--- title: Best The Coding Gopher posts — August 2026 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted The Coding Gopher posts from August 2026, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/codinggopher/best-of/2026/08 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/codinggopher/best-of/2026/08 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best The Coding Gopher posts — August 2026 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted The Coding Gopher posts from August 2026, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of The Coding Gopher — August 2026 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/minimax-m3-better-than-claude-and-20x-cheaper-open-source--eqm63nsk9 "MiniMax M3: Better than Claude and 20X Cheaper? (Open Source)") Video The Coding Gopher · 2w MiniMax M3: Better than Claude and 20X Cheaper? (Open Source) MiniMax M3 is a new open-weights frontier model from Shanghai lab MiniMax, packing 428 billion total parameters (22-23B active via mixture-of-experts) and up to 1 million tokens of context. It uses a custom sparse attention scheme (MSA) that groups tokens into 128-token hardware-aligned blocks, cutting per-token compute cost at 1M context to roughly 1/20 of the prior M2 model, with 9.7x faster prefill and 15.6x faster decoding. It supports native multimodal understanding including video up to 30 minutes. On benchmarks it scores 59% on SWE-Bench Pro, 66% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, and 83.5% on BrowseComp, beating Claude Opus 4.7's 79.3%. API pricing on OpenRouter launched at 30 cents per million input tokens. Running it locally requires roughly 855GB unquantized, or a minimum of 133GB unified memory even after aggressive 1-bit quantization, putting local hosting out of reach for most individual developers. 42 7 [See all The Coding Gopher archives](/sources/codinggopher/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/codinggopher/best-of/2026/08#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/codinggopher/best-of/2026/08","name":"Best The Coding Gopher Posts — August 2026","description":"The most upvoted The Coding Gopher posts from August 2026, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/codinggopher/best-of/2026/08#items","numberOfItems":1,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/minimax-m3-better-than-claude-and-20x-cheaper-open-source--eqm63nsk9","name":"MiniMax M3: Better than Claude and 20X Cheaper? (Open Source)"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sources","item":"https://daily.dev/sources"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"The Coding Gopher","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/codinggopher"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/codinggopher/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"August 2026"}]}]} ```