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What is climbing fastest across every source

Agents6.5xTe Hiku Media7.0xOpenAI3.9xNvidia7.1xDots6.0xExcited7.1xIntel7.5xMCP7.2xLearning5.5xHacker News7.3x

openai/openai-python v3.23.0

OpenAI releases version 3.23.0 of its Python library, adding typed answers from session streams and file staging features. ·

GitHub Releases58m ago▲github.com

Cloudflare/clef

A image text to text model from Cloudflare with 296 likes and 18 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face5h ago▲121 to 296 across 11 pollshuggingface.co

Cloudflare/clef

A image text to text model from Cloudflare with 296 likes and 18 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face5h ago▲121 to 296 across 11 pollshuggingface.co

unslothai/unsloth Command Palette + Desktop UI/UX

Unsloth releases a desktop update adding a command palette, shareable settings, and faster Laya decisions. It also reduces peak memory usage by 45% for NVFP4 LoRA training. ·

GitHub Releases10h ago▲6 to 16 across 5 pollsgithub.com

Context Language Models

98 points and 23 comments on Hacker News, linking arxiv.org.

Hacker News+ HF Daily Papers2d ago▲3 to 121 across 28 pollsdiscussarxiv.org

Cloudflare/clef

A image text to text model from Cloudflare with 296 likes and 18 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face5h ago▲121 to 296 across 11 pollshuggingface.co

unslothai/unsloth Command Palette + Desktop UI/UX

Unsloth releases a desktop update adding a command palette, shareable settings, and faster Laya decisions. It also reduces peak memory usage by 45% for NVFP4 LoRA training. ·

GitHub Releases10h ago▲6 to 16 across 5 pollsgithub.com

Trending topics today: heat

Agents: 1.62Agents1.62Te Hiku Media: 1.34Te Hiku Media1.34OpenAI: 1.39OpenAI1.39Nvidia: 1.05Nvidia1.05Dots: 0.98Dots0.98Excited: 0.97Excited0.97
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Agents1.62
Te Hiku Media1.34
OpenAI1.39
Nvidia1.05
Dots0.98
Excited0.97

Heat = summed hotness of today's stories naming the topic.

Models

5 stories

Releases, papers, trending weights and new listings

Top 6 trending on Hugging Face: likes

Lightricks/LTX-2.5 ▲3: 5,855Lightricks/LTX-2.5 ▲35,855convaiinnovations/laya ▲1: 4,862convaiinnovations/… ▲14,862Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1 ▲2: 2,785Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1 ▲22,785abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF ▲1: 2,702abenzerps/Qwen-Ima… ▲12,702XingChen-AGI/TeleOCR ▲1: 1,219XingChen-AGI/TeleO… ▲11,219Contrastive-LM/CLM-v0.1-8B: 623Contrastive-LM/CLM-v0…623
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Lightricks/LTX-2.5 ▲35855
convaiinnovations/laya ▲14862
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1 ▲22785
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF ▲12702
XingChen-AGI/TeleOCR ▲11219
Contrastive-LM/CLM-v0.1-8B623

PirateBench: score out of 100

gpt-6.1-sol: 99gpt-6.1-sol99opus-5-5: 96opus-5-596gpt-6-sol: 92gpt-6-sol92gpt-6-luna: 65gpt-6-luna65haiku-4-5: 4.28haiku-4-54.28
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gpt-6.1-sol98.9
opus-5-596.46
gpt-6-sol91.6
gpt-6-luna65.25
haiku-4-54.28

Agents build our own projects from a brief; every run, failures included: https://cowerx.dev/daily/piratebench/

Context Language Models

98 points and 23 comments on Hacker News, linking arxiv.org.

Hacker News+ HF Daily Papers2d ago▲3 to 121 across 28 pollsdiscussarxiv.org

X voices

5 stories

X posts other sources are linking to, then named voices on Bluesky and Mastodon

@OfficialLoganK

5 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.

X, via Hacker News28h ago▲3 to 6 across 28 pollsView on X

GitHub

5 stories

New repos, releases and changelog

New AI repos this week: stars

KKKKhazix/AIHOT: 4,636KKKKhazix/AIHOT4,636feder-cr/dots: 2,370feder-cr/dots2,370dzhng/jevgrep: 1,998dzhng/jevgrep1,998rehan-remade/universal-modder: 1,530rehan-remade/universa…1,530kaankiziltug/logo-design-skill: 1,342kaankiziltug/logo-des…1,342firelex/jeff: 1,263firelex/jeff1,263
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KKKKhazix/AIHOT4636
feder-cr/dots2370
dzhng/jevgrep1998
rehan-remade/universal-modder1530
kaankiziltug/logo-design-skill1342
firelex/jeff1263

unslothai/unsloth Command Palette + Desktop UI/UX

Unsloth releases a desktop update adding a command palette, shareable settings, and faster Laya decisions. It also reduces peak memory usage by 45% for NVFP4 LoRA training. ·

GitHub Releases10h ago▲6 to 16 across 5 pollsgithub.com

openai/codex 0.159.3

OpenAI releases Codex version 0.159.3, which adds optional reminders for eligible local sessions to complete account security setup. ·

GitHub Releases25h ago▲0 to 7 across 13 pollsgithub.com

unslothai/unsloth Command Palette + Desktop UI/UX

Unsloth releases a desktop update adding a command palette, shareable settings, and faster Laya decisions. It also reduces peak memory usage by 45% for NVFP4 LoRA training. ·

New release v0.1.902-beta of unslothai/unsloth on GitHub.

GitHub Releases10h ago▲6 to 16 across 5 pollsgithub.com

PostHog/jeeves

PostHog released a project named Jeeves that uses reasoning to improve Jev-like decision models. ·

GitHub+ Hacker News3d ago▲116 to 383 across 58 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

5 stories

Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

Sat 26: 1Sat 261Sun 27: 1Sun 271Mon 28: 20Mon 2820Tue 29: 33Tue 2933Wed 30: 35Wed 3035Thu 01: 25Thu 0125Fri 02: 0Fri 020
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Sat 261
Sun 271
Mon 2820
Tue 2933
Wed 3035
Thu 0125
Fri 020

Stories from DCD, Data Center Knowledge, EIA and Hacker News, by publication day.

Median output price of models added in the last 30 days, $ per million tokens

Last $4.00Min $2.85Max $5.00

One point per OpenRouter reading, last 8 days. Data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.

Output price, $ per million tokens (newest models)

pareto-26.10-preview: 3.20pareto-26.10-preview3.20gpt-6.1-sol-pro: 10gpt-6.1-sol-pro10gpt-6.1-sol: 10gpt-6.1-sol10claude-sonnet-5.5: 10claude-sonnet-5.510claude-sonnet-5.5:batch: 5claude-sonnet-5.5:bat…5median, all paid models: 2median, all paid mode…2
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pareto-26.10-preview3.2
gpt-6.1-sol-pro10
gpt-6.1-sol10
claude-sonnet-5.510
claude-sonnet-5.5:batch5
median, all paid models2

437 paid models listed; median of the 56 added in 30 days: $4.00. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.

SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering

The piece compares texture-atlas, SDF, MSDF, and Slug glyph rendering methods on the GPU, explaining how each works and when to use them. ·

Hacker News34h ago▲6 to 245 across 92 pollsdiscussalphapixeldev.com