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Four hundred billion parameters. On a phone. Not a cloud endpoint masquerading as ondevice. Not a distilled 7B model dre...
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Three hundred and three upvotes on Hacker News. For a post about uptime percentages and service level agreements, that n...
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Three hundred upvotes on Hacker News for a concept page. Not a new framework. Not a funding announcement. A wiki entry a...
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Three hundred and thirteen points. That's how many upvotes a dry, almost bureaucratic guide titled "Migrating to the EU"...
Three times worse. That's not a rounding error. That's not a beta hiccup. That's Walmart, the largest retailer on Earth,...
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Three hundred and five upvotes on Hacker News. For a post about a Linux distribution most developers have never installe...
A simple article about RSS readers shouldn't require more bandwidth than a full Linux kernel patch. Yet here we are. PC ...
American Express processes roughly $1.5 trillion in transactions every year. Each second of downtime carries a cost meas...
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The Precision Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About Steve Krouse just put numbers to what most working engineers already fe...
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Four hundred and thirtynine points on Hacker News. For a blog post about version control, a domain most developers consi...
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Thirtyseven megabytes. That's how much data PC Gamer forces your browser to download so you can read an article recommen...
Somewhere north of 10 percent of Reddit's daily traffic isn't human. That figure, loosely acknowledged by the company's ...
If Microsoft Won't Do It, the Community Will "Linux support is not in our plans." That was Microsoft's official stance w...
Not 39.7 billion. 397 billion. 397B parameters. A model more than twice the size of GPT3 has reportedly been run not on ...
397 billion parameters. 48 gigabytes of unified memory. One MacBook. Those three numbers shouldn't fit in the same sente...
If the tool meant to find security vulnerabilities becomes a vulnerability itself, what are we supposed to trust? The ec...
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307 points on Hacker News. For a hardware product page with no flashy demo video, no celebrity endorsement, no VC hypecy...
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Three hundred and two points on Hacker News. For a policy brief about child safety regulation, that kind of traction tel...
Seven million downloads. A team of fewer than ten. And one phone call from Cupertino that changed everything. Halide, th...
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Three hundred and two points on Hacker News. Hundreds of comments. And the core argument fits on a napkin: good software...