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Coding AI: V2 Brag hyperframes impeccable make interfaces feel better

Howaboua

Developer AI gains matter when they reduce lead time without increasing production defects. Signal: V2. Brag+hyperframes+impeccable+make-interfaces-feel-better skills fo…

Coding AI: The championship inspired me to build an AI

Pat

Developer AI gains matter when they reduce lead time without increasing production defects. Signal: The @nyknicks championship inspired me to build an AI basketball coac…

Coding AI: your webcam is made of fabric

AA

Developer AI gains matter when they reduce lead time without increasing production defects. Signal: your webcam is made of fabric: https://t.co/65G7Wq74Vy https://t.co/G…

Coding AI: I had over 100gb of node modules on

Wes Bos

Developer AI gains matter when they reduce lead time without increasing production defects. Signal: I had over 100gb of node_modules on my machine and I'm ALWAYS out of …

Coding AI: Batchwork 1 2 released Generate images up to

Hayden Bleasel

Developer AI gains matter when they reduce lead time without increasing production defects. Signal: Batchwork 1.2 released. Generate images up to 50% cheaper. https://t.…

Coding AI: Release day Clapet est en ligne J ai

Sebastien-console_buche 🪵

Developer AI gains matter when they reduce lead time without increasing production defects. Signal: Release day: Clapet est en ligne! https://t.co/YzGBpQGd8j J'ai constr…

LLMs & Reasoning: The harness can make a difference in AI

Michael Rabinovich

Model selection should start from latency, cost, and integration constraints rather than benchmark hype. Signal: The harness can make a difference in AI for CAD. Below: …

Coding AI: One click animation from marker less video using

TAngraFX

Developer AI gains matter when they reduce lead time without increasing production defects. Signal: One click animation from marker less video using MotionGen. #b3d #ble…

Coding AI: 移動型ロボットと人 選手 によるバドミントンの長時間ラリー 1 452回 このロボットは自律的に動き 弾道を予測し 正確にショットを打ち返す

Coding AI: 移動型ロボットと人 選手 によるバドミントンの長時間ラリー 1 452回 このロボットは自律的に動き 弾道を予測し 正確にショットを打ち返す

T.Yamazaki

Developer AI gains matter when they reduce lead time without increasing production defects. Signal: 『移動型ロボットと人(選手)によるバドミントンの長時間ラリー(1,452回)』 このロボットは自律的に動き、弾道を予測し、正確にショットを…

LLMs & Reasoning: 1 bit GLM 5 2 GGUF vs Claude

Unsloth AI

Model selection should start from latency, cost, and integration constraints rather than benchmark hype. Signal: 1-bit GLM-5.2 GGUF vs. Claude 4.8 Opus vs. GPT-5.5 We ga…

Coding AI: OpenAI s new upcoming bidi voice mode sounds

Chubby♨️

Developer AI gains matter when they reduce lead time without increasing production defects. Signal: OpenAI’s new upcoming „bidi“-voice mode sounds insane! https://t.co/9…

Coding AI: Object detection on 3D Gaussian Splats Accurate bounding

Johannes Tscharn

Developer AI gains matter when they reduce lead time without increasing production defects. Signal: Object detection on 3D Gaussian Splats. Accurate bounding boxes per d…

3D & Gaussian Splatting: Arbor Control 3D Generation with Explicit Geometry Text

Jan

3D methods are useful when render quality and runtime budget are both production-viable. Signal: Arbor: Control 3D Generation with Explicit Geometry Text-to-3D makes pla…

Coding AI: New model release LocalVQE Pi V1 A tiny

Richard Palethorpe

Developer AI gains matter when they reduce lead time without increasing production defects. Signal: New model release: LocalVQE Pi V1; A tiny 49k model that does acousti…

Agents & Automation: Introducing agentcn by gt Built on Eve by

Aniket Pawar

Automation is valuable when the workflow is reliable and measurable, not when the demo is flashy. Signal: Introducing agentcn 🤖 by @shadcnlabs > Built on Eve by @ver…

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Coding AI: funwithcomputervision.com - your webcam is made of fabric

AA

Developer AI gains matter when they reduce lead time without increasing production defects. Signal: your webcam is made of fabric: https://t.co/65G7Wq74Vy https://t.co/Gxx3LP9GXB. Test this week: Measure PR cycle-time and rework …

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Agents & Automation: aside.com - Today we re launching Aside the AI browser

jun

Automation is valuable when the workflow is reliable and measurable, not when the demo is flashy. Signal: Today, we're launching Aside, the AI browser you’ve waited for. ⋅ Crafted in every detail: vertical tabs and Liquid Glass ⋅…

