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Saturday, April 11, 2026
Thursday, April 9, 2026
GitHub Repo Size
GitHub Repo Size is a simple tool that shows repository sizes by accessing GitHub's API. GitHub's UI doesn't display repo sizes, but this information is available through their CORS-friendly API and...
Nasdaq Quietly Changed Its Rules. Now Your 401(k) Pays for SpaceX's IPO.
Three AI giants (SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic) are planning IPOs worth $170-195 billion against a market that only raised $47 billion last year total. Your retirement funds will automatically buy these...
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Anthropic's new Mythos AI model can autonomously find and exploit cybersecurity vulnerabilities at unprecedented scale, potentially breaking the traditional security arms race. While Anthropic has...
Claude Managed Agents Just Automated EVERY Job! AI Agent OS!
Anthropic has launched Claude Managed Agents, a platform that shifts the paradigm from building agents to simply deploying them in production-ready environments. This represents a significant...
asgi-gzip 0.3
asgi-gzip 0.3 fixes a bug where Server-Sent Events (SSE) responses were incorrectly compressed, which broke real-time streaming features. The fix was ported from Starlette after a missed automated...
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Meta's new model is Muse Spark, and meta.ai chat has some interesting tools
Meta announced Muse Spark, their first model release in a year, competing with top-tier AI models while introducing two distinct reasoning modes on meta.ai. The model offers "Instant" and "Thinking"...
DHH’s new way of writing code
DHH, creator of Ruby on Rails, discusses how AI agents are transforming software development from simple autocomplete to autonomous coding workflows. He shares how he went from AI skeptic to "agent...
Quoting Giles Turnbull
This brief piece highlights a key insight about AI adoption patterns. People eagerly use AI to try other professions but resist when AI targets their own work - revealing a fundamental hypocrisy in...
I Analyzed 512,000 Lines of Leaked Code. It Shows What's Coming for Your AI Tools.
Anthropic's leaked code reveals Conway, an unannounced always-on AI agent that represents a shift from model competition to platform lock-in through behavioral memory. This analysis exposes how AI...
Expanding Swift's IDE Support
Swift programming language support is now available across a wider range of popular IDEs including Cursor, VSCodium, AWS's Kiro, and Google's Antigravity through the Open VSX Registry. This expansion...
Claude Mythos Preview Will Change The World! Deepseek V4 Demos, & GLM 5.1! AI NEWS!
Anthropic released Claude Mythos preview, a powerful AI model that can identify and exploit software vulnerabilities better than human experts, prompting the creation of Project Glass Wing - a major...
Sunday, April 5, 2026
Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI
A developer shares their experience building syntaqlite, a comprehensive SQLite development toolkit, revealing how AI excels at implementation but struggles with architectural decisions. The project...
Quoting Chengpeng Mou
OpenAI data reveals significant healthcare-related ChatGPT usage patterns, with millions seeking health insurance information weekly and many users in underserved areas. The data shows ChatGPT is...
Syntaqlite Playground
Simon Willison created a browser-based playground for syntaqlite, a tool that provides advanced SQL validation and formatting capabilities for SQLite queries. The tool was inspired by Lalit Maganti's...
Your Agent Produces at 100x. Your Org Reviews at 3x. That's the Problem.
OpenClaw and AI agents can rapidly build impressive software like CRMs and SaaS replacements, but the real risk is using agents to paper over foundational problems instead of fixing underlying data,...
OpenAI Spud (GPT 6), Claude Conway, GPT Image 2, Cursor 3, Claude Code Ultra, & More! AI NEWS!
This week brought major AI announcements across the industry, including OpenAI's upcoming Spud model (potentially GPT-6), new image generation capabilities, and significant developments from...
scan-for-secrets 0.2
scan-for-secrets 0.2 improves the CLI tool's usability and adds new Python API functions. The key improvement is streaming results as they're found instead of waiting until the end, making it much...
scan-for-secrets 0.1.1
Release: scan-for-secrets 0.1.1 Added documentation of the escaping schemes that are also scanned. Removed unnecessary repr escaping scheme, which was already covered by json.
scan-for-secrets 0.1
Simon Willison released scan-for-secrets 0.1, a Python tool that scans directories for API keys and other secrets to prevent accidental exposure in published logs. The tool can detect secrets even...