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GLM-5.2 puts top-tier coding within four points of Claude for a sixth the cost

GLM-5.2 ships open MIT weights with coding scores four points behind Claude Opus and a sixth the cost, 48 hours after US export controls pulled a frontier model.

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DEVGitHub Trending14h ago

penpot/penpot: Penpot: The open-source design tool for design and code collaboration

Penpot: The open-source design tool for design and code collaboration

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DEVHacker News1h ago

SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible

246 points, 73 comments on HN

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DEVHacker News1h ago

Renting a sewing machine from the library

191 points, 98 comments on HN

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DEVHacker News1h ago

Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see

201 points, 53 comments on HN

DEVvia @NousResearch13h ago

Nous adds Blank Slate setup mode to Hermes Agent

Builders can now configure a Hermes agent from scratch instead of the Quick or Full presets, useful for custom provider wiring.

DEVvia @OpenAIDevs2d ago

Codex adds Record and Replay to turn demos into reusable skills

Coding agent learns a recurring task once, then repeats it; cuts scripting for expense filings and similar workflows.

DEVGitHub TrendingYesterday

palmier-io/palmier-pro: macOS video editor built for AI

macOS video editor built for AI

DEVGitHub Trending2d ago

Kilo-Org/kilocode: Kilo is the all-in-one agentic engineering platform. Build, ship, and iterate faster with the most popular open source coding agent.

Kilo is the all-in-one agentic engineering platform. Build, ship, and iterate faster with the most popular open source coding agent.

DEVvia @cursor_ai2d ago

Cursor ships /automate for plain-language agent automations

Describe a task and Cursor wires up triggers, instructions, and tools, lowering the setup cost for recurring agent runs.

DEVvia @Saboo_Shubham_17h ago

Visual Plan skill lets Claude Code and Codex plan before coding

An agent-native planning step that sketches a solution shape before writing any code, aimed at reducing wasted generation.

DEVvia @OpenAIDevs2d ago

OpenAI rolls out Codex Record and Replay to select markets

Demo-to-skill capture begins limited availability with broader rollout planned, per the Codex changelog.

DEVvia @jerryjliu0Yesterday

LiteParse matches frontier VLMs on markdown parsing with pure code

A no-model, no-OCR parser competes with vision models on ParseBench, cutting cost and latency for document pipelines.

DEVvia @cursor_ai2d ago

Cursor Automations add Slack emoji reaction triggers

Reacting to a message can now kick off an agent run, smoothing team handoffs into Cursor workflows.

DEVvia @Saboo_Shubham_17h ago

BuilderIO open-sources Skills repo for coding agents

A free library of reusable agent skills gives builders ready patterns instead of writing agent scaffolding from scratch.

DEVvia @cursor_ai2d ago

Cursor adds GitHub and Slack triggers plus computer use to agents

Always-on cloud agents can now react to issues, reviews, and Slack emojis and operate a computer, automating triage and PR fixes hands-free.

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