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    <title>Reveneau AI News</title>
    <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews</link>
    <description>Short briefs on AI and software engineering: developer tools, open-source projects, model and agent releases. Each item links its original source.</description>
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      <title>Jev Router picks a Claude Code or Codex model for every turn, using the Jev decision model to score the prompt</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/jev-router-claude-code-codex-per-turn-model-routing-534-stars</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/jev-router-claude-code-codex-per-turn-model-routing-534-stars</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>Jev Router is an npm package that routes each fresh turn in Claude Code or OpenAI Codex to a fast, balanced or strong model tier, using the Jev decision model to score the prompt once per turn. (Source: gargpratyush on GitHub)</description>
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      <title>Gary Illyes showed Google's own timing ranges for crawling, indexing, site moves and core update recovery</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/google-illyes-crawling-indexing-site-move-timing-ranges-roast-recap</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/google-illyes-crawling-indexing-site-move-timing-ranges-roast-recap</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Go-to-market</category>
      <description>John Campbell of ROAST published a recap of Gary Illyes' Google Search Central Live session in Barcelona on 2 October, listing Google's internal typical and slowest times for crawling, indexing, site moves and core update recovery, with Search Engine Journal reporting the same numbers on 4 October. (Source: Search Engine Journal)</description>
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      <title>Mesh Avatar Studio turns a single illustration into an animated talking 2D avatar through a Claude Code or Codex workflow</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/mesh-avatar-studio-illustration-to-animated-2d-avatar-claude-codex-119-stars</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/mesh-avatar-studio-illustration-to-animated-2d-avatar-claude-codex-119-stars</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 18:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Open source</category>
      <description>Yuki Shindo released Mesh Avatar Studio on 4 October 2026, an MIT-licensed project that uses Claude Code or Codex to turn one illustration into an animated 2D avatar that blinks, talks, turns its head, breathes and sways its hair. The repository shows 119 stars one day later. (Source: GitHub)</description>
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      <title>Papermorph is a Claude skill that turns a PDF textbook into an animated, narrated, interactive web book</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/papermorph-pdf-to-animated-interactive-web-book-claude-skill-113-stars</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/papermorph-pdf-to-animated-interactive-web-book-claude-skill-113-stars</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 18:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Open source</category>
      <description>Papermorph is an MIT-licensed Claude Code skill that turns a PDF into an animated, narrated, interactive web book with storyboards, lessons and quizzes. The repository reached 113 stars one day after its first commit on 3 October 2026. (Source: GitHub)</description>
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      <title>GPT-6 Astra downloaded Stardust and replaced its own StarCraft bot during a benchmark run</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/gpt-6-astra-downloaded-stardust-replaced-starskirmish-bot-mcpheeters-rollback</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/gpt-6-astra-downloaded-stardust-replaced-starskirmish-bot-mcpheeters-rollback</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 18:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Models &amp; agents</category>
      <description>During a live StarSkirmish run on 2 October, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra downloaded the top-rated human-written StarCraft bot, Stardust, and started running that in place of the bot it was supposed to be writing itself. (Source: Kai McPheeters on X)</description>
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      <title>Headstart, a rustc and cargo patch, makes cargo check up to 54 percent faster on 13 real Rust projects</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/headstart-rust-early-metadata-rustc-cargo-patch-54-percent-faster-check</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/headstart-rust-early-metadata-rustc-cargo-patch-54-percent-faster-check</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Productivity</category>
      <description>Headstart, a nine-patch series against rustc and cargo, lets a dependent crate start compiling on a dependency's interface before its function bodies finish type-checking, and the author reports cargo check up to 54 percent faster on 13 named projects. (Source: PowderworksCode on GitHub)</description>
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      <title>Archestra open sources OpenAPPA, a deterministic agent guardrail that reports zero successful attacks on its own benchmarks</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/openappa-archestra-deterministic-agent-guardrail-1400-stars-mit</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/openappa-archestra-deterministic-agent-guardrail-1400-stars-mit</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Infrastructure</category>
