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Simon Willison’s Weblog

Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails

First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s general agent

TIL from taking Neon I at the Crucible

The Developing Dev

New Grad to Principal Engineer (IC8) at Meta (Career Story)

Open Source Projects - Latest Discoveries

Simplify in-app purchases across all Apple platforms with this Open-source tool
Automate unit test generation for Python with open-source and search-based techniques
Build and verify robotics models with C++ simulation
Automate meeting notes and agenda management with open-source
Deploy a fast and open-source spam filtering system for email servers
The first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind
An open-source experiment where pull requests are decided by community vote.
Motorola 680x0 emulator written in C
A completely vibecoded operating system targeting Aarch64
Open‑source cloud desktop with multi‑storage fusion and web IDE
Automate website data extraction with AI-guided crawling using this open-source repository
Capture and download web video streams from your browser with this open-source tool

Hacker News: Best

🔥 Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work
🔥 Postal Arbitrage
🔥 TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
🔥 Apple picks Google’s Gemini to power Siri
💬 Date is out, Temporal is in
💬 LLVM: The bad parts
🔥 Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
🔥 Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in the US
🔥 Xfce is great
💬 Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome F. Powell [video]

DEV Community

Garbage In, Powerhouse Out? (Nope.) Why Your Data Foundation Matters More Than AI
10 AI Attacks. 10 Blocked. 0 Lines of Code Written.
Stop Tab-Switching: Push Claude Code Updates to Your Phone with ntfy
Build an Influencer Outreach CRM with Auto-Enrichment
Coding Challenge Practice - Question 101
Zig vs Go: init and run
From Zero to SQS Lambda in 15 Minutes
SwiftUI Error Recovery & Retry Systems (Resilient Architecture)
AWS Graviton migration with Kiro CLI and the Arm MCP server
Infrastructure for Extensible Multi-Stage Workflows Across Multiple Data Types
Measuring What Matters: Adding Multiple Dimension Sets to AWS Lambda Powertools
Login with Google on an iPhone (Local Metro server + Dev Build) - Part 4/7: Google Cloud Console