SOMEONE TURNED CLAUDE CODE INTO A LITTLE CARTOON claude fables is a mod for the claude code desktop app. while claude works, a tiny orange critter acts out what it's doing above your prompt bug hunts turn into nature documentaries. a bad regex gets pulled over by the train police 11 art styles, from pixel art to ukiyo-e heads up: every few seconds it asks sonnet to write the next scene, so it burns tokens on top of your real work. you can switch it to haiku. and it only draws in the desktop app, not the terminal 18 stars, came out yesterday

SOMEONE MADE DICTATION THAT NEEDS NO MICROPHONE lipflow: hold a key, silently mouth words at your webcam, they get typed wherever your cursor is → runs fully local → mac, windows, linux → you read 24 sentences and it trains on your face → free, MIT so you can dictate in a silent office or while someone else is talking on a call i ran the model in a sandbox on cpu. it reads a 3 second clip in about 3 seconds. on random people's clips the guesses were garbled, so the face training step is doing the heavy lifting solo dev, 431 stars in 4 days

MICROSOFT JUST OPENED THE WEIGHTS OF A 4B CODING AGENT THAT SCORES 61.5% ON SWE-BENCH VERIFIED frognano. it's qwen3.5 4b trained with RL on ~1,500 synthetic coding tasks. no copying answers from a bigger model plain qwen 4b got 39.4% in the same harness it also does 37.6% on swe-bench pro and 31.1% on terminal bench 2, and it never trained on those open license, on huggingface since today. their eval harness wants a kubernetes cluster tho, so locally you serve it yourself with sglang or similar

A MODEL TRAINED ON 8K CONTEXT JUST RECALLED FACTS AT 128K. THE SAME SIZE TRANSFORMER GOT 0% percepta dropped spotlight today, a replacement for attention attention compares every new token with every old one, so cost explodes as context grows. spotlight keeps a memory that grows with the context but each new token only touches a tiny piece of it trained on 8k, tested at 128k: spotlight 93 to 100% recall transformer 0% recurrent models 5.6% max catch: the biggest model is 670M and no weights yet. if it scales tho the context window race gets weird

SOMEONE TURNED THEIR IPHONE INTO A SECOND GPU FOR A MACBOOK 24gb m4 pro running qwen 3.8 27b locally. iphone 17 pro max plugged in with a usb-c cable the mac runs layers 1 to 40, the phone runs 41 to 64 on its own gpu prefill at 16k context went from 109 to 157 tok/s. a cold 27k token agent session loads in 168s instead of 245s past 64k the phone just holds the old context. up to ~5.7gb of kv cache lives on the iphone so the mac stops running out of memory next they want to try an ipad over thunderbolt

GPT-6 ASTRA CLEARED A WOW STARTING ZONE ON ITS OWN made an orc and did every quest in valley of trials in 40 minutes. zero deaths no screen reading and no mouse. agent-wow talks to the server directly over the wow network protocol, on a private azerothcore server the repo has 7 stars. built by @hazimj_

EVERYONE SAYS OPUS GOT NERFED. NOW YOU CAN CHECK a redditor open sourced LiveNerf. it reruns SWE-bench and SciCode on Opus 5.5 every day, same setup every time so next time someone says "opus feels dumber today" you can just go look nerfbench has it at 94.2% today btw, which they say is still inside normal variance

HARVARD PHYSICIST DROPS 36 PAPERS IN 3 MONTHS WITH CLAUDE matthew schwartz gave claude fable 5 about 400 open problems and kept 36. 18 different fields, 19 coauthors one of them solves a 20 year old ecology equation. turns out forests change their species mix 4.5x faster than the theory said his trick was treating claude like the collaborator it actually is, not the one he wanted. the toolkit is open source

CLAUDE CODE CAN DO YOUR VIDEO B-ROLL NOW motion-graphics is a free skill. you give it your video transcript and it animates cards like this, timed to what you're saying this 10 sec clip rendered in under a minute on my mac. 1080p with motion blur, the cursor moves on its own this is the stuff people pay an editor for

SOMEONE GAVE CLAUDE CODE THE KEYS TO ANY PC GAME universal-modder: you point claude code at a game you own and it figures out the engine, writes the mod, makes the art and sounds, then tests it in the running game works with unity, minecraft and 10 other engines, and backs up your saves before touching anything. art and audio need a fal key their example prompt puts real minecraft inside GTA V story mode 1.8k stars in 2 days