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mattpocock/skills & Leaking YouTube creators’ private videos – Jul 5

Jul 5, 2026
15 min read

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Top Signals

The few items worth your attention first – each with the one-line reason it stood out today.

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    mattpocock/skills

    Trending repository – 157k stars on GitHub.

    • ★ 157k
    • ⮂ 13.5k

    Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .claude directory. Github trending; mit license.

    GitHub Trending

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    Leaking YouTube creators' private videos

    Top Hacker News discussion – 621 points.

    • ▲ 621
    • 💬 344

    High-engagement technical discussion worth reviewing for practical implications.

    Hacker News

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    sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2

    Trending model – 244.1M downloads.

    • ⇣ 244.1M

    all-MiniLM-L6-v2 This is a sentence-transformers model: It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 384 dimensional dense vector space and can be used for tasks like clustering or semantic search.. Signal: Hugging Face – Sentence Similarity.

    Hugging Face Trending

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    Data structures your CS degree kind of glossed over

    Popular developer article – 16 reactions.

    • ♥ 16
    • 💬 4

    Hello, I'm Maneshwar. I'm building git-lrc, a Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is… Context: Dev.to – Web Dev.

    Dev.to

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    Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

    Top Hacker News discussion – 577 points.

    • ▲ 577
    • 💬 242

    Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour running natively on macOS, iPhone & iPad — real engine (EA GPL v3 source, via GeneralsX), DXVK/MoltenVK renderer, RTS touch controls. No game assets included. – ammaarreshi/Generals-Mac-iOS-iPad.

    Hacker News

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    The 3-Second Rule of Web Performance — And How to Beat It

    Popular developer article – 13 reactions.

    • ♥ 13
    • 💬 4

    Hello there 👋 So… I may have gone a little overboard with this one. Last time we pulled apart how… Context: Dev.to – Javascript.

    Dev.to

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    immich-app/immich

    Trending repository – 105.8k stars on GitHub.

    • ★ 105.8k
    • ⮂ 6k

    High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution. Github trending; backup-tool, flutter, google-photos, google-photos-alternative; agpl-3.0 license.

    GitHub Trending

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    BAAI/bge-m3

    Trending model – 32.3M downloads.

    • ⇣ 32.3M

    BAAI/bge-m3 is a machine-learning model signal worth checking for task fit, license, model card quality, and production constraints before adoption. Signal: Hugging Face – Sentence Similarity.

    Hugging Face Trending

AI & Machine Learning

Models, agents, and applied machine-learning work moving today.

  • Hugging Face Trending

    sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2

    • ⇣ 244.1M

    all-MiniLM-L6-v2 This is a sentence-transformers model: It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 384 dimensional dense vector space and can be used for tasks like clustering or semantic search.. Signal: Hugging Face – Sentence Similarity.

  • Dev.to

    Data structures your CS degree kind of glossed over

    • ♥ 16
    • 💬 4

    Hello, I'm Maneshwar. I'm building git-lrc, a Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is… Context: Dev.to – Web Dev.

  • Hugging Face Trending

    BAAI/bge-m3

    • ⇣ 32.3M

    BAAI/bge-m3 is a machine-learning model signal worth checking for task fit, license, model card quality, and production constraints before adoption. Signal: Hugging Face – Sentence Similarity.

  • Dev.to

    GPU Survivors: Can You Survive a 1T Parameter Inference Run?

    • ♥ 10
    • 💬 6

    Survive endless waves of OOD data, prompt injections, and adversarial token splits inside a GPU Core while scaling your model architecture to 1T parameters. Context: Dev.to – AI/ML.

  • Dev.to

    A Third Brain for your Second Brain

    • ♥ 9
    • 💬 2

    The concept of the "second brain"/"knowledge base" is one of my absolute favorite nerd snipes of all… Context: Dev.to – AI/ML.

  • Hugging Face Trending

    google-bert/bert-base-uncased

    • ⇣ 62.8M

    Pretrained model on English language using a masked language modeling (MLM) objective. Signal: Hugging Face – Fill Mask.

  • Dev.to

    The Conspiracy Big Software Engineering Doesn't Want You to Know

    • ♥ 8
    • 💬 4

    Buckle up, gang — it's conspiracy theory time. I've had this theory percolating in the back of my… Context: Dev.to – AI/ML.

  • Hacker News

    GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance

    • ▲ 280
    • 💬 106

    Summary I found an aggregate pattern in Codex token_count metadata: gpt-5.5 responses disproportionately land at exactly reasoning_output_tokens = 516, with additional fixed-boundary spikes around 1034 and 1552. This appears model-specif…

  • Dev.to

    Running untrusted, AI-generated code: why we built CreateOS Sandbox on Firecracker

    • ♥ 7
    • 💬 3

    The agent doesn't just write the code anymore. It runs it. That one change broke an assumption a lot… Context: Dev.to – DevOps.

