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1-6··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
You can get better cooling performance at the cost of slight water usage or you can use more energy without using water at all.

The greener solution is to use water.

1-6··on Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
I hope we're coming to a plateau with the HBM/GDDR7/on-chip RAM hype and get back to normalcy with system RAM alternatives for the rest of us.
1-6··on Chinese Cars Are Now Achieving 5-Star Safety Ratings
Unfortunately, with any organization, it's possible to buy safety ratings too.
1-6··on Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available
Ubuntu has become the bloatware distro I've grown to dislike. Luckily with a CLI-based AI, one can choose any Linux flavor and customize it to their liking.
1-6··on YC employee blocks Jews from hackathon
Yikes, this guy is a tool. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mostapha-benhenda
1-6··on U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels
Come to think of it, who knows how many counterfeit postage stamps are in circulation? https://mailtheft.uspis.gov/
1-6··on Dots
How does one work when all this stuff keep hitting the feed?
1-6··on Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
At least they haven't DRM'd their chips yet.
1-6··on OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns
In other words: "We're compute constrained and we've already reached an asymptote."
1-6··on 1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops
Dialup isn't supposed to be this smooth.
1-6··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Let's just say it as it is... Wine is 'supposedly' an acquired taste but for most, it tastes bitter and not enjoyable for the cost. Tastes shift and luxury items from yesteryear no longer makes a strong statement about affluence to this generation.
1-6··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
I may be old-fashioned but the substitute mind-altering drugs you're mentioning does not sound like a more responsible pathway.
1-6··on Windows 11½
This is a remarkable depiction of a modern operating system.
1-6··on AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study
Teachers have become proctors and not educators.
1-6··on Cancer-Related Mortality Among US Pilots and Flight Attendants
Our company shared a wall with an xray lab next door. My coworkers and I were always curious what impacts it would have to our health.
1-6··on Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)
That has been the motto of our governors.
1-6··on Godox Transparent Viewfinder Camera C100
Transparent viewfinder cameras aren't anything new. If you've ever used a disposable camera in the past--congratulations, that is it.
1-6··on Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
I'm using an iPhone Safari plugin called Noir to force darkmode and your tool is making white the absence of color. In other words, I think white is just an alpha channel.
1-6··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
How is this information public knowledge?
1-6··on All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen
You can't have nice things until you can trust the government: https://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/info/1320/12059.htm /sarcasm
1-6··on SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?
Engineers cosplay as physicists and mathematicians every day. What's your point? Think of it pragmatically. If they can do the job they can do the role.
1-6··on A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands
Thanks to the South Korean President pumping the KOSPI with leverage and then shortly tightening the rules once things looked unsustainable.
1-6··on Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon
@claude is a contributor? I find that hard to believe.
1-6··on Why I Left Google DeepMind
The virtue signaling is too much on this article. It could have been a well-written piece, but they had to make it about moral grandstanding.
1-6··on Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth
HBMs are tightly connected to the GPU die via a silicon interposer.

It's basically soldered onto the processor and impossible to separate.

1-6··on Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models
I'm not certain about this statement because Huawei created their own chip.
1-6··on Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth
The GPU cluster's RAM is probably worth more than the flops these days.
1-6··on China's Xi Jinping launches new AI alliance, WAICO
Free and open... Like the Great Firewall. It's comical to see this coming from China.
1-6··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
Fast and loose with billing data. Welcome to the new Amazon.
1-6··on Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass
Biting the hand that fed you... on your way out.
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