Issue #10 · 2025-08-13

Ilia's Corner

Featured story

Netflix-grade orchestration for free: meet Conductor OSS

Stop paying AWS Step Functions or Temporal Cloud per execution. Netflix just open-sourced Conductor (https://github.com/conductor-oss/conductor), the same engine that runs their global streaming pipelines. Spin up durable, language-agnostic workflows on your own metal and keep the cash you used to hand to managed vendors.

github_trending · 8 min read

Top stories

Design the next TikTok without a consultant

The System Design Primer (https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer) just crossed 315 k stars because it replaces the $5k workshop your boss keeps mentioning. Load balancing, sharding, cache invalidation—everything you need to ace a senior interview or actually ship a scalable service—condensed into one repo.

reddit · 12 min read

Peek inside the black box: leaked prompts from 20 paid AI tools

Ever wished you could see the exact prompt v0, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot feeds its model? Someone just dumped them (https://github.com/x1xhlol/system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-tools). Copy, remix, and level-up your own AI wrappers without the subscription tax.

reddit · 6 min read

AWS clone on bare-metal prices

Ubicloud (https://github.com/ubicloud/ubicloud) turns a €30 Hetzner box into managed Postgres, block storage, and elastic VMs—API-compatible with AWS. Cut your cloud bill by 70 % while keeping the same IaC scripts you already know.

hackernews · 7 min read

Claude Sonnet 4 now ingests 1 M tokens

Anthropic just unlocked a 1-million-token context window (https://www.anthropic.com/news/1m-context). Drop your entire mono-repo into Claude and ask it for cross-service refactors or security reviews that used to exceed every model’s limits.

hackernews · 5 min read

Tools spotlight

Turn ePub into audiobook while you sip coffee

Abogen (https://github.com/denizsafak/abogen) is a cross-platform desktop app that converts any PDF, ePub, or text into an audiobook with word-level subtitles—perfect for keeping up with RFCs while you commute.

Learning on the go

TypeScript · 2050 stars

Visualize million-scale embeddings for free

Apple’s Embedding Atlas (https://github.com/apple/embedding-atlas) uses WebGPU to give you Pinecone-grade visual exploration without the Pinecone bill. Point it at your vector dumps and spot clusters in seconds.

ML prototyping

TypeScript · 1101 stars

Research corner

Self-evolving AI agents finally mapped out

Researchers just published the first blueprint (https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07407) for agent systems that keep learning after deployment. Think CI/CD for AI—no more frozen models in prod.

AI Agents · Multi-university consortium · 9 min read

AgriGPT: an LLM stack for farmers

The first open-source, agriculture-focused LLM (https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08632) ships with 342k real-world Q&A pairs and 13 downstream tasks—from pest diagnosis to yield prediction. Fork it and build a vertical SaaS in a weekend.

Vertical LLMs · AgriGPT Team · 7 min read

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