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.

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.

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.

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.
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.

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.

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

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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

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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.

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

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.

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.

IBM AP-101 general-purpose computer [pdf]

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.

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.

A Tiny Yellow 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.

Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git

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.

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.

Circuit Transformations, Loop Fusion, and Inductive Proof

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.

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

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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.

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

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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

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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.

Six Characters

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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.

Cloudflare Email Service

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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.

AI cybersecurity is not proof of work

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.

U.S. to Create High-Tech Manufacturing Zone in Philippines

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PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations

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.

Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants

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Japan now requires language proficiency for certain foreign nationals applying for the Engineer/Specialist visa. Applicants must show proof of language ability, such as a JLPT N2 certificate or a BJT score of 400 or higher.

European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp

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

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.

RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update

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The Red Sun vulnerability repository. Contribute to Nightmare-Eclipse/RedSun development by creating an account on GitHub.