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What is climbing fastest across every source

LLM6.1xNvidia3.9xJetBrains0.8xTHX-010.0x

Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage

A local Mac application indexes files by meaning to reduce token usage and provide agents with better context through a single search. ·

20 points and 3 comments on Hacker News, linking tedhaley.ca.

Hacker News2h ago▲3 to 23 across 7 pollsdiscusstedhaley.ca

jwuthri-cloud/Tracely-ai

A new repository with 161 stars in its first week.

GitHub10h ago▲130 to 161 across 3 pollsgithub.com

openai/openai-python v3.29.0

OpenAI releases version 3.29.0 of its Python library, adding a billing error code, a new voice, and vault metadata filters. ·

GitHub Releases8h ago▲github.com

Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers

A court orders Google to halt construction at two data center sites because the company failed to complete required environmental impact assessments before clearing forest land. ·

137 points and 18 comments on Hacker News, linking theguardian.com.

Hacker News3h ago▲18 to 155 across 11 pollsdiscusstheguardian.com

jwuthri-cloud/Tracely-ai

A new repository with 161 stars in its first week.

GitHub10h ago▲130 to 161 across 3 pollsgithub.com

rociiu/talorys

rociiu releases talorys, a personal AI agent that users deploy to their own Cloudflare accounts using a single command. ·

GitHub+ Hacker News40h ago▲117 to 754 across 35 pollsgithub.com

ollama/ollama v0.40.3

New release v0.40.3 of ollama/ollama on GitHub.

GitHub Releases24h ago▲10 to 20 across 10 pollsgithub.com

rociiu/talorys

rociiu releases talorys, a personal AI agent that users deploy to their own Cloudflare accounts using a single command. ·

A new repository written in TypeScript with 754 stars in its first week.

GitHub+ Hacker News40h ago▲117 to 754 across 35 pollsgithub.com

Google Data Centers around the world

Google operates data center communities located around the world, which are distributed across various global regions. ·

Hacker News3h ago▲7 to 83 across 8 pollsdiscussdatacenters.google

jwuthri-cloud/Tracely-ai

A new repository with 161 stars in its first week.

GitHub10h ago▲130 to 161 across 3 pollsgithub.com

ollama/ollama v0.40.3

New release v0.40.3 of ollama/ollama on GitHub.

GitHub Releases24h ago▲10 to 20 across 10 pollsgithub.com

Trending topics today: heat

LLM: 1.24LLM1.24Nvidia: 0.39Nvidia0.39JetBrains: 0.08JetBrains0.08THX-01: 0THX-010
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LLM1.24
Nvidia0.39
JetBrains0.08
THX-010

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: 7,325Lightricks/LTX-2.57,325abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF: 3,991abenzerps/Qwen-Image-…3,991Cloudflare/clef: 2,028Cloudflare/clef2,028google/embeddinggemma-2: 1,717google/embeddinggemma…1,717jialinyyzz/humanizer: 1,092jialinyyzz/humanizer1,092Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo ▲3: 544Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.… ▲3544
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Lightricks/LTX-2.57325
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF3991
Cloudflare/clef2028
google/embeddinggemma-21717
jialinyyzz/humanizer1092
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo ▲3544

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/

Build your own decision model

The text explains how to build system one decision models that output calibrated probabilities, noting that structured output constrains language models to valid JSON. ·

Hacker News27h ago▲3 to 554 across 112 pollsdiscussnishtahir.com

speridlabs/iris-3b

A text to image model from speridlabs with 152 likes and 393 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face34h ago▲100 to 152 across 69 pollshuggingface.co

Build your own decision model

The text explains how to build system one decision models that output calibrated probabilities, noting that structured output constrains language models to valid JSON. ·

Hacker News27h ago▲3 to 554 across 112 pollsdiscussnishtahir.com

X voices

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

GitHub

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New repos, releases and changelog

New AI repos this week: stars

wheresryan22/anatomy: 3,394wheresryan22/anatomy3,394mhtsec/ARTEX: 3,155mhtsec/ARTEX3,155LosaLosSantos/aurelio-finance: 2,269LosaLosSantos/aurelio…2,269rociiu/talorys: 754rociiu/talorys754ThariqS/ai-newtab: 740ThariqS/ai-newtab740sirioberati/Genjustsu-Open-Source-Workflow: 652sirioberati/Genjustsu…652
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wheresryan22/anatomy3394
mhtsec/ARTEX3155
LosaLosSantos/aurelio-finance2269
rociiu/talorys754
ThariqS/ai-newtab740
sirioberati/Genjustsu-Open-Source-Workflow652

rociiu/talorys

rociiu releases talorys, a personal AI agent that users deploy to their own Cloudflare accounts using a single command. ·

GitHub+ Hacker News40h ago▲117 to 754 across 35 pollsgithub.com

ollama/ollama v0.40.3

New release v0.40.3 of ollama/ollama on GitHub.

GitHub Releases24h ago▲10 to 20 across 10 pollsgithub.com

rociiu/talorys

rociiu releases talorys, a personal AI agent that users deploy to their own Cloudflare accounts using a single command. ·

A new repository written in TypeScript with 754 stars in its first week.

GitHub+ Hacker News40h ago▲117 to 754 across 35 pollsgithub.com

ollama/ollama v0.40.3

New release v0.40.3 of ollama/ollama on GitHub.

GitHub Releases24h ago▲10 to 20 across 10 pollsgithub.com

NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins

Nous Research maintains official plugins for Hermes Agent, including integrations for Home Assistant, Spotify, and Claude Subscription DirectSDK, available in the plugin catalog. ·

GitHub29h ago▲116 to 186 across 11 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

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Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

Tue 06: 28Tue 0628Wed 07: 28Wed 0728Thu 08: 28Thu 0828Fri 09: 30Fri 0930Sat 10: 3Sat 103Sun 11: 7Sun 117Mon 12: 0Mon 120
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Tue 0628
Wed 0728
Thu 0828
Fri 0930
Sat 103
Sun 117
Mon 120

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 $2.95Min $2.09Max $5.00

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

Output price, $ per million tokens (newest models)

step-5-preview: 2.70step-5-preview2.70claude-haiku-5.5: 0.50claude-haiku-5.50.50claude-haiku-5.5:batch: 0.25claude-haiku-5.5:batch0.25gemini-nano-banana-2.1: 7.50gemini-nano-banana-2.17.50mistral-large-4-0: 2.09mistral-large-4-02.09median, all paid models: 2median, all paid mode…2
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step-5-preview2.7
claude-haiku-5.50.5
claude-haiku-5.5:batch0.25
gemini-nano-banana-2.17.5
mistral-large-4-02.09
median, all paid models2

432 paid models listed; median of the 40 added in 30 days: $4.10. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.

Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers

A court orders Google to halt construction at two data center sites because the company failed to complete required environmental impact assessments before clearing forest land. ·

137 points and 18 comments on Hacker News, linking theguardian.com.

Hacker News3h ago▲18 to 155 across 11 pollsdiscusstheguardian.com

Google Data Centers around the world

Google operates data center communities located around the world, which are distributed across various global regions. ·

Hacker News3h ago▲7 to 83 across 8 pollsdiscussdatacenters.google

Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers

A court orders Google to halt construction at two data center sites because the company failed to complete required environmental impact assessments before clearing forest land. ·

137 points and 18 comments on Hacker News, linking theguardian.com.

Hacker News3h ago▲18 to 155 across 11 pollsdiscusstheguardian.com

Google Data Centers around the world

Google operates data center communities located around the world, which are distributed across various global regions. ·

Hacker News3h ago▲7 to 83 across 8 pollsdiscussdatacenters.google