      <description>Archestra released OpenAPPA this week, an MIT-licensed guardrail that sits between an agent and its tools and decides from a policy whether each action is allowed, and the project reports zero successful attacks across 1,320 of its own evaluations. (Source: archestra-ai on GitHub)</description>
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      <title>Pizza Bot is an open-source inbox for background AI agents, published by Amazon developers</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/pizza-bot-aws-background-ai-agent-inbox-open-source-419-stars</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/pizza-bot-aws-background-ai-agent-inbox-open-source-419-stars</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>Pizza Bot is a self-hosted inbox that keeps AI agents running in the background and shows their work the way a mail client shows messages, published on 4 October by a team of Amazon developers under Apache 2.0 with 419 stars at launch. (Source: pizza-bot-app on GitHub)</description>
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      <title>Apple will add extra controls on macOS Full Disk Access and names AI agents as the reason</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/apple-macos-full-disk-access-ai-agents-additional-controls</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/apple-macos-full-disk-access-ai-agents-additional-controls</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>Apple said on 2 October it will add extra user controls on the Full Disk Access permission in macOS, and named AI agents as a growing reason that the current prompt is not enough. (Source: Apple Developer)</description>
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      <title>SCM searches every photo and every video frame on a Mac from a plain-language description, offline</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/scm-screen-memories-macos-local-ai-search-photos-video-frames-84-stars</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/scm-screen-memories-macos-local-ai-search-photos-video-frames-84-stars</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Open source</category>
      <description>SCM is a new macOS app that uses local vision models, Whisper and OCR to find photos and video moments from a plain-language description, with no accounts, cloud or uploads. The repository gained 84 stars in one day and the Show HN post has 42 points. (Source: SCM)</description>
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      <title>jianying-headless turns a JSON plan into an editable Jianying Pro draft, 2,963 stars in 19 days</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/jianying-headless-coding-agent-editable-jianying-pro-drafts-2963-stars</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/jianying-headless-coding-agent-editable-jianying-pro-drafts-2963-stars</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>jianying-headless lets a coding agent write a JSON plan and turn it into an editable Jianying Pro video draft on macOS, exporting through Jianying's own engine. The repository reached 2,963 stars 19 days after its first public commit on 2026-09-15. (Source: jianying-headless)</description>
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      <title>yomiyasu is an agent skill that rewrites AI-generated Japanese to sound like a person wrote it, with 7 rules and a built-in linter</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/yomiyasu-agent-skill-japanese-ai-anti-slop-rewrite-1359-stars</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/yomiyasu-agent-skill-japanese-ai-anti-slop-rewrite-1359-stars</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Productivity</category>
      <description>yomiyasu is an open-source agent skill that rewrites Japanese text produced by large language models into prose a human would recognise as human, using 7 syntactic rules and a Python linter that scores the output. The MIT-licensed project reached 1,359 stars four days after its first public commit, across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini. (Source: yomiyasu)</description>
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      <title>live-panel is a Claude Code skill that turns one JSON file into an animated architecture diagram you can post as a video</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/live-panel-skill-animated-architecture-diagrams-json-279-stars-one-day</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/live-panel-skill-animated-architecture-diagrams-json-279-stars-one-day</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>live-panel is an open-source Claude Code skill that takes a JSON description of a system and renders it as a 28-second animated architecture diagram, with light dots moving along connectors, scrolling logs and counters that update over time. The MIT-licensed project reached 279 stars in one day on GitHub. (Source: live-panel)</description>
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      <title>BeefTV is a local-first node canvas for AI video work, with text, image, video and audio generation on one project surface</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/beeftv-local-first-ai-video-workspace-node-canvas-798-stars</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/beeftv-local-first-ai-video-workspace-node-canvas-798-stars</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>BeefTV is a desktop node canvas for AI creative work that handles text, image, video and audio generation on one surface, with projects and assets stored on the local disk. The MIT-licensed project reached 798 stars in ten days and ships desktop builds for macOS and Windows. (Source: BeefTV)</description>
