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Qwen3.8-Max matches Claude Opus 4.8 and might go open

Qwen3.8-Max pricing lands at $2/$6 per million tokens, matches Claude Opus 4.8 on intelligence, and promises open weights for a Max-class model.

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Best AI coding tools 2026

Best AI coding tools 2026 compared on free tiers: autocomplete, agentic editors, and notebooks. Which ones finish a real task before credits run out.

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Create "what is my IP" site on Cloudflare in 2 minutes

Build a what is my IP page on a Cloudflare Worker. Read CF-Connecting-IP, add geo and ASN data, serve plain text to curl and HTML to browsers.

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croc has shipped for eight years with an empty bug list

croc file transfer moves files between any two computers with end to end encryption, and after eight years its issue queue holds only five open items.

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Grok 4.6 undercuts Claude and GPT and still keeps pace

Grok 4.6 pricing lands at $2/$6 per million tokens and ties GPT-5.6 Sol on intelligence while undercutting Claude Opus 5 by about 2.4x per task.

Keep your Reolink cameras off the cloud with go2rtc

Fully local Reolink surveillance in Home Assistant using go2rtc, Frigate, and firewalled VLANs. Includes model recommendations and firewall rules.