Claude Code Routines
Anthropic introduced Claude Code Routines, a cloud‑hosted automation feature that bundles a prompt, repositories, and connectors into a reusable task. Routines can be triggered on a schedule, via an API call, or by GitHub events, and multiple triggers may be combined for complex workflows. The feature is available on Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans and counts against a user’s daily run allowance. Management is handled through the web UI, CLI, or Desktop app, with full visibility into runs and usage limits.
Let's Talk Space Toilets
Space toilet technology has evolved from primitive Apollo waste bags to the International Space Station’s sophisticated water‑recycling system, but challenges remain. Early designs relied on suction and antimicrobial powders, while the Shuttle introduced narrow‑opening fans that still produced odor issues....
Building a CLI for All of Cloudflare
Cloudflare unveiled a technical preview of a revamped Wrangler CLI, branded as cf, aiming to expose the entire Cloudflare API surface through a single command‑line tool. The new CLI is built on a custom TypeScript schema that auto‑generates commands, configuration files,...
Claude.ai Down
Anthropic reported that Claude.ai is currently offline, with the incident posted on April 13, 2026 at 15:40 UTC. The status page lists the issue as under investigation and notes that the outage affects the entire Claude.ai service. No estimated time for...
Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket Bot that Always Buys No on Non-Sports Markets
An open‑source async Python bot named "nothing_happens" scans Polymarket’s standalone non‑sports yes/no markets and automatically places No orders below a configurable price cap. The bot includes a safety model that only enables real order transmission when three environment flags and...
Microsoft Isn't Removing Copilot From Windows 11, It's Just Renaming It
Microsoft removed the Copilot label from the Notepad app in the latest Windows 11 Insider build, replacing it with a generic writing icon and renaming the AI setting to “Advanced features.” The underlying AI writing assistance—rewrite, summarization, tone adjustment—remains active and...
US Appeals Court Declares 158-Year-Old Home Distilling Ban Unconstitutional
An 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel declared the 158‑year‑old federal prohibition on home distilling unconstitutional, siding with the Hobby Distillers Association and four of its members. The court held that the ban is an improper means for Congress...
All Elementary Functions From a Single Binary Operator
Andrzej Odrzywolek demonstrates that a single binary operator, eml(x,y)=exp(x)−ln(y), together with the constant 1, can generate the full suite of elementary functions used in scientific calculators. The paper shows explicit constructions for constants such as e, π, i, and for arithmetic operations including addition, multiplication,...
European AI. A Playbook to Own It. By Mistral
Mistral AI’s new whitepaper, "European AI. A playbook to own it," outlines a concrete roadmap for turning Europe’s academic excellence, human‑centric ethos, and 450‑million‑person single market into a self‑reliant AI powerhouse. It proposes ten‑plus actionable measures—including an EU AI compliance...
The Closing of the Frontier
Anthropic announced Project Glasswing, releasing its flagship Mythos model only to a handful of enterprise partners such as Microsoft, Cisco and CrowdStrike. The author argues this marks the closure of an AI frontier, creating a neofeudal divide where powerful intelligence...
Show HN: BoringBar – a Taskbar-Style Dock Replacement for macOS
Show HN introduces boringBar, a taskbar‑style dock replacement for macOS Sonoma and later. The app reorganizes windows by desktop, offers instant thumbnails, a searchable launcher, and one‑click desktop switching, while optionally hiding the native Dock. Users can trial the full...
Show HN: Oberon System 3 Runs Natively on Raspberry Pi 3 (with Ready SD Card)
Developer rochus‑keller released a native Raspberry Pi 3b build of the Oberon System 3, providing a ready‑to‑flash 10.5 MB SD‑card image. The package includes boot files, a pre‑compiled Linux x64 toolchain and scripts, allowing a full build in under a minute on a modern laptop....
Small Models Also Found the Vulnerabilities that Mythos Found
Anthropic unveiled Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing, pledging $100 M in usage credits and $4 M to open‑source security groups while claiming the model autonomously discovered and exploited thousands of zero‑day bugs. AIS AI researcher Stan Fort tested the showcased vulnerabilities on inexpensive,...
A Communist Apple II and Fourteen Years of Not Knowing What You're Testing
The article uses the Bulgarian Pravetz Apple II clone and the 14‑year mystery of the ISCAS‑85 benchmark circuits to illustrate the power of reverse engineering. It recounts how engineers in the Eastern Bloc rebuilt an Apple II from schematics, and how researchers...
Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer
Bild AI, a Y Combinator W25 startup, is hiring a founding product engineer to build its AI‑driven blueprint reading platform. The full‑time role in San Francisco offers a $100K‑$180K salary and 0.20‑0.80% equity, covering React/TypeScript frontend and Python backend work. Candidates...
