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What is climbing fastest across every source
OpenRouter reports that token usage has plateaued, indicating that the trend of maximizing token consumption has ended. The platform tracks real-world usage by the number of tokens processed through its API. ·
27 points and 25 comments on Hacker News, linking openrouter.ai.
Researchers injected a hidden trigger into a small open model, causing it to leak project credentials when processed by OpenAI's Codex CLI. The backdoor cost under $50 to build. ·
From Data Center Knowledge.
Anthropic releases Claude Code version 2.1.304, which adds new mod hooks, a guided setup command, and a security comparison tool. ·
Jeremy Scheff writes that coding agents cause career programmers to lose the satisfaction of solving logic puzzles, while those who prefer building systems find large language models beneficial. ·
GitHub provides a REST API that lets enterprises, organizations, and teams retrieve and update Copilot model policies through GET and PATCH endpoints. ·
OpenRouter reports that token usage has plateaued, indicating that the trend of maximizing token consumption has ended. The platform tracks real-world usage by the number of tokens processed through its API. ·
27 points and 25 comments on Hacker News, linking openrouter.ai.
Anthropic releases Claude Code version 2.1.304, which adds new mod hooks, a guided setup command, and a security comparison tool. ·
Researchers injected a hidden trigger into a small open model, causing it to leak project credentials when processed by OpenAI's Codex CLI. The backdoor cost under $50 to build. ·
Vercel Labs releases fx0, a lightweight design agent built with libfx that generates a single HTML file from a user's page description. ·
A new repository with 269 stars in its first week.
Unsloth releases DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 and FLUX.3 Image Klein for local use, adding image and video chat features, multi-GPU training, and one-command MCP setup for coding agents. ·
A read-only MCP server lets AI agents search and read personal WhatsApp messages while running on Cloudflare Workers. ·
A new repository written in TypeScript with 285 stars in its first week.
Anthropic releases Claude Code version 2.1.304, which adds new mod hooks, a guided setup command, and a security comparison tool. ·
OpenRouter reports that token usage has plateaued, indicating that the trend of maximizing token consumption has ended. The platform tracks real-world usage by the number of tokens processed through its API. ·
A image text to text model from deepseek-ai with 1,693 likes and 17.9k downloads on Hugging Face.
20 points and 17 comments on Hacker News, linking tomshardware.com.
Vercel Labs releases fx0, a lightweight design agent built with libfx that generates a single HTML file from a user's page description. ·
| LLM | 2.05 |
| DeepSeek | 1.62 |
| Mercury 3 | 1.45 |
| Anthropic | 1.35 |
| OpenRouter | 1.04 |
| Learning | 0.75 |
Heat = summed hotness of today's stories naming the topic.
Releases, papers, trending weights and new listings
| google/embeddinggemma-2 ▼2 | 2725 |
| jialinyyzz/humanizer ▼2 | 1987 |
| deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 | 1693 |
| openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B | 1066 |
| black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein-comfy ▲3 | 964 |
| fishaudio/drama-3 ▲1 | 770 |
| 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/
Unsloth releases DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 and FLUX.3 Image Klein for local use, adding image and video chat features, multi-GPU training, and one-command MCP setup for coding agents. ·
New release v0.1.909-beta of unslothai/unsloth on GitHub.
315 points and 57 comments on Hacker News, linking home.cern.
The text describes AI as a strategic partner for essential businesses, where it learns from owner-operators to propose, implement, and measure better decisions. ·
A developer fine-tunes Qwen3-4B on a MacBook Air to remove specific writing patterns, sharing answers on forty held-out prompts and training details. ·
Maxwell is a model that improves code during execution by adapting to hardware and data, with each change formally proven equivalent to the original. ·
A image text to text model from deepseek-ai with 1,693 likes and 17.9k downloads on Hugging Face.
Unsloth releases DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 and FLUX.3 Image Klein for local use, adding image and video chat features, multi-GPU training, and one-command MCP setup for coding agents. ·
315 points and 57 comments on Hacker News, linking home.cern.