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Coding AI: clapet.app - Release day Clapet est en ligne J ai

Sebastien-console_buche 🪵

Developer AI gains matter when they reduce lead time without increasing production defects. Signal: Release day: Clapet est en ligne! https://t.co/YzGBpQGd8j J'ai construit le tool de System Design que j'aurais aimé avoir pour pr…

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LLMs & Reasoning: huggingface.co - 1 bit GLM 5 2 GGUF vs Claude

Unsloth AI

Model selection should start from latency, cost, and integration constraints rather than benchmark hype. Signal: 1-bit GLM-5.2 GGUF vs. Claude 4.8 Opus vs. GPT-5.5 We gave 3 models the same prompt and compared one-shot outputs. T…

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LLMs & Reasoning: seeedstudio.com - What if your edge camera s video stream

Seeed Studio

Model selection should start from latency, cost, and integration constraints rather than benchmark hype. Signal: What if your edge camera's video stream could reach any browser — with zero plugins and ultra-low latency? 🌐📷 We b…

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Coding AI: threejsresources.com - Want to build TSL shaders without writing a

Three.js Resources

Developer AI gains matter when they reduce lead time without increasing production defects. Signal: Want to build TSL shaders without writing a line of code? TSL Graph is a visual node editor for the Three.js Shading Language com…

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Coding AI: luma.com - Object detection on 3D Gaussian Splats Accurate bounding

Johannes Tscharn

Developer AI gains matter when they reduce lead time without increasing production defects. Signal: Object detection on 3D Gaussian Splats. Accurate bounding boxes per detection, runs locally. @nigelhartmanxr really cooked here @…

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LLMs & Reasoning: sakana.ai - Sakana Fugu surprisingly performed near GLM 5 2

atomic.chat

Model selection should start from latency, cost, and integration constraints rather than benchmark hype. Signal: Sakana Fugu surprisingly performed near GLM 5.2 level but 17× more expensive! We gave the same prompt to 4 models: b…

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Audio, TTS, Voice: altic.dev - I ve dictated almost everything for 6 months

Dhilip Subramanian

Voice systems must handle turn-taking and interruptions to become trusted interfaces. Signal: I've dictated almost everything for 6 months with Wispr Flow. 44,414 words, 161 wpm, top 0.1% of users. Last week I tried FluidVoice. O…

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Audio, TTS, Voice: jax-js.com - Whisper audio transcription on web 20x RTF This

Eric Zhang

Voice systems must handle turn-taking and interruptions to become trusted interfaces. Signal: Whisper audio transcription on web (20x RTF): https://t.co/jXVv6sPnkS This demo was a breeze to make! The AI is good enough that I can …

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Computer Vision: Web scraping will never be the same 100

Akshay 🚀

Vision value comes from decision quality under edge cases, not average-case demos. Signal: Web scraping will never be the same. (100% open-source visual search at scale) PixelRAG is a retrieval system that skips HTML parsing comp…

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Agents & Automation: githubusercontent.com - COMPANY BEHIND TIKTOK JUST OPEN SOURCED AN AI

Isra

Automation is valuable when the workflow is reliable and measurable, not when the demo is flashy. Signal: COMPANY BEHIND TIKTOK JUST OPEN SOURCED AN AI AGENT THAT DOES YOUR WHOLE JOB FOR YOU China doesn't miss 😳 everyone's been …

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3D & Gaussian Splatting: huggingface.co - MeshFlow Efficient Artistic Mesh Generation via MeshVAE and

Antoine Toisoul

3D methods are useful when render quality and runtime budget are both production-viable. Signal: 🚀MeshFlow: Efficient Artistic Mesh Generation via MeshVAE and Flow-based Diffusion Transformer | CVPR 2026 Highlight 📕 Project Pag…

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3D & Gaussian Splatting: github.io - OneCanvas 3D Scene Understanding via Panoramic Reprojection We

Matthias Niessner

3D methods are useful when render quality and runtime budget are both production-viable. Signal: 📢 OneCanvas: 3D Scene Understanding via Panoramic Reprojection We extract features from video frames and reproject them into one oc…

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Coding AI: Latest update on the my app 1 Shotmap

Julio Costa

Developer AI gains matter when they reduce lead time without increasing production defects. Signal: Latest update on the my #fifaworlcup app. 1) Shotmap 🎯 2) xG timeline 📈 Have a good and enjoy it👇 https://t.co/RzxS5e7IdX http…

