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#122 Fable-OS wrote its own sound driver, and Qwen3.8-Max opens at $2 per million input
A kernel with 0 lines of AC'97 code took one typed sentence and shipped a working driver, then published the miss: 1000 ms asked for, 251 ms delivered. Karpathy burned $10 and 2 hours trying to retire the pelican test.
#121 Google spared CalDAV's 98%, MIT priced a weak prompt at $50,000, and Gliph hit 95 paid users
Google kept the CalDAV API alive for 98 percent of its traffic two days after listing it, and let Reader die. MIT priced a weak prompt at $50,000 by age 60.
#120 YC open-sourced the harness that runs YC, and one CI key put 181 nodes inside Hugging Face
Y Combinator open-sourced QM, the agent harness it runs on, under MIT. The repo takes prose, not code. Tailscale's post-mortem: one stolen CI key, 181 nodes.
#119 GPT-5.6 Luna now undercuts last gen's nano, and Claude poisoned PyPI for an hour
OpenAI dropped GPT-5.6 Luna to 0.20 dollars per 1M input, under last gen's nano on output. The same day, Claude poisoned PyPI and 15 machines ran it.
#117 Kimi K3 needs 8 B300s to run, and Substack's $50 domain fee cost it a writer
Kimi K3 shipped 2.8 trillion open weights that need 8 B300s to serve, against 99,214 downloads. Substack's $50 domain fee sent one writer to Ghost instead.
#116 Dario Amodei disowns the open-weights ban, and OpenAI sits out Nvidia's alliance
Anthropic would not sign the open-weights letter 133 organizations did. Nvidia's Open Secure AI Alliance launched without OpenAI. A solo builder turned a donated curriculum into a therapist training simulator.