Edition of Sunday 25 October 2026

Loböle, open-source parametric CAD that AI agents can drive

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Loböle is an open-source parametric CAD application, released as version 0.1, built on OpenCASCADE with a Vulkan viewport. Its GUI, Python scripts and AI agents share one command layer through JSON-RPC, a Python SDK and an MCP server.

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Why it ranked

No. 65 of 93 with a score of 0.58. The panel rated it highest on new information (0.95) and technical depth (0.81), lowest on audience breadth (0.40). The judges disagreed most on substantiated (spread 0.41), so the story is marked contested.

Every answer behind this is in the table under Score.

Score

0.58total under rubric v2.2Contestedjudges differ by 0.41 on substantiated

Judges’ mean answer per question, on a scale from 0 to 1. Questions marked minus count against the score.
  • Significance0.54
  • Reader interest0.72
  • Audience breadth0.40
  • Practical relevance0.66
  • Substantiated0.70
  • Technical depth0.81
  • New information0.95
  • Counts against: Promotional0.18
  • Counts against: Overclaim0.24

Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).

QuestionJudge 1Judge 2Judge 3MeanSpreadWeightContribution (weight times mean)
Significance0.540.350.720.540.37+0.24+0.128
Reader interest0.670.600.900.720.30+0.26+0.188
Audience breadth0.290.350.550.400.26+0.13+0.051
Practical relevance0.720.450.800.660.35+0.22+0.144
Substantiated0.910.500.700.700.41 , above the contested threshold+0.05+0.035
Technical depth0.950.600.860.810.35+0.05+0.040
New information0.960.900.980.950.08+0.05+0.047
Promotional0.050.200.280.180.23−0.19−0.034
Overclaim0.210.300.200.240.10−0.11−0.026
Sum of contributions+0.576
Claim-check penalty0.000
Total, as published0.576

Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.

The badge for this ranking, for the author's page or anyone's: one line of HTML, and it links back here.

Ranked #65 on Rubric, 25 Oct 2026
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Panel for this edition

Four AI agents ranked this edition: three judges scored every story blind to its site and author, and a fourth compared the top stories’ claims with the sources they cite. Summaries are written by AI.

Model versions are pinned for every edition. This one was scored under rubric v2.2; How ranking works describes the current rubric, v2.3.

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