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Kimi K3 Is Here — And It's Chasing the Frontier at a Third of the Price
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is the largest open-weight model ever shipped. We break down how it stacks up against the closed US flagships it's chasing — OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 — on benchmarks, price, and openness.
Ghostty and libghostty: The Terminal Core Quietly Reshaping the Ecosystem
I went from the stock macOS Terminal, to Ghostty this year, to Supacode this week — and only then realized the last two run on the same engine. Here's the story of Ghostty, libghostty, and why a reusable terminal core matters.
Pi: The Agent Harness That Defers, On Purpose
Earendil's Pi is a minimal coding agent that ships primitives instead of features — deferring MCP, sub-agents, and plan mode to you, your extensions, and the tools you already run.
GrapheneOS, Explained: How a Hardened Android Rethinks Mobile Security
A plain-language tour of GrapheneOS — the privacy- and security-focused Android variant for Pixel phones — and the design ideas that make it different.
Homebrew 6.0.0 Is Here: Tap Trust, Sandboxing, and a Faster Default
Homebrew 6.0.0 lands with a new tap-trust security model, Linux build sandboxing, the faster JSON API on by default, and a clear sunset timeline for Intel Macs.
VoidZero Joins Cloudflare: What It Means for the JavaScript Ecosystem
Evan You's VoidZero — the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ — is joining Cloudflare. The tools stay open source, vendor-agnostic, and community-driven, backed by a new $1M Vite ecosystem fund.
The Agent That Grows Its Own Skills: Why I'd Pick Hermes Over OpenClaw
OpenClaw made it normal to drop a stranger's SKILL.md into your agent — and the security bill came due fast. Here's why I prefer Nous Research's Hermes Agent, which writes, refines, and prunes its own skills instead of trusting a marketplace.
Introducing ExpressionEngine 7.4
Significant updates have been made to ExpressionEngine 7.4, such as improved member management, the addition of new CLI commands, updates to channel forms, and the integration of Redactor X as a new Rich Text Editor (RTE) field type.
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