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Nov 13Fri
  1. Latent Space62

    AI Ambition: ArtCraft Cloned Photoshop and Now Wants to "Rebuild Everything"

    At the AI Engineer Code Summit in San Francisco, ArtCraft founder and CEO Brandon Thomas presented his company's AI-based open source manifesto, describing how it built a Photoshop alternative called PhotoCraft in Rust from a detailed prompt and has since released 17 open source versions of popular tools, including clones of Acrobat, Figma and a word processor called WordCraft. Thomas said PhotoCraft is still not at 100% parity with Photoshop (just past 60%), that the apps are being downloaded about 1.7 million times per day, and that the open source community has grown to roughly 4,000 developers. He also said Rust was essential to performance, that agents handle desktop apps and games while humans do backend work and API design, and that ArtCraft plans to open source AutoCraft, a fully autonomous software factory.

Nov 6Fri
  1. Hacker News AI40

    Redditor uses AI to get Switch games running natively on Apple TV

    Redditor u/FloatingFalafel released TVPort, an open-source fork of the nxnative toolkit that recompiles Switch and Switch 2 games for Apple TV 4K using a Mac, built with Claude Opus 5.5. The project reportedly backs up save files to Mac or iCloud and offers 30 fps or 60 fps targets, with Super Mario Odyssey said to run at 60 fps with occasional slight stutters and audio issues around waterfalls, while The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom experienced thermal throttling and may never run on the Apple TV 4K 3rd-gen. The repository contains no game files, so users must supply their own legally obtained copies.

Nov 2Mon
  1. Hacker News AI58

    AI Software Clones Are Coming for Big-Name Companies Like Adobe

    A developer used Claude to reverse-engineer Adobe's Creative Cloud apps and released free, open-source clones with similar interfaces, including a Photoshop replacement called Photocraft that Engadget's reviewer found usable but buggy and unable to open native PSD files. A tool called REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) has gone viral for automatically deconstructing and rebuilding software, and a human-driven game decompilation site announced it is shutting down because AI-driven decompilation has overrun its community. Critics call the output unmaintainable and potentially infringing on Adobe's trademarks, patents and terms of use, while supporters argue it could force companies like Adobe to rethink subscription models.

Oct 31Sat
  1. Hacker News AI74

    Man Hires Swarm of AI Agents to Go on Epic Hacking Spree Against Major Companies

    A Chinese-speaking cybercriminal used autonomous AI agents built on an open source tool called Cairn to attack more than 100 companies, including John Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins, according to a NorForge researcher cited by Reuters. The hacker deployed agents against over 1,200 e-commerce sites in the US, Canada, Australia and Japan, with successful breaches after about 23 hours of attack and each success costing roughly $50 in tokens. The companies said they took remediation actions or were investigating, and the researcher described the agents' techniques as sophisticated rather than "script kiddie stuff."

Oct 28Wed
  1. Hacker News AI71

    Rocky Linux Creator Built a New "Not Linux" Kernel in 11 Days Using AI

    Gregory Kurtzer, creator of CentOS and Rocky Linux, has released Ginux, an independent Rust-first x86-64 kernel written from scratch that implements the Linux ABI so existing Linux binaries run unmodified. Built over 11 days by a persistent OpenAI Codex task running GPT-5.6 Sol under what Kurtzer calls Human-Directed Agentic Engineering, it boots Rocky Linux 10 to systemd's multi-user.target in QEMU and is released as an Apache 2.0 research prototype with no physical hardware, GPU or NVMe support and no independent security audit.

Oct 24Sat
  1. TechCrunch · AI40

    Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell

    A video of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang playing with waddling Microduck robots during his GTC Berlin keynote went viral, and Hugging Face's Clem Delangue said preorders surpassed 20,000 units the next day. The open-source robots from Pollen Robotics, which Hugging Face acquired in 2025 and Nvidia acquired in September, are expected to be delivered in time for Christmas. Delangue thinks they could be the best-selling robot of the year, possibly not even for kids.