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hnrss.org14 items
• Level 1 Techs community▲ 262

Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

Quick Introduction We have all been on forums, chats, reddit, discord, youtube, or somewhere and heard “Oh! Model XYZ is AMAZEBALLZ!zomgwtfbbq” then downloaded it (or more likely, some quantized form of it) and said “eww… This sucks!” This post is going to be a rather technical series of experiments to demonstrate the impact of implementation-specific hazards with inference. I will be using the term “reference implementation” to describe the lab that published and offers first-party hosting of ...

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• Twitter user▲ 359

Scrap (2006)

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• Lap Cat Software▲ 178

hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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• Prime Intellect▲ 80

NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier

Compare 153 autonomous runs from 18 frontier models on the nanoGPT optimizer speedrun.

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• Thinking in Python▲ 123

Thinking in Python

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• Marty▲ 60

MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust

An IBM PC/XT emulator written in Rust - Now compiled for the web!

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• NetBSD user▲ 109

NetBSD and my life (2005)

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hnrss.org14 items
• Level 1 Techs▲ 257

Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

Quick Introduction We have all been on forums, chats, reddit, discord, youtube, or somewhere and heard “Oh! Model XYZ is AMAZEBALLZ!zomgwtfbbq” then downloaded it (or more likely, some quantized form of it) and said “eww… This sucks!” This post is going to be a rather technical series of experiments to demonstrate the impact of implementation-specific hazards with inference. I will be using the term “reference implementation” to describe the lab that published and offers first-party hosting of ...

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• BBC▲ 571

Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

A new 50% levy on $20bn of Canadian imports comes into force after a last-minute breakdown in trade talks.

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• Twitter▲ 358

Scrap (2006)

I found some old journal entries. This one is probably circa ~2006, just titled "Scrap:" I moved to Pittsburgh at the right time in my life, but at the wrong time of year. Coming from the west coast, I was actually naive enough to be excited about the prospect of winter. I

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• Dan Luu▲ 626

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

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• Munder Difflin▲ 270

Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

Free, open source and performant multi-agent harness, works with your existing subscriptions (uses hourly limits). It wraps the CLI agents you already use — Claude Code, Codex, Copilot and…

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• Rust Glancer▲ 407

Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM

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• Geometridae▲ 214

A Friendly Introduction to Racket

<img src="https://bear-images.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/mothcodes/steal-your-face-plt.svg" alt="steal-your-face-plt" wid...

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• The Guardian▲ 208

Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week

In trial that opened on Tuesday, California and 28 other states accused the company of designing addictive sites and violating laws protecting children’s privacy

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• Twitter▲ 179

Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code

update: it's server-side, not the app anthropic enrols fable 5 sessions on claude code 2.1.236+ into an experiment that shrinks the effort scale, older versions and opus 5 are left alone…

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