TechPicks (by Tal Koren)

TechPicks 07/09/2026 Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board https://collusion.wiki/ Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone https://cloudinabottle.org/blog/launch-post Integrations and feeds - Discord integration - https://techpicks.app/discord Slack integration - https://techpicks.app/slack RSS Feed - https://techpicks.app/rss Follow me on X - https://x.com/dewbjorn

TechPicks 06/09/2026 GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-6-astra Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-85046 .name Termination https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/ AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems https://www.sylvainkalache.com/blog/ai-handles-incidents-engineers-lose-touch-with-their-systems Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% https://engineering.atspotify.com/2026/9/portal-by-spotify-cut-my-claude-code-token-usage-by-90 .gitignore everything by default https://packagemain.tech/p/gitignore-everything-by-default The Story of VS Code | Official Documentary https://youtu.be/kHL3XzjpT5w?si=Sz6sAqYGfUpiEkw9 Integrations and feeds - Discord integration - https://techpicks.app/discord Slack integration - https://techpicks.app/slack RSS Feed - https://techpicks.app/rss Follow me on X - https://x.com/dewbjorn

TechPicks 03/09/2026 Check if a file was made with Claude https://claude.com/check-content The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude https://louisabraham.github.io/load-bearing/ The Endless Temptation of Claude https://discardpile.pika.page/posts/the-endless-temptation-of-claude Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-cyber/ Three sites made 215,128 "best software" pages for AI. Perplexity cites them https://trellner.com/reports/manufactured-sources-behind-ai-recommendations/ Integrations and feeds - Discord integration - https://techpicks.app/discord Slack integration - https://techpicks.app/slack RSS Feed - https://techpicks.app/rss Follow me on X - https://x.com/dewbjorn

TechPicks 02/09/2026 Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-1 I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs https://mvakde.github.io/blog/44-on-arc-1/ Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ad-blocker-on-ios/ Integrations and feeds - Discord integration - https://techpicks.app/discord Slack integration - https://techpicks.app/slack RSS Feed - https://techpicks.app/rss Follow me on X - https://x.com/dewbjorn

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TechPicks 01/09/2026 Agent memory as a file format https://calpaterson.com/memoryfields.html VibeCoded AI-Slop License v1.0 https://gist.github.com/NicolasCARPi/3fd349ed1ed52ae6b835d5364cda4cd6 Please, I beg you, we need to stop using Stored Procedures (from applications) https://heffree.dev/blog/no-more-sprocs.html p99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240 million domain names https://ruurtjan.com/articles/p99-0ms-autocomplete-for-240-million-domain-names Integrations and feeds - Discord integration - https://techpicks.app/discord Slack integration - https://techpicks.app/slack RSS Feed - https://techpicks.app/rss Follow me on X - https://x.com/dewbjorn

TechPicks 31/08/2026 The Rise of the Product Engineer https://talkoren.com/blog/the-rise-of-the-product-engineer/ Prompt Injection in Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2026/breaking-claude-code-opus-5-and-automode/ What GLM-5.3 Flash running on Chinese hardware actually means https://martinalderson.com/posts/glm-5-3-flash-chinese-hardware/ Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root https://0xcc.io/posts/omarchy-root-creds/ Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex https://werwolv.net/posts/file_format_reverse_engineering/ Automating immersive reading https://smoores.dev/post/automating_immersive_reading/ Integrations and feeds - Discord integration - https://techpicks.app/discord Slack integration - https://techpicks.app/slack RSS Feed - https://techpicks.app/rss Follow me on X - https://x.com/dewbjorn

TechPicks 30/08/2026 RAG Is Simpler Than You Think https://www.lighthousenewsletter.com/p/rag-is-simpler-than-you-think I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis https://pwning.systems/posts/llm-memory-program-analysis/ StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator https://github.com/stemdeckapp/stemdeck Reducing Zod's memory footprint by an order of magnitude with memoizing prototypes https://zod.dev/blog/reducing-memory-footprint Integrations and feeds - Discord integration - https://techpicks.app/discord Slack integration - https://techpicks.app/slack RSS Feed - https://techpicks.app/rss Follow me on X - https://x.com/dewbjorn

TechPicks 26/08/2026 OpenAI Jalapeño: Better Than Nvidia Blackwell https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/openai-jalapeno-better-than-nvidia Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-performance-and-ai-compute/ New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/ Integrations and feeds - Discord integration - https://techpicks.app/discord Slack integration - https://techpicks.app/slack RSS Feed - https://techpicks.app/rss Follow me on X - https://x.com/dewbjorn

TechPicks 24/08/2026 How to Design an Animation https://kciter.so/posts/how-to-design-animation/en/ How an Underrated Refactor Saved 90% Memory Usage https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-table-v9-memory-performance Hister - A private, full content search index that you control https://hister.org/ Wild AI-related reliability incidents are coming https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/08/22/wild-ai-related-reliability-incidents-are-coming/ How To Report A Bug So It Actually Gets Fixed https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/howtoreportabug/ Integrations and feeds - Discord integration - https://techpicks.app/discord Slack integration - https://techpicks.app/slack RSS Feed - https://techpicks.app/rss Follow me on X - https://x.com/dewbjorn

