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China lands reusable rocket for the first time

theverge.com
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Agentic Credit Card MCP

robinhood.com
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California passes bill criminalizing bypass of 3D printer gun-blocking software

tomshardware.com
12 points·by barbacoa·पिछला माह·3 comments

Germany Considers Broader Legal Authority for Internet Surveillance

reclaimthenet.org
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barbacoa
·12 दिन पहले·discuss
I'm running qwen 3.6 27b at 8bit quantization and 262k context. It takes 53gb of vram on my system.
barbacoa
·13 दिन पहले·discuss
The connection does not look standard so probably need to find some kind of OEM interposer card, which would allow you to connect some slimSAS cables that in turn connect to pcie adapter cards.

You'd need at least threadripper cpu/motherboard to handle that many pcie slots/lanes.

Not to mention that a baseboard like that is not going to work with a standard ATX power supply, so you'd have to provide your own power solution.

If that doesn't sound fun to you, you're probably better off buying Claude tokens.
barbacoa
·13 दिन पहले·discuss
This is from the USA site:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/157742745616

It's always a gamble buying used electric but per the description, fully decked out server with 256gb vram.

Though at 2U it is going to sound like a 747 taking off from your office.
barbacoa
·13 दिन पहले·discuss
4x A100s with the baseboard for $9k (USD).

https://www.ebay.com/itm/336632412718

Buy one and let me use it when you're sleeping.
barbacoa
·13 दिन पहले·discuss
>sticker price is 7899.

It's not even worth it at that point.

You can get a used enterprise grade SXM baseboard with 4-8 V100/A100 GPUs off eBay at a similar price. That will even get you actual HMB ram and NVlink. Along with 10x the AI performance, assuming you don't care about your electricity bill of course.
barbacoa
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Try looking into Ryzen AI Max 395. AMD made a CPU/GPU soc with unified memory specifically for ai inference. Can buy mini PCs with up to 128gb ram.
barbacoa
·2 माह पहले·discuss
America innovates, China replicates, Europe regulates.
barbacoa
·2 माह पहले·discuss
I applied for a founding engineer with a startup though a "who's hiring" post. Had 3-4 rounds of interviews, met founders, did a project with them. I had competing offers and ultimately didn't work out. But it was a positive experience.
barbacoa
·3 माह पहले·discuss
Apple briefly was selling Mac studio with 512 GB of unified ram, meaning all that was available as vram.
barbacoa
·3 माह पहले·discuss
They are likely including xAI and the massive training costs that entails in order to make it sound like all their ventures are losing money.
barbacoa
·5 माह पहले·discuss
Since Twitter is now part of SpaceX, does that mean Twitter is classified as a common carrier too? Can Twitter no longer refuse to allow certain individuals use their platform?

Honest question here.
barbacoa
·5 माह पहले·discuss
Apple wants to vertically integrate. Their AI strategy until recently was to develop their own LLM models that were small enough to run on device. But massive scaling is what makes LLMs so powerful, so all their internal models were terrible and unusable.

Basically they bet that compute efficient LLMs were the future. That bet was wrong and the opposite came true.
barbacoa
·5 माह पहले·discuss
>I believe in science.

I pray to science every day to deliver us from this heretical reign of RFK jr.
barbacoa
·5 माह पहले·discuss
It's the new pattern you see from this kind of reporting. Innocuous beginning, omit the middle context, then mentioning the end reaction.

"Young mathmatics professor buys cabin in Montana, then gets arrested by FBI!"

"Austrian born artist wants to make Germany better, then the UK firebombs Dresden!"
barbacoa
·5 माह पहले·discuss
>concrete and cement production are quite bad.

Modern concrete construction uses iron rebar liberally. That means every concrete structure built today will crack and crumble in a few hundred years at most, as the iron absorbs oxygen, it swells from the rust. Which is a shame, roman concrete buildings without rebar will still be standing 1000s of years from now.
barbacoa
·6 माह पहले·discuss
The pendulum is in full swing. Soon it will be ban worthy offense to suggest there are more than two genders.

Though I am morbidly enjoying the irony of seeing those on the left suddenly discover an interest in free speech, and those on the right discover their love for campaigning to get people deplatformed.
barbacoa
·6 माह पहले·discuss
To actually implement firearm detection your 3d printer would need to have the ability to reverse engineer the 3d solid model from g-code, then compare that solid model to a list of banned objects.
barbacoa
·7 माह पहले·discuss
Some argue that THC in cannabis actually works similarly because when herbivores regularly ingest it, they become lethargic and lazy, causing them struggle to survive in the world. Kinda like my roommate.
barbacoa
·7 माह पहले·discuss
>Those gigantic clinical trials (some of the largest RCTs ever conducted) didn't detect this issue because of its extreme rarity.

You assume good faith on their part. These studies are run by the same companies that stand to make billions based off the study outcomes. For example we know now when a toddler died in the Moderna covid RTC of cardiac arrest after vaccination they reportedly covered it up and didn't report it.

This all is starting to sound a lot like what happened with vioxx. Where an increase in heart problems was detected in RTC but covered up. Vioxx would go on to cause an estimated 50000 deaths from heart attack.
barbacoa
·7 माह पहले·discuss
2040 HN:

"Ask HN: How do you prevent ad-injection in my brain implant?"