Week 46 · 9 Nov to 15 Nov 2026v1

What's Happening

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The latest from web, mobile, AI and infra this week. A few minutes, a few times a week, is all it takes to keep up.

This week that came to 39 videos, 12 podcast episodes, 16 releases and 10 new repos, from 322 sources. Follow along with RSS

AllTop of the weekEveryone's talking aboutShippedTry it earlyAIWebMobileDesignTesting & QASecurityBackend & InfraFrom the communityTalksPodcastsTrending on GitHub

Top of the week

Everyone's talking about

Names that a lot of different sources suddenly started mentioning this week.

Shipped

16 projects shipped something this week. Nothing major, so no scary upgrades this week.

New features
VS Code 1.146.0, Gemini CLI 0.68.0, Cypress 16.3.0 and Go 27.4. New stuff to play with, should be a safe update.
See all 16 releases

Try it early

Betas and release candidates from the week, worth a play in a side project before they land for real.

3 betas and release candidates out this week. Only worth your time if you use the project, and never in production.

See all 3 betas

AI

Web

Mobile

Platform updates

Design

Testing & QA

Security

Backend & Infra

From the community

The dev stories that got the most points on Hacker News that week, plus the top of Lobsters.

Talks

Conference channels tend to upload everything in one go after an event, so these are grouped by channel with the most watched few from each.

AI Engineer · 8 new talksSee them all on YouTube

Podcasts

Trending on GitHub

New repos created that week with AI topics on them, sorted by stars. GitHub doesn't have an API for its trending page, so this is the closest I could get to it.

  1. Dodaios/ste80-humanizer

    STE80 Humanizer: agent skill that removes AI tells and rewrites text 80% of the way to ASD-STE100 (Simplified Technical English), the method Andrej Karpathy shared.

    Python · 403 stars
  2. alexeyw/lot-map

    A live map beside the chat that shows what Claude Code is doing: tool calls, model steps, hooks, skills and subagents light up as they happen. Local only, in five languages.

    TypeScript · 373 stars
  3. FrigadeHQ/yogurt

    Private AI meeting notes. Free and open source.

    TypeScript · 334 stars
  4. Moh4696/cinematic-skill

    Agent skill for narrated cinematic films built entirely from code: one continuous camera over photos, maps and cards, timed to the voice. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI.

    Python · 200 stars
  5. bookleme/bookleme

    读了么（BookLeme）· 把一本书编译成 Agent Skill —— 双引擎 + 可插拔体裁插件 + 逐字忠实度回验

    Python · 142 stars
  6. pktq/lasik

    BLA blinds your agent. LASIK gives it its sight back. Static de-blinding CLI + MCP server that undoes BLA (Blind LLM Agents) hardening so coding agents and REA can read the real code again. Never executes the target.

    TypeScript · 104 stars
  7. huawei-csl/MACaQ

    SOTA model-agnostic quantization for GGUF, local inference and beyond. Quantize and run text, image, video and audio models with llama.cpp, vLLM, Diffusers and PyTorch.

    C++ · 69 stars
  8. Veloresearch/kinetic

    The open engine for running AI on your own computer. Fast, exact, open source.

    Rust · 64 stars
  9. mintlify/agent-traffic

    Tell agents, AI crawlers, search crawlers and bots apart from people

    TypeScript · 60 stars
  10. ferhatcore/claude-codex-project-os

    Project management for Claude Code and Codex with shared task files, developer and QA roles, and human approvals.

    JavaScript · 59 stars
What happenedWeek 45 · 2 Nov to 8 Nov 2026

Getting last week...

Everything here is pulled from 322 feeds and refreshed each morning (last on 11 Nov), so if something looks off it's more likely a feed doing something odd than my taste in videos.