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Pleopods Weekly #10 — May 8, 2026 Home Archive Pleopods Weekly #10 — May 8, 2026 This Week on Lobste.rs Trending topics: web security release osdev vibecoding 1. Contributor Po

Before we get into this issue, I thought I'd just let you know that Scott has launched a free Mindful Design Toolkit, packed with good stuff for you. Polypane snippets store Polypane is already the be

Either you run the day or the day runs you. //Jim Rohn hackernewsletter Issue #793 // 2026-05-08 // View in your browser #Favorites Earn an Ivy League master’s degree in AI

The second half of the nominees for the Las Culturistas Culture Awards are revealed. Watch on Bravo and Peacock at 9 pm EST on Wednesday, June 17th.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For the last few weeks publicists have bombarded me with emails asking if I’d interview their clients on the Kyle Kingsbury podcast. While my name is Kyle Kingsbury, and I have been a guest on several

Release: llm-gemini 0.31 gemini-3.1-flash-lite is no longer a preview. Here's my write-up of the Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview model back in March. I don't believe this new non-preview mo

Tool: Big Words I'm using my vibe coded macOS presentations tool to put together a talk, and I wanted to add a slide with some text on it. The tool only accepts URLs, so I put together a quick

Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview Fascinating, in-depth details on how Mozilla used their access to the Claude Mythos preview to locate and then fix hundreds of vulnerabil

There weren't a lot of big new announcements from Anthropic at yesterday's Code w/ Claude event, but the biggest by far was the deal they've struck with SpaceX/xAI to use all of the capacity of their

Tool: GitHub Repo Stats One of the things I always look for when evaluating a new GitHub repository is the number of commits it has... but that number isn't visible on GitHub's mobile site lay

I'm at Anthropic's Code w/ Claude event today. Here's my live blog of the morning keynote sessions. Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms, anthropic, claude, claude-code, live-blog

I recently talked with Joseph Ruscio about AI coding tools for Heavybit's High Leverage podcast: Ep. #9, The AI Coding Paradigm Shift with Simon Willison. Here are some of my highlights, including my

Matt and Bowen are joined by Josh and Aaron. Is there more you need to know than that? Josh shows hole. The first time ever to be done at iHeart. Take note! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf

Release: datasette-referrer-policy 0.1 The OpenStreetMap tiles on the Datasette global-power-plants demo weren't displaying correctly. This turned out to be caused by two bugs. The first is th

Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm Andon Labs previously started an AI-run retail store in San Francisco. Now they're running a similar experiment in Stockholm, Sweden, only this time it's a cafe. The

Release: datasette-llm 0.1a7 Mechanism for configuring default options for specific models. Part of Datasette's evolving support mechanism for plugins that use LLMs. It's now possible to c

Release: llm-echo 0.5a0 New -o thinking 1 option to help test against LLM 0.32a0 and higher. This plugin provides a fake model called echo for LLM which doesn't run an LLM at all - it's us

So it’s well known that Y Combinator owns some stake in OpenAI. But how big is that stake? This seems like devilishly difficult information to obtain. I asked around and a little birdie who knows seve

advertisearchivespnpm 11 cuts the npm umbilical cordIssue #484.May 5, 2026.2 Minute read.Today’s issue: Bun slander, Jim Croce’s GitHub, and sending my agents to work in a trap house.Welcome to #484.T

Granite 4.1 3B SVG Pelican Gallery IBM released their Granite 4.1 family of LLMs a few days ago. They're Apache 2.0 licensed and come in 3B, 8B and 30B sizes. Granite 4.1 LLMs: How They’re Built by Gr

[...] Between 2000 and 2024, farmers sold in total a Colorado-sized chunk of land all on their own, 77 times all land on data center property in 2028, and grew more food than ever on what was left. No

I just sent out the April edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. In this month's newsletter: Opus 4.7 and GPT

Research: TRE Python binding — ReDoS robustness demo If it's good enough for antirez to add to Redis I figured Ville Laurikari's TRE regular expression engine was worth exploring in a little m