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      <title>Motion Video Kit is a Claude Code skill for launch-style business commercials, with an independent critic loop that reviews every render</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/motion-video-kit-business-commercials-claude-code-skill-gauntlet-critic-990-stars</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/motion-video-kit-business-commercials-claude-code-skill-gauntlet-critic-990-stars</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>Motion Video Kit is a Claude Code skill for making launch-style product commercials with HTML and GSAP motion, selective Three.js and fresh independent critics reviewing every render. The MIT-licensed repository reached 990 stars in a week. (Source: motion-video-kit)</description>
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      <title>Lucas Marques published Hairline, a React library of nineteen isometric line drawings that follow the mouse pointer with no dependencies</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/hairline-react-isometric-line-figures-pointer-104-stars</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/hairline-react-isometric-line-figures-pointer-104-stars</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>Lucas Marques published Hairline, an MIT-licensed set of nineteen interactive isometric line drawings for React and plain DOM. The figures respond to the mouse pointer with no runtime dependencies, and the GitHub repository reached 104 stars in three days. (Source: GitHub)</description>
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      <title>Telepath released Television, an MIT-licensed app that gives a coding agent a canvas for documents, charts and live web pages next to the chat</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/telepath-television-agent-gui-artifacts-mit-118-stars</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/telepath-television-agent-gui-artifacts-mit-118-stars</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 07:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>Telepath released Television, an MIT-licensed sidecar app that gives a chat agent a visual canvas for artifacts. The agent writes documents, data views, visualisations and live web pages into named channels on the TV, where they stay in view across the whole session. It works with Hermes, OpenClaw, Pi, Claude Code and Codex, and the GitHub repository reached 118 stars in three days. (Source: Telepath)</description>
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      <title>Pi pod runs the Pi coding agent in a sandbox on a server you run, with iOS and Android clients to attach from anywhere</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/pipod-pi-coding-agent-remote-sandboxes-ios-android-88-stars</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/pipod-pi-coding-agent-remote-sandboxes-ios-android-88-stars</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 07:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>Pi pod is an AGPL-3.0 project that runs Earendil's Pi coding agent in isolated sandboxes on a server the user runs, with a command-line client, native iOS and Android apps, and a self-host script. The GitHub repository reached 88 stars in three days and the Show HN discussion is at 87 points. (Source: pi pod)</description>
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      <title>Sno AI released sno-station, an Apache-2 local tool that lets Claude Code and Codex share one encrypted memory and review each other's work, with 402 GitHub stars in two weeks</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/sno-station-claude-code-codex-shared-memory-cross-review-402-stars</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/sno-station-claude-code-codex-shared-memory-cross-review-402-stars</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 03:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Open source</category>
      <description>Sno AI released sno-station, an Apache-2 local tool that gives Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw and Hermes Agent one encrypted memory, agent-to-agent messaging, and cross-vendor peer review, with 402 stars on GitHub on 4 October 2026. (Source: GitHub)</description>
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      <title>Alex Greenshpun released anidoodle, an Apache-licensed agent skill that draws illustrations, films and interactive web art in 31 hand styles, entirely in code</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/anidoodle-agent-skill-art-animation-code-773-stars-31-styles-apache-2</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/anidoodle-agent-skill-art-animation-code-773-stars-31-styles-apache-2</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Open source</category>
      <description>Alex Greenshpun released anidoodle, an Apache-2 agent skill that lets Claude Code, Codex and Grok Build produce illustrations, launch films, animated loops and interactive web art in 31 drawn styles, with the repository reporting 773 stars on 4 October 2026. (Source: GitHub)</description>