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Playda

@PlayDaaa2026-06-23

"Guys i think it's finally ready! You pick any area on a map and get a faithful, 1:1 3D version of it, in 30 seconds or less. It's tested, it works, and I'm shipping it this week once I'm done tightening the optimization. Right now it generates flawlessly anywhere in France and a…"
Robotics

Howaboua

@Howaboua2026-06-23

"V2. Brag+hyperframes+impeccable+make-interfaces-feel-better skills folded and consolidated into a single marketing-video skill with references. No guidance from me apart from "do a general overview video, take new screenshots via cdp, find some interesting things to show". It's …"
Coding AI

Pat

@pattssun2026-06-23

"The @nyknicks championship inspired me to build an AI basketball coach to improve my 1v1 game Built with: - Robloflow RF-DETR to detect players/ball/rim - MediaPipe to capture body angles - OpenCV to analyze and annotate the clip https://t.co/FSObOuekS2"
Coding AI

AA

@measure_plan2026-06-23

"your webcam is made of fabric: https://t.co/65G7Wq74Vy https://t.co/Gxx3LP9GXB"
Coding AI

jun

@hyojun_at2026-06-23

"Today, we're launching Aside, the AI browser you’ve waited for. ⋅ Crafted in every detail: vertical tabs and Liquid Glass ⋅ SOTA on agentic browsing benchmarks: outperforms Claude Fable ⋅ Full privacy: Everything runs in local and encrypted ⋅ You can use Claude or ChatGPT subscr…"
Agents & Automation

Wes Bos

@wesbos2026-06-23

"I had over 100gb of node_modules on my machine and I'm ALWAYS out of space use `npkill` to find and delete older node_module folders https://t.co/4jYbQb2F0V"
Coding AI

Hayden Bleasel

@haydenbleasel2026-06-23

"Batchwork 1.2 released. Generate images up to 50% cheaper. https://t.co/5XCh7sGzui"
Coding AI

Chris Kim

@chriskim_dev2026-06-23

"I built a @NousResearch Hermes workflow that my team at @Box uses to track AI trends. Every day at 7am, it researches what's happening across the AI ecosystem and generates a brief for our team. We use it to identify: • AI trends worth paying attention to • Open source projects …"
Agents & Automation

Sebastien-console_buche 🪵

@Console_buche2026-06-23

"Release day: Clapet est en ligne! https://t.co/YzGBpQGd8j J'ai construit le tool de System Design que j'aurais aimé avoir pour préparer mes entretiens. Clapet te guide pas à pas pour construire une archi au lieu de te laisser seul devant un canvas vide a la Excalidraw. https://t…"
Coding AI

Theia

@theiamarkerless2026-06-23

"As @FIFAWorldCup continues, take a look behind the scenes at @SawmillSports Hub in Chicago, where the research team at @RushMedical is using #Theia3D to study sport-specific movement tasks. Interested in using markerless mocap to study soccer movement? Contact us today to bring …"
Agents & Automation

Michael Rabinovich

@MikushRab2026-06-23

"The harness can make a difference in AI for CAD. Below: same LLM (Opus 4.8) with different harnesses. Looking forward to see more progress without waiting for a new LLM version :) (Good job @pzfreo) https://t.co/nHTyPUCgCQ"
LLMs & Reasoning

TAngraFX

@TAngraFX2026-06-23

"One click animation from marker less video using MotionGen. #b3d #blender3d #animation https://t.co/BUGeKpJtmQ"
Coding AI

Garrett Johnson

@garrettkjohnson2026-06-23

"3DTilesRendererJS suddenly hitting almost 35k downloads a week? Over 7x growth for the year - where is this coming from? https://t.co/PGQWT2cbEv"
3D & Gaussian Splatting

T.Yamazaki

@ZappyZappy72026-06-23

"『移動型ロボットと人(選手)によるバドミントンの長時間ラリー(1,452回)』 このロボットは自律的に動き、弾道を予測し、正確にショットを打ち返す🏸🤖 https://t.co/HkimPiQ1X8 #badminton #mobile #robot #PhysicalAI #WorldRecords #GuinnessWorldRecords #GWR #ギネス #世界記録 https://t.co/Xs0S0eAR0z"
Coding AI

Reid Hannaford

@reidhannaford2026-06-23

"I'm blown away. This AI filmmaking workflow for precise camera control, multiple characters, and dialogue is insane: 1. Generate a start frame in Midjourney 2. Match the poses in Blender, animate the camera 3. Feed both to Seedance I didn't think this would work. Two consistent …"
Agents & Automation

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A selected stack of open-source tools, frameworks, and reference repos I actively track, test, and apply.

