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Are frontier models actually astronomically expensive to train? GLM 5.2 was trained on ~30T tokens, so ~10^25 FLOPs. Say you get B300's for $5/h (pretty high), and you get 50% MFU;…

Reminds me of 0 A.D. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_A.D._(video_game) ). The usual problem with an open-source game is the art/music, but this looks pretty decent.

This is cool. Something about dropping everything to go see a movie in an empty theater is sort of tempting.

I really want automated QA to work better! It's a great thing to work on. Some feedback: - I definitely don't want three long new messages on every PR. Max 1, ideally none? Codex d…

They are playing a bit fast and loose with the word "banned". > Your smartphone contains materials processed through semiconductor fabrication, chemical etching, metal anodizing, g…

I have tried many times to do this, but lack even the minor discipline required. I inevitably make changes to the commands I want to run at the command line, rather than in the scr…

I see, yeah, I can see how if it's like 100% matching some parts of the style, but then failing completely on other parts, it's a huge pain to deal with. I wonder if a bigger model…

I was most surprised by the fact that it only took 40 examples for a Qwen finetune to match the style and quality of (interactively tuned) Nano Banana. Certainly the end result doe…

I reset my network settings and updated before realizing this is just an outage. I kept searching “ Verizon outage” but did not even consider it could be nationwide. I guess it sho…

Google (and Vercel) are great for doing this! I would like to see Anthropic and OpenAI do something similar, since they too greatly benefit from Tailwind CSS.

> PEP 658 went live on PyPI in May 2023. uv launched in February 2024. The timing isn’t coincidental. uv could be fast because the ecosystem finally had the infrastructure to suppo…

I tend to avoid sci-fi that hits too close to home (don't love any of the AI/internet/crypto classics, same reason I can't bear to watch Silicon Valley), so I was a little bored by…

Doesn’t rustc emit LLVM IR? Are there a lot of systems that LLVM doesn’t support?

There was lots of public scrutiny of Kyber (ML-KEM); DJB made his own submission to the NIST PQC standardization process. A purposely introduced backdoor in Kyber makes absolutely …

> I think the whole point is that some people would be forced to use it due to other standards picking previously-standardized ciphers. He explains and cites examples of this in th…

> Since ML-KEM is supported by the NSA, it should be assumed to have a NSA-known backdoor that they want to be used as much as possible AES and RSA are also supported by the NSA, b…

TLS 1.3 did do that, but it also fixed the ciphersuite negotiation mechanism (and got formally verified). So downgrade attacks are a moot point now.

Standardizing a codepoint for a pure ML-KEM version of TLS is fine. TLS clients always get to choose what ciphersuites they support, and nothing forces you to use it. He has essent…

Love atuin - has saved my ass many more times than I can count. The more you guys can monetize the better; will help keep the base product good. Even pretty senior devs (who don’t …

It’s symmetric keys, so quantum doesn’t matter.