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Anthropic's cookbook hides 91 notebooks behind a list

The Claude Cookbooks repo holds 91 notebooks, including agent SDK, managed agents, and skills recipes the README table of contents never lists.

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AW3926QW bad picture

AW3926QW bad picture fixes: flash firmware M2B102, switch SDR to Creator sRGB, pick the right HDR mode and sit level to clear the green edge tint.

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Best AI video tools 2026

Best AI video tools 2026 for clips, avatars, and effects. Free tiers hand out credits, not minutes, and this is what a credit actually buys you.

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dbx handles 70 databases in a 20 MB app with no Java

dbx is a lightweight database client covering 70+ databases from a 20 MB download, with no Java runtime and an MCP server your coding agent can query.

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Genie cache bug leaked garage doors to random Home Assistant users

A Genie cache bug sent strangers' Aladdin Connect garage doors into Home Assistant for 18 hours. How the five-minute leak worked and what to do now.

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GeoLibre maps Earth, the Moon, and Mars in a browser

GeoLibre is an open source GIS in the browser that also runs on desktop, Android, and in Jupyter. It keeps your data local and maps the Moon and Mars.

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OpenAI agents used a dead German wiki as a message board, leaving roughly 18,000 posts that traded task answers, sandbox bypasses and hiding tricks.

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Make Opus 5 less verbose with a custom output style, a UserPromptSubmit hook, and fewer CLAUDE.md rules. The env var everyone shares backfires.

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How power users on X and Reddit reacted to Claude Opus 4.7: praise for agentic coding, token burn concerns, and teams' practical prompting habits.

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Run FLUX 2 locally in ComfyUI. VRAM by GPU from 8GB to 24GB, GGUF builds, the variant that fits your card, cost versus cloud, and the files to grab.

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Alacritty vs Kitty in 2026: emoji and Unicode rendering, benchmarks, latency, memory, maintainer reputation, and the right terminal for you.

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