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low_tech_punk··on Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5
a single generation would still allow looping in the "CPU" because the instruction set can do it. The model is almost a Turing machine (except for the limit on memory)
low_tech_punk··on Tesla Roadster
EPA won't like the gas emission
low_tech_punk··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
anthropic + bun vs cloudflare + deno, could it be counter move for building from agent sandbox that runs on the edge?
low_tech_punk··on Sonnet 5.5
The documentation mentions error code "frontier_llm": The request could assist the development of competing AI models.

I'm very curious how do they know what requests could assist competing AI models.

low_tech_punk··on Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
You either "improve performance" or "ship more ___", never both.
low_tech_punk··on Ink and Switch Interactive Homepage
Hint for mouse users, press and drag on them to hear sound and see visual effects. Mouse X/Y coordinates are inputs.
low_tech_punk··on Meta VR Glasses
> Stream hundreds of games with XBOX Cloud Gaming

This might be the killer app if latency is low enough.

low_tech_punk··on VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)
I like VSCode server in general, but it's too memory hungry. It would crash Raspberry Pi (1GB) by eating up all the RAM.
low_tech_punk··on Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second
it's stupid fast!
low_tech_punk··on Whoisinspace.com/
Chinese and Russian space suits are almost identical in the photos!
low_tech_punk··on iPhone Duo
iPhace Duo https://news.microsoft.com/surfaceduo/
low_tech_punk··on iPhone Duo
This made history because Apple never copied Microsoft before. https://news.microsoft.com/surfaceduo/
low_tech_punk··on Music Theory for Programmers
I still enjoyed going through it, for what it is.

1. runjs promoting itself using music REPL as an example

2. author used LLM to fit a few music related ideas into the web audio API

3. they tried it with math two years ago: https://runjs.app/blog/equations-that-changed-the-world-rewr... They are clearly targeting js developers, which is one of the largest coding community

4. "The naming is not arbitrary, and the harmonic series explains why.", stop wasting tokens. Just say what it is please.

low_tech_punk··on MAI Transcribe 2
just tested it, it can be paired with a streaming setup called Voice Live. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-s...
low_tech_punk··on MAI Transcribe 2
According to Artificial Analysis https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2095521214777442546 it is on the pareto frontier.
low_tech_punk··on Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
my hunch is that their hardware can't cache
low_tech_punk··on GPT-6 Astra
which raises the question, is the model in the demo actually gpt-6? or it is gpt realtime 2.1? It's unclear how gpt-6 can interact at the realtime level and if so, how can developer get access to it?
low_tech_punk··on GPT-6 Astra
What's the point of enlarging the screen into a room? In the 1979 Put That There demo, the user at least used his hand to point things. The model is impressive but the demo felt like a step back.

Original demo (fun ending) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyBEUyEtxQo

low_tech_punk··on Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
No. You buy a minimum of $10 worth of credit, then use it at $1.49/M rate. There is no recurring charge.

There is a separate subscription based plan, which is sold out now.

low_tech_punk··on Gemini-3.5-Transcribe
Soniox website has a live comparison demo: https://soniox.com/compare-stt

For me, Gemini-3.5-Transcribe actually has slightly lower latency. Kudos to Soniox for both paying their competitor and letting them win. But yes, Soniox is much cheaper.

low_tech_punk··on Small Models Have Arrived
The tokens per second speed measurement is highly inflated nowadays because most of the tokens went into thinking. I wonder if there is a more realistic measurement for "effective speed", which accounts for thinking efficiency.
low_tech_punk··on Casio F-B100W-1A
I started browsing the UK catalog and found a PAC-MAN edition: https://www.casio.com/uk/watches/casio/product.CA-53WPC-1B/
low_tech_punk··on OpenRouter is joining Stripe
They already sell API access to the model on Google/Microsoft/Amazon cloud. OpenRouter is the same deal. Note that the labs are not giving out model weights to OpenRouter. They are just selling tokens.
low_tech_punk··on Asus Bike Booster
It is decoupled from drivetrain. So, without torque sensor, how does it know when the rider wants to speed up vs. slow down?
low_tech_punk··on Gemini 3.7 Flash
Maybe Google is adding compute infra. I noticed today that the API has 500 tok/s throughput. It's quite compelling now.
low_tech_punk··on MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH
> Three things matter today: Model. Data. Harness.

*knee jerk*

low_tech_punk··on Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't
It's a classic scam. It is a 3.0 USB 7-Port Hub, not a 7-port USB 3.0 Hub. The number 3.0 is the model number of the hub, not the protocol.
low_tech_punk··on Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly
According to the stats in this article https://www.ycombinator.com/investors, we can estimate 98.5% of the founders are not in OpenAI or Anthropic.
low_tech_punk··on Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly
Is there a selection bias?

SELECT * FROM yc_founders WHERE employer IN ('OpenAI', 'Anthropic');

If there are 7k founders [1], the graph only shows 1.5% of the people from YC.

[1]: https://www.ycombinator.com/investors

low_tech_punk··on Don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash
Interestingly, I found the original nano banana also has the best latency/quality trade-off that new versions can't beat. This might be domain/prompt specific though. I wonder if there is some truth in the saying that something is either new or improved by never "new and improved".
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