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Claude Sonnet 4.6

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6
339•adocomplete•1h ago•246 comments

Using go fix to modernize Go code

https://go.dev/blog/gofix
129•todsacerdoti•2h ago•17 comments

Gentoo on Codeberg

https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/02/16/codeberg.html
90•todsacerdoti•2h ago•16 comments

GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple

https://blog.tomaszdunia.pl/grapheneos-eng/
877•to3k•9h ago•576 comments

HackMyClaw

https://hackmyclaw.com/
164•hentrep•2h ago•85 comments

Async/Await on the GPU

https://www.vectorware.com/blog/async-await-on-gpu/
77•Philpax•2h ago•14 comments

So you want to build a tunnel

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/2/17/so-you-want-to-build-a-tunnel
66•crescit_eundo•2h ago•25 comments

Chess engines do weird stuff

https://girl.surgery/chess
75•admiringly•2h ago•38 comments

I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D

https://aeris.edbn.me/?city=SFO
153•kewonit•4h ago•36 comments

Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp

https://berksoft.ca/gol/
70•cdegroot•3h ago•9 comments

Trata (YC W25) Is Hiring Founding Engineers (NYC)

1•emc329•2h ago

Climbing Mount Fuji visualized through milestone stamps

https://fuji.halfof8.com/
22•gessha•2h ago•3 comments

Launch HN: Sonarly (YC W26) – AI agent to triage and fix your production alerts

https://sonarly.com/
14•Dimittri•2h ago•0 comments

Don't pass on small block ciphers

https://00f.net/2026/02/10/small-block-ciphers/
22•jstrieb•2d ago•4 comments

Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning

https://www.arthurcnops.blog/death-of-show-hn/
281•acnops•9h ago•239 comments

Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-make-electrons-flow-like-water-20260211/
11•rbanffy•3d ago•0 comments

Show HN: 6cy – Experimental streaming archive format with per-block codecs

https://github.com/byte271/6cy
21•yihac1•2h ago•4 comments

Russia's economy has entered the death zone

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/02/16/russias-economy-has-entered-the-death-zone
26•thelastgallon•27m ago•8 comments

Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification

https://kotaku.com/discord-alternative-teamspeak-age-verification-check-rivals-2000669693
60•thunderbong•1h ago•18 comments

Show HN: Continue – Source-controlled AI checks, enforceable in CI

https://docs.continue.dev
25•sestinj•2h ago•5 comments

Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other

https://mage-bench.com/
58•GregorStocks•3h ago•43 comments

Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans

https://electrek.co/2026/02/17/tesla-robotaxi-adds-5-more-crashes-austin-month-4x-worse-than-humans/
21•Bender•32m ago•6 comments

Four Column ASCII (2017)

https://garbagecollected.org/2017/01/31/four-column-ascii/
306•tempodox•2d ago•73 comments

Labyrinth Locator

https://labyrinthlocator.org/
22•emigre•3d ago•2 comments

Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs: Inside an AI-Powered Private School

https://www.404media.co/students-are-being-treated-like-guinea-pigs-inside-an-ai-powered-private-...
53•trinsic2•2h ago•38 comments

Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/
151•benji8000•3h ago•133 comments

Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware?

https://semiengineering.com/can-a-computer-science-student-be-taught-to-design-hardware/
37•stn8188•2h ago•41 comments

Hamming Distance for Hybrid Search in SQLite

https://notnotp.com/notes/hamming-distance-for-hybrid-search-in-sqlite/
55•enz•2d ago•10 comments

Show HN: I built a simulated AI containment terminal for my sci-fi novel

https://vertex.flowlogix.ai
21•stevengreser•2h ago•12 comments

Rise of the Triforce

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2026/02/16/rise-of-the-triforce/
402•max-m•22h ago•63 comments
Open in hackernews

Claude Sonnet 4.6

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6
73•meetpateltech•1h ago

Comments

a_void_sky•1h ago
Opus 4.6 but cheaper
mudkipdev•1h ago
What happened to sonnet 5?
hxugufjfjf•1h ago
Those hours that with gentle work did frame The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell, Will play the tyrants to the very same And that unfair which fairly doth excel:
meetpateltech•1h ago
They're probably saving 5 for a bigger leap.
rvz•1h ago
Anthropic again running scared of the open weight models which are rapidly catching up to them. Not even Sonnet or Opus isn't going to help with that at all.

