AI doesn't need 'superintelligence' or evil intent to start a nuclear war
11 points and 2 comments on Hacker News, linking thebulletin.org.
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6 storiesWhat is climbing fastest across every source
Claude6.9xOpenAI5.2xOpus 5.53.0x
I asked Claude build a physically accurate O'Neill cylinder you can walk around
22 points and 19 comments on Hacker News, linking island-three.gruberbuilds.workers.dev.
shinshin86/mesh-avatar-studio
The mesh-avatar-studio project lets users convert a single illustration into an animated 2D mesh avatar using a coding agent and a local editor. ·
facebook/sam3
A mask generation model from facebook with 3,751 likes and 2.2M downloads on Hugging Face.
microsoft/FrogNano-4B-2609
A model model from microsoft with 98 likes and 408 downloads on Hugging Face.
Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
Nebraska data centers must file annual reports with the state water and energy department, but statutes prevent public access to their electricity and water usage figures. ·
194 points and 285 comments on Hacker News, linking 1011now.com.
I asked Claude build a physically accurate O'Neill cylinder you can walk around
22 points and 19 comments on Hacker News, linking island-three.gruberbuilds.workers.dev.
allenv0/SCM
allenv0 releases SCM, a macOS application that uses deep AI to search every photo and video frame in any folder. ·
anthropics/claude-code v2.1.289
New release v2.1.289 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
shinshin86/mesh-avatar-studio
The mesh-avatar-studio project lets users convert a single illustration into an animated 2D mesh avatar using a coding agent and a local editor. ·
Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1
A text generation model from Aleph-Alpha with 388 likes and 1,135 downloads on Hugging Face.
allenv0/SCM
allenv0 releases SCM, a macOS application that uses deep AI to search every photo and video frame in any folder. ·
A new repository written in JavaScript with 242 stars in its first week.
Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
Nebraska data centers must file annual reports with the state water and energy department, but statutes prevent public access to their electricity and water usage figures. ·
I asked Claude build a physically accurate O'Neill cylinder you can walk around
22 points and 19 comments on Hacker News, linking island-three.gruberbuilds.workers.dev.
anthropics/claude-code v2.1.289
New release v2.1.289 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1
A text generation model from Aleph-Alpha with 388 likes and 1,135 downloads on Hugging Face.
Jakeschincariol/replica-skill
Jakeschincariol publishes eleven free Claude skills under the MIT license that reverse-engineer, rebuild, and test applications to fix user complaints. ·
Trending topics today: heat
Table
| Claude | 1.55 |
| OpenAI | 0.52 |
| Opus 5.5 | 0.3 |
Heat = summed hotness of today's stories naming the topic.
Models
5 storiesReleases, papers, trending weights and new listings
Top 6 trending on Hugging Face: likes
Table
| Lightricks/LTX-2.5 | 6306 |
| convaiinnovations/laya | 5161 |
| abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF | 3134 |
| Cloudflare/clef | 1203 |
| Cloudflare/clef-flash ▲3 | 424 |
| Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1 ▲8 | 388 |
PirateBench: score out of 100
Table
| gpt-6.1-sol | 98.9 |
| opus-5-5 | 96.46 |
| gpt-6-sol | 91.6 |
| gpt-6-luna | 65.25 |
| haiku-4-5 | 4.28 |
Agents build our own projects from a brief; every run, failures included: https://cowerx.dev/daily/piratebench/
Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
Niko1221 releases Strata, an inference engine that runs the 125B Qwen 3.8 Flash Next model on consumer hardware at 100 tokens per second. ·
567 points and 270 comments on Hacker News, linking github.com.
Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code
231 points and 155 comments on Hacker News, linking claude.dev.
Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1
A text generation model from Aleph-Alpha with 388 likes and 1,135 downloads on Hugging Face.
Venastine-Research/Xing4.0-29B-A4B-GGUF
A text generation model from Venastine-Research with 275 likes and 14.4k downloads on Hugging Face.
Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
Kolibri is an open-weight English-German Mixture-of-Experts model with 78 billion total parameters, 3 billion active parameters, and a one-million-token context window. ·
Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
Niko1221 releases Strata, an inference engine that runs the 125B Qwen 3.8 Flash Next model on consumer hardware at 100 tokens per second. ·
567 points and 270 comments on Hacker News, linking github.com.
Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1
A text generation model from Aleph-Alpha with 388 likes and 1,135 downloads on Hugging Face.
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. ·
Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code
231 points and 155 comments on Hacker News, linking claude.dev.
