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TPU v4 provides exaFLOPS-scale ML with efficiency gains
A new paper describes how Google’s Cloud TPU v4 outperforms TPU v3 by 2.1x on a per-chip basis, and improves performance/Watt by 2.7x.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,335 posts.
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If you'd built a "tool" that stupid, why would you advertise the fact?
A few days ago I got a sensationally stupid email from one of those websites that most of us probably have a subscription to, but which I will not give the oxygen of publicity by linking to[1]. The…
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Using aligned word vectors for instant translations with Python and Rust
How to use aligned word vectors from fastText to translate words from one language to another instantly.
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Unlike ChatGPT, Anthropic has doubled down on Artifacts
Back in high school, I remember receiving an email for a study guide from a friend. Instead of the PDF coming attached, it was a link to a site called Dropbox.
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Neural Network on a Commodore 64 (1987)
Neural Network on a Commodore 64
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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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GPT-5.1 for Developers
GPT-5.1 is now available in the API, bringing faster adaptive reasoning, extended prompt caching, improved coding performance, and new apply_patch and shell tools.
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Understanding the limits of large language models
Reading level: No programming knowledge required, but trying ChatGPT first is advised.
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PyMC: Theano Is Dead, Long Live Theano
© 2020, The PyMC Development Team
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A Gentle Introduction to Backpropagation
A gentle introduction to backpropagation, a method of programming neural networks
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The Perilous World of Machine Learning for Fun and Profit
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Building a State of the Art Bacterial Classifier with Fast.ai and Paperspace
In this post, we’re going to be demonstrating how to to build a state of the art Bacterial Classification model on Gradient using the Fast.ai machine learning library.
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AI Meets Cryptography 1: What AI Found in Cloudflare's Circl
We pointed our AI audit pipeline at Cloudflare's CIRCL experimental cryptography library and confirmed seven real bugs, from a critical float64 precision loss in threshold RSA to a complete access-control break in attribute-based encryption. All seven are now fixed upstream. This is the first post in a series on bugs…
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AI Is Breaking the Moral Foundation of Modern Society
I’ve been thinking about why AI feels like such a destabilizing force for society, and it isn’t just the threat of even greater…
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Altman's Ambition
Sam Altman is not playing around.
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I Tried Building a Real App with AI. It Took a Year
My wife and I have been looking for an app to track things like habits, hobbies, and when we last did certain chores.To be honest there are probably hundreds of different habit trackers on the App Store. Next to todo list apps they are supposed to be the easiest apps to create so it is not really that surprising there…
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The drawbridges come up: the dream of a interconnected context ecosystem is over
The AI era is speedrunning the Web 2.0 story. Open and accessible MCPs are not our future. Integrations will be tightly governed.
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Tailwind and slop apps
Tailwind is great. It's a quick way to style a webpage and offers incredible flexibility. The problem is, despite Tailwind being incredibly customisable I can instantly tell when a site is using Tailwind. It has a certain look and feel that is hard to shake. A few years ago this "look and feel" was fresh and classy…
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OpenAI's Woke Catechism
How a Few Activists Made ChatGPT Deny Basic Science
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AI predicts effective depression treatment based on brainwave patterns
Tracking brainwave patterns and symptoms in patients with depression, researchers used artificial intelligence to predict best treatment options.
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One Dataset. No Warning. Google Took Everything. You're Not Safe Either
I’m an independent developer who built Punge, an on-device NSFW image detection app. The idea was simple: give people tools to manage…
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Robot hand could harvest blackberries better than humans
The soft robotic gripper developed at the U of A received a U.S. patent.
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The Warp Agent CLI
The Warp Agent is now available as a standalone CLI that you can use anywhere – Ghostty, iTerm 2, VS Code, built-in Windows and Mac Terminals – and provides a superior experience for developers who do heavy terminal workflows.