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What is climbing fastest across every source

LLM6.4xClaude6.8xTe Hiku Media7.0xMystery Hype Theater7.0xGPT-66.2xCTO7.0xIndigenous7.0xAnthropic5.3xGPUs7.7xNvidia6.5x

Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta

Asta releases AstaBrief, an 8B open-weights model that generates cited scientific reports, available in its Fast mode or for independent infrastructure use. ·

13 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking allenai.org.

Hacker News+ Hugging Face blog9h ago▲5 to 13 across 7 pollsdiscussallenai.org

openai/openai-python v3.24.0

OpenAI releases version 3.24.0 of its Python library, adding custom voice creation and agent session events to the API. ·

GitHub Releases8h ago▲0 to 1 across 4 pollsgithub.com

Shardarcairn12/Discord-Server-Raider

Shardarcairn12 develops Discord-Server-Raider, a tool that uses AI algorithms to monitor Discord server data in real time. ·

GitHub12h ago▲88 to 227 across 4 pollsgithub.com

Cloudflare/clef-flash

A image text to text model from Cloudflare with 257 likes and 1,303 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face22h ago▲108 to 257 across 46 pollshuggingface.co

Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta

Asta releases AstaBrief, an 8B open-weights model that generates cited scientific reports, available in its Fast mode or for independent infrastructure use. ·

13 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking allenai.org.

Hacker News+ Hugging Face blog9h ago▲5 to 13 across 7 pollsdiscussallenai.org

Shardarcairn12/Discord-Server-Raider

Shardarcairn12 develops Discord-Server-Raider, a tool that uses AI algorithms to monitor Discord server data in real time. ·

GitHub12h ago▲88 to 227 across 4 pollsgithub.com

Trending topics today: heat

LLM: 1.86LLM1.86Claude: 1.41Claude1.41Te Hiku Media: 1.21Te Hiku Media1.21Mystery Hype Theater: 1.14Mystery Hype Theater1.14GPT-6: 1.14GPT-61.14CTO: 0.99CTO0.99
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LLM1.86
Claude1.41
Te Hiku Media1.21
Mystery Hype Theater1.14
GPT-61.14
CTO0.99

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

Models

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Releases, papers, trending weights and new listings

Top 6 trending on Hugging Face: likes

Lightricks/LTX-2.5 ▲1: 5,986Lightricks/LTX-2.5 ▲15,986convaiinnovations/laya: 5,003convaiinnovations/laya5,003abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF ▲1: 2,839abenzerps/Qwen-Ima… ▲12,839Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1 ▼2: 2,835Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1 ▼22,835Cloudflare/clef ▲8: 769Cloudflare/clef ▲8769Contrastive-LM/CLM-v0.1-8B ▲1: 665Contrastive-LM/CLM… ▲1665
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Lightricks/LTX-2.5 ▲15986
convaiinnovations/laya5003
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF ▲12839
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1 ▼22835
Cloudflare/clef ▲8769
Contrastive-LM/CLM-v0.1-8B ▲1665

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/

Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta

Asta releases AstaBrief, an 8B open-weights model that generates cited scientific reports, available in its Fast mode or for independent infrastructure use. ·

13 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking allenai.org.

Hacker News+ Hugging Face blog9h ago▲5 to 13 across 7 pollsdiscussallenai.org

DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows

DeepSeek Harness is a desktop application for macOS and Windows that processes documents, spreadsheets, and code while scheduling tasks through composable plugins. ·

Hacker News21h ago▲6 to 585 across 75 pollsdiscussdeepseek.com

Cloudflare/clef-flash

A image text to text model from Cloudflare with 257 likes and 1,303 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face22h ago▲108 to 257 across 46 pollshuggingface.co

Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta

Asta releases AstaBrief, an 8B open-weights model that generates cited scientific reports, available in its Fast mode or for independent infrastructure use. ·

13 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking allenai.org.

Hacker News+ Hugging Face blog9h ago▲5 to 13 across 7 pollsdiscussallenai.org

X voices

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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 News2d ago▲3 to 6 across 52 pollsView on X

GitHub

5 stories

New repos, releases and changelog

New AI repos this week: stars

KKKKhazix/AIHOT: 4,957KKKKhazix/AIHOT4,957Louis-CFM/coucou: 2,958Louis-CFM/coucou2,958feder-cr/dots: 2,466feder-cr/dots2,466rehan-remade/universal-modder: 2,101rehan-remade/universa…2,101dzhng/jevgrep: 2,066dzhng/jevgrep2,066kaankiziltug/logo-design-skill: 1,517kaankiziltug/logo-des…1,517
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KKKKhazix/AIHOT4957
Louis-CFM/coucou2958
feder-cr/dots2466
rehan-remade/universal-modder2101
dzhng/jevgrep2066
kaankiziltug/logo-design-skill1517

Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator

A developer releases an open-source tool that generates LEGO models using Astra and Opus 5.5, powered by Jev. ·

56 points and 35 comments on Hacker News, linking github.com.

Hacker News4h ago▲7 to 91 across 16 pollsdiscussgithub.com

openai/openai-python v3.24.0

OpenAI releases version 3.24.0 of its Python library, adding custom voice creation and agent session events to the API. ·

GitHub Releases8h ago▲0 to 1 across 4 pollsgithub.com

Shardarcairn12/Discord-Server-Raider

Shardarcairn12 develops Discord-Server-Raider, a tool that uses AI algorithms to monitor Discord server data in real time. ·

GitHub12h ago▲88 to 227 across 4 pollsgithub.com

openai/codex 0.160.0

OpenAI releases Codex version 0.160.0, which adds keyboard-accessible browsing for older tasks and middle-click pasting in fullscreen mode on Linux terminals. ·

GitHub Releases28h ago▲0 to 13 across 14 pollsgithub.com

Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator

A developer releases an open-source tool that generates LEGO models using Astra and Opus 5.5, powered by Jev. ·

56 points and 35 comments on Hacker News, linking github.com.

Hacker News4h ago▲7 to 91 across 16 pollsdiscussgithub.com

Shardarcairn12/Discord-Server-Raider

Shardarcairn12 develops Discord-Server-Raider, a tool that uses AI algorithms to monitor Discord server data in real time. ·

GitHub12h ago▲88 to 227 across 4 pollsgithub.com

openai/openai-python v3.24.0

OpenAI releases version 3.24.0 of its Python library, adding custom voice creation and agent session events to the API. ·

GitHub Releases8h ago▲0 to 1 across 4 pollsgithub.com

openai/codex 0.160.0

OpenAI releases Codex version 0.160.0, which adds keyboard-accessible browsing for older tasks and middle-click pasting in fullscreen mode on Linux terminals. ·

GitHub Releases28h ago▲0 to 13 across 14 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

5 stories

Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

Sun 27: 1Sun 271Mon 28: 20Mon 2820Tue 29: 33Tue 2933Wed 30: 34Wed 3034Thu 01: 26Thu 0126Fri 02: 32Fri 0232Sat 03: 0Sat 030
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Sun 271
Mon 2820
Tue 2933
Wed 3034
Thu 0126
Fri 0232
Sat 030

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 $5.00Min $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 52 added in 30 days: $5.00. 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 News2d ago▲6 to 251 across 116 pollsdiscussalphapixeldev.com