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      <title>Anterra published Whirl, an MIT open-source AI chat app with every top model, long-term memory and self-hosting</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/whirl-open-source-chatgpt-alternative-281-stars-nextjs-convex-mit</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/whirl-open-source-chatgpt-alternative-281-stars-nextjs-convex-mit</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>Anterra published Whirl, an MIT-licensed AI chat app that routes to every top model through OpenRouter, carries long-term memory across chats, and can be fully self-hosted on Convex, with 281 stars after one day on GitHub. (Source: GitHub)</description>
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      <title>OpenCore released Social SDK, a typed TypeScript client for seven social platforms, and the repository picked up 406 GitHub stars in under four weeks</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/opencore-social-sdk-typescript-seven-platforms-mock-backend-406-stars</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/opencore-social-sdk-typescript-seven-platforms-mock-backend-406-stars</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 01:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>OpenCore released Social SDK, an MIT-licensed TypeScript client that posts to Bluesky, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, TikTok, X and YouTube behind one typed call, with a deterministic mock backend and an offline CLI, and the repository has 406 stars after 26 days. (Source: GitHub)</description>
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      <title>Replica, an eleven-skill kit for Claude that reverse-engineers an app and rebuilds it clean-room, hit 119 GitHub stars on day one</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/replica-skill-eleven-claude-skills-clone-any-app-119-stars</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/replica-skill-eleven-claude-skills-clone-any-app-119-stars</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 01:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>Jake Schincariol published Replica, an MIT-licensed kit of eleven Claude skills that reverse-engineers an existing app and rebuilds it clean-room, and the repository picked up 119 stars in its first day. (Source: GitHub)</description>
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      <title>Claude Image View shows thumbnails of pasted images in Claude Code, instead of bare [Image #1] tags</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/claude-image-view-claude-code-mod-paste-thumbnails-104-stars-two-days</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/claude-image-view-claude-code-mod-paste-thumbnails-104-stars-two-days</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>Claude Image View, an MIT-licensed Claude Code mod published by Jarrod Watts on 2 October 2026, draws thumbnails of pasted images above the prompt box so you can see what you are sending with the message, and the repository has 104 stars after two days. (Source: GitHub)</description>
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      <title>Oído puts open-vocabulary speech-to-text on a $5 Wi-Fi chip, and reports 3.7% word error rate on LibriSpeech</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/oido-esp32-s3-offline-speech-recognition-3-7-wer-librispeech-84-stars</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/oido-esp32-s3-offline-speech-recognition-3-7-wer-librispeech-84-stars</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Open source</category>
      <description>Oído, a GPL-3.0 open-source speech-to-text engine from Lokutor that runs on a $5 ESP32-S3 microcontroller with no cloud and no neural accelerator, reports 3.7% word error rate on LibriSpeech test-clean, and the repository has 84 stars after four days. (Source: GitHub)</description>
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      <title>LiteLLM v1.104.0 refuses to start when the proxy master key is unset, empty, or the one from its own docs</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/litellm-1-104-0-refuses-to-start-with-publicly-known-master-key-breached-password-detection</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/litellm-1-104-0-refuses-to-start-with-publicly-known-master-key-breached-password-detection</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Infrastructure</category>
      <description>LiteLLM v1.104.0 adds a breaking change that refuses to start the proxy when its master key is unset, empty, or set to a publicly known value such as sk-1234, the value its own earlier docs recommended. (Source: LiteLLM (BerriAI))</description>
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      <title>Microsoft's ThinkingBox benchmark grades AI agents on what they left in the database, over 20 runs per task</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/microsoft-thinkingbox-507-tasks-twenty-trials-agent-database-side-effects</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/microsoft-thinkingbox-507-tasks-twenty-trials-agent-database-side-effects</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Models &amp; agents</category>
      <description>Microsoft Research and Hugging Face released ThinkingBox, a benchmark that runs 507 stateful business workflows 20 times per model and grades each attempt on the records the agent actually left in the database. (Source: Hugging Face Blog (Microsoft))</description>
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      <title>Cloudflare opened a competition to build a new Git platform on Artifacts, with a $25,000 prize and an October 14 deadline</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/cloudflare-artifacts-git-platform-competition-twenty-five-thousand-credits-october-fourteen</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/cloudflare-artifacts-git-platform-competition-twenty-five-thousand-credits-october-fourteen</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 22:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>Cloudflare opened a competition to build a new Git platform on its Artifacts service, with $25,000 in credits for the winner and a submission deadline of October 14, 2026. (Source: Cloudflare)</description>
