Some things I found interesting from 2026-02-01 to 2026-02-08

Internet Discoveries between 1 and 8 February

NONO - Secure Shell for AI Agents
HTTP Status Dogs API - A dog image for every HTTP Status Code
Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down
Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking
Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
I tried a Claude Code alternative that's local, open source, and completely free - how it works - ZDNET
The Codex App
Kusari
GitHub - ace-step/ACE-Step-1.5: The most powerful local music generation model that outperforms most commercial alternatives
Qwen3-Coder-Next
Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust
Agent Skills
A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
Claude is a space to think
Claude Code for Infrastructure
Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out
Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code
Company as Code
PsiACE/Skills – A small, shared skill library
Don’t rent the cloud, own instead
GPT-5.3-Codex
Claude Opus 4.6
Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions
Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents
Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents
Claude Composer
Sheldon Brown’s Bicycle Technical Info
How to effectively write quality code with AI
Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?
France’s homegrown open source online office suite
GitHub - pydantic/monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI
Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory
The Little Bool of Doom (2025)
Vouch

Interesting details

NONO - Secure Shell for AI Agents - OS-enforced capability sandbox for running untrusted AI agents. No escape hatch. Works with Claude, GPT, and any AI agent.

HTTP Status Dogs API - A dog image for every HTTP Status Code - A free HTTP status code API with lots and lots of awesome dogs! Use it to show useful error messages in your website for HTTP response status codes. Support for AVIF, JXL, JPG, WEBP and JSON.

Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down - My dish network device interfered with that of my neighbor. He didn’t want to cooperate, so I taught him how to keep the volume down. Now he sets it to 18.

Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking - WireGuard®-based overlay network and Zero Trust Network Access in one platform for reliable and secure connectivity

Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation - My personal Claude assistant that runs in Apple containers. Lightweight, secure, and built to be understood and customized for your own needs. - gavrielc/nanoclaw

I tried a Claude Code alternative that's local, open source, and completely free - how it works - ZDNET -

The Codex App -

Kusari -

GitHub - ace-step/ACE-Step-1.5: The most powerful local music generation model that outperforms most commercial alternatives - The most powerful local music generation model that outperforms most commercial alternatives - ace-step/ACE-Step-1.5

Qwen3-Coder-Next - Qwen Chat offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.

Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust - ⚡ Better pre-commit, re-engineered in Rust. Contribute to j178/prek development by creating an account on GitHub.

Agent Skills - A simple, open format for giving agents new capabilities and expertise.

A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw -

Claude is a space to think - We’ve made a choice: Claude will remain ad-free. We explain why advertising incentives are incompatible with a genuinely helpful AI assistant, and how we plan to expand access without compromising user trust.

Claude Code for Infrastructure - fluid.sh

Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out - If you’re on one of the cheaper Anthropic plans like me, it’s a pretty common scenario when you’re deep into Claude coding an idea, to hit a daily or weekly

Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code -

Company as Code -

PsiACE/Skills – A small, shared skill library - A small, shared skill library by builders, for builders. - PsiACE/skills

Don’t rent the cloud, own instead - Data centers are cool, everyone should have one.

GPT-5.3-Codex - GPT-5.3-Codex is a Codex-native agent that pairs frontier coding performance with general reasoning to support long-horizon, real-world technical work.

Claude Opus 4.6 - We’re upgrading our smartest model. Across agentic coding, computer use, tool use, search, and finance, Opus 4.6 is an industry-leading model, often by wide margin.

Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions - Coordinate multiple Claude Code instances working together as a team, with shared tasks, inter-agent messaging, and centralized management.

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents - Give your AI agent a browser that actually works

Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents - Slack automation CLI for AI agents. Contribute to stablyai/agent-slack development by creating an account on GitHub.

Claude Composer - What happens when you ask Claude Code to compose music? Five experiments later: original songs, music videos, and a full album, all built from scratch.

Sheldon Brown’s Bicycle Technical Info - A go-to source of information about bicycle maintenance, repair and customization

How to effectively write quality code with AI - AI is rarely optional anymore, but how can you still be proud of your craft? Discover the workflow to effectively write high-quality, robust code using AI tools.

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS - A security-focused library OS supporting kernel- and user-mode execution - microsoft/litebox

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer? - An offline tool that encrypts files and splits the decryption key among trusted friends using Shamir’s Secret Sharing. Open source.

France’s homegrown open source online office suite - La Suite numérique is a set of open-source applications for digital collaboration and teamwork. It offers modern solutions for the digital workplace. - La Suite numérique

GitHub - pydantic/monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI - A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI - pydantic/monty

Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory - Contribute to localgpt-app/localgpt development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Little Bool of Doom (2025) - A short story about debugging and how sometimes what’s true is false. Starring everyone’s favourite uncle, Undefined Behaviour.

Vouch - A contributor trust management system based on explicit vouches to participate. - mitchellh/vouch

All this was saved to my Link Ace over the week