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phantom32on Qualcomm to acquire Arduino

Interesting how Arduino is now planning to release a SBC, while Raspberry Pi also has a microcontroller lineup. Now using a RPi or an Arduino board in a project won't mean much when their products are nearly the same.

phantom32on Turkish citizens' personal data offered online after government site hacked

I think there have been multiple leaks in the past, and this website is not the first either...

phantom32on FauxPilot – An open-source GitHub Copilot server

I wonder if FauxPilot's models (Salesforce Codegen family) can be quantized and run on the CPU. I was able to run the 350M model on my machine but it wasn't able to compete with Copilot in any way. Salesforce claims their model is competitive with OpenAI Codex their github description[1]. Maybe their largest 16B model is, but I haven't been able to try it.

[1] https://github.com/salesforce/CodeGen

phantom32on Technical dimensions of programming systems

Really interesting writeup!

phantom32on Lightweight Arch-based distro that runs, without root, upon any Linux distro

Only the PRoot method has some overhead, as it hijacks system calls with ptrace(). Linux namespaces or chroot shouldn't have noticable overhead.

phantom32on Ask HN: Help recall command line util to search for code documentation