Datasette 1.0a33 Adds JSON API Extras for Queries and Rows
Simon Willison's Weblog3 days agoReleaseSimon Willison announced Datasette 1.0a33, an alpha release that extends the existing ?_extra= JSON API pattern beyond tables to cover queries and rows. The feature is now documented and presented as a significant step toward Datasette 1.0. Willison also used Claude Fable 5 in Claude Code and GPT-5.5 xhigh in Codex Desktop to build a custom extras API explorer demonstrating the new capability.
asyncinject 0.7 Released After Claude Fable 5 Bug Fixes
Simon Willison's Weblog3 days agoReleaseSimon Willison announced asyncinject 0.7, a release of his Python utility library for an asyncio dependency injection pattern. He originally built the library a few years ago and has used it with Datasette. The notable angle is that Claude Fable 5 spotted bugs in the dependency and fixed them, which Willison describes as unusually proactive behavior.
Quoting Jeremy Howard on Anthropic's Recursive AI Self-Improvement Contradiction
Simon Willison's Weblog4 days agoEthicsJeremy Howard proposes that labs claiming to slow recursive AI self-improvement should ban themselves from using their top model for frontier research while letting others access it. He argues Anthropic does the opposite — using its best model internally while reportedly blocking others from doing the same — accelerating the frontier and worsening power imbalance. Howard personally favors democratization over slowdown, but his point is about consistency: if you preach restraint, constrain yourself first.
Introducing FrontierCode★ 78
Hacker News (AI keywords)6 days agoBenchmarkCognition launched FrontierCode, a coding benchmark focused on mergeability rather than only functional correctness. It evaluates correctness, tests, scope discipline, style, and repository-specific quality standards. Built with open-source maintainers and extensive quality control, it shows current frontier models still struggle: Claude Opus 4.8 scores 13.4% on the hardest Diamond subset, ahead of GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro.
Expanding Project Glasswing★ 76
Hacker News (AI keywords)12 days agoBusinessAnthropic is expanding Project Glasswing, its program for using Claude Mythos Preview to find vulnerabilities in critical software. The new cohort includes around 150 organizations across more than 15 countries, including infrastructure providers, vendors, nonprofits, and open-source maintainers. Anthropic frames the expansion as preparation for a world where powerful cyber-capable AI models become cheaper and more widely available, shifting focus from finding bugs to validating, disclosing, patching, and deploying fixes.
I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline
Simon Willison's Weblog15 days agoEthicsSimon Willison highlights Chad Whitacre’s decision to leave tech and Open Source, framed not as a forum threat but as concrete action. Whitacre describes wanting to become “AI Amish” or “Internet Amish,” moving toward an offline, analog life closer to 1980 than 1780. A previous post about using Claude Code with Opus 4.5 shows how agentic AI felt intoxicating and unsettling enough to push him away from technological accelerationism.
Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits
Hacker News (AI keywords)15 days agoCommentaryThe source is a Hacker News AI-keyword item linking to a Mastodon post titled “Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits.” No original body text is available, so the only reliable claim is that many commits in Rsync 3.4.3 are described as Claude-related. The exact meaning, review process, quality impact, and author’s stance cannot be confirmed from the title alone.
蒸餾恐慌：為什麼將「知識蒸餾」稱為安全攻擊是極其糟糕的趨勢★ 75
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Claude 神話與對開源權重模型無謂的恐慌★ 75
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開源模型陷入「永久追趕」：開源與閉源的差距、蒸餾、創新週期與開源的勝算★ 80
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Vercel 推出 x402-mcp：為 MCP 工具打造的開放式支付協議★ 75
Vercel Changelog275 days agoReleaseVercel has officially launched a new open protocol called "x402-mcp," designed to establish a standardized payment and billing mechanism for Model Context…
Replicate 推出遠端 MCP 伺服器：可在 Claude、Cursor 與 VS Code 中直接探索與運行模型★ 75
Replicate Blog308 days agoNew ToolReplicate has officially launched a remote MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. MCP is an open standard created by Anthropic that enables large language models…
Hugging Face 推出官方 MCP 伺服器：讓 AI 助理直接存取 Hub 模型與資料集★ 82
Hugging Face Blog339 days agoNew ToolHugging Face has officially announced the launch of its dedicated MCP (Model Context Protocol) server — a major step in ecosystem integration. The Model…
Hugging Face 推出 smolagents：用 Python 程式碼撰寫行動的極簡 AI Agent 框架★ 85
Hugging Face Blog530 days agoReleaseHugging Face officially launched a lightweight AI agent development framework called `smolagents` at the end of 2024. The core philosophy of this tool is "Code…