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Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench: AI Code Quality Under Iteration
Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench hit a 24% strict pass rate, beating Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5, yet code quality still degraded. What it shows about coding agents over time.
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Claude Mythos Found New Cryptographic Weaknesses: What HN Thinks
Claude Mythos Preview found new weaknesses in the HAWK post-quantum signature scheme and reduced-round AES. What the research shows and how HN reacted.
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Kimi Linear: An Attention Architecture That Outperforms Full Attention
Kimi Linear explained: Moonshot's KDA hybrid linear attention beat full attention with 75% less KV cache and up to 6x faster decoding at 1M context.
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US Prosecutors Charge Traveler Over GrapheneOS Phone Wipe During Airport Search
A GrapheneOS duress PIN wiped a traveler's phone during a CBP airport search, and US prosecutors charged him for it. The case, HN debate and developer stakes.
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Kimi K3 Weights Land on HuggingFace: 2.8T Open Frontier Model You Can Actually Download
Kimi K3 open weights are on HuggingFace: 2.8T parameters, 1M context, native MXFP4 and a ~1.63TB download. The specs, license terms and HN reaction.
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The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough
AI makes starting projects nearly free, so why are developers burning out? The HN debate on Rick Manelius's essay about focus and followthrough with AI.
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PGSimCity: A 3D Interactive City That Visualizes How PostgreSQL Works
PGSimCity is a 3D city that visualizes PostgreSQL internals - shared buffers, WAL, autovacuum, checkpoints and replication. How it works and what HN said.
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Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native Compiler With No JavaScript Engine
Scriptc by Vercel Labs compiles TypeScript to self-contained native binaries with no JavaScript engine. How it works, its performance claims and the HN split.
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The Underground Relay Market for AI API Tokens: How Resellers Get 97% Off
AI API token relays resell OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google access at up to 97.8% off. How the gray market works and what it means for developers on AI APIs.
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