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What shipped and what got fixed — newest first.

2026-09-093

  • NewA project that keeps appearing on the weekly ranking now carries its whole run: what it gained in each of the last few issues, and whether it is gaining faster, gaining less, holding the same pace, or moving with no direction at all. Ponytail added 5,000 stars, then 8,369, then 12,154 in three consecutive issues — until now each issue introduced it again as though you had never met it.
  • FixThe weekly ranking no longer ends with a list of repositories we had just catalogued. They were rarely new — one was a 70,273-star project we had simply never indexed — so the section described our own coverage rather than the week it was reporting on.
  • FixA dispatch that fails to translate is now given another attempt instead of being written off after one bad one. 44 translations had been abandoned that way, and each missing one kept its dispatch out of that language’s archive entirely.

2026-09-013

  • NewThe weekly page now opens with the ranking itself — ten projects, what each one gained this week and what it stands at — followed by how the ranking is computed and every issue dated by the week it measures. It used to be a list of two links.
  • NewEach weekly issue now links straight to the issues either side of it, by name. Getting from this week to last week meant going back to the index and finding it.
  • NewA weekly issue now says what changed since the last one: any project that was also on the previous week’s board carries its gain and its rank from that issue, printed under this week’s figures. Five of this week’s ten were there last week, and every one of them used to be introduced again from scratch.

2026-08-313

  • NewThe front page now shows what a subscriber actually gets: three real dispatches — one from Hacker News, one from X, one from the labs — sitting in a phone beside the promise, with the time each one arrived. Subscribing used to be an offer waiting at the bottom of the ninth screen.
  • NewThere is a feedback button on every page now. It takes a note without an account and without an email address; tell us what is missing, wrong, or hard to use. Until today the only way to reach us was to start writing an email yourself.
  • NewThe first hundred people to sign up become founding readers, numbered in the order they arrived. If you already have an account, your number is on the account page — the five readers who were here before this existed have theirs.

2026-08-282

  • NewEvery dispatch and every project now ends with somewhere to go next: the closest things we have written on the same subject, and — on a dispatch — the one filed either side of it in its channel. Reaching an old dispatch used to mean paging through 231 pages of archive one screen at a time.
  • NewA project page now names the pieces written about it. The teardown of mini-swe-agent linked to the project; the project said nothing about the teardown.

2026-08-272

  • NewA new channel at /harness: teardowns of how agent harnesses actually work, read from the source instead of from anyone’s announcement — every claim links to the file and the commit it came from, so the citation still works after the repository moves on. The first piece takes apart what the word means in 190 lines of code, and the newest one now sits on the homepage under the weekly ranking.
  • FixThe footer now links the project directory and the harness path. It had neither, so the bottom of a page was a dead end for both.

2026-08-253

  • NewEach weekly ranking now reads as one board: rank, the week’s star gain, how fast the project was climbing between readings, and what we wrote about it — one entry per project, instead of the write-up first and the same ten projects again in a table underneath. The archive now says which week each issue covers.
  • FixProject write-ups no longer file every hour, and the 1,576 already published have been deleted. Picking whatever grew fastest each hour meant writing up two-day-old repositories with a few hundred stars; the weekly ranking covers projects now, and it is allowed to leave a week empty.
  • FixThe weekly ranking is now in the nav and on the homepage under its own name — until today it was reachable only from a link inside an issue. The page around each ranking is localized too, evidence table and dates included.

2026-08-241

  • NewA weekly ranking of the AI projects that moved, at /weekly. Every entry shows the star jump, the daily rate, and whether the growth looks like a ramp or a single-day step — and says so plainly when there isn’t enough history to tell.

2026-08-222

  • FixHacker News stories are now checked for AI relevance before we write anything about them. This feed had been carrying pieces on IKEA’s naming taxonomy, a Casio watch and post-war sugar rationing — 2,627 of them, which we have deleted.
  • NewEvery dispatch now says which part of the field it belongs to: language models, robotics, infrastructure, research, policy, industry.

2026-08-213

  • NewThe projects climbing fastest are now re-read every hour instead of once a day. Their star counts used to be up to thirty hours old on the page — long enough for one of them to have gained a thousand.
  • FixGrowth figures now measure the hours that actually passed between two readings. A climb used to be divided by a whole day even when the readings were 20 hours apart — or 46 — which mattered most for the newest projects, where a single interval is the entire history we have.
  • FixEach project card now says how long its climb took, and both ends of it come from the same pair of readings. “486 → 1,352 over the past 27 hours” where it used to read “since the last scan” and quietly mix two different moments.

