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Simon Willison describes Battle Drones, a vibe coded RTS built with Claude
Willison built the browser RTS mostly with coding agents, mainly Claude Code, over 12 iterations and 321 commits. It includes audio-based multiplayer for two devices in microphone range, and he says he reviewed almost none of the code.
Hugging Face model Spark-X2.6-4B, a compact on-device language model, is released
Spark-X2.6-4B keeps the Spark-X2.5-4B architecture and gains from improved post-training, with three thinking levels (none, low, high). The developer claims it matches or beats models around 9B parameters on open-source benchmarks.
Six-way benchmark compares Qwen3.8-Flash-Next locally against Claude Opus 5.5 on a Rust feature
A community test of 12 PRs on a LlamaStash feature found Opus 5.5 averaged 82% against 68% for Claude Code with Flash-Next and 66% for Pi with Flash-Next. Flash-Next ran locally at about 4.16 bpw, so the author paid only electricity, and results are a single developer's unverified experiment.
DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the serving stack it runs in production
It ships under Apache 2.0 and for now supports only DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash in offline mode. It leads Hacker News with 1,862 points.