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The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News 433 by rakel_rakel | 235 comments on Hacker News.

Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k 276 by systima | 147 comments on Hacker News. This started based off of a hunch. We usually use OpenCode, but were 'forced' to use Claude Code for a while due to issues with Meridian. In that time, we saw the usage meter rise much, much more quickly than when using OpenCode. This was the initial anecdotal evidence, but we undertook this small study to collect empirical data: We added logging between the agentic coding tool (Claude Code and OpenCode) and Anthropic's endpoint, and captured all requests (and the returned usage blocks). With one caveat (toward the end of the post) we found unambiguously that Claude Code was far more inefficient in terms of its cache strategy and its harness token usage than OpenCode.

Old and new apps, via modern coding agents 322 by subset | 88 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem 311 by theMackabu | 142 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN! I'm the author of Ant, a JavaScript ecosystem built around a runtime with its own JavaScript engine. Ant also includes a package manager, the ants.land package registry, a platform for deploying and hosting applications, and Ant Desktop for building native desktop apps with web technologies, similar to Electron. The goal is for these pieces to work as one coherent platform while remaining compatible with the wider JavaScript ecosystem. It's still early, and I'd appreciate any feedback on the overall direction or what you'd like to see from an e2e alternative to the existing JavaScript stacks. P.S. I’ve shared Ant here before as a runtime; since then, it has grown into the broader ecosystem you see today.

Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh 309 by tionis | 71 comments on Hacker News.

Why American ambulance rides are so expensive 326 by jyunwai | 478 comments on Hacker News.