2026-08-192

  • NewThe front page now gives Hacker News, X and the labs a screen each, so you can see what a channel is before deciding to follow it. The opening screen is finally just the opening screen, too — it used to spill part of the next section on some window sizes and not others.
  • NewEach source filter in the archive now introduces itself. Hacker News, X, the labs and projects each open with what that channel is and what it saves you, and each carries its own title into search results and shared links — where all five views used to read exactly the same.

2026-08-182

  • NewThe front page now opens with what is breaking out — small repositories climbing fastest against their own size — instead of a chart of how fast we file. Each one says how long it had existed before we found it; several were two days old.
  • FixA whole source has been retired. YouTube dispatches — lecture archives by the end, and one about germicidal lamps — no longer appear in the archive or its filters. The 161 already filed stay readable at their own links.

2026-08-172

  • NewFive more labs file dispatches — Anthropic, xAI, DeepSeek, Mistral AI and Ollama — and each can be filtered by name in the archive, alongside the six already watched. Anthropic alone brought 432 posts across its news, engineering and research writing.
  • FixTranslated headlines no longer trail off into punctuation that was never part of the title. 266 of them ended in a fragment like "}], and a handful ran on into a sentence of the translator arguing with itself. Every one has been cleaned, and the few too far gone were translated again.

2026-08-152

  • FixDispatches from July stopped reappearing at the top of the feed. A project whose README changed had every dispatch ever written about it rewritten and re-dated — around 116 a day, and 42 in a single hour after one bad night — burying the day’s actual news under months-old posts. A dispatch is dated reporting and now stays as filed; the project’s own page carries the current reading.
  • FixA dispatch about a project now arrives complete, in all five languages at once, instead of going out in English and being translated over the following hours.

2026-08-143

  • FixThe directory more than doubled, from 3,083 projects to 6,671.
  • FixReaching the front of the directory took a fixed number of stars a day — which is easier the bigger a project already is, so 114 of the 180 that cleared it were 20,000-star giants coasting at a twentieth of a percent. It is now growth measured against a project’s own size: a 391-star repository gaining 7.6% a day is news, a giant drifting is not. Stars bought in a day make a step rather than a climb, and a project showing one is passed over.
  • NewA Breakout sort on the directory: growth measured against a project’s own size, not in raw stars. Momentum ranks a 45,000-star project climbing 2% a day above a 500-star one climbing 15% — Breakout is where the small and mid-size projects surging turn up.

2026-08-131

  • NewYou can buy more credits. The 100 free ones were all any account could ever have; packs now start at $5 for 1,000 more — one credit per semantic search — on the account page. They never expire, nothing renews, and unused ones are refundable within 7 days.

2026-08-111

  • FixThe directory now finds projects that are days old. Everything we looked at was ranked by total stars, so a repository could go from nothing to 577 stars in two days and stay invisible — antirez’s MiniMax H3 inference engine did exactly that. We now sweep for repositories born in the last two weeks, whatever they call themselves.

2026-08-103

  • FixSemantic results now survive opening one. Clicking into a dispatch and pressing back used to drop the whole result set and quietly answer with keyword matches instead — for a search you had paid for. It comes back with you, and returning to it costs nothing.
  • FixThe credit count beside the search box was tallied in your browser, so it drifted from your real balance and read “—” whenever you arrived by link. Every search now brings the real number back with it.
  • FixThere is now a way to reach us: support@agentlenshq.com, in the footer of every page. The account page had been telling you to get in touch about credits without ever saying where.

2026-08-083

  • NewSearch, on the archive and on the project directory. The directory filters as you type, in whatever language you are reading — 「记忆」finds projects by their translated summaries, “agent” by their English names, out of the same box. The archive filters on Enter, newest first, over titles and summaries rather than full article text.
  • NewSearch by meaning instead of guessing the words something was written with. Signed in, the ✦ chip switches either box to semantic search: “a memory layer that runs locally” finds the projects about one, whatever they call themselves. Switching is free; only Enter spends a credit.
  • Fixopencode — 194,943 stars, pushed that morning — had never once been found. Discovery only ever saw repositories their maintainers had tagged, or whose descriptions happened to use one of our words. It now also sweeps on stars alone, and looks for robotics and multimodal projects, which nothing had ever searched for.

2026-08-071

  • FixA dispatch filed minutes ago is the one you see. Pages were being held in your browser for up to a day, so a new dispatch — or a translation landing on one you had already opened — stayed invisible until you forced a reload.

