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OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% of Apps Will Disappear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uzGDAoNOZc
1•schwentkerr•1m ago•0 comments

What Happens When Technical Debt Vanishes?

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11316905
1•blenderob•2m ago•0 comments

AI Is Finally Eating Software's Total Market: Here's What's Next

https://vinvashishta.substack.com/p/ai-is-finally-eating-softwares-total
1•gmays•3m ago•0 comments

Computer Science from the Bottom Up

https://www.bottomupcs.com/
1•gurjeet•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a toy compiler as a young dev

https://vire-lang.web.app
1•xeouz•5m ago•0 comments

You don't need Mac mini to run OpenClaw

https://runclaw.sh
1•rutagandasalim•6m ago•0 comments

Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04118
1•nicholascarolan•8m ago•0 comments

Convergent Discovery of Critical Phenomena Mathematics Across Disciplines

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22389
1•energyscholar•8m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Will GPU and RAM prices ever go down?

1•alentred•8m ago•0 comments

From hunger to luxury: The story behind the most expensive rice (2025)

https://www.cnn.com/travel/japan-expensive-rice-kinmemai-premium-intl-hnk-dst
1•mooreds•9m ago•0 comments

Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi...
5•mindracer•10m ago•1 comments

A New Crypto Winter Is Here and Even the Biggest Bulls Aren't Certain Why

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/a-new-crypto-winter-is-here-and-even-the-biggest-bulls-are...
1•thm•10m ago•0 comments

Moltbook was peak AI theater

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
1•Brajeshwar•11m ago•0 comments

Why Claude Cowork is a math problem Indian IT can't solve

https://restofworld.org/2026/indian-it-ai-stock-crash-claude-cowork/
1•Brajeshwar•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Built an space travel calculator with vanilla JavaScript v2

https://www.cosmicodometer.space/
2•captainnemo729•11m ago•0 comments

Why a 175-Year-Old Glassmaker Is Suddenly an AI Superstar

https://www.wsj.com/tech/corning-fiber-optics-ai-e045ba3b
1•Brajeshwar•11m ago•0 comments

Micro-Front Ends in 2026: Architecture Win or Enterprise Tax?

https://iocombats.com/blogs/micro-frontends-in-2026
1•ghazikhan205•14m ago•0 comments

These White-Collar Workers Actually Made the Switch to a Trade

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/white-collar-mid-career-trades-caca4b5f
1•impish9208•14m ago•1 comments

The Wonder Drug That's Plaguing Sports

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/ostarine-olympics-doping.html
1•mooreds•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Which chef knife steels are good? Data from 540 Reddit tread

https://new.knife.day/blog/reddit-steel-sentiment-analysis
1•p-s-v•15m ago•0 comments

Federated Credential Management (FedCM)

https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/federated-credential-management-fedcm
1•mooreds•15m ago•0 comments

Token-to-Credit Conversion: Avoiding Floating-Point Errors in AI Billing Systems

https://app.writtte.com/read/kZ8Kj6R
1•lasgawe•15m ago•1 comments

The Story of Heroku (2022)

https://leerob.com/heroku
1•tosh•15m ago•0 comments

Obey the Testing Goat

https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/
1•mkl95•16m ago•0 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 extends LLM pareto frontier

https://michaelshi.me/pareto/
1•mikeshi42•17m ago•0 comments

Brute Force Colors (2022)

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2022-12-30-amiga-ham/
1•erickhill•20m ago•0 comments

Google Translate apparently vulnerable to prompt injection

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tAh2keDNEEHMXvLvz/prompt-injection-in-google-translate-reveals-ba...
1•julkali•20m ago•0 comments

(Bsky thread) "This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder"

https://bsky.app/profile/fullmoon.id/post/3meadfaulhk2s
1•todsacerdoti•21m ago•0 comments

Software development is undergoing a Renaissance in front of our eyes

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/2019566641491963946
1•tosh•21m ago•0 comments

Can you beat ensloppification? I made a quiz for Wikipedia's Signs of AI Writing

https://tryward.app/aiquiz
1•bennydog224•22m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

The PowerPC Has Still Got It (Llama on G4 Laptop)

https://www.hackster.io/news/the-powerpc-has-still-got-it-c4348bd7a88c
53•stmw•2mo ago

Comments

anon291•2mo ago
There's nothing mysterious about AI. It's matrix and tensor ops which have been used for decades now. Hardware is pretty good at such things because memory accesses are nicely arranged.
nuc1e0n•2mo ago
The memory accesses being nicely arranged is kinda why the focus has moved to AI in recent years. Moores law is that much easier to keep going if parallelization increases, such as with GPUs and SIMD on CPUs. That extra Silicon needs to be made productive somehow to be justified.
jchw•2mo ago
I am pretty sure Apple did not design or manufacture PowerPC chips at any point, so I'm not sure how that would be considered "custom" silicon.

And anyway, the source article seems a bit more interesting.

https://www.theresistornetwork.com/2025/03/thinking-differen...

buildbot•2mo ago
Interesting, that article says llama.c not llama.cpp. I actually got llama.cpp going on a G4 awhile back, I guess I should write that up.

