China’s rapid AI advances are escalating the global tech race.

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PC MaticAug 23

Claude code for free (for real)

There is a repo with almost 48,000 stars that turns Claude Code into a client that you can use with free models. It's called free-claude-code. What it does: → You install a local proxy → Claude Code (terminal, VS Code or JetBrains) points to that proxy

Nix0nAug 238

7.5 tok/s. That is what 512GB of DDR5 actually buys you on GLM-5.2, and it is the number that breaks my own advice from yesterday.

I said buy RAM before the next GPU. Then someone who owns the RAM row ran it. Threadripper, 512GB DDR4, RTX PRO 4500 with 32GB instead of the 96GB

BountyAug 2317

Interesting results after testing ponytail and caveman with deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp to build a zoo

I had two similar sessions, one with ponytail and caveman and one without. The results clearly show WITHOUT is much better. What's even crazier, token usage: With: 16.9M

balega_devAug 23