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Claude Opus 5.5 leads in agentic coding and knowledge work, and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads.

1788 points•km144•8 days ago•1109 comments•
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Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a clear upgrade over Claude Sonnet 5, runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work.

879 points•D2OQZG8l5BI1S06•2 days ago•609 comments•
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Lambda calculus is for wimps. Real programmers use combinatory logic.

51 points•xyproto•11 months ago•17 comments
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The fear of superintelligence is driving decisions that make AI less transparent and more consolidated.

11 points•Bostonian•8 days ago•0 comments•
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If there is one thing developers like less than writing documentation, it's responding to unnecessary escalations.

11 points•dijit•over 5 years ago•1 comment
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View source on one of our generated widgets and you can find a tenant id, a connector handle and the...

9 points•pierrelaurentmedori•7 days ago•0 comments
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It is possible to steal money from locked mobile devices just by taking advantage of Venmo SMS notification system using Siri

9 points•calvin•about 10 years ago•1 comment
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You are exiled to a small island to grow cucumbers. Keep the skies clear by staying off your phone.

7 points•ethanpronev•2 days ago•4 comments•
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I rented eight servers on five continents to map geo-blocking and found almost none. Only 8.4% of the top 500 sites answered differently by country. A fifth refused a scripted request from everywhere, and fourteen served my home broadband while refusing every datacentre.

6 points•remdore•7 days ago•0 comments
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The AI-assisted attack at the start of Donald Trump's war killed more than 150 people, mostly children.

5 points•cdrnsf•4 days ago•0 comments•
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Codename One removes native startup waits, repeated style scans, and unnecessary JavaScript suspension. Profiles and compiler benchmarks expose costs that bundle size and frame rates miss.

5 points•codenameone•9 days ago•0 comments
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Less typing, more work - Blog post by Nicolas Dular

4 points•tosh•10 days ago•0 comments•
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Skąd lecisz? Pokażemy gotowe trasy i pełny koszt: bilety plus pobyt na miejscu.

4 points•privacyzvarych•11 days ago•0 comments•
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Context, limitations, and evaluation criteria for OliverDB performance results.

4 points•pnr-consulting•11 days ago•0 comments•
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I write less code by hand, ship more software, and spend much more time deciding what I am willing to own.

3 points•feisal•1 day ago•0 comments•
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A trial to test how EVs can be used as giant batteries that could power households for less is being launched in Auckland.

3 points•billybuckwheat•2 days ago•0 comments•
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3 points•speckx•2 days ago•0 comments•
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3 points•theanonymousone•4 days ago•1 comment•
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Why steering coding agents belongs in declarative, tested hooks instead of prompts, and how a domain-specific language lets agents improve their own harness.

3 points•yasyfm•10 days ago•1 comment•
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3 points•markgavalda•10 days ago•0 comments•
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Two dollars is less than a cup of coffee. Less than a fast-food cheeseburger. And I don't mean a big quarter-pounder - I mean a McDonald's cheeseburger, which is about $3.19 as of this writing. In many…

2 points•shaunpud•1 day ago•0 comments•
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Glyd stores open models' bf16 weights in about 11 bits instead of 16 and decodes them inside the GPU's matrix multiply: bit for bit, often faster.

2 points•surya-koritala•3 days ago•0 comments•
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Far too many AI code review comments are noise. Pair a human editor with AI, surface only the findings that matter, and encode that discipline in a reusable skill.

2 points•johnnybouder•6 days ago•0 comments•
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Make Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor use fewer tokens. Local context compaction with measured savings. - philipppohlmann/compaction

2 points•philippadrian•7 days ago•0 comments•
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The second model in our ThinkingCap series. We took Qwen3.8-27B and cut how much it thinks, without changing the quality of the answers.

2 points•jackbravo•7 days ago•0 comments•
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2 points•Intragalactic•9 days ago•0 comments•
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The play phoneHaving a son has made me much more conscious of how I spend my time. Not just because there's less of it that's entirely mine, but because there's now someone watching what I do with...

1 points•edparry•about 9 hours ago•1 comment•
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1 points•haute_cuisine•1 day ago•2 comments•
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1 points•Wilsoniumite•3 days ago•0 comments•
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1 points•xnx•5 days ago•1 comment•
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The Yorba team was built to build. So our product failed to communicate "less." Norman and Conway showed us the fix isn't a feature - it's restraint.

1 points•schmudde•5 days ago•0 comments•
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1 points•phoronixrly•6 days ago•0 comments•
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Matthias Mehl, a psychology professor at the University of Arizona spoke about why losing a few hundred words per day each year matters more than it seems.

1 points•BiraIgnacio•10 days ago•0 comments•
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The 512KB Club is an exclusive list of web pages weighing less than 512 kilobytes.

-1 points•kev•almost 6 years ago•3 comments
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Back in the 1930s, scientists noticed that water fleas and rats fed restricted diets while young went on to live longer. The same effect has since turned up in fruit flies and mice. What we did not know was how a meal eaten in infancy could affect health weeks, months, or even years later. A recent Nature study might have found the answer. A team led by Fumiaki Obata, a biologist at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Kobe, Japan, found a protein that carries a record into adulthood of what fruit flies ate as larvae, influencing how long they live. Hungry maggots Lab fruit flies are fed a mix of yeast and sugar, with yeast being their main source of protein. “We decreased only the yeast concentration in the diet, from eight percent to either one or two percent,” Obata explains. This low-protein diet was introduced roughly halfway through the larval period. Once the flies emerged from their pupae as adults, they went back on standard food. Read full article Comments

0 points•Jacek Krywko•1 day ago•0 comments
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President Donald Trump announces plans to weaken fuel efficiency and emissions rules for cars and trucks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on December 3rd, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images The US Department of Transportation finalized its plans today to weaken fuel efficiency standards, calling it "among the largest deregulatory actions under the second Trump Administration." It's a nail in the coffin for Biden-era standards that would have required fleet average fuel economy to reach 50.4 miles per gallon by model year 2031. President Donald Trump's plan requires 34.9 miles per gallon, not much higher than the 30.1-mile-per-gallon target previously set for model year 2024. Consumer advocacy, health, and environmental groups are incensed The Trump administration claims its plan would shave $1,300 off the average cost of a n … Read the full story at The Verge.

0 points•Justine Calma•2 days ago•0 comments

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