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tencent/Hy3 New Apache 2.0 licensed model from Tencent in China: Hy3 is a 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 21B active parameters and 3.8B MTP layer parameters, developed by the Tenc

Hi all,Here’s our short Monday roundup of data signals across AI, energy and markets:A GPU wave is ahead of us. More than 95% of the Grace-Blackwell GPUs have not yet been deployed, even though the ch

Old Gay Summer starts now! We take a deep dive into Madonna's big comeback with Confessions II and the horseshoe theory of her vulnerability. We also mourn the Slate Culture Gabfest and start some rum

One thing that’s taken me a long time to properly internalise is that not all disabilities are visible. It sounds so obvious written down like that, but it’s one of those things you still have to freq

Release: sqlite-utils 4.0rc3 I hoped to release sqlite-utils 4.0 stable this weekend, but as I worked through the backlog of issues and PRs with a combination of Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 the

“Always an excellent perspective on emerging systems and their impact across the human landscape.” — Neill K., a paying subscriberSubscribe nowThe latest on AI and jobsOur friends at Ramp and Revelio

I wrote about the sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 release a couple of weeks ago. Since we only have Claude Fable on our Max subscriptions for a few more days, I decided to see if it could help me get to a 4.0 sta

Release: sqlite-utils 4.0rc2 See sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25).

Building a World Map with only 500 bytes Iwo Kadziela (assisted by Codex) figured out a way to generate a credible ASCII world map using 445 bytes of data: The key trick is to use deflate compression

Better Models: Worse Tools Armin reports on a weird problem he ran into while hacking on Pi: The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s edit tool with extra, invented fields in

In case anything happens to the saved stream, here is the audio only version. Confessions II track ranking, a Taylor Swift bit, and that's about it. 2 hours of fun...

Open Source AI Gap Map Current AI is a global partnership building a public option for AI, founded as a non-profit at the AI Action Summit in Paris in February 2025 and backed by serious capital ($400

I just launched my third course, Whimsical Animations, and so far, it’s on track to sell roughly ⅓ as many copies as a typical course launch. It’s a similar story with my two existing courses. Sales a

One of the most interesting tips I got from the Fireside Chat I hosted with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from the Claude Code team at AIE on Wednesday was to let Fable (and to a certain extent Opus) use

The June edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: Claude Fable 5, GPT-5.6, and US export res

Pleopods Weekly #16 — July 3, 2026 Home Archive Pleopods Weekly #16 — July 3, 2026 This Week on Lobste.rs Trending topics: privacy performance vibecoding security c 1. What hap

Fixing full-bleed CSS A rather deep dive into how some of the newer CSS can make this age old pattern even better. Where’s the holistic AI productivity data? It’s hard to find anything other than ane

Today's links CARDiac, syntax coloring, view source and vibe code: With great abstraction comes great power comes great responsibility comes great loss of fidelity. Hey look at this: Delights to d

Research: Using DSPy to evaluate and improve Datasette Agent's SQL system prompts One of this morning's AIE keynotes covered dspy, which reminded me I've been meaning to see if it could help m

Today's links The difference between today's task and accretive work: Sometimes, I got it working is fine, but sometimes it isn't. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Seri

You have officially perverted by choosing this episode with Joel Kim Booster on what is apparently his 18th time on this podcast. And thank god for the disease! Everything in this episode is under the

advertisearchivesBy the numbersIssue #500.July 1, 2026.2 Minute read.Happy 500th issue. The fact that you’re still here reading Bytes after all these years means the world to us 🫶.Today’s issue: The

Nano Banana 2 Lite Also known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image in their API), this is the fastest and cheapest Gemini image model, engineered for velocity and scale. I used

What's new in Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5 came out this morning. I always head straight for the what's new developer docs because they tend to have more actionable information than the official an

The AI Compass This political compass style quiz by bambamramfan is pretty neat - answer 29 questions about AI and AI ethics to see which of the 30 archetypes you best fit. I'm impressed that my answe

shot-scraper video is a new command introduced in today's shot-scraper 1.10 release which accepts a storyboard.yml file defining a routine to run against a web application and uses Playwright to recor

Release: shot-scraper 1.10 The big new feature is shot-scraper video storyboard.yml, described in detail in Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video.

