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Claude Code Sends 33k Tokens Before Your Prompt - OpenCode Sends 7k
Claude Code sends about 33k tokens before your prompt, OpenCode about 7k. The methodology, cache economics and the HN debate over whether the overhead pays off.
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Geohot on LLMs: Love the Tech, Hate the Hype
George Hotz on LLMs: why he loves the tech but rejects doom narratives and AGI inevitability hype, plus how the Hacker News thread split on his argument.
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Mesh LLM: Run 235B Models Across Your Home Lab with iroh
Mesh LLM pools GPUs across home lab machines behind one OpenAI-compatible API, splitting 235B models over iroh and QUIC with no RDMA or NVLink required.
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Terry Tao on Coding Agents: A Fields Medalist's Take on Vibe Coding
Terry Tao on coding agents: how he ported two dozen 1999 Java math applets to JavaScript in hours, built new visualization tools, and weighs risk and trust.
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AI 2040 Plan A: A Detailed Scenario for Navigating Superintelligence
AI 2040 Plan A is the AI Futures Project scenario for a US-China accord that delays superintelligence to 2040. What it proposes and what HN thinks.
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Ant: A New JavaScript Runtime With Its Own Engine, Package Registry, and Desktop Framework
A solo developer built a complete JavaScript ecosystem from scratch - runtime, engine, package manager, and Electron alternative. Here's what HN thinks.
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Ghost Font: Text That Humans Can Read But AI Cannot
Ghost Font hides text in video using motion, so humans can read it but frame-by-frame AI models cannot. How it works and how HN commenters broke it.
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SQLite STRICT Tables: Why Type Safety Should Be Your Default
SQLite's flexible typing lets you store anything anywhere. STRICT mode fixes that - here's why you should enable it for every new table.
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Write Code Like a Human Will Maintain It - The AI Era Debate
Write code like a human will maintain it: why AI-generated shortcuts teach future models bad patterns, and what the HN debate suggests for keeping quality up.
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Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft: what the complaint says about former employees Tang Tan and Chang Liu, the hardware angle, and HN reactions.
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Colibri: Run GLM 5.2 on a 32GB Laptop With Disk Streaming
A solo developer built a 1,300-line C inference engine that runs the 744B GLM 5.2 model on consumer hardware by streaming routed experts from disk.
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Good Tools Are Invisible: Why Your Favorite Editor Might Be Holding You Back
Ginger Bill argues that the best tools disappear during use - and that celebrating workarounds is a sign your tool has failed you.
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