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Issue #142

The Stack · Issue #142

Five for your Sunday.

Morning. A coding model that reviews its own pull requests, a laptop redesign that finally fixes the one complaint everyone had, and a supply-chain scare that sat quietly for fourteen months before anyone noticed. Get comfortable — this one runs long.

AI · Deep dive

Anthropic's newest model can review its own code — and catch its own mistakes.

We fed it forty real pull requests pulled from open-source repos. It flagged bugs in its own output six times before we'd even asked. Here's where that genuinely saves a team time, and where it just moves the work somewhere else.

Hardware · First look

The redesigned Framework 13 finally fixes the one complaint everyone had.

A stiffer hinge, a brighter 120Hz panel, and a battery that survives a full transatlantic flight without a charger. We've carried it for two weeks — here's what's genuinely better, and what Framework still owes its earliest buyers.

Security · Investigation

A typo'd npm package sat untouched for fourteen months — quietly shipping into six thousand projects a week.

We traced it back to the maintainer who finally spotted it, the company that built on it without checking, and the one-line review that could have caught the whole thing on day one.

Open source · Funding

A maintainer's weekend side project just closed a $12M seed round — without changing its license.

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