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Evidence (17)

• 3Hacker News·10/5/2026research
  Why plain text remains a durable computing format

  This article argues that plain text remains one of the most reliable formats for long-term readability because it is simple, widely supported, and independent of specific applications. It highlights how plain text underpins source code, configuration files, logs, and many web-related formats, making it easy to inspect, search, edit, and preserve across systems.

• 3Hacker News·9/30/2026product_launch
  Unofficial RSS feeds for Last.fm activity

  A service now provides RSS feeds for Last.fm user activity, including recent tracks, loved tracks, top tracks, top artists, and recommended tracks. It also adds image enclosures and a JSON output option for recommended tracks.

• 4Hacker News·9/25/2026open_source
  CZP-1 Adds Casio CZ-101 Patch Sharing

  The CZP-1 web-based synthesizer can now load patch banks from JSON files and share sounds through encoded URLs. The post describes importing Casio CZ-101 patch data and recreating it closely in the browser-based instrument, with the main difference coming from missing post-processing effects. It also notes that bank data persists locally in the browser and can be managed across tabs.

• 7The New Stack·8/31/2026framework_update
  ARD aims to add discovery to MCP-style agent tooling

  Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) is an open specification intended to help AI agents find tools and resources across multiple registries, clouds, and platforms instead of requiring preconfigured endpoints. The proposal, authored by contributors from Google, Microsoft, and Hugging Face and discussed by AWS, uses JSON-LD and REST to enable federated search for "agentic resources."

• 5The New Stack·8/31/2026research
  TOON can cut token use in AI coding tools

  The article argues that a coding agent’s token cost depends not only on model choice and prompts, but also on how developer tools format their output. It highlights Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) as a lossless, more compact alternative to JSON for large uniform datasets, potentially reducing token usage in agent workflows.

• 8Hacker News·8/20/2026security
  Malicious job interview coding challenge used to deliver malware

  The article describes a phishing campaign that impersonated a company recruiter on LinkedIn and sent a coding challenge designed to compromise a developer’s system. The payload used a remote-code-execution loader, then fetched additional obfuscated code that could access files, environment secrets, and potentially operate as a RAT.

• 6InfoQ·8/17/2026framework_update
  JEP 540 Moves Toward JDK 28 Target with Simple JSON API

  JEP 540, the Simple JSON API, has advanced to Target status for JDK 28. The API aims to provide a compact, dependency-free way to parse and generate JSON with immutable values, strict syntax checks, and simple traversal and conversion. Feedback from incubation will continue to influence its design.

• 8Cloudflare Blog·8/14/2026security
  Cloudflare adds MCP traffic detection and control

  Cloudflare announced new Cloudflare One capabilities to identify inspected MCP traffic, show which users and servers generate it, and control direct connections on managed network paths. The update is aimed at helping security teams detect shadow MCP usage and enforce access to approved MCP Server Portals or trusted servers.

• 6InfoQ·8/12/2026framework_update
  MCP Becomes Stateless in New Spec

  The MCP 2026-07-28 specification removes the initialize handshake and session header, while adding required method and tool-name headers to help gateways route agent traffic without parsing JSON. Developers are split between seeing the change as a return to API-style design and viewing it as a pragmatic refinement of the standard.

• 5Simon Willison·8/9/2026research
  SQLite prototype for compressed text revision history

  Simon Willison describes an experiment for storing full text revision histories in SQLite as a compressed JSON array of prior versions. A prototype using Zstandard reportedly reduced 20.4 MB of simulated revision text to 80.3 KB, with a suggested optimization of splitting history into smaller chunks to avoid repeated full recompression.

• 7The New Stack·7/26/2026framework_update
  MCP update removes session machinery and simplifies remote servers

  The upcoming Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification removes sessions and the initialization handshake, while deprecating several core features. The update shifts state and capability handling to ordinary infrastructure patterns, making remote MCP servers easier to run as stateless services.

• 6InfoQ·7/15/2026research
  Using PostgreSQL as the Foundation for Enterprise AI Agents

  Gwen Shapira describes how teams are using PostgreSQL to support production AI features in mission-critical applications. The presentation highlights multi-modal patterns such as JSONB parsing, HNSW vector indexing, vector quantization, and agent memory management to provide both deterministic and semantic context to LLMs.

• 3Hacker News·7/14/2026open_source
  Claude Hook to Rewrite Repetitive Phrases

  The post shows how to use Claude's MessageDisplay hook to automatically replace recurring phrases in Claude's output with custom alternatives. It includes a Python script and settings configuration to intercept displayed text and rewrite selected vocabulary at startup.

• 3Hacker News·7/10/2026open_source
  Emacs as a client for everything

  The article argues that Emacs is not an operating system, but it can orchestrate many services and applications through its built-in access to system resources and external programs. It illustrates this with a weather client for wttr.in, showing how Elisp can combine HTTP requests, JSON processing, and UI output inside Emacs.

• 6Hugging Face Blog·6/30/2026framework_update
  Every Eval Ever Results Now Appear on Hugging Face Model Pages

  Hugging Face has integrated Every Eval Ever (EEE) with Community Evals so evaluation results can be cross-posted and viewed in a more standardized format. The integration links results to model pages, leaderboards, and a shared metadata store, and includes a converter between EEE records and Hugging Face's YAML-based eval format.

• 3Simon Willison·6/29/2026product_launch
  HTML table extractor for pasted rich text

  Simon Willison released an HTML table extractor that converts pasted rich text containing embedded HTML tables into HTML, Markdown, CSV, TSV, or JSON. He also added a Wikipedia import flow using Wikipedia’s CORS-enabled rendered HTML API to search for pages and automatically detect and display tables.

• 6OpenAI Blog·2/4/2026framework_update
  OpenAI details the Codex App Server

  OpenAI explains how it built the Codex App Server, a bidirectional JSON-RPC API for embedding the Codex agent into applications. The server supports streaming progress updates, tool use, approvals, and code diffs to help developers integrate agentic workflows.