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700 Startup Founders Just Told the U.S. Government to Keep Its Hands Off Chinese AI Models. They Are Right for the Wrong…
Michael Sun · Jul 24, 2026 · 19 min read
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The number that matters most in the AI industry right now is not the benchmark score, not the context window length, not…
Michael Sun · Jul 23, 2026 · 19 min read
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The Debate Is Wrong. China Is Not Winning the AI Race. It Is Winning Something More Valuable. Hacker News spent the weekend…
Michael Sun · Jul 21, 2026 · 18 min read
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What Happened on July 19, 2026 Two separate things landed on Hacker News today with a combined point total north of 500,…
Michael Sun · Jul 19, 2026 · 21 min read
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The number that topped Hacker News on July 14, 2026 was 243 points and 151 comments for a GitHub issue titled “Regression:…
Michael Sun · Jul 14, 2026 · 19 min read
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The numbers sound like a typo. Microsoft has committed approximately $60 billion to neoclouds. Meta has pledged $35.2 billion to CoreWeave alone,…
Michael Sun · Jul 12, 2026 · 19 min read
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A GitHub repository containing extracted system prompts from Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and dozens of other AI products hit 52,900 stars this…
Michael Sun · Jul 7, 2026 · 18 min read
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On July 5, 2026, someone posted a screenshot to X showing “GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra” appearing in Codex’s model selector. It hit 361…
Michael Sun · Jul 6, 2026 · 19 min read
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The finding: Claude Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5, Anthropic’s most capable models, are worse at calling third-party tool schemas than their predecessor…
Michael Sun · Jul 5, 2026 · 20 min read
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Sending Text as Images to Claude Cuts Your Bill by 60%. Here Is Why That Should Not Work, and Why It Does…
Michael Sun · Jul 3, 2026 · 21 min read
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Qwen 3.6 27B hit 1,017 points on Hacker News with 660 comments. The claim: it is the sweet spot for local development.…
Michael Sun · Jun 30, 2026 · 21 min read
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HackerRank open-sourced its resume-scoring agent last week and engineers started running their own CVs through it. The results were immediately strange. One…
Michael Sun · Jun 29, 2026 · 20 min read