The Far-Field ASR Leaderboard is an open benchmark from Treble Technologies and Hugging Face, measuring speech recognition under realistic acoustic conditions rather than clean studio audio. It is the first open far-field ASR benchmark maintained as a continuously updated leaderboard.
Last week OpenAI pushed a repository called Codex Security to GitHub without an announcement, blog post or tweet. The Hacker News thread about it reached 560 points before OpenAI said a word.
July 2026 was a LOT. Two open-weight models at frontier scale were announced within three days of each other, a 27B model now runs on a phone, and there was plenty of tooling news.
Obsidian is a powerful note-taking and knowledge-management app that focuses on local, plain-text files and interconnected ideas. Unlike many other tools, it prioritizes longevity, privacy, and linking your notes together.
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The complete guide to the official Obsidian CLI. What it is, how to enable it on macOS, Windows, and Linux, all supported commands, the TUI, eval and the JavaScript API, the different ways to reach your vault from the terminal, and how AI agents drive it.
Last time, version 1.7.0 of the Kanban Action Planner brought WBS mode, automation rules, and embedded boards. 1.8.0 is smaller and about one idea I've wanted in there for a while: contexts.
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Templates are how every Obsidian note is created with the right properties and structure already in place. The complete guide to templates and Templater: core vs community plugin, the interpolation vs execution model, choices, dynamic dates, auto-filing, JavaScript, and where AI fits in.
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Properties are the difference between a pile of Markdown files and a knowledge system you can query. In this article, I explain how to use Obsidian properties from your very first field to a full schema powering dashboards, Kanban boards, and AI agents across 20,000 notes.
Two weeks ago, version 1.1.0 of the Kanban Action Planner shipped timeline mode. Versions 1.2.0 through 1.7.0 add a WBS mode, automation rules, embedded boards, a real estimates system, and a performance pass that touched almost every interaction.
Riddle turns a reMarkable Paper Pro into Tom Riddle's diary. You write with the pen, pause for a few seconds, and the answer appears on the page as flowing handwriting. No screen glow, no keyboard, no chat window. Built by Maxime Rivest, MIT licensed.
Obsidian has great support for keyboard shortcuts. Most commands can be invoked using shortcuts, and most of those can be customized.
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