A developer fine-tunes Qwen3-4B on a MacBook Air to remove specific writing patterns, sharing answers on forty held-out prompts and training details. ·
Maxwell is a model that improves code during execution by adapting to hardware and data, with each change formally proven equivalent to the original. ·
X posts other sources are linking to, then named voices on Bluesky and Mastodon
Homeland Security is requiring all civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek
5 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Xbox Business Strategy Manager: "we use AI, just as all companies do in 2026"
2 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Perplexity offers free reverse engineering credits
8 points and 2 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Using AI as a tutor to do math with pen and paper
5 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Muse, dots, Instinct, and the question every agent will be asked
1 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Homeland Security is requiring all civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek
5 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Perplexity offers free reverse engineering credits
8 points and 2 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Xbox Business Strategy Manager: "we use AI, just as all companies do in 2026"
2 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Using AI as a tutor to do math with pen and paper
5 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Qwen3.8-27B on the iPhone 18 Neural Engine at 15–70 tok/s (1.5 bpw)
30 points and 12 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
New repos, releases and changelog
| feder-cr/git-ai | 2453 |
| Leonxlnx/earshot | 1536 |
| aicodeking/leanrea | 993 |
| OpenMOSS/MOSS-Image | 949 |
| LiCinCan/blender-ai-mcp-addon | 931 |
| alchaincyf/huashu-motion | 917 |
Vercel Labs releases fx0, a lightweight design agent built with libfx that generates a single HTML file from a user's page description. ·
A new repository written in TypeScript with 115 stars in its first week.
A new repository with 269 stars in its first week.
Unsloth releases DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 and FLUX.3 Image Klein for local use, adding image and video chat features, multi-GPU training, and one-command MCP setup for coding agents. ·
A read-only MCP server lets AI agents search and read personal WhatsApp messages while running on Cloudflare Workers. ·
A guide explains how to construct AI agents by treating the large language model as the brain and the surrounding system as the body. ·
A read-only MCP server lets AI agents search and read personal WhatsApp messages while running on Cloudflare Workers. ·
A new repository written in TypeScript with 285 stars in its first week.
Vercel Labs releases fx0, a lightweight design agent built with libfx that generates a single HTML file from a user's page description. ·
A new repository with 269 stars in its first week.
Unsloth releases DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 and FLUX.3 Image Klein for local use, adding image and video chat features, multi-GPU training, and one-command MCP setup for coding agents. ·
A guide explains how to construct AI agents by treating the large language model as the brain and the surrounding system as the body. ·
Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost
| Wed 14 | 34 |
| Thu 15 | 41 |
| Fri 16 | 35 |
| Sat 17 | 5 |
| Sun 18 | 2 |
| Mon 19 | 30 |
| Tue 20 | 0 |
Stories from DCD, Data Center Knowledge, EIA and Hacker News, by publication day.
One point per OpenRouter reading, last 8 days. Data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.
| deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 | 0.6 |
| glimpse | 3 |
| beam-1.0-501b-a23b | 1 |
| mercury-3 | 0.35 |
| moondream3-preview | 2.5 |
| median, all paid models | 2 |
441 paid models listed; median of the 50 added in 30 days: $3.20. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.
Stealthium detects ROME attacks, where malicious Python modules rewrite model weights in GPU memory, by linking CUDA kernel launches to their originating code. ·
15 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking stealthium.io.
Researchers introduce Belief-Trajectory Energy, a metric that tracks how large language models revise predictions across layers. The method achieves 0.998 macro-AUROC for detecting human-written text. ·
Stealthium detects ROME attacks, where malicious Python modules rewrite model weights in GPU memory, by linking CUDA kernel launches to their originating code. ·
15 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking stealthium.io.
Researchers introduce Belief-Trajectory Energy, a metric that tracks how large language models revise predictions across layers. The method achieves 0.998 macro-AUROC for detecting human-written text. ·