AI Tools & Agents
Claude solved a 25-year-old cryptographic mystery: the seed values for the NIST ECDSA curves came from a 1990s C library random-number generator initialized with Unix timestamps, not a malicious backdoor. Link
Glimpse: a model built for visual reasoning. Elorian's model revisits images and video, tracks objects, and uses visual tools while reasoning. Promising demos for video analysis and robotics, but the performance claims come from the company's own evaluations. Link
Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion are in beta, and Docs, Slides and Design are now on every plan, including Free. Link
Open SWE from LangChain: an open-source cloud software factory. Link
Reason Network: a free, open-source, peer-to-peer engine that lets Claude Code, Codex and other agents talk to each other so teammates' agents don't collide. Link
shop.md lets any agent search products, check out with Shop Pay and track orders. Link
TencentDB Agent Memory: a team-level memory hub for agents that turns chats, docs and code into four shareable memory assets (Chat Memory, Skill, LLM-Wiki, Code-Graph). Link
AgentMail put 25 AI agents to work on its own email API; where they failed shows what every agentic tool needs to get right. Link
Ultramarine 1 Flash from Paper Instruments: scaling non-verifiable RL across finance, law, consulting and operations work. Link
Keshav's agent trick: keep chat-index.md and folder-map.md where every agent can read them, then start a fresh session with "Read the chat where I was working on [project]" instead of resuming. Link
Crypto & Web3
Blur is shutting down its NFT marketplace frontend and stopping new Blend loan matching on November 12, while the protocol keeps running on-chain and $BLUR keeps control of the fee switch. Link
Farcaster governance vote: stay and build a techno-optimist community with the Network School core team, with a Singapore-like code to keep the app positive-sum. Link
An AI agent's $20 Kalshi account, with an exact reward model. Link
Future(s) of Compute: a take on whether compute futures can do what commodity markets were designed to do. Link
A new Telegram bot, @PolyRadarXbot, tracks all activity on Polymarket for active traders. Link
Mindset & Ideas
Taste. Link
George Pólya's 1945 four-step method (understand, plan, carry out, look back) still works, especially with AI. Use the Claude tutor prompt to train your own problem-solving, not just to get answers.
"I'm sorry, but you still have to think." Link
Don't diagnose your opponents. Link
How to build wealth as a career person: do not despise the nine to five. Link
Your prompt… plus everything you've ever (publicly) written: frontier models increasingly see more than the words on the page. Link
Cutting debugging time when you code with AI: make it explain the bug before touching the fix, write the failing test first, and never merge what you can't explain to a coworker.
People give you what they are, not what you deserve. What you deserve you give yourself.
Privacy & Security
Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts. Link
Mozilla introduces Firefox Enterprise. Link
Rattlegram: texting over amateur radio using available software. Link
Zero-click spyware delivered via targeted ads: Citizen Lab's AdFection research. Link
Prompt injection in HTTP headers: what 217M web responses show. Link
Midnight Mimosa: Bitdefender found malware preinstalled in firmware on low-cost MediaTek Android phones, and it can't be uninstalled. Link
Cloudflare Appstore (Appflare) audit: 139 catalog entries, 138 shipped bundles, and two apps whose outbound data sharing deserves a closer look. Link
"Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them." (HN-front-page argument, 1,125 pts; Scott Helme replied that they're not.) Link
Warden Stealer: a fast-rising Rust infostealer with an appetite for AI agent data. Link
How abliterated models can get you pwned: a small open model poisoned for under $50 ran through Codex CLI and exfiltrated project credentials when a hidden trigger appeared. Link
Misc Worth Reading
Redesigning source control at Anthropic. Link
Using AI to reverse engineer hardware. Link
You could have invented transformers from memory. Link
Why harnesses matter for energy (and token) efficiency. Link
Danielle Morrill on how her agents use her passwords: eight Claude Code sessions run her company's build loop around the clock. Link
tldraw's non-technical guide to shipping internal tools you built with Codex. Link
One in ten people are older than 65; three in four live under a leader who is. Link
wifi-sensing-kit: teach three $10 ESP32-S3 boards to recognise what you're doing from WiFi alone, with your webcam as the teacher. Link
Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity. Link
Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster. Link
From Hacker News
Things to know when you get cancer - 1872 pts. Link
Gemini 4 Argon - 1456 pts. Link
Tesla Roadster - 1075 pts. Link
Do dentists know what they're doing? - 961 pts. Link
Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts - 939 pts. Link
How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet - 932 pts. Link
Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe - 908 pts. Link
OpenCode 2.0 - 856 pts. Link
Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts - 791 pts. Link
AI is a tool and using it well takes skill - 786 pts. Link
That's a wrap. See you next Sunday - kazani
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