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Guides, experiments, and lessons from building in public with AI.

  • JULY 8, 2026·6 MIN READ

    4 GitHub Repos Every Vibe Coder Should Know - Spec Kit, Harness, ECC, and Microsoft's Governance Toolkit

    Combined 330K+ stars. Four open-source repos that cover the whole agent stack: specs to code, agent-team factories, memory and security, and structural guardrails against destructive commands.

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  • JULY 7, 2026·5 MIN READ

    BitNet - Microsoft's Framework Runs a 100-Billion-Parameter Model on the CPU You Already Own

    Microsoft's bitnet.cpp runs 1-bit LLMs on plain CPUs - up to 6.17x faster, 82% less energy, and a 100B model at reading speed with no GPU.

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  • JULY 7, 2026·6 MIN READ

    Vibe-Trading - A Hong Kong University Open-Sourced an Entire AI Hedge Fund That Runs on Your Laptop

    HKUDS open-sourced a full quant trading desk you talk to in plain English. 18K+ stars, 456 pre-built alphas, 18 data sources, MIT licensed. One pip install away.

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  • JULY 7, 2026·6 MIN READ

    Hy3 - Tencent Open-Sourced a 295B Model That Fights Flagships 3x Its Size and Stops Overthinking Your Questions

    Tencent's Hy3 preview is a 295B MoE with only 21B active - matching DeepSeek-V3 and Kimi-K2 on math and code, with a built-in switch to skip reasoning on easy questions.

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  • JULY 4, 2026·9 MIN READ

    Strix - Someone Open-Sourced an Entire Army of AI Hackers That Break Into Your App for You

    Strix deploys autonomous AI agents that hack your app like real pentesters, prove every finding with a working exploit, and hand you a ready-to-merge fix. 25.6K stars, 96% success on XBEN, one command to run.

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  • JULY 1, 2026·8 MIN READ

    LongCat-2.0: China Just Dropped a 1.6 Trillion Parameter Model You Can Use for Free

    Meituan open-sourced a 1.6T MoE model built for agentic coding, trained entirely on Chinese chips, and priced up to 25x cheaper than GPT-5.5.

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  • JUNE 27, 2026·9 MIN READ

    5 Illegal Claude Code Skills That Anthropic Would Never Put in the Marketplace

    Five unhinged-named SKILL.md files that reprogram how Claude Code behaves: token compression, obsessive focus, minimalism, scrappy shipping, and common-sense planning.

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  • JUNE 26, 2026·10 MIN READ

    Loop Engineering: The Guy Who Built Claude Code Says He Doesn't Prompt Anymore

    Boris Cherny built Claude Code and stopped prompting it. He writes loops instead. Here's the full breakdown of loop engineering, the 5 building blocks, and how to design systems that prompt agents for you.

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  • JUNE 25, 2026·8 MIN READ

    Sakana Fugu: Japan's AI That Beats Fable 5 by Making Models Work as a Team

    Tokyo-based Sakana AI launched Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system that matches or beats Fable 5, Opus 4.8, and GPT 5.5 across coding, reasoning, and science benchmarks - without using any restricted frontier model.

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  • JUNE 21, 2026·7 MIN READ

    Stop Coding Slowly: 5 Viral GitHub Repos That Turn Claude Code Into a 10x Engineer

    The developers shipping features in hours instead of weeks are using AI Skills. Here are 5 viral GitHub repos that turn Claude Code into a 10x engineer.

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  • JUNE 19, 2026·7 MIN READ

    JCode: The Rust Coding Agent That Uses 20× Less Memory Than Claude Code

    A solo developer rebuilt the entire coding-agent harness in Rust. JCode uses 20× less RAM than Claude Code, starts 245× faster, and runs swarms of collaborating agents out of the box.

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  • JUNE 18, 2026·7 MIN READ

    VibeThinker-3B: The 3B Model That Goes Toe-to-Toe with Trillion-Parameter AI

    Weibo's 3B open-source model hits 94.3 on AIME 2026 and passes 123/128 LeetCode problems, matching frontier systems 100-300x its size on math and code.

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  • JUNE 17, 2026·8 MIN READ

    OpenRouter Fusion: When Two AIs Team Up and Beat Every Single Model

    OpenRouter Fusion fires your question at a panel of models, has a judge synthesize the best parts, and beats every frontier model on the DRACO benchmark - even Claude Fable 5.

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  • JUNE 16, 2026·7 MIN READ

    Ponytail: The Tool That Makes Your AI Write Up to 94% Less Code

    A free, open-source tool that forces AI coding agents to stop over-engineering - 80-94% less code, 3-6x faster, 47-77% cheaper across Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus.

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  • JUNE 15, 2026·8 MIN READ

    4 Claude Code Skills That Replace Entire Workflows

    Four free, open-source Claude Code skills that turn it into a research team, design studio, marketing department, and academic lab.

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  • JUNE 14, 2026·9 MIN READ

    Apodex: The AI That Fact-Checks Itself Before It Answers You

    Apodex scored 90.3 on BrowseComp and 94.4 on DeepSearchQA, beating GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8. It runs 150 sub-agents in parallel with a dedicated verification team, and the whole stack is open-source.

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  • JUNE 12, 2026·8 MIN READ

    Nex-N2: China's Open-Source AI That Fights GPT-5.5

    China just open-sourced Nex-N2, a Mixture-of-Experts model with Adaptive Thinking that competes with GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 - and the weights are free under Apache 2.0.

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  • JUNE 11, 2026·7 MIN READ

    TurboQuant — Google's AI Memory Compression Breakthrough

    Google shrinks 31GB of AI memory down to 4GB — and a free open-source tool already lets you run it on your laptop.

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  • JUNE 10, 2026·7 MIN READ

    Stop Paying for Apps You Can Build Yourself

    Clone Calendly, Linktree, Typeform, and more SaaS tools in an afternoon with Emergent — the AI app builder that turns plain English into full-stack production apps.

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  • JUNE 7, 2026·9 MIN READ

    10 Major AI Launches That Just Dropped — June 2026

    From frontier open-source models to quantum breakthroughs to a superchip reinventing the PC — every major AI launch from the first week of June 2026.

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  • JUNE 4, 2026·8 MIN READ

    Blink — Build & Launch a Paying SaaS in One Afternoon

    How I went from an idea to paying customers using Blink's AI app builder. No coding, no infrastructure setup, no DevOps.

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  • JUNE 4, 2026·10 MIN READ

    Odysseus — Self-Hosted AI Workspace Setup Guide

    A free, self-hosted AI workspace that replaces ChatGPT and Claude. Runs on your machine, your data never leaves.

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  • JUNE 2, 2026·7 MIN READ

    Surface Laptop Ultra: Full Breakdown

    Microsoft put NVIDIA's Blackwell silicon and 128GB of unified memory in a laptop. 1 petaflop of AI compute, 120B models running locally, no cloud needed.

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  • MAY 29, 2026·8 MIN READ

    FreeLLMAPI - Setup Guide

    Stop paying for AI API bills. Stack the free tiers from 14 providers behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint and get ~800M tokens/month.

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  • MAY 29, 2026·6 MIN READ

    Free Claude Code - Setup Guide

    Use Claude Code in your terminal for free by routing requests through open-source AI providers like NVIDIA NIM, Kimi, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, and Ollama.

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  • MAY 23, 2026·7 MIN READ

    Build a $10,000-Looking Website with Claude Code in 4 Simple Steps

    A clean, modern, animated website that looks like it was built by a high-end agency - built by you, in under an hour. No design skills needed.

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