Tool: Redis Array Playground Salvatore Sanfilippo submitted a PR adding a new data type - arrays - to Redis. The new commands are ARCOUNT, ARDEL, ARDELRANGE, ARGET, ARGETRANGE, ARGREP, ARINFO

This has been bugging me for years: you often run a JVM by a shell script wrapper, then want to jstack it to figure out what it’s doing, but can’t figure out what PID to ask for. Running jps gives rem

Hi all,As we wrote three months ago, we are in the midst of a compute crunch – demand is running ahead of supply and our position has stayed the same: The real risk isn’t that we’ve invested too much

Extended travel a few weeks ago finally gave me a chance to burrow into my podcast backlog. I was on a train listening to this 2025 conversation between legendary Australian journalist Peter Greste an

We used an automatic classifier which judged sycophancy by looking at whether Claude showed a willingness to push back, maintain positions when challenged, give praise proportional to the merit of ide

Hi all,Over the past week, I have been in China with , meeting AI and robotics teams including Zhipu and MiniMax (the two publicly listed foundation model companies), as well as Kimi, Alibaba, Xiaomi,

/elsewhere/sightings/ I have a new camera (a Canon R6 Mark II) so I'm taking a lot more photos of birds. I share my best wildlife photos on iNaturalist, and based on yesterday's successful prototype

Today, it's all about the calls! We talk singin' in the shower, Macy's favorite influencer, Gasoline Girls, forgiving backup singers, Katherine HeFFburn: Piss Aviator, and SO MUCH MORE! Get your newly

Each week, Sam and Alex will hop in their time machine and spend time in the past in hopes of understanding the chaos that is sure to be our future. From pop culture to political news to scientific ma

Tool: iNaturalist Sightings I wanted to see my iNaturalist observations - across two separate accounts - grouped by when they occurred. I'm camping this weekend so I built this entirely on my

Pleopods Weekly #9 — May 1, 2026 Home ArchivePleopods Weekly #9 — May 1, 2026This Week on Lobste.rsTrending topics: rust security vibecoding zig vcs1. Do I belong in tech anymore? vibecodings

Fraude Design Why slop it when you can Fraude it? heerich.js A really nice tool for generating 3D voxel scenes with fantastic documentation and examples. Searching for birds So much good stuff in this

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. //Lily Tomlin hackernewsletter Issue #792 // 2026-05-01 // View in your browser #Favorites Earn an

The first half of the nominees for the Las Culturistas Culture Awards are revealed. Watch on Bravo and Peacock at 9 pm EST on Wednesday, June 17th.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

advertisearchivesZed's not deadIssue #483.May 1, 2026.2 Minute read.Today’s issue: OpenAI goblin mode, email-based data viz crimes, and Chalamet’s npm-themed PR stunt.Welcome to #483.The Main ThingIt’

Codex CLI 0.128.0 adds /goal The latest version of OpenAI's Codex CLI coding agent adds their own version of the Ralph loop: you can now set a /goal and Codex will keep on looping until it evaluates t

Our evaluation of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 cyber capabilities The UK's AI Security Institute previously evaluated Claude Mythos: now they've evaluated GPT-5.5 for finding security vulnerability and found it t

It's a common misconception that we can't tell who is using LLM and who is not. I'm sure we didn't catch 100% of LLM-assisted PRs over the past few months, but the kind of mistakes humans make are fun

We need RSS for sharing abundant vibe-coded apps Matt Webb: I would love an RSS web feed for all those various tools and apps pages, each item with an “Install” button. (But install to where?) The le

Don't call me Gaga... call me Mary! Today we're breaking down the new A24 pop star ghost story/filmed play Mother Mary starring Ann Hathaway, Michaela Coel, FKA twigs, and of course Hunter Schafer as

Zig has one of the most stringent anti-LLM policies of any major open source project: No LLMs for issues. No LLMs for pull requests. No LLMs for comments on the bug tracker, including translation. En

Release: llm 0.32a1 Fixed a bug in 0.32a0 where tool-calling conversations were not correctly reinflated from SQLite. #1426 Tags: llm

