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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

TechPicks 09/08/2026 Make your agents talk human. ADHD-friendly (and token-friendly) output styles for Claude Code https://github.com/alexgreensh/attention-span U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/ DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/ A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/ Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/ They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore https://dbushell.com/2026/08/07/sublime-text/ 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 06/08/2026 Offensive Internet Posture https://bruceediger.com/posts/offensive-machine/ Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-os/ rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/08/05/rust-langrust-is-adopting-an-llm-policy/ Building an Advanced Agentic Harness https://data4sci.com/blog/building-an-advanced-agentic-harness Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models https://neon.com/blog/how-castform-neon-beats-frontier-models-on-price-and-efficiency 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 05/08/2026 Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack https://www.aikido.dev/blog/keyv-and-friends-compromised-in-npm-supply-chain-attack Security is Hard, Y'all https://textslashplain.com/2026/08/04/security-is-hard-yall/ Soppo - Go, with the features it's missing https://soppolang.dev/ Tests for a PDF https://blog.lvmbdv.dev/posts/tests-for-a-pdf/ 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 04/08/2026 Don't be a meat proxy https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/ Devtools must be open source https://blog.exe.dev/devtools-must-be-open-source Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU https://github.com/lyogavin/airllm Help wanted https://lake.computer/blog/help-wanted/ 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 03/08/2026 Diátaxis - A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring https://diataxis.fr/ Go 1.27 Interactive Tour https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-1-27/index.html Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops https://getbor.dev/blog/2026-08-02-bor-v080-release/ I'm (mostly) picking models on speed now, not intelligence https://martinalderson.com/posts/speed-vs-intelligence/ 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 02/08/2026 Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era https://microsoft.github.io/flint-chart/ Accepting a messy git history https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/git_two_users.html The Bedrock of Software Design https://alex.draftist.io/blog/the-bedrock-of-software-design-ycqvcedsj morphicons: any stroke icon morphs into any other, no from/to pairs, no AnimatePresence https://www.morphicons.com 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 30/07/2026 Some notes about Anthropic's new results https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/29/some-notes-about-anthropics-new-results/ Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/07/keychron-announces-first-open-source-firmware-for-gaming-mice PostgreSQL's MVCC is bad. So is everyone else's https://boringsql.com/posts/mvcc-bad-bad/ Mousecrack - Bypass agent cursor detection with deep learning https://github.com/puffinsoft/mousecrack AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decisionmaking 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 28/07/2026 Kimi-K3 weights are now released https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3 Kimi-K3 Technical Report (pdf) https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K3/blob/main/k3_tech_report.pdf Cerious Scroll - High-Performance Virtual Scrolling Engine for Web Applications https://github.com/ceriousdevtech/cerious-scroll Malicious sites use JavaScript to build malware in browser memory https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-sites-use-javascript-to-build-malware-in-browser-memory/ Most Googlebots are fake https://digitalseams.com/blog/most-googlebots-are-fake Open Source Must Be Fun (Or It Will Die) https://mikemcquaid.com/open-source-must-be-fun-or-it-will-die/ 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 26/07/2026 A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway https://refp.se/articles/your-shell-and-the-magic-colon Chrome registers a global shortcut for Gemini popup window https://unsung.aresluna.org/chromes-breaking-and-entering/ Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB, Affecting Shizuku, libadb and Developers https://kitsumed.github.io/blog/posts/android-may-soon-restrict-on-device-adb/ microcharts - Word-sized charts for React https://github.com/ganapativs/microcharts 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 23/07/2026 The startup's Postgres survival guide https://hatchet.run/blog/postgres-survival-guide GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization https://github.com/marcelroed/gigatoken/ So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe https://www.cole-k.com/2026/07/21/reddit/ 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 22/07/2026 OpenAI model breaks out of security sandbox, hacks Hugging Face for data to pass test https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/ AI makes programming differently difficult https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/ai-didnt-make-programming-easier-it-just-made-it-differently-difficult/ "No AI" Statements Are Much More Than Mere Statements https://journal.james-zhan.com/no-ai-statements/ GitHub suddenly rejected my SSH key (the fix was a .pub file?!) https://thorsell.io/2026/07/21/github-ssh-keys.html git --end-of-options https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/21/end-of-options.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

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