Edit - I just can’t read, original article was llama.c

Gotta push my powerpc llama.cpp fork now for sure!

DogRunner•2mo ago
Apple didn't design the PowerPC or make custom variances. Motorola and IBM did it. Especially Altivec was added by Motorola, and IBM didn't like to add it to their PowerPC CPUs when Apple asked for help, when Motorola had the 500 MHz glitch bug back in the day.

There is a nice coverage on this topic at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tld91M_bcEI (Why the Original Apple Silicon Failed)

stmw•2mo ago
Apple was the "A" in the AIM alliance that created PowerPC, together with IBM and Motorola. https://wiki.preterhuman.net/The_Somerset_Design_Center
jchw•2mo ago
That I am aware of, but unless I just missed something I've never heard that they ever were designing chips.
stmw•2mo ago
Yeah, don't think this was an equal 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 partnership, but in various written histories there is Apple engineering involvement:

"So, with the goal of maintaining RS/6000 software compatibility, a team of architects from IBM, Apple, and Motorola set out to refine the architecture ... IBM and Motorola, with Apple engineering participation, have put into operation a new design center to develop future PowerPC microprocessors. The Somerset Design Center is a 37,000 square-foot facility located in Austin, Texas, staffed primarily by Motorola and IBM with approximately 300 engineering professionals. The design center is presently working concurrently on three separate PowerPC microprocessors." (https://www.thefreelibrary.com/History+of+the+PowerPC+archit...)

The intro to PowerPC Architecture book includes the following:

"We would like to acknowledge Keith Diefendorff, Ron Hochsprung, Rich Oehler, and John Sell for providing the technical leadership that made it possible for the group of architects, programmers, and designers from Apple, Motorola, and IBM to produce an architecture that met the goals established by the alliance these companies formed.

Many people contributed to the definition of the architecture, and it is not practical to name each of them here. However, a core group worked long hours over an extended period contributing ideas, evaluating options, debating costs and benefits of each proposal, and working together toward the goal of establishing a competitive architecture for the member companies of the alliance. This group of dedicated professionals included Richard Arndt, Roger Bailey, Al Chang, Barry Dorfman, Greg Grohoski, Randy Groves, Bill Hay, Marty Hopkins, Jim Kahle, Chin- Cheng Kau, Cathy May, Chuck Moore, Bill Moyer, John Muhich, Brett Olsson, John O'Quin, Mark Rogers, Tom Sartorius, Mike Shebanow, Ed Silha, Rick Simpson, Hank Warren, Lynn West, Andy Wottreng, and Mike Yamamura."

buildbot•2mo ago
Oh someone else is as silly as I am? I hacked this together a few months ago as well! I guess I should have written it up.

I’ve been getting llama.cpp going on various weird, old systems as I can and qwen3.c where llama.cpp has no hope. So far, I’ve tried various sparc generations (IIi, IIIi, Fujitsu M10, and an Oracle M7), a C8900 PA-RISC, some riscv boards, an Alpha 21264, POWER 9, and many X86 and ARM systems of course.

actionfromafar•2mo ago
Now, try https://www.winuae.net/
_rpf•2mo ago
Im compelled to humblebrag my Sgi at this point … https://youtu.be/mzI8U7S0FDc?si=D70WbAak7_k7Ebrr
buildbot•2mo ago
Amazing!!! It’s really fun to see an SGI system + a modern LLM.
yjftsjthsd-h•2mo ago
Yes, you should definitely write that up and post it:)
pizlonator•2mo ago
That's awesome!

I think that's the 12" G4 - still my favorite laptop ever, in terms of looks and form factor.

forgotoldacc•2mo ago
That generation of Apple laptops was my tech awakening. I always thought of computers as tools just for office work and nothing I'd ever want to use. But one day I sat down in front of a G4 iBook and was like, man, this thing is beautiful. And it's pretty fun to use. I got an iMac a couple weeks after that and it set me on my programming career.

And just looking at that picture in the article, that keyboard is beautiful. Apple truly had some incredible design sense. It's very unfortunate how rough their design decisions have been the past few years.

stmw•2mo ago
Re: "very unfortunate how rough their design decisions have been the past few years" - one sometimes wonders if this is the inspiration:

https://vinpaq.com/compaq-collection

hulitu•2mo ago
They had to learn from the experts. /s

Though, i find the Compaq cases much better looking than what Apple offers today (except Mac Pro).

markgall•2mo ago
I still have my old PowerBook G4 from 2005, with some not-that-old Debian currently installed. Every time my main laptop goes out commission, I get the G4 back out and use it for a few days. It's good enough for most of my work, though modern web-browsing is a challenge. (Maybe one that somebody has solved, I haven't dug at all.)
yjftsjthsd-h•2mo ago
> though modern web-browsing is a challenge. (Maybe one that somebody has solved, I haven't dug at all.)

The usual solution is to run the real browser somewhere else and remote into it, eg. https://github.com/tenox7/wrp or https://www.brow.sh/