Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5
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A chunk not in after NNTP_HEDGE_AFTER_SECONDS (10) is asked again on one of NNTP_HEDGE_CONNECTIONS spare connections; the first answer wins and the other connection is closed (lib/nntp/hedge.ts, tested). Connections can be retired after NNTP_CONNECTION_MAX_MINUTES (±25%). The prefetch report counts hedges and slow first requests by connection age. Homelab, 15 min each: hedging on (40 + 6) 280k articles/s, off 273k. The second request won about half of its races, but ~25-35% of first requests were slow (>10 s) at every connection age, so neither helps: Eweka is slow under our load, not on particular connections. Both off by default; the age statistics stay. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>