TechPicks 23/08/2026 Tal Koren - Do You Still Need to Know CSS When AI Writes It? https://talkoren.com/blog/css-when-ai-writes-it/ Music theory for programmers https://runjs.app/blog/music-theory-for-programmers Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/22/meta-trial-children-privacy New MCP Roadmap https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/mcp-roadmap/ Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code https://twitter.com/argofowl/status/2091150597374537729 OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It) https://matduggan.com/otel-isnt-going-well-and-i-made-a-spreadsheet-about-it/ Integrations and feeds - Discord integration - https://techpicks.app/discord Slack integration - https://techpicks.app/slack RSS Feed - https://techpicks.app/rss Follow me on X - https://x.com/dewbjorn

TechPicks 20/08/2026 HTML Can Do That https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/ See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS https://bytebybyte.dev/ Why I still hand write my commit messages https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/08/17/hand-write-commits/ Oops. I made a syntax highlighter. https://daverupert.com/2026/08/microlighter/ Extensible Software in the age of LLMs https://jeremymorrell.dev/blog/extensible-software-in-the-age-of-llms/ Integrations and feeds - Discord integration - https://techpicks.app/discord Slack integration - https://techpicks.app/slack RSS Feed - https://techpicks.app/rss Follow me on X - https://x.com/dewbjorn

TechPicks 19/08/2026 AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read We Ship Our UI Through a Subtitle System https://deadworks.net/blog/we-ship-our-ui-through-a-subtitle-system GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement https://lalitm.com/post/github-alternatives/ Shading Motion https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/shading-motion/ The Amazon tax https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/ How I browse the Web with uBlock (Hard Mode) https://untrusem.party/blog/how-I-browse-the-web-with-Ublock-Hard-Mode.html Integrations and feeds - Discord integration - https://techpicks.app/discord Slack integration - https://techpicks.app/slack RSS Feed - https://techpicks.app/rss Follow me on X - https://x.com/dewbjorn

TechPicks 17/08/2026 Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose https://w4g1.dev/blog/models-are-getting-dumber-on-purpose The AI Credit Resale Economy https://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokers A faster way to calculate the day of the week https://www.benjoffe.com/fast-day-of-week Protecting the Rust standard library from accidental breakage https://predr.ag/blog/protecting-the-rust-stdlib-from-breakage/ Integrations and feeds - Discord integration - https://techpicks.app/discord Slack integration - https://techpicks.app/slack RSS Feed - https://techpicks.app/rss Follow me on X - https://x.com/dewbjorn

TechPicks 16/08/2026 What You Gain by Building Your Own Game Engine https://eliasfarhan.ch/gamedev/cpp/2026/08/14/srnative-01-why-a-custom-engine.html There Is Still No Silver Bullet https://cekrem.github.io/posts/there-is-still-no-silver-bullet/ Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel https://sankalp.bearblog.dev/autoresearch/ AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them https://davidepiffer.com/p/ai-isnt-outthinking-mathematicians Working with AI Feels More Like Leadership Than Coding https://allen.bargi.org/notes/working-with-ai-feels-like-leadership/ Integrations and feeds - Discord integration - https://techpicks.app/discord Slack integration - https://techpicks.app/slack RSS Feed - https://techpicks.app/rss Follow me on X - https://x.com/dewbjorn

TechPicks 13/08/2026 Grok 4.6 https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6 What sort of maths are LLMs good at? https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/what-sort-of-maths-are-llms-good-at/ TanStack Charts (Pre-alpha) https://tanstack.com/charts AI is removing the middle class of software engineering https://blog.florianherrengt.com/ai-removing-middle-class-software-engineering.html The fastest double-to-string algorithm you’ve never heard of https://vitaut.net/posts/2026/yy-dtoa/ How Tailscale helped find the SQLite WAL-Reset bug https://tailscale.com/blog/sqlite-wal-reset-bug Guide to (not) fucking up QR codes https://infosec.exchange/@rebane2001/117078420917152774 Integrations and feeds - Discord integration - https://techpicks.app/discord Slack integration - https://techpicks.app/slack RSS Feed - https://techpicks.app/rss Follow me on X - https://x.com/dewbjorn

TechPicks 12/08/2026 As AI eats the web, the internet's collective memory is disappearing https://thewalrus.ca/google-search-is-dying/ H3-metal - Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon https://github.com/antirez/h3.c Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs https://stolen-thoughts.com/ Nvidia's Risky Business https://stratechery.com/2026/nvidias-risky-business/ OpenAI's head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining https://www.ft.com/content/e49dfb75-f841-4466-a577-f7aaff8779a0 Integrations and feeds - Discord integration - https://techpicks.app/discord Slack integration - https://techpicks.app/slack RSS Feed - https://techpicks.app/rss Follow me on X - https://x.com/dewbjorn

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TechPicks 11/08/2026 Docker Sandboxes: Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents https://www.docker.com/products/docker-sandboxes/ Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-agentic-model Beyond Senior - Creating Hope https://baweaver.com/writing/2026/08/09/beyond-senior-creating-hope/ On comments https://blog.helsing.ai/posts/on-comments/ Firefox Containers Preview https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-containers-preview/ Integrations and feeds - Discord integration - https://techpicks.app/discord Slack integration - https://techpicks.app/slack RSS Feed - https://techpicks.app/rss Follow me on X - https://x.com/dewbjorn

TechPicks 10/08/2026 Who Should Pay For Source Code Availability? https://kristoff.it/blog/source-code-availability/ Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-08-09-zsh-history-truncation-bug/ Dithered QR codes https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/ my server is a phone now https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/ Integrations and feeds - Discord integration - https://techpicks.app/discord Slack integration - https://techpicks.app/slack RSS Feed - https://techpicks.app/rss Follow me on X - https://x.com/dewbjorn