Today's links Jo Walton's Everybody's Perfect: A mystical tour-de-force that makes you feel like your mundane life until this point has all been a boring dream. Hey look at this: Delights to delec

Tool: HTML table extractor Yet another in my growing collection of paste-conversion tools. This one accepts pasted rich text from browsers (with embedded HTML tables) and converts every detect

Tiniest TIL, using AppleScript to count the number of open browser tabs in Safari: osascript -e 'tell application Safari to count tabs of every window' Tags: safari, til, applescript

Today's links Gemini is better than search because Google enshittified search: We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Microsoft

Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding This is an interesting new open weights (MIT licensed) model, the first model release from DeepReinforce. [...] with variants including 9B Dense,

Hi all,Here’s our Monday roundup of data signals across AI, energy and markets.Enjoy!First, a chart from our inaugural state of the AI economy report. AI quarterly revenues are now exceeding the quart

Human Agent in the loop I dislike the phrase “human in the loop” because it cedes authority to the machines. Let’s flip the narrative. It’s our loop, we work the same way we always have, now we recrui

Hack Your Summer I learned about this initiative from DJ Patil this morning: It’s a 4-week, high-velocity production sprint for undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent graduates who wan

Hi,Om Malik died on Wednesday. He was one of tech’s truest voices, as a journalist, a founder, an investor, a questioner and a photographer. He understood, before most, that technology is a human ende

Today's links Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers: Under no circumstances should you rush out and read the book that prompted Mark Zuckerberg to demand $111m and eternal auctori

Don't think WE forgot about pride. Oh we remember it all right, We have got our mouths open and are lying flat on the streets of...Chueca (?) in honor of gay king Ricky Martin. We all remember where w

This is a bad state of affairs. Consider, in particular, some industry dynamics: Frontier models are trained at an enormous cost, and a significant fraction of that cost is recouped in the few post-r

This is like saying there's no learning curve to being a manager because your employees will just do whatever you tell them to do. — Timothy B. Lee, on the idea that LLMs take no skill and have no lea

What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant Fernando Irarrázaval ran a challenge on hackmyclaw.com to see if anyone could leak secrets held by his OpenClaw test instance by sending

We're beginning a limited preview of the GPT‑5.6 series: Sol, our flagship model; Terra, a balanced model for everyday work; and Luna, a fast and affordable model. Terra has competitive performance to

Pleopods Weekly #16 — June 26, 2026 Home ArchivePleopods Weekly #16 — June 26, 2026This Week on Lobste.rsTrending topics: practices release programming games nix1. Why Drawing Tablet Brands W

By humans, for humans We’re approaching—or arguably are in—an era where ‘made by humans’ is a differentiator. A notion that something beyond money and prompts was put into whatever the heck it is we’

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. //Frank Lloyd Wright hackernewsletter Issue #799 // 2026-06-26 // View in your browser #Favorites R

Sam tells all about his fabulous Provincetown vacation, acclaimed novelists Gary Shteyngart and Joyce Carol Oates weigh in on whether social media is good or bad, and we have an overdue culture catchu

AI and Liability Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders on the recent German ruling that Google be held liable for errors introduced in their AI overviews: AI agents are agents of the person or organizati

Release: datasette-export-database 0.3a2 An embarrassingly tiny release. The pyproject.toml had pinned to datasette==1.0a27, inadvertently making this plugin incompatible with all other Datase

The generative AI economy has generated $110 billion in sales over the past 12 months. It is growing fast. On an annualized basis, the revenue run rate exceeds $175 billion. These numbers took us seve

Today's links Jailbreaking isn't theft: It wasn't progress when they did it, it's not piracy when we do it back to them. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Major AI break

simonw/browser-compat-db Inspired by Mozilla's new MDN MCP service - source code here - I decided to try converting their comprehensive mdn/browser-compat-data repository full of browser compatibility