I just released LLM 0.32a0, an alpha release of my LLM Python library and CLI tool for accessing LLMs, with some consequential changes that I've been working towards for quite a while. Previous versio

Release: llm 0.32a0 See the annotated release notes. Tags: llm

Well, fishing season is upon us! And you know what that means; it's time for Brandi Carlile on Las Culturistas! But, honestly? Wow. The bonafide superstar and truly great artist joins Matt + Bowen to

Today’s issue: The Pierre boys get Steve Balmer’s attention, the correct pronunciation of “Pracht”, and Daniel Day Lewis learns product engineering.Welcome to #482.The Main ThingThe TypeScript Conclav

Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query. — OpenAI Codex base_instruct

Five months in, I think I've decided that I don't want to vibecode — I want professionally managed software companies to use AI coding assistance to make more/better/cheaper software products that the

What's new in pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns! Richard Si describes an excellent set of upgrades to Python's default pip tool for installing dependencies. This version drops support for

Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 New project from Nick Levine, David Duvenaud, and Alec Radford (of GPT, GPT-2, Whisper fame). talkie-1930-13b-base (53.1 GB) is a 13B languag

microsoft/VibeVoice VibeVoice is Microsoft's Whisper-style audio model for speech-to-text, MIT licensed and with speaker diarization built into the model. Microsoft released it on January 21st, 2026 b

For many years, Microsoft and OpenAI's relationship has included a weird clause saying that, should AGI be achieved, Microsoft's commercial IP rights to OpenAI's technology would be null and void. Tha

Speech translation in Google Meet is now rolling out to mobile devices I just encountered this feature via a try this out now prompt in a Google Meet meeting. It kind-of worked! This is Google's imple

No business plan survives first contact with customers. //Eric Ries hackernewsletter Issue #791 // 2026-04-27 // View in your browser #Favorites Modern financial planning to

One of the more bizarre features of this era is that even people who are doing objectively well by any reasonable measure can’t seem to shake the feeling that they’re falling behind. Financial journal

advertisearchivesSmoking that RspackIssue #481.April 27, 2026.2 Minute read.Today’s issue: Evan You’s Eagle Scout project, async’s broken promises, and an AI agent destroying all of a company’s produc

War on a learning curveWhen, a year ago, I spoke with Ukrainian veteran drone pilot Jack de Santis, he said that soldiers who leave the front for rehabiliation and return after eight or nine months, n

IT'S ROSS'S DAMN BIRTHDAY!!!! Create a new persona in his honor!!!! We talk all about the scary future, Portland perfume bar provocations, the pop star weather patterns, and Proyecto Fin Del Mundo!

@scottjla on Twitter in reply to my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark: I feel like we need to stack these tests now I checked to confirm that the model (ChatGPT Images 2.0) added the WHY ARE YOU L

Since GPT-5.4, we’ve unified Codex and the main model into a single system, so there’s no separate coding line anymore. GPT-5.5 takes this further, with strong gains in agentic coding, computer use, a

GPT-5.5 prompting guide Now that GPT-5.5 is available in the API, OpenAI have released a wealth of useful tips on how best to prompt the new model. Here's a neat trick they recommend for applications

Release: llm 0.31 New GPT-5.5 OpenAI model: llm -m gpt-5.5. #1418 New option to set the text verbosity level for GPT-5+ OpenAI models: -o verbosity low. Values are low, medium, high. New opt

The people do not yearn for automation This written and video essay by Nilay Patel explores why AI is unpopular with the general public even as usage numbers for ChatGPT continue to skyrocket. It’s a

Along Ukraine’s eastern front, a drone stutters mid-flight. On the operator’s screen a few kilometers away, the grainy view of splintered treelines and trenches, fades into static. The control link dr

Zephyr Teachout and Charlotte Tilbury present: Cream Fragrance! This is an audio only version of the YouTube live from Sunday, March 8th. We talk about fragrance, rock climbing, live-in-for-use-twink-