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A quieter weekend tilt toward pragmatism: a paper dissects where tokens actually go in agentic software engineering, while Hugging Face showcases small-model orchestration in a multi-agent finance simulation. For builders, a new Keybench utility arrives to make performance testing of key-value stores scriptable and repeatable.

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  • hn/frontpage· feedJun 6, 11:06 PM

    Keybench for key‑value benchmarking

    A new scriptable, extensible performance tool—sysbench‑like for key‑value engines—helps storage engineers define workloads and compare implementations with repeatable, automation‑friendly benchmarks.

    Show HN: Keybench – Scriptable, extensible performance tool for key value stores — I've been working with storage engines for quite a while and really there was no similar tool to sysbench and or HammerDB for key-value storage engines. Thus I introduce a POC called keybench. I hope you check it out, and do give it a run to drive your favorite engine. Cheers! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48429957 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

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  • hn/frontpage· feedJun 7, 01:37 AM

    Tokenomics of agentic software engineering

    ArXiv study quantifies where tokens are spent across steps in agentic SWE workflows, offering actionable cost breakdowns to optimize prompting, planning, and tool-invocation stages.

    Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering — Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14470 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430923 Points: 19 # Comments: 0

  • huggingface/blog· feedJun 6, 07:02 PM

    Small-model multi-agent finance simulation

    Hugging Face and partners detail a collaborative build that orchestrates multiple small LMs to stage a finance drama, sharing patterns for coordination, prompting, and evaluation on constrained models.

    Five labs, five minds: building a multi-model finance drama on small models

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