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2026 W5 - 02-01





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What you Missed this Week

This week, Moltbook/OpenClax was the hotest topic: social networks for agents

  • 1516 pt [Link / HN] Moltbook
  • 531 pt [Link / HN] OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again
  • 528 pt [Link / HN] Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
  • 170 pt [Link / HN] Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users
  • 166 pt [Link / HN] Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
  • 92 pt [Link / HN] Best of Moltbook
  • 63 pt [Link / HN] OpenClaw: When AI Agents Get Full System Access. Security nightmare?

Articles

Model Training

  • 292 pt [Link / HN] Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones
  • 127 pt [Link / HN] OSS ChatGPT WebUI – 530 Models, MCP, Tools, Gemini RAG, Image/Audio Gen

Coding Agents

  • 448 pt [Link / HN] AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals
  • 216 pt [Link / HN] Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis
  • 106 pt [Link / HN] Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work

Claude

  • 809 pt [Link / HN] A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
  • 720 pt [Link / HN] Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking

ChatGPT/OpenAI

  • 420 pt [Link / HN] ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files
  • 285 pt [Link / HN] Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT

Personal Blogs / Opinions

Balanced

  • 338 pt [Link / HN] How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
  • 354 pt [Link / HN] Two kinds of AI users are emerging
  • 284 pt [Link / HN] Automatic Programming
  • 270 pt [Link / HN] Outsourcing thinking
  • 245 pt [Link / HN] Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025
  • 221 pt [Link / HN] My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025)
  • 221 pt [Link / HN] How AI Impacts Skill Formation
  • 208 pt [Link / HN] Code is cheap. Show me the talk
  • 116 pt [Link / HN] AI’s impact on engineering jobs may be different than expected

Optimists

  • 572 pt [Link / HN] Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery
  • 420 pt [Link / HN] What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
  • 385 pt [Link / HN] Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out
  • 223 pt [Link / HN] Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month
  • 196 pt [Link / HN] I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor
  • 160 pt [Link / HN] Show HN: Only 1 LLM can fly a drone
  • 141 pt [Link / HN] Benchmarking OpenTelemetry: Can AI trace your failed login?
  • 138 pt [Link / HN] Show HN: Amla Sandbox – WASM bash shell sandbox for AI agents
  • 109 pt [Link / HN] Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with Microvm.nix

Pessimists

  • 791 pt [Link / HN] After two years of vibecoding, I’m back to writing by hand
  • 429 pt [Link / HN] My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs
  • 312 pt [Link / HN] Vibe coding kills open source

Politics / Strategy

  • 318 pt [Link / HN] The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice
  • 130 pt [Link / HN] Mozilla is building an AI ‘rebel alliance’ to take on OpenAI, Anthropic
  • 125 pt [Link / HN] Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai
  • 205 pt [Link / HN] Jellyfin LLM/”AI” Development Policy

News

  • 439 pt [Link / HN] Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica
  • 430 pt [Link / HN] US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report
  • 220 pt [Link / HN] Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign
  • 149 pt [Link / HN] CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT


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