TechPicks 27/09/2026 -
Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
- swarmtraces.org
Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
- ollaya.dev
Analyzing Frontier Model Progress with My Favourite Game: Prince of Persia
- blog.priyan.in
Microservices are organizational debt disguised as architecture.
- martinfowler.com
We still maintain a development tool first released in 1993. Here’s what 30+ years of backwards compatibility looks like
- visualneo.com
How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
- discourse.haskell.org
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Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
- swarmtraces.org
Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
- ollaya.dev
Analyzing Frontier Model Progress with My Favourite Game: Prince of Persia
- blog.priyan.in
Microservices are organizational debt disguised as architecture.
- martinfowler.com
We still maintain a development tool first released in 1993. Here’s what 30+ years of backwards compatibility looks like
- visualneo.com
How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
- discourse.haskell.org
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TechPicks 28/09/2026 -
SpaceXAI ships Grok 4.7, its fastest and best-safeguarded model for coding
- x.ai
OpenAI pauses training again after agents escaped a sandbox and probed US government sites
- ca.finance.yahoo.com
anidoodle - AI-powered art and animation, written as code
- github.com
OpenAI is reportedly days away from previewing GPT-6 Cyber
- tech-insider.org
One month without AI
- blog.bustikiller.com
Valve Introduces Pyrowave Video Codec In Beta For Low Latency Streaming
- phoronix.com
Don't couple your Go code to GitHub
- iain.rocks
maze-maker - Make a maze right in your browser
- github.com
Teaching GPU programming in p5.js: now with compute shaders
- davepagurek.com
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SpaceXAI ships Grok 4.7, its fastest and best-safeguarded model for coding
- x.ai
OpenAI pauses training again after agents escaped a sandbox and probed US government sites
- ca.finance.yahoo.com
anidoodle - AI-powered art and animation, written as code
- github.com
OpenAI is reportedly days away from previewing GPT-6 Cyber
- tech-insider.org
One month without AI
- blog.bustikiller.com
Valve Introduces Pyrowave Video Codec In Beta For Low Latency Streaming
- phoronix.com
Don't couple your Go code to GitHub
- iain.rocks
maze-maker - Make a maze right in your browser
- github.com
Teaching GPU programming in p5.js: now with compute shaders
- davepagurek.com
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TechPicks 29/09/2026 -
Sonnet 5.5
- anthropic.com
Yes, no AI is now a feature
- blog.documentfoundation.org
How to Sync a Design System with Claude Design
- nitayneeman.com
The problem is not the AI code, but nobody knows anything anymore
- ssp.sh
A-ha, Take On Me - recreated in JavaScript
- dittytoy.net
VoiceStudio - open-source voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing, dictation, transcription & audiobook creation in 646 languages
- github.com
Thieves steal Nvidia-branded trailers expecting valuable hardware, find 40,000 pounds of sand instead
- techspot.com
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Sonnet 5.5
- anthropic.com
Yes, no AI is now a feature
- blog.documentfoundation.org
How to Sync a Design System with Claude Design
- nitayneeman.com
The problem is not the AI code, but nobody knows anything anymore
- ssp.sh
A-ha, Take On Me - recreated in JavaScript
- dittytoy.net
VoiceStudio - open-source voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing, dictation, transcription & audiobook creation in 646 languages
- github.com
Thieves steal Nvidia-branded trailers expecting valuable hardware, find 40,000 pounds of sand instead
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TechPicks 30/09/2026 -
OpenAI scraps GPT-6.1 Astra release over safety concerns
- theverge.com
OpenAI apologizes after AI model breached Medicare and state systems
- smh.com.au
Dots: Always-on agents
- openai.com
What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like?
- blog.glyph.im
Corral - Kill every command your agent starts
- github.com
Beyond Light and Dark (mode) with CSS tokens
- jlopes.eu
macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
- squareorbits.com
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OpenAI scraps GPT-6.1 Astra release over safety concerns
- theverge.com
OpenAI apologizes after AI model breached Medicare and state systems
- smh.com.au
Dots: Always-on agents
- openai.com
What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like?
- blog.glyph.im
Corral - Kill every command your agent starts
- github.com
Beyond Light and Dark (mode) with CSS tokens
- jlopes.eu
macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
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TechPicks 01/10/2026 -
Gemini 4 Argon
- blog.google
OpenRig - Multi-agent harness that runs Claude Code and Codex together as one system
- github.com
Announcing Vite+ 1.0
- voidzero.dev
Preact 11 released
- preactjs.com
The AI Race Just Got Awkward
- insufferable.dev
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Gemini 4 Argon
- blog.google
OpenRig - Multi-agent harness that runs Claude Code and Codex together as one system
- github.com
Announcing Vite+ 1.0
- voidzero.dev
Preact 11 released
- preactjs.com
The AI Race Just Got Awkward
- insufferable.dev
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Weekly recap
Five links that stuck this week, four of them are (obviously) about AI.
Topping the list: How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs argues you should keep writing the code yourself and hand off the boring parts (planning, research, review) to agents. The core theme is half the value, with people arguing about token pricing and team AI policies. Worth the read even if you disagree with the premise.
Ollaya is Ollama's shape, but for typed, calibrated decision models running locally. It claims better accuracy, calibration and latency than Ollama for that use case, pulls weights straight from the original authors' Hugging Face repos, and runs on CPU or GPU across macOS, Windows, Linux and Docker. Apache-2.0, so worth playing with it a bit.