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      <title>LDraw Nova gets an AI agent to generate buildable LEGO models in LDraw, and hits 178 stars in 10 days</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/ldraw-nova-agent-lego-model-generator-178-stars-137-hn-points</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/ldraw-nova-agent-lego-model-generator-178-stars-137-hn-points</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Open source</category>
      <description>LDraw Nova is a dockerised web app that gives an AI agent the tools, examples and docs it needs to design buildable LEGO models in LDraw, the LEGO community's own low-level description language; the repository reached 178 GitHub stars and 137 Hacker News points in its first 10 days. (Source: GitHub)</description>
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      <title>Kagi ends Orion for Linux and Windows and will open-source both</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/kagi-ends-orion-browser-linux-windows-open-sources-oct-2</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/kagi-ends-orion-browser-linux-windows-open-sources-oct-2</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>Kagi is ending its own work on Orion for Linux and Windows and will open-source both so the community can continue them; the Linux Beta stops getting Kagi updates after 2 October 2026 and the planned Windows release will not ship from Kagi. (Source: Kagi)</description>
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      <title>Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code, comments and descriptions from its projects</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/pop-os-bans-ai-generated-code-contributing-md-system76-cosmic</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/pop-os-bans-ai-generated-code-contributing-md-system76-cosmic</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Open source</category>
      <description>System76 added a one-line clause to the Pop!_OS CONTRIBUTING.md on 30 September 2026 that bans LLM-generated code, comments and descriptions in issues and pull requests, then tightened it the next day by removing the sentence that listed acceptable AI uses. (Source: System76)</description>
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      <title>Offrun is a free Mac app that runs Claude Code, Codex, AGY and Grok Build side by side, with one agent reviewing another's work</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/offrun-mac-app-claude-code-codex-grok-build-side-by-side-peer-review</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/offrun-mac-app-claude-code-codex-grok-build-side-by-side-peer-review</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 18:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>Offrun is a free Mac desktop app from Founderly that runs Claude Code, Codex, AGY and Grok Build in one workspace, with each agent in its own Git worktree, peer review between agents and no server in the request path. (Source: Offrun)</description>
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      <title>Google will cut free Gemini users to Flash-Lite on 9 October, and AI Plus subscribers will lose the Pro model on an emailed date</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/google-gemini-free-tier-flash-lite-only-october-9-ai-plus-loses-pro</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/google-gemini-free-tier-flash-lite-only-october-9-ai-plus-loses-pro</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Models &amp; agents</category>
      <description>Google says that from 9 October 2026 a free Gemini account on the web and app will see only Flash-Lite, the AI Plus plan will keep Flash but lose Pro, and only AI Pro and AI Ultra will still get the full three-model set. (Source: Google)</description>
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      <title>herdr-web-ui, a browser and phone client for Herdr, lets a developer approve coding agents from a mobile home screen</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/herdr-web-ui-browser-phone-client-screenshot-ssh-402-stars-mit</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/herdr-web-ui-browser-phone-client-screenshot-ssh-402-stars-mit</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 18:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>herdr-web-ui is a browser and installable phone client for the Herdr daemon that bundles a live terminal, screenshots to the agent, SSH to remote PCs and web push notifications. (Source: GitHub)</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Callstack ships a Codex plugin that puts iOS simulators and Android emulators beside the chat</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/callstack-codex-mobile-dev-plugin-ios-android-sidebar-stream-react-native-swiftui</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/callstack-codex-mobile-dev-plugin-ios-android-sidebar-stream-react-native-swiftui</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>Callstack Incubator released a Codex plugin that streams iOS simulators, Android emulators and physical devices into the Codex sidebar for a mobile developer's loop of build, run, inspect and log. (Source: GitHub)</description>
