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What is climbing fastest across every source

Claude7.0xWorld6.9xAnthropic4.3xChinese7.1xAgainst Tech Oligarchy7.2xClarissa Redwine7.2xJS Tan7.2xPowerful Industry.7.2xTech7.2xWorker Resistance7.2x

How the Claude Code team does code review

The Claude Code team optimizes for the minimum human review time that avoids reverts or incidents after achieving high coverage and deep reviews. ·

92 points and 84 comments on Hacker News, linking claude.dev.

Hacker News2h ago▲11 to 176 across 7 pollsdiscussclaude.dev

Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

Claude explains the origins of the ECDSA curve, resolving a decades-old mystery regarding one of the most popular cryptographic standards. ·

Hacker News2h ago▲19 to 502 across 10 pollsdiscussanthropic.com

datalab-to/indra-ocr

A image to text model from datalab-to with 125 likes and 442 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face1h ago▲124 to 125 across 3 pollshuggingface.co

langchain-core==1.6.12

LangChain core version 1.6.12 fixes a bug that prevented extra data from propagating on content-block-start events. ·

GitHub Releases2h ago▲github.com

Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

Claude explains the origins of the ECDSA curve, resolving a decades-old mystery regarding one of the most popular cryptographic standards. ·

359 points and 143 comments on Hacker News, linking anthropic.com.

Hacker News2h ago▲19 to 502 across 10 pollsdiscussanthropic.com

How the Claude Code team does code review

The Claude Code team optimizes for the minimum human review time that avoids reverts or incidents after achieving high coverage and deep reviews. ·

Hacker News2h ago▲11 to 176 across 7 pollsdiscussclaude.dev

nvidia/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP4-Local

A image text to text model from nvidia with 138 likes and 771 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face4h ago▲124 to 138 across 8 pollshuggingface.co

Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

Claude explains the origins of the ECDSA curve, resolving a decades-old mystery regarding one of the most popular cryptographic standards. ·

359 points and 143 comments on Hacker News, linking anthropic.com.

Hacker News2h ago▲19 to 502 across 10 pollsdiscussanthropic.com

How the Claude Code team does code review

The Claude Code team optimizes for the minimum human review time that avoids reverts or incidents after achieving high coverage and deep reviews. ·

Hacker News2h ago▲11 to 176 across 7 pollsdiscussclaude.dev

nvidia/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP4-Local

A image text to text model from nvidia with 138 likes and 771 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face4h ago▲124 to 138 across 8 pollshuggingface.co

Trending topics today: heat

Claude: 1.71Claude1.71World: 1.65World1.65Anthropic: 1.82Anthropic1.82Chinese: 1.32Chinese1.32Against Tech Oligarchy: 1.31Against Tech Oligarchy1.31Clarissa Redwine: 1.31Clarissa Redwine1.31
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Claude1.71
World1.65
Anthropic1.82
Chinese1.32
Against Tech Oligarchy1.31
Clarissa Redwine1.31

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

abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized ▼1: 4,426abenzerps/Qwen-Ima… ▼14,426google/embeddinggemma-2: 2,502google/embeddinggemma…2,502jialinyyzz/humanizer: 1,819jialinyyzz/humanizer1,819Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo ▼1: 935Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.… ▼1935openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B ▲1: 842openbmb/MiniCPM-V-… ▲1842fishaudio/drama-3 ▲1: 550fishaudio/drama-3 ▲1550
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abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized ▼14426
google/embeddinggemma-22502
jialinyyzz/humanizer1819
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo ▼1935
openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B ▲1842
fishaudio/drama-3 ▲1550

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/

nvidia/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP4-Local

A image text to text model from nvidia with 138 likes and 771 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face4h ago▲124 to 138 across 8 pollshuggingface.co

nvidia/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP4-Local

A image text to text model from nvidia with 138 likes and 771 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face4h ago▲124 to 138 across 8 pollshuggingface.co

X voices

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

GitHub

5 stories

New repos, releases and changelog

New AI repos this week: stars

onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent: 2,841onehumanbeing/esp32-i…2,841deeplethe/solid-glass: 1,351deeplethe/solid-glass1,351rociiu/talorys: 1,248rociiu/talorys1,248marclou/mailcheap: 1,134marclou/mailcheap1,134zhuyansen/new-term-radar: 1,064zhuyansen/new-term-ra…1,064feder-cr/git-ai: 1,049feder-cr/git-ai1,049
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onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent2841
deeplethe/solid-glass1351
rociiu/talorys1248
marclou/mailcheap1134
zhuyansen/new-term-radar1064
feder-cr/git-ai1049

OpenMOSS/MOSS-Image

OpenMOSS releases MOSS-Image, a 5B-parameter base DiT model that generates high-quality text and layouts while supporting efficient fine-tuning. ·

GitHub20h ago▲139 to 195 across 7 pollsgithub.com

anujasid/mcp-for-blender-pro

Anujasid releases an AI assistant and MCP server for Blender that supports visual chat, scene tools, and multi-agent workflows. It integrates with OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, and OpenCode. ·

GitHub22h ago▲140 to 184 across 4 pollsgithub.com

openai/codex 0.163.0

OpenAI releases Codex version 0.163.0, which adds parallel read-only tool execution and enables Daybreak by default for eligible accounts. ·

GitHub Releases24h ago▲0 to 12 across 12 pollsgithub.com

anujasid/mcp-for-blender-pro

Anujasid releases an AI assistant and MCP server for Blender that supports visual chat, scene tools, and multi-agent workflows. It integrates with OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, and OpenCode. ·

GitHub22h ago▲140 to 184 across 4 pollsgithub.com

openai/codex 0.163.0

OpenAI releases Codex version 0.163.0, which adds parallel read-only tool execution and enables Daybreak by default for eligible accounts. ·

GitHub Releases24h ago▲0 to 12 across 12 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

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Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

Sat 10: 3Sat 103Sun 11: 7Sun 117Mon 12: 41Mon 1241Tue 13: 29Tue 1329Wed 14: 34Wed 1434Thu 15: 41Thu 1541Fri 16: 33Fri 1633
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Sat 103
Sun 117
Mon 1241
Tue 1329
Wed 1434
Thu 1541
Fri 1633

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 $4.62Min $2.95Max $5.00

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

Output price, $ per million tokens (newest models)

beam-1.0-501b-a23b: 1beam-1.0-501b-a23b1moondream3-preview: 2.50moondream3-preview2.50moondream3.1-9b-a2b: 2.50moondream3.1-9b-a2b2.50muse-spark-open: 4.25muse-spark-open4.25nemotron-3.5-super-vl: 0.50nemotron-3.5-super-vl0.50median, all paid models: 2median, all paid mode…2
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beam-1.0-501b-a23b1
moondream3-preview2.5
moondream3.1-9b-a2b2.5
muse-spark-open4.25
nemotron-3.5-super-vl0.5
median, all paid models2

439 paid models listed; median of the 48 added in 30 days: $4.62. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.

Closing the Skills Gap in Data Center Facilities Management

Data centers require skilled professionals, and collaboration between IT and facilities teams, along with proactive maintenance and remote monitoring, helps address workforce shortages. ·

Data Center Knowledge4h ago▲datacenterknowledge.com

Closing the Skills Gap in Data Center Facilities Management

Data centers require skilled professionals, and collaboration between IT and facilities teams, along with proactive maintenance and remote monitoring, helps address workforce shortages. ·

Data Center Knowledge4h ago▲datacenterknowledge.com