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No headphone jack! Why Dell? The processor is a Intel Core 5 320 Wildcat lake, with 4 "low power efficient cores" and 2 non-hyperthreaded Performance-cores. It's variant of Panther…

Pleasant to hear about the Object-Relational Impedance Mismatch [1], haven't heard about that concept for a long time - maybe a decade!. The reason I like Dapper [2] is that it mak…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187575 1 day ago | 256 comments

If it's about the size of a Maverick as the article suggests, that's not small at all.

I've been eagerly awaiting their 2nd gen HC2, which uses multiple chips to host a "mid sized reasoning" [1] model. Its due in summer according to the article, I wonder if it will e…

Just a note about the price of the M3 Ultra with 256GB RAM with 8TB disk, it's $16999. The 96GB model with 8TB ssd on apple.com costs $10299. So you're getting 2.6x the ram for 1.6…

I'm badly remembering, but this idea was in a Sean Williams novel, perhaps "Echoes of Earth", and maybe its actually units of distance, it's probably been used by other SF writers …

Obviously that should be 10 hours a day, 10kiloseconds an hour. A hectosecond would be the equivalent of a minute. That would require different length of a second to match the Eart…

Even the title sounds clunky: "Don't stop early", its correct but I think a human would have chosen something else.

That's the first time I've seen some SIMD code reach more than about 10GB/s. 45 GiB/s is quite something, ASCII only. Of course they're not running the final code on an M4 mac, it …

Related discussion of the maintainer stepping down from libxml2 support. libexpat is a different library of course. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283196 10 months ago | 11…

Headings like the following: 4. Keep the measure honest The knobs that matter Very AI, and irritating.

We have bank accounts for our kids, currently earning 1.75% because we aren't depositing money every month. If money is deposited it's another 3.3%. I really need to get around to …

I'm so glad it "quietly" introduces that feature.

Like who? I recently noticed an Al Williams who is a writer on hackaday [1]. Turns out he was a regular contributor to DDJ. Not to be confused with Al Stevens who wrote the C Progr…

Google also has around a 14% stake in Anthropic (as at 2025 [1]) and they participated in the "G" funding round [2]. Amazon has a significant stake in them too. [1] https://www.nyt…

They mentioned that they wrote their own assembly functions for some floating point routines, like sqrtf. Is the ARM floating point unit fast enough that the quake fast inverse squ…

Wouldn't a more applicable title be that the log base is non-monotonic?