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Janus Pro 1B running 100% locally in-browser on WebGPU

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Public Access OpenVMS System

decuserve.org
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DeepSeek: X2 Speed for WASM with SIMD

simonwillison.net

ggml : x2 speed for WASM by optimizing SIMD (via) PR by Xuan-Son Nguyen for llama.cpp:...
ggml : x2 speed for WASM by optimizing SIMD (via) PR by Xuan-Son Nguyen for llama.cpp: This PR provides a big jump in speed for WASM by leveraging SIMD instructions for qX_K_q8_K and qX_0_q8_0 dot product functions. Surprisingly, 99% of the code in this PR is written by DeekSeek-R1. The only thing I do is to develop...
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RadioShack Not Only Still Exists, It Sells Suspiciously Cheap SD Cards

petapixel.com

RadioShack, once a ubiquitous American electronics store, filed for bankruptcy and shuttered all of its brick...
RadioShack, once a ubiquitous American electronics store, filed for bankruptcy and shuttered all of its brick and mortar US locations way back in 2017. For most Americans, the brand appeared to die but that isn’t entirely true: it shifted its efforts online where it now sells some suspiciously cheap SD cards emblazo...
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US's wind and solar will generate more power than coal in 2024

arstechnica.com

The boost in wind and solar production has also been larger than the increase in generation...
The boost in wind and solar production has also been larger than the increase in generation from natural gas, which remains the single largest source of power on the grid, generating nearly 44 percent of the electricity used in the US. While wind currently accounts for 60 percent of the "wind plus solar" figure, it'...
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Osaka bans smoking on all of its streets, [..], vaping included

soranews24.com

Japan’s third-largest city expands smoking ban ahead of world’s fair. Quite often in Japan, it’s in...
Japan’s third-largest city expands smoking ban ahead of world’s fair. Quite often in Japan, it’s in the spring that new laws, rules, and ordinances go into effect, since that’s when the Japanese fiscal, academic, and many other official calendars start. Osaka, though, is getting a head start on a change it wants in ...
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Black Swan's Taleb Says Nvidia Rout Is Hint of What's Coming

bloomberg.com
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IOC long shot Watanabe hopes 'crazy' Olympic idea sparks debate

japantimes.co.jp

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Intel slashes prices of Xeon 6 CPUs by up to $5,340

tomshardware.com

In an unexpected move, Intel quietly cut the prices of its latest Xeon 6 'Granite Rapids'...
In an unexpected move, Intel quietly cut the prices of its latest Xeon 6 'Granite Rapids' processors approximately four months after their formal introduction in late September. The price slash is quite dramatic as the flagship model now costs $12,460, or $5,340 less than at launch. As a result, Intel's Xeon 6 CPUs ...
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DeepSeek could represent Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's worst nightmare

marketwatch.com
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Show HN: Meelo, self-hosted music server for collectors and music maniacs

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AI's energy obsession just got a reality check

technologyreview.com

Still, the model poses a threat to the bottom line of certain players in Big Tech....
Still, the model poses a threat to the bottom line of certain players in Big Tech. Why pay for an expensive model from OpenAI when you can get access to DeepSeek for free? Even other makers of open-source models, especially Meta, are panicking about the competition, according to The Information. The company has set ...
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Meta scrambling 'war rooms' of engineers to figure out DeepSeek's AI

fortune.com
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How Much Do Udemy Instructors Make (2024)

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With over 200,000 online courses and more than 800 million course enrollments, Udemy is a big...
With over 200,000 online courses and more than 800 million course enrollments, Udemy is a big name in online learning. Its user base has quadrupled in the span of just five years, from just over 200 million course enrollments in 2019. But are these courses actually making money? How much do Udemy instructors make, a...

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Show HN: Browse Anime from the Terminal

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Structured (YC S23) Is Hiring

ycombinator.com

$120K - $150K / 0.25% - 1.00%San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)Any (new grads ok)Connect...
$120K - $150K / 0.25% - 1.00%San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)Any (new grads ok)Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role › At Structured, we’re redefining how developers build and deploy data apps by consolidating the entire analytics stack into code. While AI tools like Copilot ...
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AI, but at What Cost? Breakdown of AI's Carbon Footprint

substack.com

Photo by Rabih Shasha on UnsplashArtificial Intelligence is exciting—the technological breakthrough that took over our lives...
Photo by Rabih Shasha on UnsplashArtificial Intelligence is exciting—the technological breakthrough that took over our lives shows no signs of slowing down.Acknowledging the problematic copyright issues that stem from AI usage, I cannot deny that it is a powerful tool when placed in the right hands for the right pur...
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Cleveland police used AI to justify a search warrant. It derailed a murder case

cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio – A jury may never see the gun that authorities say was used to...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – A jury may never see the gun that authorities say was used to kill Blake Story last year.That’s because Cleveland police used a facial recognition program – one that explicitly says its results are not admissible in court – to obtain a search warrant, according to court documents.The search turned ...

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Biomachining

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Using bacteria to remove materials Biomachining is the machining process of using lithotropic bacteria to remove...
Using bacteria to remove materials Biomachining is the machining process of using lithotropic bacteria to remove material from metal parts, contrasted with chemical machining methods such as chemical milling and physical machining methods such as milling. Certain bacteria, such as Thiobacillus ferrooxidans and Thiob...
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US pauses all Federal aid and grants

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James FitzGerald & Ana FaguyBBC NewsUS President Donald Trump has paused grants, loans and other federal...
James FitzGerald & Ana FaguyBBC NewsUS President Donald Trump has paused grants, loans and other federal assistance, according to a leaked government memo verified by the BBC's US partner, CBS News.In the memo, the acting head of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) calls on government agencies to ensure spendi...
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FTC Takes Action Against GoDaddy for Alleged Lax Data Security

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Suspects in 2 murder cases shared connection to 'Zizian' rationalist group

openvallejo.org

Vallejo Police Ofc. Connor Sullivan blocks off the crime scene at the site of Curt Lind’s...
Vallejo Police Ofc. Connor Sullivan blocks off the crime scene at the site of Curt Lind’s killing in Vallejo, Calif. on Jan. 17, 2025. (Geoffrey King / Open Vallejo) Two young people who applied in November for a marriage license in Washington have each been charged by authorities in separate January killings that c...
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US Civil servants are being asked who they voted for in 2024 election

independent.co.uk

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights,...
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Show HN: Script downloads any YouTube videos, high quality, without ads

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