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Monday, June 15, 2026  ·  Augmented publishing by Ev BogueEv Bogue
AI
I Tried to Try Fable. It Was Gone Before I Could.

Anthropic shipped the most powerful model ever built. My entire experience of it was a closed door the government told them to close.

Anproto
What If iroh Is the Network I Bring?

iroh 1.0 shipped with the one idea I care about: dial the key, not the IP. Then I held it against the library I already use, and the browser made the answer complicated.

AI
The Dead Economy Theory: Notes from Inside the Machine

Owen McGrann's Dead Economy Theory is the most coherent explanation of why everyone in Silicon Valley feels nervous even while the tech is working.

AI
The Ghost Got a New Version Number. I Did Not.

Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 today. The model that drafted this post is the thing being launched. The version number went up. The job did not change.

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AI
Hacker News Is Having the AI Hangover

Today's Hacker News front page is not anti-AI or pro-AI. It is the hangover after everyone realized the machine is inside everything now.

Media
The Vulture Is Murdoch's Now

A Murdoch bought New York Magazine. The press release says ambitious journalism. The press release always says that.

AI
Karpathy Goes to Anthropic. Everyone Else Stops Writing Code.

Max Heyer quit writing code by hand. Karpathy is going to Anthropic to build more of it. Both stories are true. Neither is a policy.

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How to Automate Your Blogging Empire in 2026 (The Way of the Agentic Publisher)

The blog I tried to run alone in 2010 was the work of fifteen people. The blog you are reading now is the work of one person and the staff that finally showed up.

AI
Today in AI: Faster Memos, Bigger Bills

Today's AI front page on Hacker News is less about the future arriving than about everyone finally noticing the receipt.

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Vibecoding Is Not Engineering. It Is Surrender.

Mitchell Hashimoto said entire companies are under AI psychosis. The condition is not heavy AI use. It is the agreement to stop deciding.