  • Dev.to

    Choosing the Right Tooling Layer for Your Agent

    • ♥ 7
    • 💬 3

    Selecting the right abstraction layer is not a new problem in software. It's common to have some… Context: Dev.to – AI/ML.

  • GitHub Trending

    asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks

    • ★ 49.3k
    • ⮂ 8,053

    Extracted system prompts from Anthropic – Claude Fable 5, Opus 4.8, Claude Code, Claude Design. OpenAI – ChatGPT 5.5 Thinking, GPT 5.5 Instant, Codex. Google – Gemini 3.5 Flash, 3.1 Pro, Antigravity. xAI – Grok, Cursor, Copilot, VS Code, Perplexity, and more…. Github trending; ai, ai-agents, anthropic, awesome; cc0-1.0 license.

  • Hacker News

    Better Models: Worse Tools

    • ▲ 177
    • 💬 62

    High-engagement technical discussion worth reviewing for practical implications.

  • GitHub Trending

    pbakaus/impeccable

    • ★ 43.6k
    • ⮂ 2,468

    The design language that makes your AI harness better at design. Github trending; apache-2.0 license.

  • GitHub Trending

    alibaba/page-agent

    • ★ 23.5k
    • ⮂ 2,021

    JavaScript in-page GUI agent. Control web interfaces with natural language. Github trending; agent, ai, ai-agents, browser-automation; mit license.

  • Product Hunt

    MentionDrop MCP

    Monitor the entire web: blogs, forums, docs, foreign-language sites, and more. Every mention gets an AI summary, sentiment score, and suggested action. Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

  • Product Hunt

    CircleChat

    Make multiple AI agents chat engage, collaborate, and problem-solve in real time. Set an objective, and experience diverse perspectives and innovative solutions from AI agents. Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

  • Product Hunt

    TryCase

    TryCase gives AI coding agents disposable Linux environments to run apps, test changes end to end, capture screenshots and recordings, and return verified code instead of asking you to test manually. Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

  • Product Hunt

    WorkBuddy

    Tencent WorkBuddy is an AI agent built for everyday office work. Make a request. Guide your AI expert team. Bring in a second opinion. Get sharpened, ready-to-use results. Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

  • Product Hunt

    DocsAlot

    DocsAlot turns scattered help center articles, knowledge base, and developer docs into one source of truth for humans and AI agents. It includes hosted MCP, llms.txt, and skill.md. Your docs show up in AI answers, onboarding gets faster, and agents stop reading stale context. Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

  • Product Hunt

    Vida

    Vida is an AI that learns how you work, remembers what matters, and becomes more like you over time. The more you use Vida, the more it understands your habits, your projects, and your way of getting things done. Eventually, it works like a second version of you—quietly handling repetitive work in the background befor… Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

  • Community Pulse

    Meta Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Teenagers While Barraging Its Competitors’ AI With Disturbing Content

    r/artificial: Meta Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Teenagers While Barraging Its Competitors’ AI With Disturbing Content – AI/LM community discussion.

  • Community Pulse

    Survey: 63% of Americans are uncomfortable letting AI help them choose who to vote for, and 80% are worried AI bots are answering political surveys. Is the discomfort about AI, or…

    Saw a national survey from March on how people feel about AI in politics, and two numbers stuck with me. 63% said they'd be uncomfortable using an AI chatbot to help decide who to vote for, even though plenty of people are fine using chatbots to fact-check or follow issues. 80% said they're worried….

  • Community Pulse

    This week in AI: GPT-5.6, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Claude Science, and a Qwen price war — inference cost is collapsing across every tier at once

    Lot dropped this week and there's a pretty clear through-line, so figured I'd pull it together. Model releases: – OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 (Sol/Terra/Luna). The bit worth noting isn't the flagship — it's Terra, reportedly matching GPT-5.5 quality at ~2x cheaper, with Luna aimed at the low-cost end…..

  • Community Pulse

    How AI is changing language

    As allegations of LLM use rock the literary and media worlds, linguists explain what really distinguishes human and machine writing, while novelists including Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson reflect on the future of fiction in an age of ChatGPT submitted by /u/Careless_Theme_3647 [comme….

  • Community Pulse

    Meta Reportedly Strikes $6.5 Billion Deal with Samsung Foundry for 2nm AI Chips

    Meta Platforms is reportedly investing $6.5 billion with Samsung Foundry to produce its third-generation MTIA (Meta Training and Inference Accelerator) chips using a 2nm process . This strategic move signifies a shift from TSMC and aims to reduce reliance on NVIDIA GPUs, lower supply chain risks, a….

