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Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k

A comparative analysis of Claude Code and OpenCode found that Claude Code consumes significantly more tokens before…

Can We Understand How Large Language Models Reason?

Claude Code May–July 2026 weekly limits promotion

Anthropic is offering a limited-time promotion that increases weekly usage limits in Claude Code by 50% from May 13…

Against Usefulness

The author, a venture investor, describes encountering Folk Computer, an innovative open-source physical computing…

Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper

Ploy migrated its AI agent from Claude Opus to OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 Sol, achieving 2.2x faster build times and 27% cost…

Website is served from a 200KB binary

A web server written as a 200KB native binary with no runtime dependencies serves 20,000 requests with a flat memory…

LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders

LARP is a satirical tool that exposes how some startups artificially inflate revenue figures through circular financial…

Show HN: Shirei, cross-platform GUI framework in native Go

Shirei is a cross-platform GUI framework for Go that allows developers to write user interfaces natively in Go rather…

Automation Without Understanding

As AI systems increasingly produce research-level mathematics—exemplified by a 2026 AI disproof of an Erdős…

Noto: A Typeface for the World

TechCrunch Mobility: A robotaxi ultimatum

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is…

Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007)

In a 2007 email, OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt strongly criticized x86 virtualization technology, arguing that adding…

Why Investors Are Abandoning Crypto IPOs for Artificial Intelligence

The crypto initial public offering market is slowing down in 2026, with four major players in the sector having…

An explanation of our search results

Google addressed concerns about offensive search results appearing when users searched for the word "Jew" by explaining…

TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024)

TK (journalism shorthand for "to come") is a writing technique that helps maintain momentum by inserting "TK" as a…

Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers

Croc is a command-line tool that enables secure file and folder transfers between any two computers using end-to-end…

The power of collaboration: How we can reduce traffic congestion

Google Research conducted a large-scale study across 10 major US cities demonstrating that network-aware routing in…

Don't You Mean Extinct?

When Jurassic Park's groundbreaking CGI T-Rex demonstration in 1993 proved that computer graphics could replace…

Autoresearch, Claude and Constrained Optimization

The author conducted an experiment using Claude AI to develop a file compression algorithm without human supervision,…

Show HN: Kurvengefahr – browser CAD/CAM for pen plotters

A few years ago I made a pen plotter attachment for Prusa MK4…

How to Make Product Ads With AI for TikTok and YouTube—For (Almost) Free

One product photo, three AI tools, and about 20 minutes: Here's the full workflow for generating a sales video without a…

Show HN: Skillscript – A declarative, sandboxed language for tool orchestration

Skillscript is a new declarative, sandboxed programming language designed to allow AI agents to codify and persistently…

Show HN: Only 1 of 4,356 reachable MCP servers is ready for the 2026-07-28 spec

A survey of 4,356 reachable MCP servers found that only 1 is currently compliant with the upcoming 2026-07-28 MCP…

Making Crash Bandicoot (2011)

In summer 1994, Naughty Dog co-founders Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin decided to develop a 3D character platform action…

Understanding the Odin Programming Language

"Understanding the Odin Programming Language" is a comprehensive book that teaches both foundational and advanced…

Unauthenticated RCE in Motorola's MR2600 Router

A researcher discovered an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Motorola's MR2600 Wi-Fi 5 router that…

Yt-Dlp Sequence Diagrams

This appears to be documentation or UI text from Ilograph, a diagramming platform for visualizing system architecture…

IT administrators are "fed up" with Microsoft's "useless" apps and Windows 11

Old and new apps, via modern coding agents by Terry Tao

Mathematician Terence Tao used modern AI coding agents to successfully port his old Java applets from 1999 into modern…