margin annotations, color-code findings by severity and whatever else might be needed to convey the concept well.</code></p> </blockquote> <p>I've been defaulting to asking for most things in Markdown since the GPT-4 days, when the 8,192 token limit meant that Markdown's token-efficiency over HTML was extremely worthwhile.</p> <p>Thariq's piece here has caused me to reconsider that, especially for output. Asking Claude for an explanation in HTML means it can drop in SVG diagrams, interactive widgets, in-page navigation and all sorts of other neat ways of making the information more pleasant to navigate.</p> <p>I wrote about <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/">Useful patterns for building HTML tools</a> last December, but that was focused very much on interactive utilities like the ones on my <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/">tools.simonwillison.net</a> site. I'm excited to start experimenting more with rich HTML explanations in response to ad-hoc prompts.</p> <h4 id="trying-this-out">Trying this out on copy.fail</h4> <p><a href="https://copy.fail/">copy.fail</a> describes a recently discovered Linux security exploit, including a proof of concept distributed as obfuscated Python.</p> <p>I tried having GPT-5.5 create an HTML explanation of the exploit like this:</p> <blockquote> <p><code>curl https://copy.fail/exp | llm -m gpt-5.5 -s 'Explain this code in detail. Reformat it, expand out any confusing bits and go deep into what it does and how it works. Output HTML, neatly styled and using capabilities of HTML and CSS and JavaScript to make the explanation rich and interactive and as clear as possible'</code></p> </blockquote> <p>Here's <a href="https://gisthost.github.io/?ae53e3461ffdbfd0826156aacf025c7e">the resulting HTML page</a>. It's pretty good, though I should have emphasized explaining the exploit over the Python harness around it.</p> <p><img alt="Screenshot of a dark-themed technical document titled &quot;What this Python script does&quot;. Body text: &quot;This is a compact, deliberately obfuscated Linux-specific local privilege-escalation proof-of-concept. Its apparent goal is to tamper with the in-memory image/page cache of /usr/bin/su, then execute su to obtain elevated privileges.&quot; A yellow-bordered callout reads: &quot;Safety note: This explanation is for code understanding, reverse engineering, and defensive analysis. Do not run this on systems you do not own or administer. On a vulnerable kernel, code like this can alter the behavior of a privileged executable.&quot; Left column heading &quot;High-level summary&quot;: &quot;The script opens /usr/bin/su read-only, decompresses an embedded binary payload, and then processes that payload in 4-byte chunks. For each chunk, it performs a carefully arranged sequence involving Linux's kernel crypto socket interface, AF_ALG, pipes, and splice(). The important point is that this is not ordinary file writing. It never calls write() on /usr/bin/su. Instead, it appears to rely on a kernel bug/primitive involving spliced file pages and the crypto API to get controlled bytes placed into the page-cache representation of a privileged executable.&quot; Numbered steps follow: &quot;1. Open target executable — /usr/bin/su is opened read-only. 2. Decode hidden payload — A zlib-compressed hex blob is decompressed into bytes. 3. Patch in 4-byte chunks — The helper function is called repeatedly with offsets 0, 4, 8, ...&quot;. Right column heading &quot;Why it looks strange&quot; contains a table with Pattern and Purpose columns: &quot;import os as g — Short aliasing to make the script compact and harder to read. socket(38, 5, 0) — Uses raw numeric Linux constants instead of readable names. Compressed hex blob — Hides binary payload bytes and keeps the script small. splice() — Moves file-backed pages through pipes without normal user-space copying. try: recv(...) except: 0 — Triggers the kernel operation and ignores expected errors.&quot;" src="https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/python-script-explainer.jpg" /> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/html">html</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/security">security</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/markdown">markdown</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/prompt-engineering">prompt-engineering</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai">generative-ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms">llms</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llm">llm</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/claude-code">claude-code</a></p>

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Jeffrey Epstein's death in August 2019, while he was in jail awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, remains the subject of raging controversy. Department of Justice Jeffrey Epstein's brother doesn't believe a newly released "suicide note" is legitimate. He says a "Little Rascals" show reference in the note was likely copied from Epstein files emails. The note predates the release of the Epstein files, according to the judge who unsealed it. When Jeffrey Epstein's brother saw the purported suicide note left by the now-dead financier, he didn't believe it was real. Mark Epstein, who has long maintained that his brother was murdered, told Business Insider the note, which was unsealed by a judge this week, is a forgery. "It wouldn't be hard to get some pro forger to forge a note," Mark Epstein told BI. "That's the easiest fucking thing in the world to do." Jeffrey Epstein left the note in a Manhattan jail cell after a suicide attempt, according to Nicholas Tartaglione, his former cellmate, who claims to have found