In the last few months, I've started to see [job applications] that were clearly cowritten by an LLM, link to an LLM-generated portfolio site, which then links to LLM-generated GitHub projects, with p

Miss Peppermint is here! Shall she be mother?! The legend and NYC Pride Grand Marshall (alongside Bowen!) spills tea literally and figuratively on this week's Las Cultch. She's come toting her Transce

Tool: OPFS + Pyodide test harness I've been pondering if Datasette Lite - the Python Datasette application run entirely in the browser using Pyodide and WebAssembly - might be able to edit per

Today's links Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid: First they came for the VPNs. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: RIP Darwin's tortoise; ISPs c

advertisearchivesWhat's next for NxIssue #498.June 23, 2026.2 Minute read.Today’s issue: Getting invited to a polycule, wrestling with Jevons paradox, and trying to fill the Nikola Jokic sized hole in

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion First, I absolutely love this: This is a blog-style writeup of the paper. I wish every paper would come with one of these. Academic writing is pretty dry - the imp

This morning on Hacker News I saw Moebius: 0.2B Lightweight Image Inpainting Framework with 10B-Level Performance, describing a small but effective inpainting model - a model where you can mark region

Today's links Good politics: Just make people's lives better. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: WWII online; Xbox security blunders; Homeless bloggers; Thermal printer r

At some point in your thirties, you often start carrying a particular kind of grief. You find yourself mourning the years when friends were a constant, ambient presence – when mundane moments felt sig

sqlite-utils is my combined Python library and CLI tool for working with SQLite databases. It provides an extensive set of higher-level operations on top of Python's default sqlite3 package, including

Release: sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 See sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactions. Tags: sqlite-utils

Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents The announcement says this is for AI agents but (as is pretty common these days) the AI hook isn't really necessary, this is an interesting feature for ever

Hi all,Happy Sunday.GenAI drives almost 2% of traffic to Walmart and Target; home and electronics categories lead. A quick show of hands, please:Here’s Sunday edition #579.Subscribe nowProduct is the

Today's links How the Epstein Class recruits: Oh wait, THAT'S what this was?! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MPAA blasted in WSJ; RFID skimmers; Post-Soviet invention

JOHN EARLY on the show today — we're talkin' MADDIE'S SECRET, the new great movie, and other topics such as Iman Anthony, drum corps, etc. Oh oh oh, and then there are fun MESSAGES, one from britney/j

The real valuable capability MCP offers over skills/CLI is isolating the auth flow outside of the agent’s context window, and potentially out of the harness completely. [...] Maybe the idealized form

Today's links The Big Con: Making the pile of shit bigger won't increase the number of ponies underneath it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: TVA v SETI@Home; Telemarke

Pleopods Weekly #15 — June 19, 2026 Home ArchivePleopods Weekly #15 — June 19, 2026This Week on Lobste.rsTrending topics: security vibecoding linux release hardware1. curl summer of bliss sec

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in se

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Today we launched a new plugin for Datasette, datasette-apps, with this launch announcement post on the Datasette project blog. That post has the what, but I'm going to expand on that a little bit her

Chinese AI lab Z.ai released GLM-5.2 to their coding plan subscribers on June 13th, and then yesterday (June 16th) released the full open weights under an MIT license. Similar in size to their previou

Today's links The (real) dead economy theory: Vibes and memestocks, all the way down. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Jim Baen has had a stroke; Blame Apple for iTunes

What happened in 2025 was this: the economics of code production were turned upside down. Instead of being very hard, time-consuming, and expensive to generate code, it became effectively free and ins

Honoré Daumier, The Legislative Belly (Le Ventre législatif), January 1834I am a fan of AI councils. As many readers will know (from previous posts), I use AI expert panels every day to deliberate on

Mindy Kaling elevates all our lives and sits down with Matt + Bowen— on Culture Awards release day, no less!— to discuss the place of awards shows in culture as collisions of couture and competition.

