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Superhuman Docs (formerly Coda) vs. Notion: Which is best? [2026]
I've been using Notion to take notes and organize my life for a few years now. As you might expect with a popular app like Notion, there are quite a few alternatives these days. Superhuman Docs…
Read original →Zapier vs. Tray comparison: Which is best for enterprise automation? [2026]
It's easy to let edge cases influence your decision-making—thinking you need the most technical tool for the few times your developers will want to code their way out of a tough problem. And with enterprise software,…
Read original →Gilbert + Tobin rethinks the business of law with AI
A conversation with Sam Nickless, Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Gilbert + Tobin.
Read original →Helsing built an AI system that prepares targets for weapons systems and says every decision will carry a human name
Helsing has unveiled Clarity, an AI platform that uses agents to distill sensor data into target recommendations for weapons systems, all under human oversight and European control. But experience from the Iran war, Gaza, and a…
Read original →Anthropic says AI is eroding Nvidia's CUDA lead, cutting an AMD chip switch from months to three days
Anthropic claims it used AI itself to breach Nvidia's CUDA moat. The company's in-house model Mythos reportedly ported Claude to AMD GPUs in just three days, with almost no human intervention. Anthropic now runs Claude on…
Read original →WordCamp Asia 2027 Is Coming to Penang
Next year, WordCamp Asia 2027 heads to Penang, Malaysia. From April 9 to 11, the WordPress community will gather at the Penang Waterfront Convention Centre for three days of contribution, learning, and connection. Tickets are on…
Read original →US data brokers are selling half a billion dollars in RL training environments to Chinese AI labs
US data brokers like Mercor, Surge AI, and AfterQuery are selling roughly half a billion dollars' worth of AI training data to Chinese labs, according to a ChinaTalk investigation. That includes the same RL environments previously…
Read original →DeepL wants real-time translation to finally capture sarcasm and mood shifts
DeepL Voice's real-time translations are about to sound a lot more natural. The company's new Aure model carries over tone, emotion, emphasis, and speaking pace from the original speaker's voice into the target language. The article…
Read original →The 100 Most Mentioned Brands in ChatGPT (November 2026)
We counted how many of 5.5 million US ChatGPT answers mention each brand. Walmart comes first, named in 95,605 answers, almost twice as many as second-placed Target. Stores take six of the top 10 spots. Carmakers…
Read original →#241 – Tiffany Farriss on Drupal Funding, Community, and a Shared Journey With WordPress
Tiffany Farriss joined the podcast to talk about the sustainability issues affecting open source communities, drawing from her experience with the Drupal Association. Tiffany is currently the interim CEO of the Drupal Association, and is the…
Read original →Grok-built apps exposed patient data, plaintext passwords, and SpaceXSI's own sales pipeline
Security firm Claroc found more than 35,000 Grok-built apps open to anyone without login, including patient data and confidential SpaceXSI documents. The cause: "Anyone with the link" was preselected as the default access setting. SpaceXSI took…
Read original →[AINews] Mercor $750m Series D at $20B valuation, $3B run rate
November 10, 2026 — Google GA's Gemini 4 Carbon.
Read original →AI / coding tools.
Model updates, AI coding tools, agents, APIs, and practical AI shifts.
Gilbert + Tobin rethinks the business of law with AI
A conversation with Sam Nickless, Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Gilbert + Tobin.
Read original →Helsing built an AI system that prepares targets for weapons systems and says every decision will carry a human name
Helsing has unveiled Clarity, an AI platform that uses agents to distill sensor data into target recommendations for weapons systems, all under human oversight and European control. But experience from the Iran war, Gaza, and a…
Read original →Anthropic says AI is eroding Nvidia's CUDA lead, cutting an AMD chip switch from months to three days
Anthropic claims it used AI itself to breach Nvidia's CUDA moat. The company's in-house model Mythos reportedly ported Claude to AMD GPUs in just three days, with almost no human intervention. Anthropic now runs Claude on…
Read original →US data brokers are selling half a billion dollars in RL training environments to Chinese AI labs
US data brokers like Mercor, Surge AI, and AfterQuery are selling roughly half a billion dollars' worth of AI training data to Chinese labs, according to a ChinaTalk investigation. That includes the same RL environments previously…
Read original →DeepL wants real-time translation to finally capture sarcasm and mood shifts
DeepL Voice's real-time translations are about to sound a lot more natural. The company's new Aure model carries over tone, emotion, emphasis, and speaking pace from the original speaker's voice into the target language. The article…
Read original →Grok-built apps exposed patient data, plaintext passwords, and SpaceXSI's own sales pipeline
Security firm Claroc found more than 35,000 Grok-built apps open to anyone without login, including patient data and confidential SpaceXSI documents. The cause: "Anyone with the link" was preselected as the default access setting. SpaceXSI took…
Read original →Web development.
