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Claude make Fable 5 permanent
An update from the @claudeai account on Twitter: Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and …
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nascheme/quixote
A certain vintage if Python web nerd might be delighted to learn that the most recent commit to the Quixote web framework was six hours ago. The oldest commit in …
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LLM cliché highlighter
Detect and highlight common clichéd phrases in text that frequently appear in language model outputs. Paste text into the analyzer to identify patterns like "no X, no Y" chains, "sit …
Spot birds not golf
Suggestion for hyperscalers feeling pressure over data center water use: Buy up a few exclusive country clubs, convert the golf courses into public parks, pay for guides and binoculars to …
Firefox in WebAssembly
This is absurdly cool: Puter compiled Firefox to WebAssembly such that the whole browser runs in another browser. Here's my blog, running in Firefox, running in WebAssembly, running in Chrome: …
Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3 this morning, describing it as their “most capable model to date, with 2.8 trillion parameters”. It’s currently available via their website and …
Quoting Thibault Sottiaux
On file deletions. We’ve investigated a handful of reports where GPT-5.6 unexpectedly deleted files. What we have found is that this most commonly occurs when: Full access mode is enabled …
Inkling: Our open-weights model
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab just released their first open-weights model. Inkling is "a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 975B total parameters, 41B active" - an Apache-2.0 licensed multimodal model trained on …
Mermaid to ASCII art (mermaid-ascii)
Convert Mermaid diagram syntax into ASCII and Unicode box-drawing art rendered entirely in your browser using a Go library compiled to WebAssembly. The tool supports flowcharts with labeled edges, subgraphs, …
Quoting Linus Torvalds
I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer. Linux is not one …
Mermaid to Unicode box art (grok-mermaid)
Mermaid to Unicode box art (grok-mermaid)
xai-org/grok-build, now open source
xAI's grok CLI tool faced severe community backlash yesterday when it became apparent that running the command in a directory could upload that entire directory to xAI's Google Cloud buckets. …
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How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets
I've been impressed by the way the Claude web_fetch tool is designed to avoid data exfiltration attacks. Ayush Paul found a hole in that design. To recap: regular Claude chat …
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Quoting GitHub Changeling
Dependabot now waits until a new release has been available on its registry for at least three days before opening a version update pull request. This cooldown is now the …
simonw/pedalican
Clearly I wasn't paying attention when these were first announced back in May, but today I accidentally activated a "pet" in Codex Desktop - a little animated robot, reminiscent of …
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lobste.rs is now running on SQLite
Community site Lobsters has been planning a migration away from MariaDB since August 2018 - originally targeting PostgreSQL, but last year they decided to investigate SQLite instead. This weekend they …
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Quoting Armin Ronacher
The shared language of a software project is not English or Python but it is the common understanding of what its concepts mean, where the boundaries are, which invariants matter, …
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Using uvx in GitHub Actions in a cache-friendly way
I often find myself wanting to run a quick Python tool inside of GitHub Actions using `uvx name-of-tool` - but I don't want that to result in a network request …
DOOMQL
Peter Gostev built this using GPT-5.6 Sol. This is a lot of fun: DOOMQL started with a deliberately unreasonable question: what if SQLite were the game engine, not merely the …
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datasette code-frequency chart on GitHub
Out of curiosity I decided to see if I could find a useful illustration of the impact of coding agents and Opus 4.5 class models on my own output. The …
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Directly Responsible Individuals (DRI)
I went looking for a definition of "Directly Responsible Individuals" and the best I found was in the GitLab handbook. Apparently the term originated at Apple, where it's used to …
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shot-scraper 1.11
A CLI utility for taking screenshots of websites, recording video demos and scraping sites using JavaScript
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Fable gets another bump
One of the consequences of GPT-5.6 Sol being clearly a Fable/Mythos class model is that Anthropic have, once again, bumped the date that Fable stops being available in their Claude …
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Quoting Nilay Patel
The reality is to make augmented reality glasses, you need to put a camera next to your eyes that is continuously recording everything you see and processing that to put …
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Quoting OpenAI
[...] Work on web and mobile runs in the cloud. Work in the desktop app can also use local files and desktop apps with your permission. At launch, cloud Work …
The new GPT-5.6 family: Luna, Terra, Sol
OpenAI’s latest flagship model hit general availability this morning, and comes in three sizes: Luna, Terra, and Sol (from smallest to largest). The new models are priced per 1M input/output …
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Introducing Muse Spark 1.1
Following Muse Spark in April, here's Muse Spark 1.1 - the first Spark model to offer an API. Meta claim significant improvements in agentic tool calling and computer use. There …
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Rewriting Bun in Rust
Jarred Sumner has been promising this blog post (since May 9th) about his Zig to Rust rewrite of Bun for significantly longer than it took him to finish the rewrite. …
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Introducing GPT‑Live
OpenAI finally upgraded the model used by ChatGPT voice mode! I've had preview access for a few weeks in the iPhone app, and the new model is very impressive. It …
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Quoting Kenton Varda