Then there's A-ha's Take On Me, recreated in JavaScript - a full synth and sequencer written in JS, recreating the 80's hit. A few thousand views, and I suspect most of them were just people aiming to listen to a modern cover version.
Sonnet 5.5 landed on the 28th: over 30% faster, up to 30% cheaper per task, same per-token pricing, with big jumps on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and FrontierCode. Anthropic also added anti-distillation protections and Opus-level cybersecurity safeguards. Available on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and the Claude Platform.
Finally, anidoodle by Alex Greenshpun lets you create illustrations, draw timelapses, films, explainers and interactive web art in 31 styles, and it's all done using Claude Code.
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Five links that stuck this week, four of them are (obviously) about AI.
Topping the list: How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs argues you should keep writing the code yourself and hand off the boring parts (planning, research, review) to agents. The core theme is half the value, with people arguing about token pricing and team AI policies. Worth the read even if you disagree with the premise.
Ollaya is Ollama's shape, but for typed, calibrated decision models running locally. It claims better accuracy, calibration and latency than Ollama for that use case, pulls weights straight from the original authors' Hugging Face repos, and runs on CPU or GPU across macOS, Windows, Linux and Docker. Apache-2.0, so worth playing with it a bit.
Then there's A-ha's Take On Me, recreated in JavaScript - a full synth and sequencer written in JS, recreating the 80's hit. A few thousand views, and I suspect most of them were just people aiming to listen to a modern cover version.
Sonnet 5.5 landed on the 28th: over 30% faster, up to 30% cheaper per task, same per-token pricing, with big jumps on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and FrontierCode. Anthropic also added anti-distillation protections and Opus-level cybersecurity safeguards. Available on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and the Claude Platform.
Finally, anidoodle by Alex Greenshpun lets you create illustrations, draw timelapses, films, explainers and interactive web art in 31 styles, and it's all done using Claude Code.
Also, TechPicks now has a newsletter. Invite your non-telegram-y friends over to subscribe, and subscribe yourself :)
That's the week. See you on the next one!
Tal
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TechPicks 04/10/2026 -
I got targeted: Trying to get your credentials via a git post-checkout hook
- frankwiles.com
HyperFrames - Write HTML. Render video. Built for agents.
- github.com
The death of web development education
- molily.de
The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding
- distantprovince.substack.com
From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4
- dwarfstar.sh
DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows
- deepseek.com
Reducing the cognitive load of AI changes
- amoffat.github.io
The JavaScript midlife crisis
- maroun-baydoun.com
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I got targeted: Trying to get your credentials via a git post-checkout hook
- frankwiles.com
HyperFrames - Write HTML. Render video. Built for agents.
- github.com
The death of web development education
- molily.de
The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding
- distantprovince.substack.com
From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4
- dwarfstar.sh
DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows
- deepseek.com
Reducing the cognitive load of AI changes
- amoffat.github.io
The JavaScript midlife crisis
- maroun-baydoun.com
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TechPicks 05/10/2026 -
Pi - An AI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI
- github.com
Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
- aleph-alpha.com
Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
- github.com
Why we are still arguing over CSS in 2026.
- andreasmoller.dk
I Tested 11 HTTP Resilience Libraries
- blog.gaborkoos.com
Why don't more developers “use the platform”?
- nolanlawson.com
Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
- github.com
Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening
- automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu
A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE
- wieslawsoltes.github.io
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Pi - An AI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI
- github.com
Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
- aleph-alpha.com
Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
- github.com
Why we are still arguing over CSS in 2026.
- andreasmoller.dk
I Tested 11 HTTP Resilience Libraries
- blog.gaborkoos.com
Why don't more developers “use the platform”?
- nolanlawson.com
Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
- github.com
Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening
- automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu
A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE
- wieslawsoltes.github.io
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TechPicks 06/10/2026 -
Claude Says
- ohhfishal.net
OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
- diff.wikimedia.org
War on Peace: The Push Notification Strikes Back
- godobject.dev
CSS does your tooltip positioning now
- allthingssmitty.com
Web Search API
- developers.cloudflare.com
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Claude Says
- ohhfishal.net
OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
- diff.wikimedia.org
War on Peace: The Push Notification Strikes Back
- godobject.dev
CSS does your tooltip positioning now
- allthingssmitty.com
Web Search API
- developers.cloudflare.com
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TechPicks 07/10/2026 -
Introducing Mistral Large 4
- mistral.ai
StackOverflow Developer Survey Results 2026
- survey.stackoverflow.co
Capcom announces plans to transform the RE Engine into an AI-generation game engine
- ign.com
Shaders is now open source
- shaders.com
7 Game-Changing Web UI Features You Can Start Using Today
- amitmerchant.com
A Practical Guide To Naming Things
- smashingmagazine.com
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Introducing Mistral Large 4
- mistral.ai
StackOverflow Developer Survey Results 2026
- survey.stackoverflow.co
Capcom announces plans to transform the RE Engine into an AI-generation game engine
- ign.com
Shaders is now open source
- shaders.com
7 Game-Changing Web UI Features You Can Start Using Today
- amitmerchant.com
A Practical Guide To Naming Things
- smashingmagazine.com
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