it. The note surfaced on Wednesday through a convoluted series of events. The note was not written immediately before Epstein's death on August 10, 2019, but during an earlier suicide attempt that July, according to Tartaglione. Tartaglione — a former police officer who kidnapped and killed four people before burying them on his upstate New York property — said Epstein left the note in a book when he was transferred to a different cell following the July 23 suicide attempt, while he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. Tartaglione's lawyers entered the note into his criminal case, where it was sealed in a dispute over his legal representation. US District Judge Kenneth Karas, who presided over the case, unsealed it this week, nearly six years after Tartaglione says he found it. A purported suicide note from Jeffrey Epstein was unsealed this week. US District Court for the Southern District of New York "They investigated me for month — FOUND NOTHING!!!" the note reads. "So 15 year old charges resulted." "It is a treat to be able to choose one's time to say goodbye," it continues. "Watcha want me to do — Bust out cryin!!" Jeffrey Epstein has used variations of the last line — "Watcha want me to do — Bust out cryin!!" — in emails to Mark Epstein and friends that were made public by the Justice Department. It appears to be a reference to the 1931 comedy video "Little Daddy" from the show "Little Rascals." Mark Epstein told Business Insider he does not recall those emails, but he would not be surprised if his brother referenced the show. He compared the show in the 1960s to "SpongeBob SquarePants" in its ubiquity. "Who didn't watch 'The Little Rascals' in the '60s when we were kids?" he said. "I mean, everybody watched that." Mark Epstein said whoever forged the suicide note would have adopted his brother's "voice" from the emails included in the Epstein files "to make it seem real." "It's public knowledge," he said. "It's in the emails. So they stole it from me to make it sound like it was him." According to Kara's unsealing order, the note was originally sealed in May 2021 — well before Epstein's emails with the "Little Rascals" reference became public earlier this year. A timeline included in the Epstein files shows that it passed through the hands of multiple people who tried to authenticate it in 2019 and 2020. Tartaglione also described the note in a podcast interview with the influencer Jessica Reed Kraus last year, also before the release of the Epstein files. The note itself was not included in the Justice Department's Epstein files, nor in a 128-page Justice Department inspector general report that followed four years of investigation into Epstein's death. Epstein's first reported suicide attempt is itself a subject of dispute. He was found in his cell "with a homemade fashioned noose around his neck," according to an internal report from the Bureau of Prisons. Tartaglione's lawyers said it was a suicide attempt. Epstein first told jail officials that Tartaglione tried to kill him, but a week later said he was "extremely tired" the day of the incident and did not remember it well, according to a jail report. The inspector general's report ultimately characterized it as a first suicide attempt that preceded a successful one three weeks later. Mark Epstein said his brother recanted his claim that Tartaglione "roughed him up" because he did not want to be seen as a "snitch." "The reason he changed his tune is because he was afraid of retaliation," Mark Epstein said. "It's one thing to be a pedophile in prison. It's another thing to be a pedophile snitch in prison. That's no fun for anybody." Karas has indicated he would later unseal additional court documents related to the note, which could shed additional light on its authenticity. Mark Epstein remains skeptical. "I don't know if Tartaglione had this note. I doubt that. I doubt he found this," he said. "There was no attempted suicide, so there was no suicide note." He says the most likely explanation of Jeffrey Epstein's death is that another person near his cell, out of view from cameras, killed him, and that the Justice Department is perpetuating a cover-up by not treating the death as a murder investigation. Mark Epstein said that, if his brother chose to kill himself, he wouldn't write a note at all. "If he was going to commit suicide, he doesn't have to explain it to anybody," he said. Read the original article on Business Insider

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Gov. Gavin Newsom is praising the free diaper program as a way to lower costs for families. Galina Zhigalova/Getty Images California will give new parents 400 free diapers before they leave the hospital. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a first-in-the-nation diaper program launching this summer. The state says it's part of a broader push to help ease the cost of early parenting. Some California hospitals are about to hand new parents a new state-sponsored freebie: roughly a month's worth of diapers. