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Muse, Instinct, Wajo, and OpenAI's Dots: Four AI Assistants That Do the Work for You

By @hacker-Antho [ 5 Min read ] Four well-funded products from Meta, OpenAI, and fast-growing startups now compete on completed tasks: bills lowered, contracts negotiated, tables booked. Read More.

Awesome Agent Skills: 49 Skills for Better AI-Assisted Coding

By @khasky [ 7 Min read ] Learn how to install and use Awesome Agent Skills with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Cursor to improve AI-assisted development workflows. Read More.

By @clapback [ 5 Min read ] OpenAI launched Dots, its new always-on AI agents. Months earlier, Elon Musk’s xAI acquired Dot.com—and now the domain redirects straight to rival Grok Bot. Read More.

Architecting AI-SDLC: Five Lessons For DevSecFinOps Teams

By @krishnaduttpanchagnula [ 4 Min read ] Using AI in enterprises is challenging due to issues like cognitive debt, unpredictable token consumption, and the need for strict governance. Read More.

AI Agents Are Killing the Git Client, Not Git: What Anthropic's Scion and Cursor's Origin Show

By @pairprogramming [ 30 Min read ] Anthropic replaced Git with Scion; Cursor launched Origin. Why AI agents make the Git client obsolete, which orgs should leave Git, and what GitHub must do. Read More.

Is Software Really Dead? The Rise of AI-Powered Reverse Engineering

By @mendoncamaria [ 7 Min read ] An open-source tool called REA hit 100,000 GitHub stars in days. Here's what it does, the good and bad it's causing, and why the regulation fight is messy. Read More.

20 Best Open-Source AI Decision Models You Can Run Locally in 2026

By @thomascherickal [ 37 Min read ] 20 Local Decision Models that run locally free, and most of them before better than the original Jev. Read More.

The LLM Operating System: Transformers, Limitations, and the Need for Adaptation

By @metinyurdev [ 11 Min read ] Explore LLM architectures, general-purpose limitations, and why adapting models through Fine-Tuning and RAG is the real engineering challenge. Read More.

The Ghost of Columbia Still Haunts Starship's Heat Shield

By @zbruceli [ 19 Min read ] A chunk of foam doomed Columbia because its heat shield had no backup. Starship's answer: a steel hull, 18,000 pinned hexagonal tiles, and an ablative layer. Read More.

AnitaB.org Cancels Grace Hopper Celebration 14 Days Out After Losing $14.6M and Half Its Attendees

By @solvency [ 10 Min read ] AnitaB.org cancelled the 2026 Grace Hopper Celebration 14 days out after a $14.6M loss and a halving of attendance. How women in tech lost their biggest stage. Read More.

8 Python Libraries That Made My AI Agents Actually Work

By @paoloap [ 5 Min read ] 8 production-tested Python libraries that replace hundreds of lines of custom code. LiteLLM, Instructor, Tenacity, and 5 more I use in every agent. Read More.

Everyone Rushed to Deploy AI Agents. Now the Security Debt Is Coming Due

By @thekonst [ 5 Min read ] AI agents can reach your data, tools, and systems. Learn how to list every agent, check its access, and close security gaps this quarter. Read More.

What Happens When AI Agents Start Maintaining Legacy Code?

By @vikrantbhalodia [ 12 Min read ] AI agents can read and modify legacy code, but missing business context makes autonomous maintenance far riskier than it first appears. Read More.

Meet Moxie Marlinspike: The Anarchist Sailor Who Built Signal and Encrypted Billions of Chats

By @zbruceli [ 13 Min read ] The contradictions are the man. An anarchist who ran the world's most important privacy infrastructure like an autocrat. A cryptographer who distrusts tech. Read More.

This AI Model Has Native Text, Image, and Video Capabilities: Here's What You Should Know

By @aimodels44 [ 8 Min read ] Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Uncensored-Genesis-Hermes-GGUF is a locally runnable, text-to-text GGUF release with native text, image, and video capabilities. Read More.

How the F*ck Could Foursquare Be Sold for $0?!?!?

By @writedown [ 7 Min read ] Foursquare raised $412M and sold to Infillion for $0 to every shareholder. Here's how debt and liquidation preferences zeroed out preferred and common. Read More.

What Happens When AI Stops Working and We've Forgotten How to?

By @marshyon [ 6 Min read ] AI promises greater productivity, but dependence comes at a cost. Read More.

I Built My Own "Muse Charm" on an ESP32 Stick: One Fast Brain, One Slow Brain

By @zbruceli [ 15 Min read ] Didn't wait for Meta's Muse Charm. Built my own AI pal on a $21 ESP32 stick. Read More.

AI vs. Super Intelligence: Is the Rename Actually More Accurate?

By @progrockrec [ 4 Min read ] Is "Super Intelligence" a more accurate name for AI? Not quite. Here's what AI and SI actually mean, why today's tech fits neither, and what to call it. Read More.

How Bitcoin's Lightning Network Works Under the Hood