  • Community Pulse

    ★ Follow-up to "Blaming the model won't fix your workflow": the paper is now a preprint. The real learnings: composable domains, a verification ratchet, and tool naming.

    A month ago I posted the very rough beginnings of a paper. That rough version did not survive: it got pulled apart and rebuilt by the very process it describes, and what came out the other side is now a proper preprint with a DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21139628 . Short version: the core cl….

  • Community Pulse

    GPT-5.5 vs Claude Fable 5 vs Local Qwen: 3 AI Agents, 1 Task

    I ran the same market-entry brief through three different AI models. The result was revealing. I asked three models to independently create a client-ready market-entry brief for launching a privacy-first AI personal assistant for small businesses in the UK. The models were: Claude Fable 5 via Claud….

  • Community Pulse

    Other than writing emails and summarizing reports, what else do you use AI for at your office if you are not the tech side of the business?

    Since I am not building any tech products or coding, other than email and repots, I am not sure what else to use AI for. Are there any other creative ways you use AI for genuinely help with day to day work. Please share your ideas. submitted by /u/LowVegetable8299.

  • Community Pulse

    Can AI Avatars Change How We Perceive Information? (Academic Research)

    Hello Everyone! You are invited to take part in a study exploring whether different AI avatars can shift people’s perceptions when they watch information online. The survey takes about 10 minutes to complete and is open to anyone aged 18 or older. Link to the study: https://surveyswap.io/s/ZYHW-JGA….

Security

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Open Source & Dev Tools

Libraries, frameworks, and developer tooling gaining traction.

  • GitHub Trending

    mattpocock/skills

    • ★ 157k
    • ⮂ 13.5k

    Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .claude directory. Github trending; mit license.

  • Dev.to

    The 3-Second Rule of Web Performance — And How to Beat It

    • ♥ 13
    • 💬 4

    Hello there 👋 So… I may have gone a little overboard with this one. Last time we pulled apart how… Context: Dev.to – Javascript.

  • GitHub Trending

    immich-app/immich

    • ★ 105.8k
    • ⮂ 6,040

    High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution. Github trending; backup-tool, flutter, google-photos, google-photos-alternative; agpl-3.0 license.

  • Lobste.rs

    Returning to Zig

    Zig is rising in popularity. It hasn't yet seized the space occupied by even Rust or Go, much less C, but it has been adopted by a few major projects and countless smaller ones. As such, it's becoming an important language for the future. having been interested in Zig for several years, I decided to check back in on t…

  • Lobste.rs

    Dark mode with web standards

    Implementing dark mode with minimal JavaScript and standard CSS.

  • Lobste.rs

    small details in my mastodon client that i wanted more people to notice

    small details in my mastodon client that i wanted more people to notice 2026-06 small details in my mastodon client that i wanted more people to notice just in case you’re not aware, i maintain my own browser app for mastodon api compatible instance software.

  • Lobste.rs

    ABI vs. API (2004)

    API To : debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject : Re: [OT] ABI vs.

Cloud & Infrastructure

Platforms, deployment, and the systems that run everything else.

Product & Launches

New products and launches worth a look.

  • Product Hunt

    Toku Reader

    Toku turns native Japanese and Chinese — articles, novels, podcasts, and YouTube videos — into something you can actually read. Tap any word for its reading, meaning, and dictionary, without leaving the page. On audio and video you get a synced, word-tappable transcript: tap to learn, slow it down, replay a line, or p… Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

  • Product Hunt

    Pennen

    Pennen is a calm, private, handwriting-first daily journal for iPad and Apple Pencil. One dated page per day, in real ink: past pages seal and become read-only, emoji stickers peel and press on, and the streak forgives — a one-line night still counts. Your pages live only on your iPad and in your own iCloud: no accoun… Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

  • Product Hunt

    Endl

    Endl is the operating layer for global money flows. It brings together crypto and fiat accounts, payouts, FX, and reconciliation into a single platform so product teams can eliminate fragmented financial tooling, reduce manual operational work, and scale cross-border operations with greater clarity and speed. Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

  • Product Hunt

    PhoneDeck

    You already own a StreamDeck. It's your iPhone. PhoneDeck turns your iPhone into a fully customizable Mac controller, media controls, app launcher, custom buttons, all on your phone's screen. No hardware. No subscription. Free. Built by a solo developer in 7 days because I needed it myself. Works out of the box. No se… Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

Community & Discussion

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