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Does Fast Mode Do Anything?

https://doesfastdoanything.com/
6•luu•1d ago

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greuceanu42069•1d ago
i remember seeing a YT video on the official Anthropic channel where one of their evangelists was like: "y'all use fast mode? you should. it's really fast". and then checking out API billing pricing and was like: "no thanks, imma stick to my subscription, thank you. anyway, it would be interesting to see this with different vendors and models. i was expecting some sort of drop down for models, but maybe in the future?
reassess_blind•41m ago
People will really buy domains for anything, huh. I'm guilty too.
forthwall•39m ago
I don't get this website, it is 46% faster? Isn't that faster, sure its not advertised speed, but it _is_ faster?

GLM-Legal

https://z.ai/blog/glm-legal
390•ilreb•7h ago•222 comments

Who Is Vfmaddrnd231pd?

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/who-is-vfmaddrnd231pd/
71•pngmangi•2h ago•2 comments

A Modern Web App in C

https://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c
350•prophittcorey•7h ago•153 comments

Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch

https://phreak.ing/
36•rickcarlino•1h ago•5 comments

Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/unprecedented-cyberattack-cripples-supe...
375•Zeekaas•11h ago•599 comments

Making big downloads resumable in Firefox

https://lunarwatcher.codeberg.page/til/firefox/resumable-big-downloads.html
53•speckx•4h ago•11 comments

Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum

https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/zx-spectrum-intro
61•zdw•3h ago•6 comments

Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents

81•vishnukool•6h ago•57 comments

Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver

https://github.com/h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr
238•djfergus•10h ago•57 comments

Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/48195
414•whimblepop•5h ago•219 comments

Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c620r33plgppo
242•scrlk•11h ago•289 comments

AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

https://yyhh.org/blog/2026/10/ai-is-a-tool/
166•layer8•1h ago•150 comments

The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001)

https://pixelatron.com/blog/the-making-of-super-mario-64-full-giles-goddard-interview-ngc/
209•gregsadetsky•2d ago•83 comments

Muse Wonder

https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder
492•meetpateltech•6h ago•266 comments

Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte dies aged 34

https://news.sky.com/story/breaking-bad-star-rj-mitte-dies-aged-34-13598332
64•austinallegro•1h ago•11 comments

Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search

https://www.sciencealert.com/secret-of-orange-cats-finally-revealed-after-60-year-search
216•bookofjoe•2d ago•170 comments

Solar panels that plug into your wall

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/balcony-plug-in-solar-panels-renewable-energy
86•speckx•9h ago•77 comments

Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later

https://taylor.town/kk-ai-2026
114•surprisetalk•8h ago•35 comments

Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly

https://github.com/snuri00/ps2-web-recomp
258•deadxwarrior•16h ago•139 comments

Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser

https://brickbrag.com/
14•neuling•2h ago•9 comments

Thinking will become a hobby

https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20261008/?li261008
204•pranitha_m•6h ago•269 comments

AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ai-coding-agents-generate-more-code-but-not-more-software/
292•gumby•6h ago•252 comments

'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-tool-rich-hickey-kjl8e
165•svieira•5h ago•79 comments

Show HN: Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p

https://github.com/SaarthurR/atticus-mac
53•SaarthRanka•23h ago•6 comments

Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers

https://jacobin.com/2026/10/books-publishing-reading-mass-market-paperback
93•PaulHoule•5h ago•66 comments

Type-safe HTML templating in Zig

https://lalinsky.com/2026/10/11/type-safe-html-templating-in-zig.html
236•lukaslalinsky•18h ago•83 comments

America's Longest Highway Tunnel (2025)

https://www.thetravel.com/americas-longest-highway-tunnel-not-for-faint-of-heart/
7•NaOH•1d ago•5 comments

No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C

https://sebsite.pw/w/20261009-strtod.html
63•signa11•2d ago•82 comments

My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/10/my-reddit-ama-on-the-law-of-web-scraping.htm
74•speckx•5h ago•14 comments

QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/387
362•bwnkl•12h ago•391 comments