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sampton··on John Giannandrea to retire from Apple
Apple AI team launched Apple Intelligence before it was fully baked. That's a no-no by Apple standards.
sampton··on Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model
Meta gave up on open weight path after DeepSeek.
sampton··on Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source
Jupyter use is declining because coding agents got really good. Multiplayer mode is not going to save it.
sampton··on US startup Substrate announces chipmaking tool that it says will rival ASML
Samsung has access to the same ASML tools but has much lower yield than TSMC. Chip making is hard.
sampton··on A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it
MLX and MPS are 2 completely different teams within Apple. It's more like MPS team doesn't have control or visibility into PyTorch roadmap and can only contribute so much from their side.
sampton··on Rivian's TM-B electric bike
The kid carrier looks dangerously top heavy.
sampton··on DeepSeek OCR
You can train a cnn to find bounding boxes of text first. Then run VLM on each box.
sampton··on Making regular GPS ultra-precise
Using building geometry to correct gnss signals is new.
sampton··on Bank of England flags risk of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks inflated by AI
There needs to be break through papers or hardware that can expand context size in exponential way. Or a new model that can address long term learning.
sampton··on Bank of England flags risk of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks inflated by AI
A lot investment is banking on agi. There’s no sign agi is going to happen this decade.
sampton··on U.S. Lost 32,000 Private-Sector Jobs in September, Says Payroll Processor
That's one way to lower the interest rate.
sampton··on The American Nations regions across North America
Those left coast elites.
sampton··on Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps
More dense but less trust worthy. I don't think they would have pushed apple intelligence the way they did if there was a live demo.
sampton··on Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps
I bet they rehearsed a dozen times and never failed as bad live. Got to give them props for keeping the live demos. Apple has neutered its demos so much it's now basically 2 hr long commercials.
sampton··on Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?
If you want good prints and only care about the prints, get Bambu P1S. If you want to tinker with the machine and have a lot of free time on your hands then Prusa. although Prsusa starting to close up it's walls like Bambu.
sampton··on Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20
Because Chinese government can tell their companies to adopt Chinese tech and they will do it. Short term pain for long term gain.
sampton··on Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war
I don't that's true. Amazon sells infrastructure to other AI companies. If they jump into the model race they become a competitor not an infrastructure provider.
sampton··on Geotoy – Shadertoy for 3D Geometry
How is the material defined?
sampton··on I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid
In the past few months I have used AI to read more open source projects than I ever had. Tackled projects in Rust that I was too intermediated to start. AI doesn't make you lazy.
sampton··on Historical Tech Tree
1760000 BC: StoreTool 3. This is our greatest model yet. You are going to love it.
sampton··on Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering
Short canva.
sampton··on HTML-in-Canvas
Servo + wasm.
sampton··on What if AI made the world’s economic growth explode?
People say that until they are asked to pay more and earn less.
sampton··on American sentenced for helping North Koreans get jobs at U.S. firms
It's not that easy fronting a job. I can't imagine one person going through all the interviews and juggle all the communication. Might as well just start your own agency with contractors from India or Philippines.
sampton··on Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS
ChromeOS is genius in edging out Microsoft dominance in office software. Most interns only know how to use Google docs thanks to Chrome books.
sampton··on OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
Zuck swoops in and hire them 100mm a piece.
sampton··on Reachy Mini – The Open-Source Robot for Today's and Tomorrow's AI Builders
I like the idea but execution is underwhelming. For $500 put some wheels on that thing.
sampton··on Battle to eradicate invasive pythons in Florida achieves milestone
It's crazy we are hunting tuna to extinction yet here is perfectly good python meat going to landfill. Florida needs to build a marketing campaign to make wild python a delicacy.
sampton··on Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video]
I hope they can tweak the design for finder because the current beta looks bad.
sampton··on WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History
My theory is the icon is more inline with liquid glass, where the translucent half goes into the background.
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