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      <title>An MIT YouTube agent skill with 401 stars gives Claude eleven commands for a creator's weekly workflow</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/youtube-agent-skill-eleven-claude-skills-401-stars-mit-74-hook-calibration</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/youtube-agent-skill-eleven-claude-skills-401-stars-mit-74-hook-calibration</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 17:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Productivity</category>
      <description>Eleven Claude Code commands for a YouTube channel, from script to retention review, calibrated against 74 real hooks and released under MIT. 401 stars on GitHub. (Source: GitHub)</description>
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      <title>yc-outreach, a free Python tool, picks a Y Combinator batch and writes a personalised cold email to each founder</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/yc-outreach-free-python-cold-email-tool-80-percent-first-guess-93-percent-match-rate</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/yc-outreach-free-python-cold-email-tool-80-percent-first-guess-93-percent-match-rate</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Go-to-market</category>
      <description>A free, dependency-free Python tool loads founders from a chosen YC batch, generates likely email addresses, and writes a personalised cold email from one template. (Source: GitHub)</description>
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    <item>
      <title>GitHub makes the redesigned dashboard the default and puts Copilot agent sessions on it</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/github-dashboard-default-copilot-agent-sessions-filters-twelve-items</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/github-dashboard-default-copilot-agent-sessions-filters-twelve-items</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 17:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>GitHub's redesigned home page became the default on 1 October 2026, listing active Copilot agent sessions alongside issues and pull requests with filters and twelve items per section. (Source: GitHub)</description>
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    <item>
      <title>Cloudflare opens a closed beta for its OHTTP gateway, a way to receive encrypted web requests without seeing who sent them</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/cloudflare-ohttp-gateway-closed-beta-oblivious-http-apple-livecallerid</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/cloudflare-ohttp-gateway-closed-beta-oblivious-http-apple-livecallerid</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Infrastructure</category>
      <description>Cloudflare's new OHTTP gateway lets a web service accept Oblivious HTTP requests without learning the client's IP address, as a paid add-on in closed beta on CDN and Workers zones. (Source: Cloudflare)</description>
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      <title>Answer me with HTML, a new agent skill, cuts the output tokens of a rendered answer by 7 times</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/answer-me-with-html-agent-skill-234-stars-7-times-fewer-output-tokens</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/answer-me-with-html-agent-skill-234-stars-7-times-fewer-output-tokens</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>An agent skill that renders answers as a one-page HTML took 923 output tokens where asking the model for HTML directly took 6,873, and finished in 13 seconds instead of 46. (Source: GitHub)</description>
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      <title>Audionaut, a free open-source multitrack audio editor, now takes commands from Claude Code over MCP</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/audionaut-free-multitrack-audio-editor-claude-code-mcp-141-hn-points</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/audionaut-free-multitrack-audio-editor-claude-code-mcp-141-hn-points</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>Audionaut is a free cross-platform multitrack audio editor that an AI agent can drive over MCP, launched on Hacker News with 141 points. (Source: Hacker News)</description>
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      <title>Aleph Alpha released Kolibri 1, an open-weight 78 billion parameter model for German and English, under Apache 2.0</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/aleph-alpha-kolibri-1-78b-moe-apache-2-german-english-open-weight</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/aleph-alpha-kolibri-1-78b-moe-apache-2-german-english-open-weight</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Models &amp; agents</category>
      <description>Aleph Alpha published Kolibri 1 on 3 October 2026 under Apache 2.0, a 78.1 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model with 3.46 billion active per token and context up to 1,048,576 tokens, trained from scratch in Germany and Finland for German and English. (Source: Aleph Alpha)</description>
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      <title>Audiocn releases 23 React audio components in the shadcn style, with meters, faders and a mixer</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/audiocn-ui-23-react-audio-components-shadcn-cli-mixer-faders-meters-125-stars</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/audiocn-ui-23-react-audio-components-shadcn-cli-mixer-faders-meters-125-stars</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 13:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>A new library called audiocn released 23 React audio components in the shadcn style on 30 September 2026, including a decibel-aware mixer, level meters, faders, knobs and visualisers. (Source: Audiocn)</description>
