MaxxBench – "Nice DeepSWE score. But is it true?"
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MaxxBench – "Nice DeepSWE score. But is it true?" was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 7, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 86 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #7 of 30, reached on Nov 8, 15:09 UTC. It is #7 right now, climbing from #8 to #7 over the last 6 checks.
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Particularly interesting cases here are of GLM 5.3 and Claude Opus that seem to rely on assumptions despite clearly stated requirements. > Let me just do float64; the risk of a test with >2^53 numbers is minimal. > such cases are unlikely … Truncation toward zero is fine. Apart from this, we also a scenario where the…
This is a great example of how to test how well a benchmark score generalises. The first order approximation is not complicated: just vary a parameter and see how much the score changes. Which parameter to vary depends on the result of the test, but the MaxxBench route of varying the task spec seems like a good…
Academically a - very - interesting article, which confirms my ongoing suspicion of LLM Benchmarks in general ( probably why I like it so much). Another thing that caught my eye is DeepSWE having a bunch of bugs in them. The more I learn about these benchmarks the more sceptical I become. I would expect such a…
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Yes. As of Nov 8, 15:39 UTC it is #7, climbing from #8 to #7 over the last 6 checks.
#7 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 8, 15:09 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
It was first seen on Nov 7, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (86 checks) since.
264 points and 74 comments; submitted by antiuniverse on Nov 7, 2026.