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Introducing Hy4 Preview New open weight text input (no vision) LLM from Chinese company Tencent today: 770B total parameters, 49B active parameters, 1M token context window, 1.56TB on Hugging Face. This is a big size increase from their previous Hy3 in July, which was 295B,...

The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English

For twenty-five years, an Italian hacker collective has built communications infrastructure designed to survive censorship, surveillance and police raids. On August 26, the United States designated it a terrorist organization. On September 25, the wind-down period ends.

It's possible to just connect two computers together with Ethernet and do a bit of IP configuration: # On sender... ip address add dev eth0 fd42:dead:beef::1/48 ip link set dev eth0 up # On receiver... ip address add dev eth0 fd42:dead:beef::2/48 ip link set dev eth0...

The privacy, or lack thereof, around streaming media has been bothering me lately. I’m sure some people would ask what took me so long. And I’m sure others would say I am overreacting. But it is a problem not very

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Next to all the code samples on this blog is a little "copy" button. That makes it easier to grab any of the code I've shared. The HTML and JS is delightfully simple: <button onclick="navigator.clipboard.writeText( this.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('code')[0].textContent );" title="Copy code" >⧉</button> The navigator.clipboard.writeText needs a user interaction to w…

The Dell Optiplex 3040 and 3050 Micro are useful machines when you need a small form factor, versatility, and affordability. It’s not as hip and chic as a Raspberry Pi, but is potentially more affordable. If you’re not familiar with

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Explicitly denying that you implement the method.

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Rehabilitating Richard

Z.AI ran a full model release on domestically manufactured Chinese chips. Impressive, but EUV lithography is a hard wall and the gap with Western inference hardware is more likely to widen than close.

Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days Anil Madhavapeddy is a professor of computer science at Cambridge and a core maintainer of the OCaml compiler. In this somewhat alarming post he reports that security issues in OCaml projects are seeing e...

Did OpenAI really do the best they could?

I'm traveling to Chicago for VCF Midwest next month. I'll be demoing NTP time history on vintage Macs, with my own GPS-derived NTP service hosted on an Xserve G5, synced via NTP or a strange AppleTalk timing extension from the 1990s.

So I built a little 'portable homelab' (pictured above) that supports 1-10 Gbps networking, can run off a small battery for at least an hour, switches between multiple WANs (so I can get my own 5G Internet connection, in case I need it), and gives me 12 wired Ethernet connections.

I watched a few videos this morning, looking for ideas of what I could use AI to do. In one video, someone had an agent monitor tech news sites every 30 minutes to notify him of a variety of developments. No doubt that’s less effort than visiting a bunch of sites every half hour. But […]

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The monkey-punchers at Google never quite seem to finish any of their apps. There's always some useful bit of work left undone, or showstopping bug which remains unfixed, a thousand jagged edges as yet unsolved by the greatest minds of their generation. I wanted to subscribe to an events calendar. I had a URl. I had my Google™ Pixel® phone running the latest Android© 17 with an updated calendar a…

At the end of August 2024, Anandtech shut down rather suddenly and unexpectedly, ending a run that dated back to April 3, 1997. I thought about writing something at the time, but really needed longer to collect my thoughts. I

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Don't implement a stub. Just don't implement it at all.

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