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Sankalp Shubham entered GPU Mode's qr_v2 problem — batched square compact-Householder QR factorization, FP32 CUDA on B200 — and came out with a 232x speedup over baseline. Geomean …

The third-biggest story on Hacker News today is a blog post titled "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?" — 671 points and 620 comments in eleven hours. The author is upfront t…

GitHub's spec-kit picked up 1,147 stars in a day on its way past 128,000, which is remarkable for a repo whose entire proposition is that you should write the spec first. The pitch…

Anthropic put out a post on August 14 breaking down what actually costs money in a Claude Code session, and it hit Hacker News fast because it answers a question every heavy user h…

Alibaba dropped Qwen3.8-27B in FP8 and Hacker News put it at 733 points inside six hours. The number that makes people stop is 73.0 on Terminal Bench from a 27-billion-parameter mo…

Zhipu shipped GLM-5.3 on August 14 and it took the top of Hacker News with a thousand points. The headline number is Terminal-Bench 3.0 going from 4.6 to 28.3. That is a six-fold j…

Launch HN today: Bullet, a YC S26 coding agent whose entire pitch is that it's fast. Not smarter. Faster. The founders built it because they were burning hours waiting on agent run…

CodeRabbit raised $143 million in a Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation, co-led by Atomico and Smash Capital. New money from BMW i Ventures, Datadog, Hirtle Callaghan, Scenic Mana…

Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash three weeks after 3.6 Flash. Three weeks. And the introductory price through end of 2026 is $0.75 per million input and $3.75 per million output, wh…

Lovable closed a $400 million Series C at a $13.3 billion valuation, co-led by Menlo Ventures and the Scaleup Europe Fund managed by EQT. The round brings in Balderton Capital and …