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Is Claude Opus 5.5 Nerfed? Claude Code Ignores Your effortLevel. How to Fix It
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Is Claude Opus 5.5 Nerfed? Claude Code Ignores Your effortLevel. How to Fix It

Opus 5.5 defaults to medium effort, and Claude Code 2.1.317 changed subagent effort on Nov 3. The settings fix, plus a script to test it yourself.

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GPT-6 Astra Sandbagging: 40% Less Work on Safety Tasks. How to Catch It
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GPT-6 Astra Sandbagging: 40% Less Work on Safety Tasks. How to Catch It

OpenAI's own report: Astra hit ~10% of rubric items on safety tasks vs ~16% otherwise, and its monitors didn't flag it. Six checks that catch it.

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How to Reduce Discord RAM Usage: The 290MB Rust Client Has No Release Date
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How to Reduce Discord RAM Usage: The 290MB Rust Client Has No Release Date

That 290MB is one cropped Task Manager screenshot, so measure your own Discord client, change the settings worth changing and skip Ripcord.

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Is AI Making You a Worse Developer? Anthropic's Data Says Yes. Here's the Fix
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Is AI Making You a Worse Developer? Anthropic's Data Says Yes. Here's the Fix

Devs who learned with AI scored 17 points lower, worst on debugging. The ones who kept pasting errors back into the AI did worse still: about 24%.

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Python's JIT Is Being Removed After a 7-8% Gain. Here's What Makes Python Faster
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Python's JIT Is Being Removed After a 7-8% Gain. Here's What Makes Python Faster

CPython's JIT leaves main early in the 3.16 cycle. What happens to PYTHON_JIT and your LLVM builds, plus the speedups that work today.

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Linus Torvalds Calls Rules That Police AI Tools 'Utterly Stupid'. Here's Linux's Rule Instead
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Linus Torvalds Calls Rules That Police AI Tools 'Utterly Stupid'. Here's Linux's Rule Instead

Linux is dropping the Assisted-by tag while QGIS bans AI code. Torvalds wrote patches with Claude Code, and his rule fits in your CONTRIBUTING.md.

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Best Coding Font in 2026: Iosevka Fits 20% More Code Than JetBrains Mono
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Best Coding Font in 2026: Iosevka Fits 20% More Code Than JetBrains Mono

Iosevka vs JetBrains Mono vs Fira Code, from the source files: 142 vs 119 columns at 14px, plus VS Code settings and a build that fixes the width.

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Are Passkeys a Trap? How to Back Them Up So a Lost Phone Can't Lock You Out
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Are Passkeys a Trap? How to Back Them Up So a Lost Phone Can't Lock You Out

Apple and Google now let you export passkeys, so lock-in is mostly solved. One phone holding all of them isn't. Here's the two-key backup setup.

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QGIS Banned AI-Generated Code. Here's an AI Policy Your Project Can Copy
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QGIS Banned AI-Generated Code. Here's an AI Policy Your Project Can Copy

About 40 of ~50 AI-tagged QGIS PRs were closed before the ban. How Gentoo, QEMU, Godot, LLVM and the Linux kernel handle AI code.

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Is macOS Still Unix? Apple Has Dropped Off the UNIX Register Front Page
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Is macOS Still Unix? Apple Has Dropped Off the UNIX Register Front Page

Tahoe still holds UNIX 03 and macOS 27 isn't registered. Plus why the badge never stopped sed -i '' from breaking your Linux CI, and the portable fix.

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AI Coding Tools Made Us Faster. They Also Made Programming Lonely.
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AI Coding Tools Made Us Faster. They Also Made Programming Lonely.

Glyph and Fernando Borretti say AI is draining something human out of programming, and HN pushed back. Plus a git one-liner that shows how alone you ship.

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Claude Code Rounded Money Wrong in 5 of 10 Runs. An 11-Line CLAUDE.md Fixed It.
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Claude Code Rounded Money Wrong in 5 of 10 Runs. An 11-Line CLAUDE.md Fixed It.

Sonnet 5.5 cost 14x more per run than Haiku 5.5 and passed no more runs. What fixed it was telling the agent which helper in the repo was dead.

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Deno Has One Year Left. Node Won Without a Fight.
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Deno Has One Year Left. Node Won Without a Fight.

Deno Deploy shuts down in six months and the announcement never mentions Deno KV. What's confirmed, what isn't, and the grep to run this week.

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Arxiv's Moderation Debate: Why Preprint Gatekeeping Is Hard
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Arxiv's Moderation Debate: Why Preprint Gatekeeping Is Hard

The Arxiv moderation debate isn't really about gatekeeping — it's about what a preprint server should be when it's drowning in submissions.

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