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Quantization from the Ground Up
A complete guide to quantization: how LLMs store parameters as floats, why shrinking them to 4 or 8 bits barely hurts accuracy, and how to measure the tradeoff.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,808 posts.
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Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)
The Color Theory Behind Industrial Seafoam Green
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Apple Just Lost Me
AndreGarzia.com website
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Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm
In a new study, University of Washington researchers examine the impact of tilling on soil moisture and water retention using methods designed for monitoring ea
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Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app
Introducing Ensu, our first step toward a private, personal LLM app that runs on your device and grows with you over time.
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Why I forked httpx
I forked the python library httpx to httpxyz after over a year without a release of this popular package
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Miscellanea: The War in Iran
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2026608 points963 commentscited by 7History & Retro Computing details
This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any spec…
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I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job
Not a shadowing day or research interview - a real job. What I learned working as a pest control technician.
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Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide
My new book guides you through the start-to-finish build of a real world web application in Go — covering topics like how to structure your code, manage dependencies, create dynamic database-driven pages, and how to authenticate and authorize users securely .
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Detecting file changes on macOS with kqueue
A while ago I wrote a small file watcher in Go for my own use with an accompanying blog post . I needed a tool that I could just plop in front of the command I was running as part of my iteration loop. I use it for recompiling C files when I modify them,
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The AI Industry Is Lying to You
Hi! If you like this piece and want to support my independent reporting and analysis, why not subscribe to my premium newsletter? It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5000 to 18,000 words, including
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Arm AGI CPU
Arm introduces the Arm AGI CPU to power agentic AI infrastructure with rack-scale performance, efficiency and scalable compute for next-generation data centers.
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Apple Business
Apple today announced Apple Business, a new all-in-one platform that allows companies to manage devices and reach more customers.
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Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis
Introducing Hegel, our new family of property-based testing libraries.
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Improved Git Diffs with Delta, Fzf and a Little Shell Scripting
Spotting differences in code is an important part of what we do, Delta is by far the best CLI diff tool I ever used.
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The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI
For two centuries, the credential system gave intelligence a route to heritable capital. Artificial intelligence is closing that route. This essay builds the argument from first principles - with probability theory, interactive simulations, and a prediction specific enough to be falsifiable - and puts a number on the…
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So where are all the AI apps?
Practical AI R&D
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Missile defense is NP-complete
Exploring the Weapon-Target Assignment problem: how missile defense connects to NP-completeness, SSPK probability calculations, and how saturation attacks exploit computational limits.
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Optimizing a lock-free ring buffer
A single-producer single-consumer (SPSC) queue is a great example of how far constraints can take a design. In this post, you will learn how to implement a ring …
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NanoClaw Adopts OneCLI Agent Vault
Every NanoClaw agent will access external services through OneCLI's Agent Vault, a gateway that handles credential injection, access policies, and approvals so agents never hold raw API keys.
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Debunking Zswap and Zram Myths
zswap and zram are fundamentally different approaches with different philosophies. If in doubt, use zswap.
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LLM Neuroanatomy II: Modern LLM Hacking and Hints of a Universal Language?
In Part 1, I described how duplicating a block of seven middle layers in Qwen2-72B — no weight changes, no training — produced the #1 model on the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard. The method, which I called RYS (Repeat Your Self), was discovered using nothing but hard math probes and EQ-Bench on a pair of RTX 4090s.
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curl > /dev/sda: How I made a Linux distro that runs wget | dd
How I made a Linux distro that runs `wget | dd`
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March, 19-21: God is a comedian
A stiff drink is recommended
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From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures
A few months ago I was tasked with creating an internal tool for the company's engineers: a Chat that used a local LLM. Nothing extraordinary so far…