TechPicks 17/08/2026

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
https://w4g1.dev/blog/models-are-getting-dumber-on-purpose

The AI Credit Resale Economy
https://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokers

A faster way to calculate the day of the week
https://www.benjoffe.com/fast-day-of-week

Protecting the Rust standard library from accidental breakage
https://predr.ag/blog/protecting-the-rust-stdlib-from-breakage/

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TechPicks 19/08/2026

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read

We Ship Our UI Through a Subtitle System
https://deadworks.net/blog/we-ship-our-ui-through-a-subtitle-system

GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement
https://lalitm.com/post/github-alternatives/

Shading Motion
https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/shading-motion/

The Amazon tax
https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/

How I browse the Web with uBlock (Hard Mode)
https://untrusem.party/blog/how-I-browse-the-web-with-Ublock-Hard-Mode.html

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TechPicks 20/08/2026

HTML Can Do That
https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/

See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS
https://bytebybyte.dev/

Why I still hand write my commit messages
https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/08/17/hand-write-commits/

Oops. I made a syntax highlighter.
https://daverupert.com/2026/08/microlighter/

Extensible Software in the age of LLMs
https://jeremymorrell.dev/blog/extensible-software-in-the-age-of-llms/

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TechPicks 23/08/2026

Tal Koren - Do You Still Need to Know CSS When AI Writes It?
https://talkoren.com/blog/css-when-ai-writes-it/

Music theory for programmers
https://runjs.app/blog/music-theory-for-programmers

Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/22/meta-trial-children-privacy

New MCP Roadmap
https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/mcp-roadmap/

Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code
https://twitter.com/argofowl/status/2091150597374537729

OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It)
https://matduggan.com/otel-isnt-going-well-and-i-made-a-spreadsheet-about-it/

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TechPicks 24/08/2026

How to Design an Animation
https://kciter.so/posts/how-to-design-animation/en/

How an Underrated Refactor Saved 90% Memory Usage
https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-table-v9-memory-performance

Hister - A private, full content search index that you control
https://hister.org/

Wild AI-related reliability incidents are coming
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/08/22/wild-ai-related-reliability-incidents-are-coming/

How To Report A Bug So It Actually Gets Fixed
https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/howtoreportabug/

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TechPicks 26/08/2026

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better Than Nvidia Blackwell
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/openai-jalapeno-better-than-nvidia

Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-performance-and-ai-compute/

New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/

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TechPicks 30/08/2026

RAG Is Simpler Than You Think
https://www.lighthousenewsletter.com/p/rag-is-simpler-than-you-think

I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis
https://pwning.systems/posts/llm-memory-program-analysis/

StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator
https://github.com/stemdeckapp/stemdeck

Reducing Zod's memory footprint by an order of magnitude with memoizing prototypes
https://zod.dev/blog/reducing-memory-footprint

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TechPicks 31/08/2026

The Rise of the Product Engineer
https://talkoren.com/blog/the-rise-of-the-product-engineer/

Prompt Injection in Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2026/breaking-claude-code-opus-5-and-automode/

What GLM-5.3 Flash running on Chinese hardware actually means
https://martinalderson.com/posts/glm-5-3-flash-chinese-hardware/

Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
https://0xcc.io/posts/omarchy-root-creds/

Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex
https://werwolv.net/posts/file_format_reverse_engineering/

Automating immersive reading
https://smoores.dev/post/automating_immersive_reading/

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TechPicks 01/09/2026

Agent memory as a file format
https://calpaterson.com/memoryfields.html

VibeCoded AI-Slop License v1.0
https://gist.github.com/NicolasCARPi/3fd349ed1ed52ae6b835d5364cda4cd6

Please, I beg you, we need to stop using Stored Procedures (from applications)
https://heffree.dev/blog/no-more-sprocs.html

p99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240 million domain names
https://ruurtjan.com/articles/p99-0ms-autocomplete-for-240-million-domain-names

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TechPicks 02/09/2026

Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-1

I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs
https://mvakde.github.io/blog/44-on-arc-1/

Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ad-blocker-on-ios/

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TechPicks 03/09/2026

Check if a file was made with Claude
https://claude.com/check-content

The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
https://louisabraham.github.io/load-bearing/

The Endless Temptation of Claude
https://discardpile.pika.page/posts/the-endless-temptation-of-claude

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-cyber/

Three sites made 215,128 "best software" pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
https://trellner.com/reports/manufactured-sources-behind-ai-recommendations/

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TechPicks 06/09/2026

GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-6-astra

Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-85046

.name Termination
https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/

AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
https://www.sylvainkalache.com/blog/ai-handles-incidents-engineers-lose-touch-with-their-systems

Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
https://engineering.atspotify.com/2026/9/portal-by-spotify-cut-my-claude-code-token-usage-by-90

.gitignore everything by default
https://packagemain.tech/p/gitignore-everything-by-default

The Story of VS Code | Official Documentary
https://youtu.be/kHL3XzjpT5w?si=Sz6sAqYGfUpiEkw9

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TechPicks 07/09/2026

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
https://collusion.wiki/

Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
https://cloudinabottle.org/blog/launch-post

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TechPicks 08/09/2026

Shipping a Web Worker inside an npm package without asking users to touch their bundler config
https://kanunilabs.com/blog/embedding-a-web-worker-in-an-npm-package

LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices
https://www.notebookcheck.net/LG-smart-TVs-caught-logging-audio-with-screen-off-and-snooping-on-local-devices.1391214.0.html

A faster way to convert a timestamp to Hour, Min, Sec
https://www.benjoffe.com/fast-time-of-day

Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes
https://austinhenley.com/blog/python1024.html

Engrim – A universal, local-first SQLite memory engine for AI CLIs
https://github.com/timgordontg/engrim

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TechPicks 09/09/2026

Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses
https://quesma.com/blog/qwen38-27b-quantizations-benchmarked/

A new class action lawsuit questions whether Anthropic broke the law by misleading power users
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/990313/anthropic-class-action-lawsuit-pricing-subscription-plans

Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5
https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-5

LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai/

Switching Password Managers in 2026
https://rmondello.com/2026/09/07/switching-password-managers-2026/

Bitap: my favorite string matching algorithm
https://jo3-l.dev/posts/bitap/

We have a year to fix security everywhere
https://jyn.dev/a-year-to-fix-security/

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TechPicks 10/09/2026

I resigned from Anthropic today
https://twitter.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843#m

GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning
https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/gpt-6-astra-looped-transformers-and

Viral AI assistant Instinct now has its own email address
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/viral-ai-assistant-instinct-now-has-its-own-email-address/

Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills
https://gist.github.com/wsxiaoys/e0286dc6bb624ff5fdf49e7f4c528ba3

Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
https://opusfived.dev/

Shopify acquires Tailwind
https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwind-is-joining-shopify

Compute Polynomials Twice as Fast
https://thomasahle.com/fast-polynomials/

Software for humans
https://clankerfree.org/

How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
https://xlii.space/eng/malicious-software-on-google-ads/

Every Millisecond Counts
https://jordivillar.com/blog/every-millisecond-counts

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