I just declared a moratorium against AI-written change descriptions (e.g. PR and commit messages, also issues/tickets) from my team. AI was writing change descriptions that were worse than useless to …
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sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations
This morning I released sqlite-utils 4.0, the 124th release of that project and the first major version bump since 3.0 in November 2020. In addition to some small but significant …
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tencent/Hy3
New Apache 2.0 licensed model from Tencent in China: Hy3 is a 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 21B active parameters and 3.8B MTP layer parameters, developed by the Tencent Hy …
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sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)
I wrote about the sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 release a couple of weeks ago. Since we only have Claude Fable on our Max subscriptions for a few more days, I decided to …
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Building a World Map with only 500 bytes
Iwo Kadziela (assisted by Codex) figured out a way to generate a credible ASCII world map using 445 bytes of data: The key trick is to use deflate compression, which …
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Better Models: Worse Tools
Armin reports on a weird problem he ran into while hacking on Pi: The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s edit tool with extra, invented fields …
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Open Source AI Gap Map
Current AI is "a global partnership building a public option for AI", founded as a non-profit at the AI Action Summit in Paris in February 2025 and backed by serious …
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Quoting Josh W. Comeau
I just launched my third course, Whimsical Animations, and so far, it’s on track to sell roughly ⅓ as many copies as a typical course launch. It’s a similar story …
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Fable's judgement
One of the most interesting tips I got from the Fireside Chat I hosted with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from the Claude Code team at AIE on Wednesday was …
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June 2026 newsletter
The June edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: Claude …
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Using DSPy to evaluate and improve Datasette Agent's SQL system prompts
Leveraging the DSPy framework, this project evaluates and refines the core production system prompts used by Datasette Agent’s read-only SQL question answerer. The methodology involves a harness where DSPy agents …
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Understand to participate
I saw Geoffrey Litt speak at AIE yesterday, and one framing he used particularly resonated with me: Understand to participate Geoffrey was talking about the challenge of collaborating with coding …
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Quoting Anthropic
We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.
Nano Banana 2 Lite
Also known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image in their API), this is the "fastest and cheapest Gemini image model, engineered for velocity and scale". I used AI studio …
What's new in Claude Sonnet 5
Claude Sonnet 5 came out this morning. I always head straight for the "what's new" developer docs because they tend to have more actionable information than the official announcement post. …
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The AI Compass
This political compass style quiz by bambamramfan is pretty neat - answer 29 questions about AI and AI ethics to see which of the 30 archetypes you best fit. I'm …
Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video
shot-scraper video is a new command introduced in today’s shot-scraper 1.10 release which accepts a storyboard.yml file defining a routine to run against a web application and uses Playwright to …
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shot-scraper 1.10
A CLI utility for taking screenshots of websites, recording video demos and scraping sites using JavaScript
HTML table extractor
Extract tables from pasted content and convert them to multiple formats. Paste HTML, rich text, or plain text containing tables, and the tool automatically detects and displays each table with …
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Count the number of Safari tabs
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'
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, 31B Dense, 35B MoE, and 397B MoE. Built …
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Quoting Jon Udell
Human Agent in the loop I dislike the phrase “human in the loop” because it cedes authority to the machines. Let’s flip the narrative. It’s our loop, we work the …
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Hack Your Summer
I learned about this initiative from DJ Patil this morning: It’s a 4-week, high-velocity production sprint for undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent graduates who want to build something real …
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Quoting Dean W. Ball
This is a bad state of affairs. Consider, in particular, some industry dynamics: Frontier models are trained at an enormous cost, and a significant fraction of that cost is recouped …
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Quoting Timothy B. Lee
This is like saying there's no learning curve to being a manager because your employees will just do whatever you tell them to do.
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What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant
Fernando Irarrázaval ran a challenge on hackmyclaw.com to see if anyone could leak secrets held by his OpenClaw test instance by sending it email. Surprisingly, after 6,000 attempts (and $500 …
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Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM
Spectacular hypothetical incident report by Andrew Nesbitt. Day 2, 16:00 UTC --- Two AI review agents from competing vendors, both attached to a downstream pull request bumping foxhole-lz4, enter a …
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Quoting OpenAI
We're beginning a limited preview of the GPT‑5.6 series: Sol, our flagship model; Terra, a balanced model for everyday work; and Luna, a fast and affordable model. Terra has competitive …
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AI and Liability
Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders on the recent German ruling that Google be held liable for errors introduced in their AI overviews: AI agents are agents of the person or …