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Thirty four points and five Hacker News comments is not what a voice breakthrough is supposed to look like. That was one of the first weird signals around OpenAI’s May 7 release of GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper. On ...
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"I’ve switched almost all my usage to codex. For the simple reason that it’s more reliable." That line showed up in an Ask HN thread after another wave of Codex chatter hit Reddit, and it says more than most launch posts do. People are not switching ...
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An NVIDIA engineer who tested GPT-5.5 early access said losing it felt like losing a limb. Dan Shipper, CEO of Every, called it the first coding model with "serious conceptual clarity." Pietro Schirano watched it merge hundreds of frontend changes in...
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2.2 million views. 10,000 likes. 14,000 bookmarks. A single tweet from Google's Stitch team dropped the open-source spec for DESIGN.md and the internet lost it. Someone replied "if Figma was on life support, someone just pulled the plug." Another per...
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Amanda Silberling at TechCrunch asked ChatGPT to make a Mexican restaurant menu. Not a big deal, right? Two years ago, DALL-E 3 would have handed her "enchuita," "churiros," "burrto," and "margartas." This time, the menu came back clean. Typography s...
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A Hacker News thread with 447 upvotes and 229 comments landed on the front page before most of the west coast had their morning coffee. A Reddit thread titled "is k2.6 over-thinking?" had already pulled in 50 replies. Someone on r/kimi asked "kimi k2...
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Claude Opus 4.7: The Update That Actually Changes How You Work Gabriel Anhaia, a Go developer and open-source toolmaker, tested Claude Opus 4.7 for six hours on release day. He threw dense terminal screenshots at it. Small fonts, grayed-out zsh promp...
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Claude Opus 4.7: The Update That Actually Changes How You Work Gabriel Anhaia, a Go developer and open-source toolmaker, tested Claude Opus 4.7 for six hours on release day. He threw dense terminal screenshots at it. Small fonts, grayed-out zsh promp...
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Cal.com Just Went Closed Source and Nobody Bought the Reason A scheduling app with 41,000 GitHub stars and 947 contributors just pulled the rug. On April 14, Cal.com published a blog post titled "Cal.com is going closed source. Here's why." The reaso...
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