Claude Opus 4.7

1364 meetpateltech 2026-04-16 14:42:57 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 994

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

617 mikeevans 2026-04-16 17:42:57 UTC openai.com Llama Share 348

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.

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

54 scaredpelican 2026-04-16 22:42:57 UTC github.com/gainsec Llama Share 9

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.

A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter

55 sebg 2026-04-16 21:42:57 UTC ropensci.org Llama Share 1

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.

Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links

70 adityaathalye 2026-04-16 19:42:57 UTC clojure.org Llama Share 16

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.

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

83 ingve 2026-04-16 18:42:57 UTC android-developers.googleblog.com Llama Share 24

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.

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

851 cmitsakis 2026-04-16 13:42:57 UTC qwen.ai Llama Share 402

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.

Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding

26 GRVYDEV 2026-04-16 21:42:57 UTC github.com/grvydev Llama Share 5

Marky is a native macOS markdown viewer built with Tauri, React, and markdown-it, offering live reload and Obsidian-style workspaces. It can open .md files from the terminal and supports folders, AI chat, and code blocks.

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

253 simonw 2026-04-16 17:42:57 UTC simonwillison.net Llama Share 58

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.

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

223 nikitoci 2026-04-16 13:42:57 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 56

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.

Join Akkari's Founding Team (YC P26) as an Engineer

0 2026-04-16 21:42:57 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

Akkari is a customer context API for LLMs that unifies customer data from various sources for accurate agent execution. They are hiring a Founding Engineer in SF to shape their product and company with excellent engineering fundamentals and entrepreneurial initiative.

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

38 kmfrk 2026-04-16 22:42:57 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 7

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

468 aphyr 2026-04-16 13:42:57 UTC aphyr.com Llama Share 513

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.

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

65 alexblackwell_ 2026-04-16 15:42:57 UTC zatanna.ai Full Share 60

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

39 babelfish 2026-04-16 19:42:57 UTC openai.com Llama Share 7

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.

Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git

143 jgrahamc 2026-04-16 13:42:57 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 14

Cloudflare introduces Artifacts, a distributed, versioned filesystem built for agents, serving applications with Git-like functionality. Artifacts aims to address the scale and efficiency needs of modern development, with a private beta available for paid Workers plan developers.

Circuit Transformations, Loop Fusion, and Inductive Proof

18 matt_d 2026-04-16 19:42:57 UTC natetyoung.github.io Llama Share 1

Sam presented hardware optimisations to fuse arithmetic operators, and Nate asked if they could be viewed as traditional compiler transformations. By using loop fusion and rewriting the loop body, a compiler can automatically discover carry-save adders, a hardware optimisation that reduces the time to perform addition operations.

Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design

36 Ivoah 2026-04-16 19:42:57 UTC news.play.date Llama Share 15

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.

IBM AP-101 general-purpose computer [pdf]

11 __patchbit__ 2026-04-16 20:42:57 UTC gandalfddi.z19.web.core.windows.net Full Share 3

Python Package Compiler:Package Matlab Programs for Deployment as Python Package

5 teleforce 2026-04-16 22:42:57 UTC mathworks.com Full Share 0

You don't have permission to access "http://www.mathworks.com/help/compiler_sdk/ml_code/pythonpackagecompiler-app.html" on this server.

Show HN: CodeBurn – Analyze Claude Code token usage by task

69 agentseal 2026-04-16 16:42:57 UTC github.com/agentseal Llama Share 14

CodeBurn is an interactive dashboard for AI coding tools, supporting multiple providers and models, with features like session data tracking, one-shot success rate, and customizable currency. It provides a TUI dashboard, CSV/JSON export, and macOS menu bar widget.

The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs

101 devonnull 2026-04-16 20:42:57 UTC joanwestenberg.com Llama Share 82

The author describes a "Passive Income Brain" ideology that led many entrepreneurs to prioritize building systems that generate revenue without ongoing involvement, often resulting in low-quality products and services. This movement produced a culture of affiliate spam, dropshipped junk, and ebooks about passive income.

Show HN: MacMind – A transformer neural network in HyperCard on a 1989 Macintosh

108 hammer32 2026-04-16 13:42:57 UTC github.com/seanfdz Llama Share 31

MacMind is a 1,216-parameter transformer that learns the bit-reversal permutation from random examples using HyperTalk, a scripting language. It demonstrates that backpropagation and attention are math, not magic, and can be run on a 68000 processor from 1987.

Codex Hacked a Samsung TV

198 campuscodi 2026-04-16 11:42:57 UTC blog.calif.io Llama Share 113

Researchers used AI to hack a Samsung TV, partnering with OpenAI, and successfully escalated privileges from a browser shell to root. The AI, Codex, used a physmap primitive to access physical memory and overwrite kernel credentials.

AI cybersecurity is not proof of work

191 surprisetalk 2026-04-16 11:42:57 UTC antirez.com Llama Share 78

Proof of work analogy fails for AI security as bugs are not found through brute force but rather through model intelligence and understanding. Better models and faster access to them will win in AI security, not more computational power.

Cloudflare Email Service

396 jilles 2026-04-16 13:42:57 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 187

Cloudflare Email Service is now in public beta, allowing applications and agents to send emails globally with low latency. It unlocks a full email client and agent pipeline for developers.

European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp

81 aa_is_op 2026-04-16 19:42:57 UTC politico.eu Full Share 48

New AI tech could pose major cybersecurity risks but many European regulators have limited oversight.

Six Characters

84 Airplanepasta 2026-04-16 14:42:57 UTC ajitem.com Llama Share 13

Air India's Passenger Name Record (PNR) is a structured document containing a unique locator and five mandatory elements, used to identify a booking. The PNR is associated with an e-ticket number, which is the primary key and remains stable even when the booking is re-accommodated.

PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations

109 moebrowne 2026-04-16 10:42:57 UTC wiki.php.net Llama Share 29

Two new optimizations for closures are proposed to improve performance by turning non-static closures into static ones and caching stateless closures. This may cause some backward compatibility breaks.

George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

5 doener 2026-04-16 23:18:57 UTC openculture.com Prefix Share 0

We’ve lived but a few years so far into the age when arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence can pro­duce con­vinc­ing sto­ries, songs, essays, poems, nov­els, and even films. For many of us, these recent­ly imple­ment­ed func­tions have already come to feel nec­es­sary in our dai­ly life, but it may sur­prise us to con­sid­er how many peo­ple had long assumed that com­put­ers could already per­form ...