Claude Opus 4.6

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Claude Opus 4.6 is a significant improvement over its predecessor, offering better coding skills, reliability, and safety. It excels in everyday work tasks, including financial analysis, research, and document creation.

It's 2026, Just Use Postgres

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Stop managing multiple databases. Postgres extensions replace Elasticsearch, Pinecone, Redis, MongoDB, and InfluxDB with BM25, vectors, JSONB, and time-series in one database.

GPT-5.3-Codex

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GPT-5.3-Codex is a new model that advances coding performance, reasoning, and professional knowledge capabilities, enabling long-running tasks and real-time interaction. It sets a new industry high on coding benchmarks and demonstrates strong performance on real-world tasks, making it a general-purpose agent for technical work.

My AI Adoption Journey

The user shares their personal journey of adopting AI tooling, starting with a period of inefficiency, then adequacy, and finally workflow and life-altering discovery, highlighting the importance of using agents with external behavior capabilities. They outline their approach to harnessing AI, including breaking down tasks, verifying agent work, and "harness engineering" to prevent mistakes, ...

We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler

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The user experimented with a new approach called "agent teams" where multiple Claude instances work in parallel on a shared codebase without human intervention, successfully producing a 100,000-line Rust-based C compiler that can build Linux 6.9 on x86, ARM, and RISC-V. The user learned how to design harnesses for long-running autonomous agent teams, including writing tests, structuring work, ...

Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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The DoJ's latest Epstein archive release has several issues, including censored names, corrupted files, and poor OCR results due to the use of Courier New font and low-quality JPEG scans.

Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)

The author reflects on George Orwell's novel 1984, which was published in 1949 and depicted a dystopian future where the government exercises total control over citizens. The author argues that Orwell's vision of a totalitarian society was not as prescient as people think, and that many of the technological and social aspects of the novel are outdated and inaccurate.
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MenuetOS is a 64bit assembly OS with pre-emptive multitasking, GUI, and multiprocessor support. It's written in 64bit assembly for speed and compactness, with a responsive GUI and support for various applications.

Animated Knots

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A disclaimer is provided for rope-related activities, warning of potential hazards and risks to life. It disclaims responsibility for incidents arising from the use of this material.

LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions

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# Fetch all extensions node fetch_extension_names.js # Fetch a subset (useful if rate limited) node fetch_extension_names.js --offset 0 --limit 500 node fetch_extension_names.js -o 500 -l 500 # Show help node fetch_extension_names.js --help

Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions

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Agent teams are experimental and let you coordinate multiple Claude Code instances working together, but have known limitations and use significantly more tokens than a single session.

Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo

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Pro and Max users who started their subscription before February 4, 2026, at 11:59 PM PT, get a $50 credit for extra usage with Claude Opus 4.6. The credit can be claimed from February 5 to 16, 2026, and expires 60 days after claiming.

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

A house in Allendale, California, stood alone after a nuclear disaster, its walls now a glass window to a fantasy world. The house's automated systems continued to function, but ultimately succumbed to a fire that destroyed it.

Launching My Side Project as a Solo Dev: The Walkthrough

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I think this is my first non-Haskell related post on this blog! This time, I want to walk through how I successfully launched Kanjideck on Kickstarter starting from zero, in my spare time. I want to go over the initial side project, how that turned into a more ambitious idea, manufacturing and testing a physical product, setting up a company, spreadsheets, setting up the digital ...

Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]

OpenClaw: When AI Agents Get Full System Access. Security nightmare?

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OpenClaw is an open-source AI assistant that runs on user hardware with full system access, generating hype but also raising security concerns. Users must exercise caution and use a sandbox to isolate the agent from their system to prevent potential security incidents.

What's wrong with bunny hands on dinosaurs? (2018)

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The user discusses the limitations of dinosaur forelimb pronation, citing studies that show no known dinosaur could hold their arms close in with palms facing downward like modern mammals. The user also explores the evolution of pronation in theropods and its relation to arboreality and flight, suggesting that arboreality may have preceded flight in theropod ancestors of birds.

PsiACE/Skills – A small, shared skill library

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This repo includes skills from me and my friends. The content comes from our own practice and selected public sources. Give them a try, read along, and enjoy the craft of building.

Ardour 9.0

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Ardour 9.0 is released with new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements. It includes region FX, clip recording, a touch-sensitive GUI, and more.

Cubans rendered powerless as outages persist and tensions with US escalate

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Cuba faces severe blackouts, soaring prices, and shortages due to US tariffs on oil shipments. Residents like Kenia Montoya struggle to cook and afford basic goods, with some forced to use coal and firewood.

150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation

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If you select that [x] base option you will end up with 450 mb of physical space used and these sets installed. deleting these will bring us to this point below... and the resulting disk space savings are not that important – after all, in todays world of ‘gigabytes’ and ‘terabits,’ the disk size savings may be a little more important than the space saved. but it’s still ok

Maihem (YC W24): hiring senior robotics perception engineer (London, on-site)

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Maihem empowers manufacturers with AI and robotics to innovate and build at scale. The company aims to solve the labor crisis by offloading hazardous and mundane tasks to intelligent machines, creating new jobs and driving prosperity locally.

Jane Street Blog – What if writing tests was a joyful experience?

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The author discusses "expect tests" that make test-writing feel like exploratory programming, with the computer filling in expected results. This style of testing is convenient and encourages implicit assertions, making it easier to catch unexpected issues.

Don't rent the cloud, own instead

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The author describes their company's self-built data center, which provides control and cost savings over cloud computing.

Fela Kuti First African to Get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award

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Fela Kuti, the "father of Afrobeat," received a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys, becoming the first African to do so. The recognition is seen as a step towards fairly acknowledging African musicians and artists, but some feel it has come late.

Company as Code

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The author proposes creating a "Company as Code" system to represent organisational structure, policy, and operations programmatically, making it easier to manage compliance, track changes, and automate processes. This system would use a declarative Domain Specific Language (DSL) to define entities and relationships, connected to real-world data through a storage strategy and integration framework.

Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw

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Nanobot is an ultra-lightweight AI agent with ~4,000 lines of code, offering core functionality 99% smaller than Clawdbot. It provides features like lightning-fast startup, lower resource usage, and support for various channels and tools, including Telegram and WhatsApp.

Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code

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Anthropic's AI model Claude Opus 4.6 found over 500 previously unknown security flaws in open-source libraries with little prompting. This advancement could significantly aid cyber defenders, but also raises concerns about AI-powered attacks.

The New Collabora Office for Desktop

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Collabora Office is a new desktop release offering a powerful office experience on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It's based on LibreOffice and offers long-term support, enterprise features, and customizable solutions.

Advancing finance with Claude Opus 4.6

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Claude Opus 4.6 improves AI for finance by providing accurate information and clear analysis, and it produces polished deliverables. It is now a stronger partner for financial services and corporate finance professionals, offering better research, analysis, and creation capabilities.