Reads, Tools and Project Ideas

[!NOTE] This list gets updated as the month progresses.

Reads

Things to read this month.

Anthropic's Project Glasswing initial update, where Claude Mythos Preview reportedly found 10k+ high or critical vulnerabilities https://www.anthropic.com/research/glasswing-initial-update, https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-warns-claude-mythos-preview-finds-bugs-faster-than-developers-can-patch-them/
Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash announcement https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/
Anthropic is reportedly exploring Microsoft Maia 200 chips for Claude inference https://windowsnews.ai/article/anthropic-eyes-microsofts-maia-200-for-claude-inference-shaking-up-ai-chip-race.419386, https://www.mobileworldlive.com/microsoft/anthropic-mulls-renting-microsoft-ai-chips/
Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs https://www.signalbloom.ai/posts/outsourcing-plus-localai-will-soon-become-more-economical-vs-frontier-labs/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278610
Vibe coding slop is now the product https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/vibe-coding-slop-ai-tools-e6a99394
Using AI to write better code, more slowly https://nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/using-ai-to-write-better-code-more-slowly/ I already wrote about this in my other blog post A personal perspective on agentic engineering /writings/a-personal-perspective-on-agentic-engineering
[-] Late to the party, but I'd love to read a bit more about the Hardware Lottery by Sara Hooker https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06489
What's new in Python 3.15, featuring lazy imports and frozendict built-in https://docs.python.org/3.15/whatsnew/3.15.html
After countless downtimes, GitHub actually got their internal repos hacked https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-confirms-breach-of-3-800-repos-via-malicious-vscode-extension/, https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/github-internal-repositories-breached.html
[-] Discussion about the Bun rewrite in Rust https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30412, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132488
Post Mortem: TanStack npm supply-chain compromise https://tanstack.com/blog/npm-supply-chain-compromise-postmortem
Musk looses lawsuite against Sam Altman & OpenAI https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/elon-musk-has-lost-his-lawsuit-against-sam-altman-and-openai/
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/openai-co-founder-andrej-karpathy-joins-anthropics-pre-training-team/
SkillOpt: Executive Strategy for Self-Evolving Agent Skills https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23904, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.23904

Tools

Tools that I've recently found, starred, or just used.

[-] Superset, a Pi-compatible AI IDE worth a look https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236770, https://github.com/superset-sh/superset, https://superset.sh/
Remotion, powerful in combination with Agents, tested it on the landing page for my rust-shuttle app https://www.remotion.dev
Socket Firewall, package-manager wrappers to block sketchy installs early and help catch compromised transitive dependencies sooner. Install it with npm install -g sfw, then wire the aliases like, plus release cooldowns as a separate safety habit:
```
alias npm="sfw npm"
alias npx="sfw npx"
alias pnpm="sfw pnpm"
alias pnpx="sfw pnpx"
alias yarn="sfw yarn"
alias bun="sfw bun"
```

https://socket.dev/blog/introducing-socket-firewall, https://x.com/feross/status/2057662587727429987, https://cooldowns.dev

portless.sh can be used to have cool local uris, like blog.localhost instead of localhost:3000 https://github.com/vercel-labs/portless, https://www.npmjs.com/package/portless, https://portless.sh

Bonus Vite Setup:

plugins: [
  {
    name: "portless-url-reporter",
    configureServer(server) {
      const printUrls = server.printUrls.bind(server);

      server.printUrls = () => {
        const portlessUrl = process.env.PORTLESS_URL?.replace(/\/$/, "");

        if (portlessUrl && server.resolvedUrls) {
          server.resolvedUrls.local = [portlessUrl];
        }

        printUrls();
      };
    },
  },
]

I have Hermes running since ~1 month, but I just now starred it https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent
[/] Academic Research Skills for Claude, not tested, but seems promising https://github.com/Imbad0202/academic-research-skills
Skill: /grill-with-docs on existing codebases https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BB6exR8Zd8, https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/engineering/grill-with-docs/SKILL.md, https://www.aihero.dev/grill-with-docs
cmux https://cmux.com/, https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux
Pi Generative UI, reverese engineered from the Claude Visualize Toolhttps://github.com/Michaelliv/pi-generative-ui, https://michaellivs.com/blog/reverse-engineering-claude-generative-ui/

Podcasts & Videos

German: Constanze Kurz (CCC) about Palantir and AI at Jung&Naiv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yCD8t9uoso

Hardware

[/] Axiometa Genesis Mini https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y1V7FVCwKMg