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Reverse Engineer Anything lets your AI agent read any app

Reverse Engineer Anything lets your AI agent read any app through Ghidra, Hopper or IDA, but a plain agent nearly matched it on a simple app test.

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Next-concept modeling writes the gist first, 21x faster

Next-concept modeling writes text coarse to fine in 12 steps and beats diffusion models 21x faster on LM1B, but only at 100M parameters for now.

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Basal 2.2 decision model learns from your own data

Basal 2.2 retunes a Polish decision model's confidence on your own labeled data, locally, cutting calibration error from 0.268 to 0.083 on a new domain.

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SolidCraft is a Fusion 360 alternative AI wrote in 10 days

This Fusion 360 alternative was built with AI in 10 days. SolidCraft runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD and the web; Extrudo covers fewer platforms.

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TradingView MCP lets Claude read and drive your charts

A TradingView MCP server lets Claude Code read and operate the TradingView charting app on your computer, from chart analysis to fixing Pine Script.

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Scientific agent skills turn AI assistant into a researcher

Scientific agent skills give Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex 177 research workflows plus 100+ databases across biology, chemistry, and medicine.

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Compare the best local image generation models on text-in-image accuracy, prompt adherence, VRAM, speed, and license to find your sweet spot.

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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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Opus 5.5 is the Claude comeback Reddit was waiting for

Opus 5.5 Reddit threads call it the Claude comeback. It finally talks like a person, limits stretch further, and Fable 5.1 still wins some coding tests.

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Run Google Gemma 4 26B MoE on a budget 8GB VRAM GPU using aggressive quantization, GPU-CPU layer offloading, and tensor parallelism. Full setup guide.

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Make Opus 5 less verbose with an output style and a hook

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