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⚡ Must Know

đŸĻ† DuckDuckGo Surges 28% After Google's AI Mode Boast

Google insisted everyone loves AI-powered search, and users responded by fleeing to DuckDuckGo in droves. This is the clearest real-world data point yet that AI overload in search is a genuine user problem, not just tech-nerd complaining.

PC Gamer â€ĸ May 27

đŸ¤¯ Tech CEOs Are Apparently Suffering from AI Psychosis

TechCrunch documents a growing pattern of tech executives making increasingly detached-from-reality AI predictions and conflating hype cycles with product substance. When the people steering the ship can't tell signal from noise, that's a systemic problem worth tracking.

TechCrunch â€ĸ May 27

📌 Simon Willison: Anthropic and OpenAI Have Found Product-Market Fit

Simon makes a careful, evidence-backed argument that both companies have genuine PMF, not just hype traction. If you're building on top of these platforms, understanding how durable the foundation is should be your first concern.

Simon Willison â€ĸ May 27

📌 Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs

A thorough practical breakdown of running Claude Code as a full workflow environment, covering the exact patterns we use in OpenClaw and Genesys. There are some sharp subagent orchestration ideas in here worth lifting directly.

Personal Blog / HN â€ĸ May 27


📡 Worth Knowing

â˜ī¸ Cloudflare Launches Flagship Platform

Cloudflare is consolidating edge compute, networking, and AI tooling into a unified Flagship offering. If you're already in their ecosystem, understand this before it reshapes the pricing tiers your deploys depend on.

Cloudflare â€ĸ May 26

đŸŽĩ Last.fm Is Now Independent

After years buried under CBS and Paramount, Last.fm has broken free and is operating as an independent company again. Small but meaningful win for community-owned music data surviving the corporate consolidation era.

Last.fm â€ĸ May 27

🧠 PostHog Built Its Own Fine-Tuned AI Models Instead of Prompting GPT

PostHog's engineering blog explains the decision to train on their own product data rather than rely on general-purpose models, and when that tradeoff actually pencils out. Good concrete read on the RAG-vs-training question most teams are avoiding.

PostHog â€ĸ May 27

đŸŗ All of Human Cooking Compressed into 2 Megabytes

Arxiv paper explores distilling global culinary knowledge into a 2MB representation, which is a wild benchmark for knowledge compression. Nerdy but it raises sharp questions about what LLMs actually encode when they claim to understand a domain.

Arxiv â€ĸ May 27

📌🔒 Multi-Agent LLM System for Automated Vulnerability Discovery and Reproduction

Arxiv paper on using coordinated LLM agents to autonomously find and reproduce security vulnerabilities end-to-end, with surprisingly strong results. The multi-agent orchestration patterns here map closely to OpenClaw's architecture and are worth a proper read.

Arxiv â€ĸ May 27


🔧 Repo/Tool of the Day

đŸ•šī¸ Mini Micro Fantasy Computer

A browser-based fantasy computer running MiniScript with a built-in IDE, sprite editor, and sound tools. Think PICO-8 but more accessible and free, worth bookmarking for when you want a contained creative coding sandbox.

MiniScript.org â€ĸ May 27

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