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RISC-V shines in systems like this. I want systems (Embedded and low power systems) to be more RISC-V based.

prashantk_on What's in a GGUF, besides the weights – and what's still missing?

I have always used safetensors + metadata files (similar to Huggingface repo) format. It is not a major pain point by any means, but good that GGUF has a compact format and good support.

prashantk_on LLM Policy for Rust Compiler

On a general note, I like vouch by mitchellh.

> People must be vouched for before interacting with certain parts of a project (the exact parts are configurable to the project to enforce).

https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch

I think many projects will adopt this instead of allowing everyone / blocking everyone

Many projects have "ai slop" check in place to directly close and ban user if it is "ai slop". Else, it will be hard to handle the velocity of PRs

prashantk_on Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

Better to know where memory bugs may happen than them being everywhere. Also, bun team are looking it to reduce it by a large margin. Since it was a line by line port, there is a good space for improvement. By first rust release, a significant number of it should be resolved.

prashantk_on Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

This is a massive marketing for Anthropic. It shows how capable their systems to enterprises customers.

Also this is a perfect task for LLMs. They have the most detailed spec (Production Zig code) ever, and since it as file for file and line for line rewrite, agents were able to quickly complete a massive 1 Millon line rewrite.

We will continue to see more of these in future.

prashantk_on Coldkey – Post-quantum age key generation and paper backup tool

I am seeing more Post Quantum safety measures suddenly, than ever before. I know this was a topic from at least a decade, but it looks like a sudden interest across industry.

Did something change? It looks like there was some breakthrough in quantum computers scaling and everyone if given some time before making it public.

What could be the reason for this?

prashantk_on Bun's rewrite in Rust was merged

Looks like the experiment was a success. We will be seeing many of these and it will work out fine.

"Code is the spec" and "tests are the success rates" - as principles for these rewrites. We can look forward to many of big complex software re-written in language that make sense.