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I'm seeing this too. API price for gemini-3.5-flash is 3x gemini-3-flash-preview so they might be throttling it 3x sooner. They should either drop API prices or not advertise AI Pr…

Interesting that the 3.5 Flash launches before 3.5 Pro. Historically it's been the reverse for Gemini since Flash is distilled from Pro? Are they just training it a bit longer unti…

This is cool. I'm observing a trend of "build a tiny version from the ground-up to understand it" a la Karpathy's micrograd/minGPT. Seems like one of the best ways to learn.

I switched to a new x86 machine. Running Linux on Mac just made things unnecessarily complicated and hurt performance. Im still open to using docker on Mac to run Linux containers …

I don't have an x86 laptop at the moment so sticking with Macbook for now. My assumption is Mac laptops still are far superior given M-series chips and OS that are tuned for batter…

I switched my desktop from macOS (10+ years) to Ubuntu 25 last year and I'm not going back. The latest release includes a Gnome update which fixed some remaining annoyances with hi…

Arxiv should just retire "is all you need" in the title. Block the post and make them come up with something new. Anything. Same for YOLO "versioned" models. People just claim they…

I don't know if you can generally say that "LLM training is faster on TPUs vs GPUs". There is variance among LLM architectures, TPU cluster sizes, GPU cluster sizes... They are bot…

What Raspberry Pi is to Broadcom (developer-friendly SBCs), Beagleboard is to TI. It's a slightly different approach -- Beagleboard is a non-profit and emphasizes openly purchasabl…

I would expect nearly every active AI engineer who trained models in the pre-LLM era to be up to speed on the transformer-based papers and techniques. Most people don't study AI an…

I don't expect the majority of tech companies to want to run their own physical data centers. I do expect them to shift to more bare-metal offerings. If I'm a mid to large size com…

I'm trying to make a DIY security camera that can run local models, and stream video over wifi. The TI SDK makes it easy to run demos but making any custom apps quickly gets compli…

Will be interested to see what their developer kit looks like when (and if) they release it. I've been experimenting with the BeagleY-AI to build a little edge AI gizmo with a came…

There's a swarm on HN that upvotes anything uv related and downvotes anything questioning it's added value as compared to pip

There's still relevance in making it stupidly easy to make an LED blink and make basic apps on circuit boards. Education + weekend hardware hackers might look for something differe…

To anyone at Arduino/Qualcomm reading -- If you're looking to make Uno Q SBC a gateway to more companies building on Qualcomm SoCs, please also release: - Affordable HQ camera modu…

You're right there is no way to specifically target the neural engine. You have to use it via CoreML which abstracts away the execution. If you use Metal / GPU compute shaders it's…

I've always been a bit confused about when to run models on the GPU vs the neural engine. The best I can tell, GPU is simpler to use as a developer especially when shipping a cross…

It sounds like you're working 8 hours/day and unwinding the rest of the time? I never had energy for side projects with a full-time job. Just because some do doesn't mean it's for …

One crazy stat -- In 2024, 21% of all bachelor's degrees awarded were Computer Science from University of Maryland College Park. It was 3% in 2011. I don't agree with the article t…

One of the reasons I switched to Android was the freedom to make apks for my phone and not dealing with certificates, expiry dates, Google's approval, etc. This is a depressing cha…

I was in the market for a Linux desktop machine and considered the Framework Desktop. I respect their mission, but ended up purchasing a Geekom mini PC instead. Given repair isn't …