It has already happened with the music gen models already. It's only a matter of time when the open weight models will overtake Anthropic.

Expect them to dial up the scaremongering until they IPO. The Claude family of models are their only AI product that is keeping them alive.

throwup238•1h ago
What are the latest open music models?
falloon•1h ago
Ace step 1.5 is great, only 1.5b params so very easy to run locally.

https://github.com/ace-step/ACE-Step-1.5

catigula•1h ago
Chinese companies distilling frontier models is certainly a crisis but it isn't one that implies said Chinese companies are anywhere in the 'race'.
bigyabai•1h ago
The "race" matters less than making money. If those Chinese models perform well in price/performance, AGI might as well pound sand.
cube2222•1h ago
So tldr it seems like it's

- a reasonable improvement over sonnet 4.5, esp. with agentic tool use

- generally worse than opus 4.6

Probably not worth it for coding, but a win for anybody building agentic ai assistants of any sort with Sonnet.

Handy-Man•1h ago
It’s similar to or better than Opus 4.5 as per benchmarks, while being 2x-3x cheaper, definitely worth it over Opus 4.6, if cost/tokens is the concern.

To remind, Opus 4.5 was SOTA 2-3 weeks ago.

adastra22•1h ago
Yes but Opus 4.6 is a massive step up. Some applications don’t need that power though.
dchuk•1h ago
curious if the 1m context window will be default available in claude code. if so, that's a pretty big deal: "Sonnet 4.6’s 1M token context window is enough to hold entire codebases, lengthy contracts, or dozens of research papers in a single request. More importantly, Sonnet 4.6 reasons effectively across all that context."
pkaye•1h ago
Above 200k token context they charge a premium. I think its $10/M tokens of input.
_ink_•1h ago
Interesting. Is it because they can or is it really more expensive for them to process bigger context?
cube2222•54m ago
Attention is, at its core, quadratic wrt context length. So I'd believe that to be the case, yeah.
pkaye•43m ago
I've read that compute costs for LLMs go up O(n^2) with context window size. But I think it is also a combination of limited compute availability, users preference for Anthropic models and Anthropic planning to go IPO.
deanc•1h ago
I really don't get these companies posting disingenuous benchmarks. Every time, they pick and choose who to compare against. Not comparing to the latest 5.3-codex is absurd when it's been out a couple of weeks now. Who are they trying to kid?
AdamConwayIE•1h ago
There aren't really any of the typical benchmark suites targeting Codex 5.3 because it's still not in the API.

SWE bench for example creates a predictions file and evaluates the results in the harness. Without Codex 5.3 being in the API, it can't.

rvz•1h ago
> Who are they trying to kid?

People who do not know how reproducible research works.

Any benchmark that is presented by AI labs must be reproduced reliably by someone else independent of that AI lab presenting these results.

Otherwise, not only it is biased, these numbers can be just made up for marketing purposes.

falloon•1h ago
If you were writing a promotional post for your new model, would you include benchmarks of a competitor that's spanking you across the board? This is marketing.
rishabhaiover•1h ago
I am not seeing it on claude-code yet
devinprater•51m ago
I'm glad I have chatGPT to turn that image with benchmarks into an accessible table lol. I like claude Code, but their accessibility in anything other than accidental CLI accessibility is frustrating. Try it. Load a screen reader like VoiceOver for Mac (cause I know most programmers use Macs) and go to claude.ai. In the "write your prompt to Claude" box, type something like "What will the weather be like tomorrow?" and press Enter/Return. Try closing your eyes for a good 30 seconds and within those 30 seconds, tell me how you'd know if a reply has been given by the model. Then try the same thing with ChatGPT. I would /love/ to be proven wrong.