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.

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.

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 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.
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.

288,493 Requests – How I Spotted an XML-RPC Brute Force from a Weird Cache Ratio

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Cloudflare cache hit ratio on a WordPress site dropped to 0.8% — the real alarm, not CPU or uptime. Root cause: a single Singapore DigitalOcean IP flooding /xmlrpc.php with 288,493 POSTs in 24 hours, using system.multicall to brute-force hundreds of credentials per request. Fix: Cloudflare WAF rule blocking /xmlrpc.php at the edge, plus WP Multitool's Frontend Optimizer disabling xmlrpc ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ReBot-DevArm: open-source Robotic Arm

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📦 Build your own robotic arm · 🧠 Learn robotics · 🏭 Deploy real applications reBot-DevArm (reBot Arm B601 DM and reBot Arm B601 RS) is a robotic arm project dedicated to lowering the barrier to learning Embodied AI. We focus on "True Open Source" — not just the code, we unreservedly open source everything: 🦾 Two versions of the robotic arm:We will provide all open-source files for two ...

The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan

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In Pakistan, a government hospital in Taunsa reused contaminated syringes on multiple children, potentially spreading HIV. The hospital's staff ignored safe injection practices, despite signs showing safe procedures.

"Wretches, Speak Evil of Me": Goethe and Schiller's Xenions (1896 Edition)

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It is never much of a surprise when modern writers engage in petty fights. The insults exchanged between Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner have become cliché; the sub-tweet is almost a literary form of its own. But we expect better from the writers of the past, especially those of the eighteenth century. They were “Great Men”, too busy reintroducing Europe to the splendors of rationalism ...