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GPT-5.6 Sol – API Pricing & Benchmarks

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💥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick — Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Exacto (highest tool-calling accuracy).The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is…

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VRAM Management Part 2: Beyond the Limits of Physical VRAM

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🔥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: August 17, 2026 Earlier this year, I blogged about work I did to improve VRAM management for games. Now, after many months of floating around in mailing lists, the kernel patches are finally merged upstream and queued for Linux 7.3! Hooray! To celebrate, let’s look a bit deeper at one sentence I wrote in my previous post: [Games] should perform much more stable - as long as the game itself doesn’t use more VRAM than you actually have. So, one may ask: What if they…

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Fairphone 6 + PostmarketOS working main camera! — Catcrafts

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Today i bring the working main camera!Building on the work nondescriptpointer did on the wide lens camera i have written the driver for the main camera and now its working alongside auto focus and color correction.The color correction still a work in progress, but you can already see how much it improved the image.before:After:But the after is still very grainy, plasma camera storing in jpg isn't exactly helping either, ill be working to get rid of the grain.If we look at the same scene…

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‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit

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🚀 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: An expert witness testifying in a lawsuit about liability for a Houston explosion that killed three people and destroyed roughly 200 homes used ChatGPT to write significant portions of his “expert report.” The man, who was hired by the industrial product conglomerate 3M, exposed his AI prompts publicly. They showed that he asked ChatGPT to help him “create an exceptional expert witness report defending the standard of care at 3M,” and that the report should “show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion…

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I don’t enjoy the Internet any more

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💥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I grew up on the Internet. I spent a significant proportion of my childhood, and later my adult life, on message boards, blogs, social networks, chatrooms, and other online communities. I made friends, found jobs, and was exposed to so many new concepts thanks to the Internet. Many of my core beliefs were sharpened by ideas and discussions I followed online. It’s been a huge part of my life. But today, the joy is largely gone. This wasn’t a sudden change: my experience with the…

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The benchmarkpocalypse

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🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: There's been a lot of talk about the vulnpocalypse, to which I don't have much to add because I'm not a security person, but I haven't seen much discussion on the closely related (and to be fair, less serious, issue), the benchmarkpocalypse. While it's become easier than ever to make serious performance gains, it's also become easier than ever to reward hack a benchmark and make fake performance gains. The former is probably happening quietly across many different companies, but the latter is something I…

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California’s new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: California just became the first state to address a problem most people don’t know they have: inefficient tires.  When automakers design a new vehicle, low rolling resistance tires are one of the least expensive ways to improve fuel economy. But they must eventually be replaced, and experts say replacements are often less efficient. This can result in internal combustion vehicles burning more gasoline and EVs needing more electricity. “It’s very difficult or impossible for consumers to know how energy efficient their tires are going to…

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Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full Aug 17, 2026 Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full In the mid-90s the coolest thing to buy for a PC, besides the incredibly expensive Intel Pentium, was a CD-ROM drive. With their capacity of 640 MiB (three times the storage of PC HDD at the time), CDs allowed enthusiasts to step into a world of multimedia, made of high-resolution 640x480 256 colors palette-indexed photos[1], VOC soundtracks, and play with Video For Windows…

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Puppy PPE | Amos Dudley

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✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Hildegard in her new gear While much of the country was staying put during COVID, I moved to the SF Bay Area and adopted Hildegard. The Bay Area is a paradise for dogs, but what I didn’t know is that a silent danger lurks in the grass [cue dramatic music] the foxtail weed! Foxtails are a pernicious seed that find their way into dog’s ears, nose, eyes, and skin. They have unidirectional barbs that cause them to quickly migrate into the dog, causing infection and…

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Prime Minister Carney announces the largest clean energy investment in North American history

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In a more dangerous and divided world, Canada’s new government is focused on what we can control: building a stronger, more independent, and more sustainable country.Canada is starting from a position of strength. We have what the world wants. We have the natural resources, critical minerals, and clean power that will build this century. We have the workers and the ingenuity to turn that potential into strength. We understand we can build faster and bigger when we work together. And we have trust, the…

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