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced what he called a first-in-the-nation, statewide program that will give families 400 free diapers before they leave the hospital after giving birth. The program starts this summer. The initiative, called "Golden State Start," will launch at roughly 65 to 75 California hospitals in its first year, the governor's office said. The state said those hospitals account for about a quarter of California births. The first wave of hospitals primarily serves low-income families, though state officials plan to expand the program statewide. Newsom's office did not say how many hospitals will eventually participate. California set aside $7.4 million in its 2025 budget to pay for the program, according to the AP. Newsom's latest budget proposal includes another $12.5 million to keep it funded through June 2027. In a post on X, the governor described the initiative as part of a broader effort to ease the cost burden on California families. HUGE NEWS: California just became the FIRST state in America to provide FREE DIAPERS to all new parents. Launching this summer. Since I became Governor, we have made preschool FREE, school meals FREE, and expanded paid family leave. Stop talking about lowering costs for… pic.twitter.com/2x919TdH24 — Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) May 8, 2026 California partnered with nonprofit Baby2Baby to manufacture the diapers, which hospitals will distribute directly to families. Diapers are a major recurring expense for new parents, with families often spending hundreds or thousands of dollars annually during a child's first years. The CDC recommends changing a newborn's diaper eight to 12 times a day, meaning California's 400-diaper giveaway will likely last families about a month. Newsom said the program is also part of the state's broader push to lower the cost of early parenting. In the press release, he also highlighted recent rollouts for free school meals, free preschool, and extended after-school programs. "California is taking on the cost of raising a family head-on," he said in a statement. Read the original article on Business Insider

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New Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro seems to be trying a new strategy with Donald Trump and his administration. Blanca CRUZ / AFP via Getty Images Disney doesn't want to be in a fight with Donald Trump. So in 2024 and 2025, the entertainment giant appeared to be appeasing him. Now it's pushing back — not loudly, but firmly. Disney's first approach to Trump 2.0: Give Donald Trump what he wants. Now it's trying something different: The opposite. In a filing with the federal government this week, Disney pushed back against its attempt to regulate which guests can appear on "The View," calling those efforts "unprecedented" and a threat to free speech. And while Disney's fight in this case is theoretically with the Federal Communications Commission, not the president of the United States, we should be clear about this: FCC head Brendan Carr was placed in the job by Donald Trump, and acts as if he is an extension of Donald Trump. So when Disney says Carr's agency is out of line, it knows exactly how that critique is going to land in the White House. It's also the second time in weeks that Disney has taken on the White House. Last month, Melania Trump and then Donald Trump called on Disney's ABC to punish Jimmy Kimmel for a joke he'd made about them. The following day, Carr's FCC said it was reviewing Disney's broadcast licenses, years earlier than planned. But Kimmel has stayed on the air, where he continues to tweak the Trumps. To be clear: This isn't a case of Disney, or new CEO Josh D'Amaro, challenging Trump to a duel. But it does seem to be a calculated call by D'Amaro: He's decided to push back, politely but firmly, against Trump's demands. And that's a meaningful change from the message Disney sent in the first part of Trump's second term. In the fall of 2024 — after Trump's reelection but before he'd been inaugurated — Disney settled a defamation suit many experts thought it would easily win, agreeing to a $15 million payout to Trump (via his planned presidential library). And in the fall of 2025, Disney took Kimmel off the air after Carr complained about another Trump joke the host had told. But extensive public outcry over Kimmel's suspension helped then-CEO Bob Iger change his mind, and he reinstated Kimmel after a few days. Now his successor seems to be following in his footsteps — neither man is critiquing Trump in public, but they're also not giving him what he wants. As I've noted before, keeping Kimmel on the air doesn't mean that Disney is immune to pressure from Trump and Carr. And if you wanted to, you could argue that keeping Kimmel on air, but not pushing back out loud against Trump, isn't really pushing back. But this week's filing makes it harder to make that argument. It's narrowly about the FCC's "equal time" clause, and the FCC's attempt to use that clause to regulate whether a daytime talk show can have certain political candidates on air (the issue also flared up a few months ago over on Paramount's CBS and its late-night show hosted by Stephen Colbert). But the language of the filing, which uses phrases like "chill critical protected speech," and "the danger is that the government will simply decide which perspectives to regulate and which to leave undisturbed," makes it clear that Disney isn't just making a narrow technocratic argument with Trump's FCC, but a big, thematic one. The fact that Disney is using Paul Clement, a well-known conservative attorney who worked in the George W Bush White House and has argued dozens of cases in the Supreme Court, is another message: We're willing to fight this for a long time, with heavy-duty firepower. I asked Disney for comment and was directed back to its FCC filing. I haven't heard back from Carr. Again, none of this means that Disney is joining the #Resistance. It would rather not be fighting the federal government. And it definitely doesn't want to alienate the tens of millions of people who voted for Trump, all of whom it wants to watch its shows and movies, and to visit its theme parks and cruise ships. But it does look like Disney is willing to draw some discrete lines in the sand. That's a change worth noting. Read the original article on Business Insider

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