Zig

Today’s picks are about engineering fundamentals around AI: reading hidden data, tightening compiler semantics, speeding up runtimes, documenting design systems, and giving agents safer cloud integrations.

Anthropic closes a $65B Series H at $965B post-money and ships Opus 4.8. SQLite-as-workflow-engine and the MCP-is-dead thesis dominate HN. AWS Kiro Web, .NET MAUI on CoreCLR, and a Zig build system rewrite round out the day.