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manav··on Pi 1.0
What do you use
manav··on Meta's Muse appears to use an OpenAI model labeled muse-special
Muse 1.3 spark occasionally spits out Chinese character responses to me like internal instructions. “Go fast” or “Get help”…
manav··on Bengaluru Deep-Tech Residency
Already started?
manav··on OpenAI's Misalignment Framework: A Tactical Bid to Preempt Global AI Governance
and you trust the government?
manav··on RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland
Does my screen have to be on?
manav··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
Last time I had this problem, I got it fixed after applying for and accepting a job at Apple.
manav··on Grok 4 Fast
We're all training similarly large base++; near same data, just pricing it differently... with grok removing a few filters and maybe some safeguards? For that matter, many of the benchmarks are flawed and are just easily gamed and whatnot. iykyk.
manav··on Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end
Very cool and what an amazing way to learn so much beyond what you do in those years at university (at least in the engineering sense). I wish we had software and hardware open to be able to run custom setups whether its NVIDIA on x64 or Ampere/arm64 with MacOS.
manav··on Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8
What is a good alternative?
manav··on Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
Considering Musk's power and the shrinking moat of OpenAI you would think he would be create something better with government support - or as some new department.
manav··on Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
Congrats Paras.
manav··on I will never need to buy a new computer again
I've been waiting for this to get good enough. Can any of these apps do passthrough of USB/webcam?
manav··on Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
It seemed to be some capacity issue with the CDNs. When I stopped and restarted the stream it worked again. Perhaps they do not use real time multi-cdn switching.
manav··on Show HN: Ambulate – Detailed Trip Planning
I get that ambulate just means to walk around but it gives the sense to something medical (as an American).
manav··on Is the world really running out of sand?
Don't we have to move to GaN anyway?
manav··on CS Career fair cancelled at community college because no companies reached out
I know the California CC system pretty well and have taken a few courses. In tech, there are usually two main paths: either transferring to a 4-year school for CS/Engineering, or specializing in something like Cybersecurity, AWS, Cisco, etc. For Software Engineering, there’s not gonna be any employer demand for those students at CCs since most people going that route tend to transfer to a university and their education/experience isn't really complete for that role.
manav··on Serving AI from the Basement – 192GB of VRAM Setup
PCIe bifurcation - so splitting one of the x16 slots into two x8 or similar.
manav··on Intel Honesty
Intel was getting something like $20 billion from the CHIPS act - but it seems like by the time the fabs would have been ready TSMC will already have them beat to 1.4nm/a14 (also using High NA EUV). Intel has just consistently failed to execute whereas TSMC has been fairly close to schedule.
manav··on UC Berkeley will delete all alumni email accounts with >5GB stored
Their email systems are managed by Google Workspace.
manav··on Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate's app even bigger..?
Some of the apps do 3d maps / AI positioning.
manav··on The Triple Failure of 2U, EdX, and Axim
Wouldn't it be 2U's $800M mistake?
manav··on Copying is the way design works (2020)
Copying from Xerox, some irony there.
manav··on Scientists discover a new hormone that can build strong bones in mice
Is there a good HN equivalent specifically for science/med/bio news? I do find interesting papers here on the topic although it's not the core focus.
manav··on Sydney man dubbed the 'Annihilator' wins spreadsheet world championship
Chinese-Australian. Nearly 20% of AU is Asian.
manav··on Sydney man dubbed the 'Annihilator' wins spreadsheet world championship
Excellent.
manav··on Tesla Model Y 2nd in new vehicle registrations in the US, overtaking Toyota RAV4
I hear VWs make some electric cars. It's founder might be more to your liking.
manav··on Ask HN: What is the best stack to find a job currently?
Probably

Javascript/Typescript, Python, Java, C#, PHP...

Back: Next/Express, Django/Flask, Spring, .NET, Laravel

Front: React, Angular, Vue...

manav··on Linexjlin/GPTs: leaked prompts of GPTs
How were these leaked?
manav··on Ask HN: What is your turkey recipe?
Sous vide and deep fried.
manav··on LK-99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistance below 110 K
good not great.
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