Why “xhigh” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
For Opus, I don't really buy that xhigh is worse that medium. When scores are ~15%, it's unclear how much is just in the noise. The only things in favor of medium are the score…
by bocklund · Oct 21, 2026
Why they didn't test on high? (and also other levels for that matter, but high looks like the most obvious one because xhigh is to costly and doesn't give much benefit)
by krzyk · Oct 21, 2026
Medium vs xhigh is interesting, but I can't help but feel annoyed about the highlighting of medium vs xhigh alongside the omission of high and max.
by snvzz · Oct 21, 2026
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1xatxqk/qwen38f... Recent evaluation result. I find QFN on xhigh usually overruns the context win…
by suprjami · Oct 20, 2026
just use xhigh setting to support them through this AI winter brrrrr. they are obviously a con ( opinion). look at last slop report. opus 5.5 gets _worse_ when u put higher atte…
by saidnooneever · Oct 20, 2026
Interest
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Mentions
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