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Friday, October 9, 2026

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Tools

ttok 1.0

Release: ttok 1.0 I released ttok 0.4 , ran uv tool upgrade ttok , piped a file into the new version... and realized that it was defaulting to the GPT-4 tokenizer when it should very clearly default to GPT-5/GPT-6 instead! I figured switching the default was…

Simon Willison
Research

ttok 0.4

Release: ttok 0.4 ttok is my CLI tool for counting tokens, using OpenAI's open source tiktoken library. It hasn't been in updated in a couple of years, but I finally fixed a Click warning, updated CI, and added a --list-models command to list available…

Simon Willison
Enterprise

Inside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending Spree

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse’s logo.

WIRED AI Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger
Tools

Request Eagle

Fast and open-source Postman alternative Discussion | Link

Product Hunt Egor Tokarev