Claude Opus 4.7

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Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement over Opus 4.6 with better vision, more tasteful and creative task completion, and improved cybersecurity capabilities. It handles complex tasks with rigor and consistency, and is available today across all Claude products and APIs.

Codex for almost everything

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Codex now operates alongside developers, generating images, remembering preferences, and taking on repeatable work, with deeper support for developer workflows and native web integration. The update includes over 90 new plugins, improved automations, and memory features to enhance productivity and collaboration.

CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models

CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models. It lets you describe parts as code, making models easy to version, share, and parameterize - no GUI required.

A Python Interpreter Written in Python

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The Python interpreter is a virtual machine that executes bytecode, which is an intermediate representation of Python code, by manipulating a stack and jumping to different instructions. The interpreter has a complex structure, including frames, which are collections of information and context for a chunk of code, and a call stack, which stores the frames, and a data stack, which stores the ...

Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code

You're experimenting with Claude Code for hardware development, finding it tricky to express complex designs in plain English but useful with immediate feedback. You've set up a workflow with Claude, oscilloscope, and SPICE simulator for validating circuits, programming, and data analysis.

Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine

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AutoProber is a hardware hacker's flying probe automation stack for safe pin probing. It uses a web dashboard, Python scripts, or the agent itself to control hardware and annotate maps.

First bikebell against noise-canceling headphones

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Car horns get through, but bike bells get blocked. Leading to a rise in cyclist / pedestrian collisions. Precisely tuned to a frequency noise cancellation can’t fully suppress, it ensures cyclists are heard when it matters most. “This project is an expression of our design principles. It’s what we call Simply Clever at Škoda.” Noise-cancelling headphones are designed to remove low, constant ...
Clojure is a Lisp dialect that originated from Rich Hickey's idea and has become a key language in the fintech industry. It features persistent data structures, software transactional memory, and a values-first approach to minimize complexity.

A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter

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Davis Vaughan created an R grammar for the Tree-sitter parsing generator, unlocking improved developer experience for R. This grammar has been used to build various tools, including the {treesitter} R package, which allows parsing and searching R code, and tools like ast-grep and Air for code refactoring and reformatting.

Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent

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Android CLI is a new tool for Android development that simplifies workflows and improves efficiency with AI-assistance. It's part of a suite of tools including Android skills and the Android Knowledge Base for high-quality app development.

ReBot-DevArm: open-source Robotic Arm

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reBot-DevArm is an open-source robotic arm project for learning Embodied AI, offering free tutorials and documentation. It promotes knowledge sharing and enables developers to access cutting-edge robotic arm technologies at minimal cost.

30 Years of HPC: many hardware advances, little adoption of new languages

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The author reflects on 30 years of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and notes that despite significant hardware advancements, HPC programming notations have largely remained the same, with Fortran, C, and C++ still dominating the landscape. The author attributes this stagnation to a lack of investment in HPC software, a focus on hardware over software, and a community mindset that doubts its ...

Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design

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Duke University's GDDI program uses Playdate, a handheld game console, to teach game design fundamentals due to its simplicity and portability. The device's free development kit and simulator allow students to create and test games quickly, fostering an iterative design process.

Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source

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Discourse remains open source despite Cal.com's decision to close their codebase due to AI-powered security threats. The company believes openness makes them more secure and allows for a larger defensive response.

Substrate AI Is Hiring Harness Engineers

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Substrate (www.substrate.cc) is building the world’s first AI native BPO, starting with healthcare RCM. We’re focused on helping healthcare enterprises like physician groups, EMR providers, and BPOs accelerate AR, and get reimbursed quickly and cost effectively. We already touch over 500k healthcare claims each month. We're looking for an exceptional Harness Engineer to help build the ...

A Git helper tool that breaks large merges into parallelizable tasks

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Mergetopus is a tool that helps teams manage large merges by splitting them into smaller tasks. It creates separate branches for each conflict and allows developers to resolve them individually.

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all

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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is a sparse MoE model with 3B active parameters, delivering outstanding agentic coding performance and rivaling larger dense models. It's available as open weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope, and through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API.

Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents

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Cloudflare is launching AI Gateway, a unified inference layer that allows developers to access any AI model from any provider through one API. This simplifies AI development and management, enabling developers to build fast and reliable AI-powered applications.

Human Accelerated Region 1

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HAR1 is a human accelerated region on chromosome 20 involved in neurodevelopment, found in the developing brain and adult cerebellum and forebrain. It is repressed by REST in Huntington's disease, contributing to neurodegeneration.

US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification

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Representative Josh Gottheimer's Parents Decide Act mandates age verification for all US device users, building a national ID layer administered by Apple and Google. This infrastructure erodes the First Amendment's protection of anonymous access to lawful content, shifting users from presumptively anonymous adults to identified subjects.

Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day

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Bluesky experienced intermittent app outages affecting feeds, notifications, and search. No unauthorized access to user data was found, with an update expected by 1PM ET on Friday.

Everything we like is a psyop?

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The music industry and startups use marketing firms to create fake social media trends and manipulate public opinion. This includes paying people to post about products or artists on their accounts to create the illusion of popularity.

The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?

The author is concerned about the impact of large language models on society, citing their potential to displace human workers and exacerbate existing problems. They advocate for slowing down the development of these models to give time for regulation and adaptation.

New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims

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California authorities claim Amazon pressures independent sellers to raise prices on competitors' sites to appear lower-priced. Amazon denies allegations, saying it promotes competition and rewards low prices.

The beginning of scarcity in AI

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Technology companies are facing supply chain limits, causing GPU rental prices to surge and limiting access to AI models. This scarcity is reshaping the industry with new challenges and opportunities for companies to adapt and diversify.

Century-bandwidth antenna reinvented,patented after 18 yrs with decade bandwidth

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The goal of this communication is to point out that 18 years after it was first developed, a century-bandwidth antenna has apparently been reinvented with only a decade bandwidth, and patented

Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs

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Zatanna maps human-only software workflows and exposes them as reliable APIs your AI agents and internal tools can call in production. No browser automation scripts to maintain.

GPT‑Rosalind for life sciences research

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OpenAI introduced GPT-Rosalind, a life sciences model series for research in biology, drug discovery, and translational medicine. It aims to accelerate early stages of discovery by supporting evidence synthesis, hypothesis generation, and experimental planning.

FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why

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Netgear is the first major vendor to receive an exemption from the US government's ban on foreign-made routers. The exemption allows Netgear to sell its Nighthawk and Orbi routers in the US until October 1, 2027.

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7

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The author compares two AI models, Qwen3.6 and Claude Opus 4.7, on a pelican riding a bicycle benchmark. Qwen3.6 produces better results, making it a better choice for specific tasks.