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The cheaper reread

Eight thousand posts on the first day, and the sentence that mattered was about a cache. Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 on 1 September 2026. The sticker prices did not move: ten dollars a million tokens in, fifty out. Cache reads, the reread of work already done, fell from a dollar to twenty-five cents. They […]

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Eight million for a default

Eight million dollars landed on a Linux desktop yesterday. The people already running a fast Arch will not know why. CachyOS has been that machine for years. A kernel built for speed, packages compiled for the chip you actually own, Hyprland if you want it, Plasma if you do not. DistroWatch has had it at […]