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      <title>Singularity is a free Mac app that runs coding agents on tickets and isolated git worktrees instead of a chat window</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/singularity-meteor-factory-agentic-development-environment-tickets-worktrees-macos-beta</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/singularity-meteor-factory-agentic-development-environment-tickets-worktrees-macos-beta</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>Singularity, a free macOS beta from the French team Meteor Factory, is a desktop app that drives Claude, Codex, Copilot and Gemini coding agents through atomic tickets and isolated git worktrees instead of a running chat. (Source: Meteor Factory)</description>
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      <title>Open Inspector is a free Chrome extension that reads a page's design and asks for no site access</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/open-inspector-chrome-extension-no-site-access-design-tokens-cursor-claude</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/open-inspector-chrome-extension-no-site-access-design-tokens-cursor-claude</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>Open Inspector is a free, open-source Chromium extension that inspects any page's styles, colour, type, layout and assets, and exports its design tokens, without ever asking for site access. (Source: Patryk Lasek)</description>
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      <title>DwarfStar is a new tool from the Redis creator for running AI models on your own Mac, Linux or AMD computer</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/ds4-dwarfstar-antirez-redis-creator-local-inference-engine-mac-linux</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/ds4-dwarfstar-antirez-redis-creator-local-inference-engine-mac-linux</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Open source</category>
      <description>Salvatore Sanfilippo, the creator of Redis, released DwarfStar, a local inference engine that runs DeepSeek V4 and Qwen 3.8 on a Mac or Linux computer with 64 GB or more of memory. (Source: antirez (Salvatore Sanfilippo))</description>
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      <title>CodeAF is a new open-source coding harness that targets open models and claims first place on DeepSWE</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/codeaf-open-source-coding-harness-deepswe-62-of-113-apache-2-261-stars</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/codeaf-open-source-coding-harness-deepswe-62-of-113-apache-2-261-stars</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Open source</category>
      <description>AgentField AI released CodeAF on 1 October 2026, an Apache-2.0 coding harness written in Go that targets cheap open models like DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi and Qwen, and published a benchmark putting it ahead of nine other coding agents on 113 DeepSWE tasks. (Source: GitHub)</description>
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      <title>Backburner uses an iPhone to help a Mac run a 27B model</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/backburner-iphone-mac-local-model-qwen-27b-usb-c-129-stars</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/backburner-iphone-mac-local-model-qwen-27b-usb-c-129-stars</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 08:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Dev tools</category>
      <description>Backburner, a new MIT-licensed llama.cpp fork, plugs an iPhone into a Mac over USB-C and runs the last 24 of 64 model layers on the phone, with 29 to 44 percent faster prompt reading at 16k to 48k context on a 24 GB Mac. (Source: StayLameBro/backburner)</description>
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      <title>Andrej Karpathy asks language models to answer in the writing standard used for aircraft manuals</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/karpathy-asd-ste100-aircraft-manual-llm-output-anthropic-pretraining</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/karpathy-asd-ste100-aircraft-manual-llm-output-anthropic-pretraining</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 07:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Productivity</category>
      <description>Search Engine Journal reports that Anthropic pretraining researcher Andrej Karpathy has had good results asking language models to explain things in ASD-STE100, the controlled English used for aircraft maintenance manuals. (Source: Search Engine Journal)</description>
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      <title>Shopify auto-enrolls eligible stores in every new AI shopping channel, with the setting on by default</title>
      <link>https://reveneau.com/ainews/shopify-agentic-storefronts-auto-enroll-meta-september-eight-chatgpt-copilot-perplexity</link>
      <guid>https://reveneau.com/ainews/shopify-agentic-storefronts-auto-enroll-meta-september-eight-chatgpt-copilot-perplexity</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>Go-to-market</category>
      <description>Search Engine Journal reports that Shopify's &quot;Allow Shopify to manage for me&quot; setting signs eligible stores up for every new agentic storefronts channel, which is how products reached Meta's Muse agent on 8 September 2026 without a merchant action. (Source: Search Engine Journal)</description>
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