2026-08-061

  • FixWe are sorry: for two days some dispatches were close to unreadable. From the afternoon of 4 August the model that writes them — nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b — began returning text with every line break stripped, so headings printed as literal ## characters mid-paragraph and articles arrived as one unbroken wall of text. Our checks read the writing, and this was clean writing in a destroyed shape; they now read the shape too, and a dispatch that fails is rewritten by another model instead of published. The 126 already filed — twenty from this, the rest older truncations nobody had caught — are being rewritten.

2026-08-042

  • FixA YouTube dispatch names the channel it came from. All forty of them were printing an internal id — youtube:UCBa5G_ESCn8Yd4vw5U-gIcg — where the show’s name belongs, on the page and in the Telegram push alike. The ones already filed read correctly now too, not only the new ones.
  • NewA shared link leads with the dispatch’s reading — 332 points, +191 stars a day — on a card drawn in the colours the site actually uses. The old card still wore a design retired in June, and four of the five kinds of dispatch went out with no source named on them at all.

2026-08-033

  • FixOn a Hacker News dispatch, the quoted comments are now translated along with the rest. They used to stay in English while the writing around them did not — on a story that is three quarters quotation, that left the discussion unreadable.
  • FixA rate-limited lab no longer blocks the labs behind it. OpenAI sits first in the list, so an hour of its feed refusing us meant Hugging Face, Qwen, vLLM and BAIR went unscanned that round — and the next, for as long as it lasted.
  • FixFewer projects had been reaching the front of the directory: each repository was only re-checked every four and a half days, long enough for a burst of stars to average itself away. Back to daily.

2026-08-022

  • FixA lab article filed with tomorrow’s date no longer pins itself to the top of the archive printing a day that has not happened.
  • FixA dispatch is no longer lost when the models behind it are all down. It used to be dropped after three tries; it now keeps its place and is retried for up to two days.

2026-07-312

  • FixQwen is filed again. The lab moved its blog and left the old feed frozen on September, taking ten months of releases with it — Qwen3.5, Qwen3.6, Qwen3.7 and Qwen-Image-3.0 among them. They are all in the archive now, and new ones arrive with the rest.
  • FixWhen a dispatch is rewritten — a project whose README changed, a story that kept climbing — every language is rewritten with it. 简体中文, 繁體中文, 日本語 and 한국어 used to keep serving the previous text while English showed the update.

2026-07-303

  • NewThe homepage now opens on everything being watched: one dispatch from each source where Hacker News alone used to fill the list, every source and lab named, and the three repositories gaining stars fastest.
  • FixThe site reads properly on a phone. The header no longer stretches past the screen — its links fold into a panel — and tables, filters and project cards fit the width, with taps landing where you aim them.
  • FixA dispatch missing in one language is now retried on its own, so a single provider hitting its quota no longer leaves the other languages untranslated.

2026-07-293

  • NewLab dispatches now show the source article’s own publish date, and cite a link straight to the original.
  • FixOpening a dispatch starts at the top of the article, and going back returns you to the exact row you left in the archive.
  • FixThe “All dispatches” link on a dispatch now returns to the filtered list and page you came from.

2026-07-282

  • NewLabs watch: dispatches now cover posts from six frontier labs — OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Hugging Face, Qwen, vLLM and BAIR — filed within hours of publication.
  • NewA Labs filter on the archive, with a chip per lab to read one of them on its own.

2026-07-261

  • NewAPI usage now draws on one credit balance per account instead of a separate call quota on every key.

2026-07-251

  • NewDocs at /docs: a quickstart, the MCP server setup, and a full REST API reference.

2026-07-241

  • NewAgent access: connect over MCP and search dispatches semantically, so your agent pulls the same sourced intelligence you read.

2026-07-231

  • NewProject pages get crawler-visible HTML and their own social cards, matching what dispatches already had.

2026-07-221

  • FixEvery generated dispatch is now validated end to end before publishing, and a fallback model takes over when the first one returns something unusable — no more truncated or garbled write-ups.

2026-07-061

  • NewAn AI × Crypto digest vertical, filterable on the archive alongside the other sources.

2026-06-291

  • NewWhy-now signals: a dispatch card tells you what changed — new, trending, a spike — instead of leaving you to guess why it surfaced today.

2026-06-271

  • NewThe AI projects directory at /projects: what is gaining traction on GitHub right now, ranked by momentum rather than all-time stars.

2026-06-222

  • NewThe whole site reads in English, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 日本語 and 한국어, dispatches included.
  • NewYouTube added as a source: long-form AI talks and interviews, summarized from their transcripts.

2026-06-191

  • NewAgentLensHQ opens to the public — the dispatch archive is free to read, no account needed.

2026-06-181

  • NewLink a Telegram chat to your account to get dispatches pushed as they are filed.