May 13 · Today's 10 Dev Picks

LinkedIn probes 6,278 browser extensions and ships the encrypted result on every request — 299 points on HN. Mozilla files a formal ‘opposed’ on Chrome’s Prompt API push, opening the browser-AI standards war in earnest. Simon Willison reads GitLab’s Act 2 layoff post as the SaaS survival script for the agentic era. Zenn’s #1 today asks why some engineers viscerally hate software design principles. Publickey reports Claude Platform on AWS shipping GA. V2EX has parallel threads on the explosion of AI API resellers and on AI coding being more exhausting than writing it yourself. Plus CopyFail not getting disclosed to Gentoo, a 400-line shell coding-agent harness, and a Game Boy emulator in F#.

May 13, 2026 · 3 min · 1294 words

May 13 · Today's 10 Dev Picks

LinkedIn probes 6,278 browser extensions and ships the encrypted result on every request — 299 points on HN. Mozilla files a formal ‘opposed’ on Chrome’s Prompt API push, opening the browser-AI standards war in earnest. Simon Willison reads GitLab’s Act 2 layoff post as the SaaS survival script for the agentic era. Zenn’s #1 today asks why some engineers viscerally hate software design principles. Publickey reports Claude Platform on AWS shipping GA. V2EX has parallel threads on the explosion of AI API resellers and on AI coding being more exhausting than writing it yourself. Plus CopyFail not getting disclosed to Gentoo, a 400-line shell coding-agent harness, and a Game Boy emulator in F#.

May 13, 2026 · 3 min · 1294 words