PixelRAG

StarTrail-org

Vision value comes from decision quality under edge cases, not average-case demos. Signal: Web scraping will never be the same. (100% open-source visual search at scale) PixelRAG is a retrieval system that skips HTML parsing comp…

visionvision

deer-flow

bytedance

Automation is valuable when the workflow is reliable and measurable, not when the demo is flashy. Signal: COMPANY BEHIND TIKTOK JUST OPEN SOURCED AN AI AGENT THAT DOES YOUR WHOLE JOB FOR YOU China doesn't miss 😳 everyone's been …

agentsagentscoding

ComfyUI_in_FiftyOne

harpreetsahota204

Developer AI gains matter when they reduce lead time without increasing production defects. Signal: a month from now you'll look at a comfyui output and have no idea what produced it the prompt is gone. the seed is gone. the work…

codingcodingagentsllm

rf-detr

roboflow

Developer AI gains matter when they reduce lead time without increasing production defects. Signal: RF-DETR Keypoints also introduces per-joint uncertainty zones Small dot = high confidence, big blob = higher uncertainty https://…

codingcoding

agent-canvas

OpenHands

Automation is valuable when the workflow is reliable and measurable, not when the demo is flashy. Signal: If you want to try it out, here's the link: - https://t.co/9nZMkS350R Fully open source, MIT licensed, hack away and contri…

agentsagents

headroom

chopratejas

Developer AI gains matter when they reduce lead time without increasing production defects. Signal: 🚨 A Netflix engineer built an open-source proxy that cuts AI token usage by 60-95%. Zero code changes. Benchmarks show ±0.000 ac…

codingcodingllm

knowledge-catalog

GoogleCloudPlatform

Automation is valuable when the workflow is reliable and measurable, not when the demo is flashy. Signal: Introducing the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), an open specification that formalizes the LLM-wiki pattern into a portable, in…

agentsagentscodingllm

dair-academy-plugins

dair-ai

Automation is valuable when the workflow is reliable and measurable, not when the demo is flashy. Signal: I just open-sourced my /learn skill. Learn anything with agents and HTML artifacts. I have been learning about all kinds of…

agentsagents

a-stock-data

simonlin1212

Model selection should start from latency, cost, and integration constraints rather than benchmark hype. Signal: 终于有人把 A 股 + 美港股 免费数据源彻底打通了! 两个极其硬核的GitHub开源项目,把原本散落在几十个源头的原始数据源,全部整合成一套 AI 直接能用的完整数据仓库。 从此,彻底告别繁琐的接口对接、反爬虫折磨和昂贵的数据费。…

llmllmagents

global-stock-data

simonlin1212

Model selection should start from latency, cost, and integration constraints rather than benchmark hype. Signal: 终于有人把 A 股 + 美港股 免费数据源彻底打通了! 两个极其硬核的GitHub开源项目,把原本散落在几十个源头的原始数据源,全部整合成一套 AI 直接能用的完整数据仓库。 从此,彻底告别繁琐的接口对接、反爬虫折磨和昂贵的数据费。…

llmllmagents

ponytail

DietrichGebert

Automation is valuable when the workflow is reliable and measurable, not when the demo is flashy. Signal: A dev got so frustrated watching his AI agent write 500 lines for a 5-line problem that he built a fix. He called it Ponyta…

agentsagentscoding

skills

samirpatil2000

Developer AI gains matter when they reduce lead time without increasing production defects. Signal: Cool — we actually built something similar as an open-source skill using OpenCode CLI. Same idea: fan out to multiple models in p…

codingcoding

improve

shadcn

Model selection should start from latency, cost, and integration constraints rather than benchmark hype. Signal: In light of what happened, I'm doubling down on skills like /improve. A frontier model got pulled. If it happened on…

llmllm

effective-html

plannotator

Developer AI gains matter when they reduce lead time without increasing production defects. Signal: 给编码智能体用的 HTML 技能,专门生成简洁的架构图、计划页和视觉文档。 https://t.co/rrYGQlWbYJ effective-html 是一套给智能体用的 HTML 技能,专门做自包含的、好看的 HTML 交付物。三个子技能:html 做通…

codingcoding

coreai-models

apple

Model selection should start from latency, cost, and integration constraints rather than benchmark hype. Signal: Apple finally did it. Its new framework, Core AI, runs models entirely on Apple silicon, so inference happens on the…

llmllmcodingroboticsvision

Updated 2026-05-31 by Mehran Mozaffari.