18 August 2026

31 links · Tuesday

Claude Max 20x plan as open source subsidy

It is widely known that the Claude Max 20x plan doesn’t buy you just $200 worth of API (Application Programming Interface) credits in a slightly more convenient format. It’s closer to … well, an order of magnitude is what I have heard, but I’ve heard other peo…

Modern, Stable APIs for Your Nextcloud Application

Nextcloud provides a large public PHP interface to developers to use for building their application. It is commonly called OCP. Some of big components of OCP are the HTTP stack with IRequest, Response and Controllerto handle requests, the IQueryBuilder/IDBConn…

Everyone Is Asking Someone Else for Money | Gonzo Capital

Founders ask VCs. VCs ask LPs. Somewhere above them, someone richer is still saying no. A personal essay about money, status, bad pitches, conditional affection, and the strange humility of asking for capital.

Caveman Saves Tokens by Doing Less, Not Just Saying Less

I’m Bruno, a CS grad turned Senior Machine Learning Engineer who loves building things that run fast, scale well, and sometimes even work on the first try. Currently into deep learning, edge devices, and squeezing performance out of both code and coffee. ☕🤖

Moving to a Lonely Forge

GitHub’s down again today, so I think I’ll spend the time moving to a self-hosted Forge. I’ve long been an advocate for decentralizing software development, but over the years it has always just made sense to keep the primary repos on GitHub. GitHub proved tha…

When it comes to LLM, it's you who's using it wrong

I think we’re long past the discussion on whether LLM-assisted programming is better/faster (faster is better for some) than pure human typed one. LLM-assisted programming has won, at all kinds of tasks, and is clearly believed to be better than just doing it …

Ben Godfrey

I passed through the seven levels of the candy cane forest, through the sea of swirly-twirly gum drops, and then I walked through the Lincoln Tunnel.

The Amazon tax

It’s not technically a tax. Taxes produce valuable public benefits, like medical research and parks. This is simply legal theft. Amazon makes nearly a billion dollars in profit from search ad…

VRAM Management Part 2: Beyond the Limits of Physical VRAM

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!

GPT-5.6 Sol - API Pricing & Benchmarks

GPT-5.6 Sol is the flagship model in OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series. $2.50 per million input tokens, $15 per million output tokens. 1,050,000 token context window, maximum output of 128,000 tokens. Higher uptime with 3 providers. Includes independent benchmarks from …

Help peer

One of the most influential 20th century pieces of writing about AI is Isaac Asimov’s The Last Question. Although there are many humans in the story, the protagonist is the computer Multivac, who evolves over the course of ten trillion years from a single data…