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What is climbing fastest across every source

OpenAI6.6xV4.17.5xAnthropic5.4xDeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-10177.8xFlash-10177.8xLLM8.2xClaude7.2xMeta6.2xQwen3.87.9xOpenMOSS-Team6.6x

openai/openai-python v3.35.0

OpenAI releases version 3.35.0 of its Python library, adding typed Live sideband events and an ultrafast service tier for Agents. ·

GitHub Releases46m ago▲github.com

CyclopsGuard/Claude-Jailbreak-Prompt

CyclopsGuard offers a pre-activated desktop installer for Claude AI local tools, which includes all features in the package. ·

GitHub5h ago▲github.com

AI Can Write the Code. Who Verifies It?

AI coding agents generate code faster than human teams can review it, prompting the need for automated checks and multi-agent workflows to verify output quality. ·

Hacker News5h ago▲15 to 51 across 4 pollsdiscussmihaisplace.com

openai/openai-python v3.34.0

OpenAI releases version 3.34.0 of its Python library, adding support for degraded external storage status and Realtime Translation WebSocket sessions. ·

GitHub Releases3h ago▲github.com

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017

A image text to text model from deepseek-ai with 921 likes and 0 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face+ Hacker News16h ago▲226 to 921 across 30 pollshuggingface.co

CyclopsGuard/Claude-Jailbreak-Prompt

CyclopsGuard offers a pre-activated desktop installer for Claude AI local tools, which includes all features in the package. ·

GitHub5h ago▲github.com

DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017

DeepSeek serves the October 17, 2026 snapshot of its V4.1 Flash model under the deepseek-flash API name. ·

Hacker News+ OpenRouter16h ago▲13 to 762 across 42 pollsdiscussopenrouter.ai

BreezeSolicitorMap/undress.ai

Undress.ai is a mobile web app that generates photorealistic virtual clothing try-on results from a single photo of a person and a garment. ·

GitHub10h ago▲115 to 219 across 9 pollsgithub.com

OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Image-Base

A text to image model from OpenMOSS-Team with 226 likes and 958 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face23h ago▲125 to 226 across 47 pollshuggingface.co

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017

A image text to text model from deepseek-ai with 921 likes and 0 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face+ Hacker News16h ago▲226 to 921 across 30 pollshuggingface.co

DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017

DeepSeek serves the October 17, 2026 snapshot of its V4.1 Flash model under the deepseek-flash API name. ·

Hacker News+ OpenRouter16h ago▲13 to 762 across 42 pollsdiscussopenrouter.ai

CyclopsGuard/Claude-Jailbreak-Prompt

CyclopsGuard offers a pre-activated desktop installer for Claude AI local tools, which includes all features in the package. ·

GitHub5h ago▲github.com

BreezeSolicitorMap/undress.ai

Undress.ai is a mobile web app that generates photorealistic virtual clothing try-on results from a single photo of a person and a garment. ·

GitHub10h ago▲115 to 219 across 9 pollsgithub.com

Trending topics today: heat

OpenAI: 2.72OpenAI2.72V4.1: 2.33V4.12.33Anthropic: 1.69Anthropic1.69DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017: 1.54DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1…1.54Flash-1017: 1.54Flash-10171.54LLM: 1.43LLM1.43
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OpenAI2.72
V4.12.33
Anthropic1.69
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-10171.54
Flash-10171.54
LLM1.43

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

google/embeddinggemma-2: 2,593google/embeddinggemma…2,593jialinyyzz/humanizer ▼1: 1,895jialinyyzz/humaniz… ▼11,895deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 new: 921deepseek-ai/DeepS… new921openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B ▼1: 898openbmb/MiniCPM-V-… ▼1898black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein-comfy ▲5: 647black-forest-labs/… ▲5647fishaudio/drama-3 ▼1: 616fishaudio/drama-3 ▼1616
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google/embeddinggemma-22593
jialinyyzz/humanizer ▼11895
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 new921
openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B ▼1898
black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein-comfy ▲5647
fishaudio/drama-3 ▼1616

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/

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017

A image text to text model from deepseek-ai with 921 likes and 0 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face+ Hacker News16h ago▲226 to 921 across 30 pollshuggingface.co

DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017

DeepSeek serves the October 17, 2026 snapshot of its V4.1 Flash model under the deepseek-flash API name. ·

Hacker News+ OpenRouter16h ago▲13 to 762 across 42 pollsdiscussopenrouter.ai

OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Image-Base

A text to image model from OpenMOSS-Team with 226 likes and 958 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face23h ago▲125 to 226 across 47 pollshuggingface.co

OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Image-SFT

A text to image model from OpenMOSS-Team with 235 likes and 1,036 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face25h ago▲127 to 235 across 50 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. ·

Hacker News29h ago▲19 to 1391 across 122 pollsdiscussanthropic.com

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017

A image text to text model from deepseek-ai with 921 likes and 0 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face+ Hacker News16h ago▲226 to 921 across 30 pollshuggingface.co

DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017

DeepSeek serves the October 17, 2026 snapshot of its V4.1 Flash model under the deepseek-flash API name. ·

Hacker News+ OpenRouter16h ago▲13 to 762 across 42 pollsdiscussopenrouter.ai

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 News29h ago▲19 to 1391 across 122 pollsdiscussanthropic.com

OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Image-Base

A text to image model from OpenMOSS-Team with 226 likes and 958 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face23h ago▲125 to 226 across 47 pollshuggingface.co

OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Image-SFT

A text to image model from OpenMOSS-Team with 235 likes and 1,036 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face25h ago▲127 to 235 across 50 pollshuggingface.co

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

onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent: 2,994onehumanbeing/esp32-i…2,994deeplethe/solid-glass: 1,688deeplethe/solid-glass1,688feder-cr/git-ai: 1,135feder-cr/git-ai1,135zhuyansen/new-term-radar: 1,080zhuyansen/new-term-ra…1,080outcrawlai/scout: 936outcrawlai/scout936jwuthri-cloud/Tracely-ai: 926jwuthri-cloud/Tracely…926
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onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent2994
deeplethe/solid-glass1688
feder-cr/git-ai1135
zhuyansen/new-term-radar1080
outcrawlai/scout936
jwuthri-cloud/Tracely-ai926

BreezeSolicitorMap/undress.ai

Undress.ai is a mobile web app that generates photorealistic virtual clothing try-on results from a single photo of a person and a garment. ·

GitHub10h ago▲115 to 219 across 9 pollsgithub.com

aicodeking/leanrea

A developer publishes an eight-kilobyte skill that replaces the Reverse Engineer Anything tool using plain command-line utilities, claiming it runs 38% faster and costs 35% less. ·

GitHub21h ago▲136 to 392 across 12 pollsgithub.com

BreezeSolicitorMap/undress.ai

Undress.ai is a mobile web app that generates photorealistic virtual clothing try-on results from a single photo of a person and a garment. ·

A new repository with 219 stars in its first week.

GitHub10h ago▲115 to 219 across 9 pollsgithub.com

aicodeking/leanrea

A developer publishes an eight-kilobyte skill that replaces the Reverse Engineer Anything tool using plain command-line utilities, claiming it runs 38% faster and costs 35% less. ·

GitHub21h ago▲136 to 392 across 12 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

5 stories

Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

Mon 12: 41Mon 1241Tue 13: 29Tue 1329Wed 14: 34Wed 1434Thu 15: 41Thu 1541Fri 16: 34Fri 1634Sat 17: 5Sat 175Sun 18: 0Sun 180
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Mon 1241
Tue 1329
Wed 1434
Thu 1541
Fri 1634
Sat 175
Sun 180

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 $3.20Min $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)

deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017: 0.60deepseek-v4.1-flash-1…0.60glimpse: 3glimpse3beam-1.0-501b-a23b: 3beam-1.0-501b-a23b3moondream3-preview: 2.50moondream3-preview2.50moondream3.1-9b-a2b: 2.50moondream3.1-9b-a2b2.50median, all paid models: 2median, all paid mode…2
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deepseek-v4.1-flash-10170.6
glimpse3
beam-1.0-501b-a23b3
moondream3-preview2.5
moondream3.1-9b-a2b2.5
median, all paid models2

443 paid models listed; median of the 51 added in 30 days: $3.20. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.

Why harnesses matter for energy (and token) efficiency

A month of agent traffic indicates that the harness, rather than the model alone, determines the energy required for a coding session. ·

46 points and 23 comments on Hacker News, linking neuralwatt.com.

Hacker News27h ago▲7 to 69 across 24 pollsdiscussneuralwatt.com

Why harnesses matter for energy (and token) efficiency

A month of agent traffic indicates that the harness, rather than the model alone, determines the energy required for a coding session. ·

46 points and 23 comments on Hacker News, linking neuralwatt.com.

Hacker News27h ago▲7 to 69 across 24 pollsdiscussneuralwatt.com