Tool: <click-to-play> — a still that plays A progressive enchantment Web Component that turns this markup: <click-to-play> <a href=URL to GIF> <img src=URL to first frame alt=...> </a>

Release: datasette 1.0a34 Quoting the release notes: The big feature in this alpha is tools to insert, edit and delete rows within the Datasette interface. These features are available on tab

Release: datasette-tailscale 0.1a0 A very experimental alpha plugin which lets you do this: datasette tailscale mydata.db \ --ts-authkey tskey-auth-xxxx --ts-hostname datasette-preview This

advertisearchivesClaude Fable Pt 2Issue #496.June 16, 2026.2 Minute read.Today’s issue: React Native breaks a world record, CSS developers get their revenge, and that time I got fat-shamed in 3rd grad

Today's links AI and amateurism: When is generative content vernacular? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Disney characters x clean underwear; Transparent Pontiac; Maker

Hi all,Here’s our Monday roundup of data signals across AI, energy and markets.Enjoy! 👾 Play our word quiz created just for this edition – and win a prize.AI & jobs. AI was cited as the top reason fo

When the collective mood is dark and every headline seems to pile it on, the optimists love to wheel out the charts: we’ve never been healthier, wealthier, safer, look at the data! But that comfort ev

It doesn’t matter if it works An extremely good and important read. LLMs and performative productivity A rather detailed post that links out to some really interesting studies too. When to use (and no

Hi all,I sent a note on Thomas Piketty’s blueprint for global justice to members of Exponential View yesterday. I call its recommendations a “blueprint for managed decline”. The commentary touches on

Today's links Shareholder supremacy and the precog CEO: A bright line test that's totally unfalsifiable. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Msft v Linux geeks; James Joyc

Thomas Piketty, a French economist, has a recipe for global justice. In the Global Justice Report, Piketty and his co-authors recommend the world converge on a national income of €60,000 (around $68,0

Take off your hat and fuck it....with your cock!!! / Oh yeah it's time to try some GO GO Juice / and how about those TONYS? When you turn on those Tony's and you've got Pink on them? You know you're i

Today's links Google's new remote attestation scheme is every bit as terrible as its old remote attestation scheme: Not even a QR code can produce a kissable pig. Hey look at this: Delights to del

Pleopods Weekly #14 — June 12, 2026 Home ArchivePleopods Weekly #14 — June 12, 2026This Week on Lobste.rsTrending topics: vibecoding performance practices graphics culture1. To my students ed

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advertisearchivesClaude Fable 5Issue #495.June 12, 2026.2 Minute read.Today’s issue: npm makes a breaking change, a win for the Vuebies, and paying homage to 4 lines of code.Welcome to #495.The Main T

Hello, Las Culturistas Listeners! We want to share a new show you might enjoy, it’s “Humor Me with Robert Smigel & Friends ”!!! About the Show: A weekly podcast where host, Robert Smigel, and a rotati

Today's links The world has moved on: Notes from the enshittocene. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Jpod; Barlow v Glickman; Cyclist v bike lanes; Judge v copyright tro

This week we talk about George's trip to LA, the politics of saving seats at a restaurant, and of course Madonna's new short film slash music video slash anal laser ad. This episode proves that two ga

If you haven't heard, there's a Glamazonian Express headed directly into a massive Stormaganza. For more information, you must see Stop! That! Train! in theaters June 12th! That film's director, the i

advertisearchivesAngular's new mantraIssue #494.June 9, 2026.2 Minute read.Today’s issue: Teaching engineers how to talk to women, being held hostage by Jeff Cross, and eating at Burger King for the f

After making a case for our right to rest in public spaces last week, writer Leo Umilio got my attention with an essay that turns the whole premise on its head. Not just rest in public, but rest itsel

Back in 2023, I hired Flat Rate Movers (A.K.A. Flat Rate Moving) for an interstate move. They subcontracted to a third party who showed up under-staffed, under-equipped, and very confused; the whole m

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-