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View Transitions API: smooth page animations without a JavaScript framework

View Transitions API: smooth page animations without a JavaScript framework

The Short Answer

The View Transitions API is a native browser feature that animates the change between two DOM states using CSS. The browser snapshots the page before and after a DOM update, cross-fades between them, and lets you customise the animation with a few lines of CSS. You do not need React, GSAP, or Framer Motion to get smooth transitions anymore. As of Firefox 144 (released October 14, 2025), same-document transitions are Baseline Newly Available , and cross-document transitions work in Chrome 126+, Edge 126+, and Safari 18.2+.

TMR vs hall effect keyboards: which magnetic switch sensor is better?

TMR vs hall effect keyboards: which magnetic switch sensor is better?

TMR wins on paper and in ranked FPS tests. Tunnel Magnetoresistance sensors read key position to 0.01 mm. That is ten times finer than the 0.1 mm typical of Hall Effect boards, and it draws roughly 40x less power per sensor. In practice, you get tighter Rapid Trigger resets, less hysteresis, and wireless magnetic boards that finally last more than a weekend. If you play ranked shooters and want every edge, TMR is a real upgrade. If you type for a living or play single-player games, a good Hall Effect board is still plenty.

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GLM-5.2: Reddit calls it the best open coder you can own

On Reddit, GLM-5.2 is the best open-weight coder you can actually own. The r/LocalLLaMA crowd runs Z.ai’s 744B model at home, rates it above Sonnet and Kimi but below the closed frontier coder , and jokes that the press claim it runs on “any hardware” really means about 200GB of VRAM.

Key Takeaways

  • Reddit rates GLM-5.2 the best open-weight coder you can run at home.
  • The sub puts it above Sonnet and Kimi, still below Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5.
  • “Runs on any hardware” is a joke: you really need about 200GB of VRAM.
  • A 1-bit version one-shot a game a smaller full-precision model kept flubbing.
  • Its big missing piece versus a paid plan is vision and image support.

What does Reddit think of GLM-5.2?

Reddit’s read on GLM-5.2 is grounded in something the last few open-weight milestones lacked: people actually running it. Where the sibling Kimi K3 is the model nobody can load at home, GLM-5.2 is the one r/LocalLLaMA puts on its own hardware. So the reaction is built from receipts, build logs, tokens-per-second numbers, and cost-per-task figures. For the counterweight, the Kimi K3 Reddit reception covers the flip side, a model almost nobody can run.

Niri's scrollable tiling might ruin every other window manager for you

Niri's scrollable tiling might ruin every other window manager for you

Niri is a Rust-based Wayland compositor that arranges windows in an infinite horizontally scrollable strip rather than packing them into a fixed grid. Inspired by the PaperWM GNOME extension, it graduated from the 0.1.x era with the 25.01 release in January 2025 and has matured through 2026 into something you can genuinely run as a daily driver, with the v25.11 release landing in late November 2025 and subsequent point releases adding polish. The biggest winners are developers on ultrawide or multi-monitor setups who want to keep an editor, browser, documentation, and terminal open without constantly resizing tiles, plus anyone who has ever rage-quit a dynamic tiler because the automatic layout never matched how their brain organizes work. You configure it with a single KDL file that live-reloads on save, and it speaks xdg-shell, uses Smithay under the hood, and plugs into xwayland-satellite for X11 apps.

Claude Code choking on your monorepo? CLAUDE.md hierarchies fix it

Claude Code choking on your monorepo? CLAUDE.md hierarchies fix it

A 500-file monorepo can burn 500K+ tokens in a single Claude Code request if you go in without a plan. Three things decide whether a large codebase stays workable: a layered hierarchy of agent rule files that loads only what fits the current task, a clear token budget so exploratory reads don’t eat your headroom, and subagents that keep cross-package research out of your main window.

The Context Window Reality

Context window sizes vary significantly by plan:

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Kimi K3: Reddit loves the 2.8T model nobody can run

Reddit’s first-week verdict on Kimi K3 is a three-way split. The r/LocalLLaMA crowd cheers the 2.8-trillion-parameter open weights as proof China is “6 days behind” the closed labs. Yet the same threads joke that almost nobody can run it, and hands-on users say the real edge is price and no refusals.

Key Takeaways

  • Reddit’s read: the open-source gap to closed labs now looks like days, not months.
  • At 2.8T parameters, almost nobody in r/LocalLLaMA can run it, and they keep joking about it.
  • Kimi’s real selling point is price and no guardrails, not beating Claude Fable 5.
  • The security-bug story set off fears the US will ban foreign open models.
  • Weights land July 27, so the hype ran before anyone could download it.

What does Reddit think of Kimi K3?

Reddit does not land on one mood. The sub is thrilled by what Kimi K3 stands for. At the same time, it knows almost nobody can run the model. And the people who did use it credit its price and lack of refusals. Raw power is not what sold them. Same week, three different moods.

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