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2026 W3 - 01-18




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What you Missed this Week

Anthropic released “Claude Cowork”, assistant able to manipulate your personnal file. Under the hood, it is like claude code but for bureautic.

Related to the hype over gas town, people are finding ways to running long agent session using automated feedback.

Articles

Model Training

  • 704 pt Link / HN TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
  • 760 pt [Link / HN] AI generated music barred from Bandcamp
  • 585 pt [Link / HN] Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
  • 388 pt [Link / HN] Flux 2 Klein pure C inference
  • 222 pt [Link / HN] Raspberry Pi’s New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs
  • 189 pt [Link / HN] Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s
  • 174 pt [Link / HN] Show HN: OSS AI agent that indexes and searches the Epstein files
  • 138 pt [Link / HN] vLLM large scale serving: DeepSeek 2.2k tok/s/h200 with wide-ep
  • 107 pt [Link / HN] Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR
  • 100 pt [Link / HN] Reproducing DeepSeek’s MHC: When Residual Connections Explode
  • 58 pt [Link / HN] Batmobile: 10-20x Faster CUDA Kernels for Equivariant Graph Neural Networks

Coding Assistant

  • 1225 pt [Link / HN] Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work
  • 823 pt [Link / HN] Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
  • 293 pt [Link / HN] Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
  • 264 pt [Link / HN] We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon
  • 259 pt [Link / HN] Scaling long-running autonomous coding
  • 209 pt [Link / HN] First impressions of Claude Cowork
  • 203 pt [Link / HN] Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork
  • 156 pt [Link / HN] The recurring dream of replacing developers
  • 143 pt [Link / HN] Provide agents with automated feedback
  • 138 pt [Link / HN] Letting Claude play text adventures
  • 99 pt [Link / HN] Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files
  • 105 pt [Link / HN] Using proxies to hide secrets from Claude Code
  • 101 pt [Link / HN] Show HN: Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP
  • 95 pt [Link / HN] Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir
  • 96 pt [Link / HN] Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager
  • 71 pt [Link / HN] Show HN: Gambit, an open-source agent harness for building reliable AI agents

Personal Blogs / Opinions

  • 364 pt [Link / HN] We can’t have nice things because of AI scrapers
  • 340 pt [Link / HN] Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
  • 225 pt [Link / HN] A letter to those who fired tech writers because of AI
  • 185 pt [Link / HN] Data is the only moat
  • 183 pt [Link / HN] The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists
  • 138 pt [Link / HN] Let’s be honest, Generative AI isn’t going all that well
  • 70 pt [Link / HN] LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick
  • 63 pt [Link / HN] AI Destroys Institutions
  • 54 pt [Link / HN] Why we don’t use AI
  • 52 pt [Link / HN] Two Concepts of Intelligence

Politics / Strategy

  • 961 pt [Link / HN] Apple picks Gemini to power Siri
  • 268 pt [Link / HN] Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation
  • 155 pt [Link / HN] Mozilla’s open source AI strategy

Other

  • 333 pt [Link / HN] LLM Structured Outputs Handbook
  • 195 pt [Link / HN] FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence
  • 69 pt [Link / HN] Confer – End to end encrypted AI chat

News

  • 296 pt [Link / HN] Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk
  • 181 pt [Link / HN] Games Workshop bans staff from using AI
  • 175 pt [Link / HN] Google removes AI health summaries after investigation finds dangerous flaws
  • 138 pt [Link / HN] Tldraw pauses external contributions due to AI slop
  • 89 pt [Link / HN] Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails
  • 88 pt [Link / HN] Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities with Sex Scandals

  • 67 pt [Link / HN] OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions

  • 51 pt [Link / HN] The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says

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