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Build or Be Replaced

AI news, agentic workflows, and real automation stories for engineers and builders who ship. 5x/week, 12-15 minutes. Powered by ScanBrief — 56 tech sources scored daily. Hosted by Erik Anderson, a network automation engineer running 140 projects with a fleet of 12 AI agents. Not theory. Systems running in production.

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  1. 107

    Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking | Introducing System One Models and Jev | We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub Episode date: 2026-09-16.

  2. 106

    OpenAI Agents API | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: OpenAI Agents API | Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin | Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables Episode date: 2026-09-11.

  3. 105

    Apple Watch Series 12 | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Apple Watch Series 12 | Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills | Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence Episode date: 2026-09-10.

  4. 104

    I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer | Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI | DaVinci Resolve 21.1 Episode date: 2026-09-09.

  5. 103

    Mistral raises €3B | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Mistral raises €3B | I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s | We have a year to fix security everywhere Episode date: 2026-09-08.

  6. 102

    .name Termination | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: .name Termination | The largest electric aircraft just flew [video] | Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived Episode date: 2026-09-04.

  7. 101

    Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber | Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training? | Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them Episode date: 2026-09-03.

  8. 100

    Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS | FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses | My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini Episode date: 2026-09-02.

  9. 99

    Reverse engineering my ADHD test | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Reverse engineering my ADHD test | Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates | GPU World Episode date: 2026-09-01.

  10. 98

    Hacking IKEA Furniture | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Hacking IKEA Furniture | “I just chose words carefully” | Creepy Crawlies Episode date: 2026-08-31.

  11. 97

    507 Mechanical Movements | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: 507 Mechanical Movements | Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card | Gemini-3.5-Transcribe Episode date: 2026-08-28.

  12. 96

    AWS Acquires DuckLabs | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: AWS Acquires DuckLabs | Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk | CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela Episode date: 2026-08-27.

  13. 95

    Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs | New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro | OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell Episode date: 2026-08-26.

  14. 94

    iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com | How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs | The entire city of San Francisco as a video game Episode date: 2026-08-25.

  15. 93

    Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future | Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025) | My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes Episode date: 2026-08-24.

  16. 92

    Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI | Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload | AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint Episode date: 2026-08-21.

  17. 91

    PostgreSQL for Everything | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: PostgreSQL for Everything | Don't Paste the AI, please | Casio F-B100W-1A Episode date: 2026-08-20.

  18. 90

    Beware Management Consultants | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Beware Management Consultants | Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows | Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union Episode date: 2026-08-19.

  19. 89

    Olo (Color) | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Olo (Color) | GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released | Sun Clock Episode date: 2026-08-18.

  20. 88

    Claude: System Prompts | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Claude: System Prompts | Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers | Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing Episode date: 2026-08-17.

  21. 87

    Ordinary Abundance | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Ordinary Abundance | Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes | Hello, me. It's been a while Episode date: 2026-08-14.

  22. 86

    Delta | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Delta | Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot | uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook Episode date: 2026-08-13.

  23. 85

    Mojo 1.0 | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Mojo 1.0 | Compression is prediction | LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 Episode date: 2026-08-12.

  24. 84

    As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing | Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models | Sonic Pi v5 Episode date: 2026-08-11.

  25. 83

    Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) | Everything you do is being recorded | Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code Episode date: 2026-08-10.

  26. 82

    Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open | Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs | AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon Episode date: 2026-08-07.

  27. 81

    Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models | Discovery Loop | Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs Episode date: 2026-08-06.

  28. 80

    Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones | Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation | AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol Episode date: 2026-08-05.

  29. 79

    Devtools must be open source | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Devtools must be open source | Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs | 200 Milliseconds Episode date: 2026-08-04.

  30. 78

    Don't be a meat proxy | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Don't be a meat proxy | Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork | Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust Episode date: 2026-08-03.

  31. 77

    NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook | LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models | Decoy Font Episode date: 2026-07-17.

  32. 76

    Grok Build is open source | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Grok Build is open source | SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions | Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf] Episode date: 2026-07-16.

  33. 75

    The Tower Keeps Rising | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: The Tower Keeps Rising | I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets | Show HN: Juggler – an open-source GUI coding agent, by the creator of JUCE Episode date: 2026-07-15.

  34. 74

    Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode | Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries | The git history command Episode date: 2026-07-14.

  35. 73

    Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k | How to read more books | Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles Episode date: 2026-07-13.

  36. 72

    No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026 | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026 | GPT-5.6 | Hy3 Episode date: 2026-07-10.

  37. 71

    GPT‑Live | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: GPT‑Live | Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents | TypeScript 7 Episode date: 2026-07-09.

  38. 70

    GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup | Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro | 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format Episode date: 2026-07-08.

  39. 69

    Learning to code is still worthwhile | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Learning to code is still worthwhile | Resetting Xbox | How to sequence your own DNA at home Episode date: 2026-07-07.

  40. 68

    Virginia bans sale of geolocation data | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Virginia bans sale of geolocation data | Right to Local Intelligence | CarPlay Is Additive Episode date: 2026-07-06.

  41. 67

    Deno Desktop | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Deno Desktop | Did my old job only exist because of fraud? | Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI Episode date: 2026-06-22.

  42. 66

    I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware | Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP | Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS Episode date: 2026-06-19.

  43. 65

    Midjourney Medical | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Midjourney Medical | Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool | Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability Episode date: 2026-06-18.

  44. 64

    The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during… | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation | A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer | John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard Episode date: 2026-06-16.

  45. 63

    macOS Container Machines | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: macOS Container Machines | Claude Fable 5 | Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12 Episode date: 2026-06-10.

  46. 62

    Dopamine Fracking | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Dopamine Fracking | APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs | Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony Episode date: 2026-06-08.

  47. 61

    Changing How We Develop Ladybird | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: Changing How We Develop Ladybird | Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video] | Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery Episode date: 2026-06-05.

  48. 60

    They’re made out of weights | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: They’re made out of weights | Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes | Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language Episode date: 2026-06-04.

  49. 59

    1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: 1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug | Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux | AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study Episode date: 2026-06-03.

  50. 58

    The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen | Build or Be Replaced

    Today: The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen | Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI? | macOS needs its grid back Episode date: 2026-06-02.

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AI news, agentic workflows, and real automation stories for engineers and builders who ship. 5x/week, 12-15 minutes. Powered by ScanBrief — 56 tech sources scored daily. Hosted by Erik Anderson, a network automation engineer running 140 projects with a fleet of 12 AI agents. Not theory. Systems running in production.

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