U.S. may have overthrown Venezuela due to chat with Grok
A Trump insider suggests the U.S. may have overthrown Venezuela due to a chat with Grok, offering a glimpse of the president's decision-making. ·
X voices
5 storiesX posts other sources are linking to, then named voices on Bluesky and Mastodon
@vllm_project
Decision 2.0: our newest decision models
3 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@dhh
I've had agents implement and optimize the Campfire web app in Elixir, Go, Rust
5 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@anabology
Artist shares prompts/assets for pop music video created with Claude in 18 hours
2 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@robertvaradan
AI can clone your indie game, but not its soul
19 points and 19 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@swc_rs
SWC stops accepting external PRs due to AI-generated content
5 points and 3 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@vllm_project
Decision 2.0: our newest decision models
3 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@dhh
I've had agents implement and optimize the Campfire web app in Elixir, Go, Rust
5 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@anabology
Artist shares prompts/assets for pop music video created with Claude in 18 hours
2 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@robertvaradan
AI can clone your indie game, but not its soul
19 points and 19 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@kaimcpheeters
GPT 6 Astra vs. Claude Opus in a 24 Hour StarCraft Livestream
6 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
GitHub
5 storiesNew repos, releases and changelog
New AI repos this week: stars
Table
| KKKKhazix/AIHOT | 5767 |
| CopilotKit/OpenDots | 3194 |
| rehan-remade/universal-modder | 3156 |
| feder-cr/dots | 2599 |
| nanaism/yomiyasu | 1384 |
| firelex/jeff | 1371 |
Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
Niko1221 releases Strata, an inference engine that runs the 125B Qwen 3.8 Flash Next model on consumer hardware at 100 tokens per second. ·
567 points and 270 comments on Hacker News, linking github.com.
allenv0/SCM
allenv0 releases SCM, a macOS application that uses deep AI to search every photo and video frame in any folder. ·
anthropics/claude-code v2.1.289
New release v2.1.289 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
Jakeschincariol/replica-skill
Jakeschincariol publishes eleven free Claude skills under the MIT license that reverse-engineer, rebuild, and test applications to fix user complaints. ·
Adolanium/hermes-gadget-sdk
Adolanium publishes a software development kit that lets users build small ESP32 voice gadgets for their own Hermes Agent, including push-to-talk firmware and a desktop simulator. ·
allenv0/SCM
allenv0 releases SCM, a macOS application that uses deep AI to search every photo and video frame in any folder. ·
A new repository written in JavaScript with 242 stars in its first week.
Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
Niko1221 releases Strata, an inference engine that runs the 125B Qwen 3.8 Flash Next model on consumer hardware at 100 tokens per second. ·
anthropics/claude-code v2.1.289
New release v2.1.289 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
Jakeschincariol/replica-skill
Jakeschincariol publishes eleven free Claude skills under the MIT license that reverse-engineer, rebuild, and test applications to fix user complaints. ·
Adolanium/hermes-gadget-sdk
Adolanium publishes a software development kit that lets users build small ESP32 voice gadgets for their own Hermes Agent, including push-to-talk firmware and a desktop simulator. ·
Infrastructure
5 storiesData centers, power, chips and what tokens cost
Data-center and energy stories per day
Table
| Tue 29 | 33 |
| Wed 30 | 34 |
| Thu 01 | 26 |
| Fri 02 | 32 |
| Sat 03 | 0 |
| Sun 04 | 3 |
| Mon 05 | 0 |
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
One point per OpenRouter reading, last 8 days. Data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.
Output price, $ per million tokens (newest models)
Table
| pareto-26.10-preview | 3.2 |
| gpt-6.1-sol-pro | 10 |
| gpt-6.1-sol | 10 |
| claude-sonnet-5.5 | 10 |
| claude-sonnet-5.5:batch | 5 |
| median, all paid models | 2 |
437 paid models listed; median of the 47 added in 30 days: $3.20. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.
Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
Nebraska data centers must file annual reports with the state water and energy department, but statutes prevent public access to their electricity and water usage figures. ·
194 points and 285 comments on Hacker News, linking 1011now.com.
Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
Niko1221 releases Strata, an inference engine that runs the 125B Qwen 3.8 Flash Next model on consumer hardware at 100 tokens per second. ·
The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux
Valve's Timur Kristóf improves the AMDGPU kernel driver to better support decade-old GCN 1.0 and 1.1 graphics cards for Linux gaming and other tasks. ·
Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
Nebraska data centers must file annual reports with the state water and energy department, but statutes prevent public access to their electricity and water usage figures. ·
194 points and 285 comments on Hacker News, linking 1011now.com.
Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
Niko1221 releases Strata, an inference engine that runs the 125B Qwen 3.8 Flash Next model on consumer hardware at 100 tokens per second. ·
The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux
Valve's Timur Kristóf improves the AMDGPU kernel driver to better support decade-old GCN 1.0 and 1.1 graphics cards for Linux gaming and other tasks. ·
Show HN: Local pretrained classifiers, GPU not needed
6 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking github.com.
Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter
40 points and 15 comments on Hacker News, linking theregister.com.