Frontend, PHP/LAMP, browser, platform, and developer tooling updates.
UUID Request Input and Migration Failure Events in Laravel 13.42
Laravel 13.42 adds uuid() and ulid() input helpers, a MigrationFailed event, skip reasons for scheduled tasks, and Uri::origin() for comparing URL origins. The post UUID Request Input and Migration Failure Events in Laravel 13.42 appeared first…
Read original →WordPress watch.
WordPress core, plugin, developer, and ecosystem updates worth noticing.
WordCamp Asia 2027 Is Coming to Penang
Next year, WordCamp Asia 2027 heads to Penang, Malaysia. From April 9 to 11, the WordPress community will gather at the Penang Waterfront Convention Centre for three days of contribution, learning, and connection. Tickets are on…
Read original →#241 – Tiffany Farriss on Drupal Funding, Community, and a Shared Journey With WordPress
Tiffany Farriss joined the podcast to talk about the sustainability issues affecting open source communities, drawing from her experience with the Drupal Association. Tiffany is currently the interim CEO of the Drupal Association, and is the…
Read original →Tools / GitHub.
GitHub, repos, changelogs, infrastructure, and useful software signals.
Greg Kurtzer's Ginux is now a userspace kernel
Show HN: Black Ops II statically recompiled to native ARM64 macOS
Protecting SSH Keys with macOS Secure Enclave
To deter bioterrorism, U.S. imposes new rules on ordering synthetic DNA
A great old-timey game-programming hack (2013)
GitHub App support for Enterprise Copilot seat management
Enterprise GitHub Apps can now call the enterprise-level Copilot seat management APIs to control which users and enterprise teams are assigned Copilot seats. The Copilot seat management APIs are accessible… The post GitHub App support for…
Read original →Automation / SaaS.
Automation, small SaaS, product, and business-tech updates.
Superhuman Docs (formerly Coda) vs. Notion: Which is best? [2026]
I've been using Notion to take notes and organize my life for a few years now. As you might expect with a popular app like Notion, there are quite a few alternatives these days. Superhuman Docs…
Read original →Zapier vs. Tray comparison: Which is best for enterprise automation? [2026]
It's easy to let edge cases influence your decision-making—thinking you need the most technical tool for the few times your developers will want to code their way out of a tough problem. And with enterprise software,…
Read original →Reddit Reviews
Product pages that collect subreddit sentiment Discussion | Link
Read original →Mister Blocks
Take a picture of your LEGO and AI will make a build Discussion | Link
Read original →RigSpark
Know which AI to run on your own computer Discussion | Link
Read original →Earlybird
29M-param speech-to-text that outputs words before they end Discussion | Link
Read original →Other useful links.
Additional items that did not fit the main buckets but may still be worth a look.
Experience the art and legacy of Dr. Esther Mahlangu
A new online archive of Esther Mahlangu’s life and art is now on Google Arts & Culture.
Read original →BotPsy: On-Device Personal Assistant with a Sub-Billion-Parameter Agentic Language Model
AI Engineer Code Summit: OpenAI on New Ways of Working With Codex
On the first day of AIE Code Summit, OpenAI showed how developers can steer Codex by voice, hand off work to the cloud, and make use of dots.
Read original →Microservices best practices every automation engineer should know
Discover microservices best practices to build resilient systems. Learn what the best patterns look like and how workflow automation fits into the process.
Read original →Batch processing patterns for workflow automation at scale
Learn batch processing patterns for scalable workflows, including chunking, rate limits, retries. Discover the tools that put these patterns into practice.
Read original →OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a business directory with AI agents that handle customer questions
OpenAI is opening up ChatGPT as a business platform: through a new Business Hub, companies can claim their profile, add product data, and track how users interact with them. "Business Agents" let eligible US e-commerce providers…
Read original →llm-gemini 0.36
Release: llm-gemini 0.36 Gemini 4 Carbon was announced two weeks ago for "a subset of cyber defenders", but today it's available to everyone else. This is Google's best ever Gemini, priced at $2/million input and $10/million…
Read original →Designing for Agents — Zeno Rocha, Resend
Where does answer engine optimization (AEO) end and agent experience begin? Inside Resend, from the docs that help Claude Code pick an email API to the tools it uses to send.
Read original →Anthropic turns Claude into a full workspace with Plugins, spreadsheets, whiteboards, and soon Meeting notes
Anthropic is expanding Claude with Sheets, Whiteboards, and Interactive Connectors, letting partners like Adobe and Atlassian embed their apps directly inside Claude. Anthropic says Claude Meetings, which can join calls and take notes, is coming soon.…
Read original →Gemini 4 Carbon in GitHub Copilot
Gemini 4 Carbon, Google’s latest model, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for complex coding, agentic, and reasoning tasks, with a focus on secure code generation… The post Gemini 4 Carbon in…
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