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https://archive.ph/3J3iw

SQLite with WAL on a standard NVMe drive will easily do thousand of writes per second.

Ultra = parallel subagents with max reasoning

Pro = test-time compute (best of N responses)

Announcement: https://x.com/__eknight__/status/2075643450196971805

Prompt: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98...

As a side note, it's nearly impossible to buy a dual-hose portable AC in the UK and Europe. For whatever reason, the market has converged on inefficient single-hose portable ACs.

See "exabox" from George Hotz: https://tinycorp.myshopify.com/products/exabox-preorder

Sol, Terra and Luna

So the next naming scheme might be FTX, Madoff and Enron? :^)

The common denominator between "GPT-2 is too dangerous to release" and Anthropic is Dario.

Cymer builds the EUV light source, but the biggest enabler for High NA EUV is using anamorphic optics (ie asymmetric horizontal and vertical magnification) from Zeiss: https://www.asml.com/en/news/stories/2024/5-things-high-na-e...

Thanks for catching that - unfortunately I can't edit the submission URL, but I've emailed hn@ycombinator.com to see if the mods can fix it.

EDIT: gift link if paywalled (archive.is capture is truncated): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/apple-to-...

I've seen a few articles from providers talking about KV cache quantisation, but it's not something they explicitly point out like they do with weights.

So you could end up paying more for unquantised weights, only to get silently hit with a quantised KV cache...

IME, unquantised -> FP8 is pretty much lossless. What matters more is having an unquantized KV cache - using an FP8 KV cache can result in a significant drop in quality.

https://archive.ph/BIOej

And Sony as well - AI-LLM1000XM5 Mark II.

The rationale behind the Fn-Ctrl layout used on ThinkPads until very recently:

The Fn key was originally placed by the ThinkPad designers in the lower left hand corner to make the key easier to locate when using the keystroke combinations. There was a rationale. This is especially handy for turning on the ThinkLight in the dark. Aim for the two extreme corners.

https://web.archive.org/web/20111115202457/http://www.lenovo...

IMO, putting Ctrl in the bottom left still isn't great for ergonomics: Ctrl should be where Caps Lock is, in line with the home row. This was the case on the original PC keyboard (IBM Model F) before it was moved to the bottom left in the Model M.

One of the only mass-produced keyboards that has Ctrl in this position today is the Apple Japanese keyboard: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/mxcl3j/a/magic-keyboard-u...

A bug affecting M5 MBAs & MBPs made it impossible to connect to a WiFi network on the activation screen. The workaround was to use an Ethernet dongle: https://x.com/TheBobPony/status/2033958150936703363

after incentivizing employees to adopt the technology through an internal leaderboard ranking teams by total AI tool usage.

When you pay by the dead cobra, don't be surprised when people start breeding cobras.

I also recall this 3D shell where your desktop was basically like an first-person shooter, where there would be a literal desk with files that you could click on, a media wall that would display your photos and so on.

Was it Task Gallery from Microsoft Research?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-tas...

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/332040.332482

Next up: learning effective radio communication from Ferrari F1 race engineers ;)

https://archive.ph/D5IJd

Sadly nothing about why Pat was forced out of Intel. Panther Lake is quite a good CPU and 14A looks like it'll be a competitive process. IMO, it vindicates the decisions that Pat made a few years ago and wasn't able to see through to completion.

"Designing microprocessors is like playing Russian roulette. You put a gun to your head, pull the trigger, and find out four years later if you blew your brains out." (Robert Palmer, former DEC CEO)

More specifically, it was the end of Dennard scaling [0] that killed off the growth in clock speeds in the mid-2000s.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling

LG never really recovered after releasing several phones with bootlooping issues between 2015-16: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_smartphone_bootloop_issues

Plus their software support was poor, even for the era.

I transposed the table so that it's readable on mobile devices.

I should have mentioned that the Qwen 3.5 benchmarks were from the Qwen3.5-122B-A10B model card (which includes GPT-5-mini and GPT-OSS-120B); apologies for not including the smaller Qwen 3.5 models.

Comparison of Gemma 4 vs. Qwen 3.5 benchmarks, consolidated from their respective Hugging Face model cards:

    | Model          | MMLUP | GPQA  | LCB   | ELO  | TAU2  | MMMLU | HLE-n | HLE-t |
    |----------------|-------|-------|-------|------|-------|-------|-------|-------|
    | G4 31B         | 85.2% | 84.3% | 80.0% | 2150 | 76.9% | 88.4% | 19.5% | 26.5% |
    | G4 26B A4B     | 82.6% | 82.3% | 77.1% | 1718 | 68.2% | 86.3% |  8.7% | 17.2% |
    | G4 E4B         | 69.4% | 58.6% | 52.0% |  940 | 42.2% | 76.6% |   -   |   -   |
    | G4 E2B         | 60.0% | 43.4% | 44.0% |  633 | 24.5% | 67.4% |   -   |   -   |
    | G3 27B no-T    | 67.6% | 42.4% | 29.1% |  110 | 16.2% | 70.7% |   -   |   -   |
    | GPT-5-mini     | 83.7% | 82.8% | 80.5% | 2160 | 69.8% | 86.2% | 19.4% | 35.8% |
    | GPT-OSS-120B   | 80.8% | 80.1% | 82.7% | 2157 |  --   | 78.2% | 14.9% | 19.0% |
    | Q3-235B-A22B   | 84.4% | 81.1% | 75.1% | 2146 | 58.5% | 83.4% | 18.2% |  --   |
    | Q3.5-122B-A10B | 86.7% | 86.6% | 78.9% | 2100 | 79.5% | 86.7% | 25.3% | 47.5% |
    | Q3.5-27B       | 86.1% | 85.5% | 80.7% | 1899 | 79.0% | 85.9% | 24.3% | 48.5% |
    | Q3.5-35B-A3B   | 85.3% | 84.2% | 74.6% | 2028 | 81.2% | 85.2% | 22.4% | 47.4% |

    MMLUP: MMLU-Pro
    GPQA: GPQA Diamond
    LCB: LiveCodeBench v6
    ELO: Codeforces ELO
    TAU2: TAU2-Bench
    MMMLU: MMMLU
    HLE-n: Humanity's Last Exam (no tools / CoT)
    HLE-t: Humanity's Last Exam (with search / tool)
    no-T: no think

TI started production at their SM1 fab back in December 2025, which focuses on 28 nm to 130 nm.

An interesting read related to this bug from Joel Spolsky - My First BillG Review: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...

Plus, having $50M sitting in a mobile hot wallet.

As Walter Bagehot wrote in The English Constitution: "An ancient and ever-altering constitution is like an old man who still wears with attached fondness clothes in the fashion of his youth: what you see of him is the same; what you do not see is wholly altered."

Absent ideological capture, it is perhaps one of the best forms of government ever created due to its pragmatic nature and its Lindyness is proof.

The irony is that, on a technicality, the hereditary peers were the only members of the Lords who had to win an election to get their seats.

Under the reforms of the House of Lords Act 1999, the majority of hereditary peers lost the right to sit as members of the House of Lords, the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Section 2 of the Act, however, provides an exception from this general exclusion of membership for up to 92 hereditary peers: 90 to be elected by the House, as well as the holders of two royal offices, the Earl Marshal and the Lord Great Chamberlain, who sit as ex officio members.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_excepted_hereditary_pe...