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Looking back at this, has there been a maverick company like Nullsoft since then? It's sad, but AOL may have killed off the last one.

Did you read the article? There are large storage and bandwidth requirements.

22B params * 2 bytes (FP16) = 44GB just for the weights. Doesn't include KV cache and other things. When the model gets quantized to say 4bit ints, it'll be 22B params * 0.5 bytes …

A popular use case for SaaS companies isn't even in utilizing Zapier themselves, but rather adding their API to the list of integrations. This can really speed up onboarding for cu…

In order to charge 10x faster, you need to deliver 10x the current. That means all the wiring and electronics need to be upgraded to handle the huge increase without melting. Also,…

The Nintendo Switch. For all the reasons you mention. I have a career, I have a family, and I have side projects. I just don’t have time to dedicate to games. But sometimes you jus…

I would disagree with the premise that the two stores are comparable. The alternative to not use the Mac App Store is not just financial, but also allows developers to bypass the s…

Impressive. I wonder if Google will sell servers with these cards via Google Cloud. Seems like it could be pretty competitive in the transcoding space and also help them push AV1 a…

False dichotomy.

Hardware: Starlink, ARM/M1, NVMe/SSD, active noise cancellation, AR, VR, OLED, MicroLED, Wifi, GPUs, portable cameras, quantum computing, multi-touch, self-landing rockets, drones,…

I think the business model and the software license often get conflated like this. Once you release software with an open source license, users are free to do what they wish as lon…

Highly recommend the Dell XPS 13 if you enjoy the Macbook build quality. The edge-to-edge screen feels like the future. I run EndeavourOS which is like a GUI installer for Arch. Ar…

For sure, it will only run MacOS barring any jailbreak from the community. Even previous gen Mac Mini's with the T2 chip made it difficult to reinstall even MacOS due to Find My Ma…

Always good to know the underlying implementation, but for any Ruby readers check out clamp(). It's been available since 2.4. 25.clamp(5, 10) => 10 6.clamp(5, 10) => 6 1.clamp(5, 1…

People realize this, especially on HN. The post is referring to deprecations. You can patch security vulnerabilities and move a product forward without deprecations. Google does it…

They also have a really cool zine that's loaded with 90s hacker culture. https://n-o-d-e.net/zine/index.html

It's available https://crystal-lang.org/reference/guides/concurrency.html . Fibers (like goroutines) are scheduled by Crystal and map to system threads. The work on parallelism is …

We run it in production. Our apps are mostly Ruby but we have been rewriting services in Crystal. Originally we were attracted by the speed and type checks, but one surprising bene…

Here are thorough benchmarks of Crystal and C up against other interpreted languages: https://github.com/kostya/jit-benchmarks . It has other examples besides Fibonacci.