April 25 · Today's 10 Dev Picks
Three forces collide in a single 24-hour window: capital concentration (Google reportedly plans up to $40B into Anthropic), a loud quality backlash (a ‘why I cancelled Claude’ post tops HN with 695 points), and an open-weights counter-punch (DeepSeek v4 hits 1,757 points). GPT-5.5 also reaches the API. Plus: Matz’s Ruby AOT compiler, and a quiet note on overthinking.