Stories by simonw

The Minimum Viable Unit of Saleable Software

I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit

Show HN: Datasette Agent

Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain

Extract PDF text in the browser with LiteParse for the web

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7

Anthropic's Project Glasswing sounds necessary to me

Mr. Chatterbox is a (weak) Victorian-era ethically trained model

Ask HN: What are you using to run dev environments safely on macOS these days?

Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments

AI should help us produce better code

Something is afoot in the land of Qwen

Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built

StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

Distributing Go binaries like SQLite-scanner through PyPI using go-to-wheel

The Voxel Is a Cutting-Edge Theater Experiment

ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files

Glimpses of the Future: Speed and Swarms

Fly's Sprites.dev addresses dev environment sandboxes and API sandboxes together

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