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b33fon TOP500 at ISC’26: We have a New Number 1 Supercomputer

Why are they not using GPUs? is it use cases that don't suit GPUs or because of the limitations they are imposing on themselves to use SMIC domestic chips?

b33fon IBM to acquire Confluent

Maybe a good time to consider alternatives https://www.redpanda.com/compare/redpanda-vs-kafka

b33fon We're learning more about what Vitamin D does

There's a standard perscription price in England, not the UK. in Scotland and Wales there's 0 charges to the patient

b33fon Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

TrueCrypt. free multi-platform open source disk encryption that suddenly disappeared in mysterious circumstances

b33fon The World War Two bomber that cost more than the atomic bomb

American brands like Ford typically sold models that were both designed and manufactured in Europe such as the popular Ford Escort and Ford Transit. They are completely different to what is sold in the US.

b33fon Which is the stronger pw? g72$l#pT9a or ..COW……………….

Oops HN truncated the title, I've fixed it. thanks for the heads up

b33fon Which is the stronger pw? g72$l#pT9a or ..COW……………….

We’ve been told for years that complex passwords full of symbols are required to be secure, but in reality, length beats complexity almost every time.

b33fon Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks

It's not though, it's written by someone called nothankyou1 https://github.com/jackjackbits/bitchat/graphs/contributors

b33fon ElevenReader by ElevenLabs

Is this streaming server-side audio or is the TTS running locally on device ? Can it work offline ?

b33fon Show HN: NoSQL, but it's SQLite

Couchbase mobile has been doing this for over a decade and early versions of membase 15 years ago were using a sqlite backend as a noSQL JSON datastore

b33fon Transcribro: On-device Accurate Speech-to-text

Aiko is a free app for iOS and macOS that also uses whisper for local TTS

b33fon Ask HN: Dystopian Sci-fi books that take place in San Francisco to recommend?

No Place to Hide By Glenn Greenwald and Uncanny Valley By Anna Wiener

b33fon Ask HN: What is something that needs to be done if you were of my age(22)?

Start investing for retirement and long-term care. The best time to start is yesterday, compound interest is a beautiful thing.

b33fon Run LLMs Locally with an OpenAI API

Jan is a local app for running LLM models on Windows/Linux/MacOS, including an OpenAI compatible API.

b33fon Llama.cpp: Full CUDA GPU Acceleration

The really nice part of Whisper is being able to use it offline and on-device, it seems whisper memos is uploading your audio and notes to a server of unknown security, confidentiality etc.

I like Aiko for on-device transcription both in macOS and iOS https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aiko/id1672085276

b33fon UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus

If you're talking about flip phones and trying to protect against an eavesdropper of a phone call or SMS, then there's no point. The network that these phones used is full of holes already https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_System_No._7#Protoc...

b33fon Ask HN: Is there a portable encryption file format?

In MacOS or Linux, you can use openssl on the CLI easily.

$ echo -n "private-message" | openssl enc -e -aes-256-cbc -a -salt enter aes-256-cbc encryption password: Verifying - enter aes-256-cbc encryption password:

Then to decrypt echo 'U2Fsxxxxxxxxxx' | openssl aes-256-cbc -a -d -salt

b33fon FB announced to workers they will reduce or eliminate some of its famous perks

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/technology/facebook-offic...

b33fon Number of Satellites Sorted by Country (Visualized)

I don't understand how the size of the circles are determined. For example why is the UK with 439 the same size as the UAE with 15 ?