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What If Your Exhaustion Has Nothing to Do with Your Life?

https://thinkingrock.substack.com/p/what-if-your-exhaustion-has-nothing
1•djrivard•44s ago•0 comments

The Debugging Book – Tools and Techniques for Automated Software Debugging

https://www.debuggingbook.org/#
1•vismit2000•1m ago•0 comments

How LLMs Actually Generate Text [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKnZYvZA7w4
1•y0eswddl•3m ago•1 comments

Metaculus and Markets: What's the Difference? (2025)

https://www.metaculus.com/notebooks/38198/metaculus-and-markets-whats-the-difference/
1•kqr•3m ago•0 comments

Essential Criteria for Emerging VC Managers in 2026

https://taghash.io/blog/12-essential-criteria-for-emerging-vc-managers-in-2026/
1•koolhead17•4m ago•0 comments

MiroThinker

https://github.com/MiroMindAI/MiroThinker
1•handfuloflight•5m ago•0 comments

Et AI.: A proposal for AI attribution

https://anagogistis.com/posts/et-ai/
2•anagogistis•7m ago•1 comments

PhD Admission 2026: Dates, Eligibility, Entrance Exams and Complete Guide

https://sites.google.com/view/backlinklistforcrawling
1•aimlay•8m ago•1 comments

Pseudorandom black swans: cache attacks on CTR_DRBG

https://security.cohney.info/blackswans/
1•fanf2•9m ago•0 comments

Gamified TLDR on A2A

https://mcpa2a.lovable.app
1•maieuticagent•11m ago•0 comments

People in Brazil are living past 110 and scientists want to know why

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260107225527.htm
2•phyzix5761•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The dev dashboard I built for my non-technical co-founder

1•akhnid•13m ago•0 comments

GM to take $7.1B hit from electric vehicle production changes, China

https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2026/01/08/gm-to-take-7-1b-hit-from-ev-prod...
1•cebert•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Woid – High-performance C++ type erasure and polymorphism library

https://github.com/akopich/woid
1•akopich•16m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Rankiwiki a multilingual community ranking site

1•rankiwiki•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: VeridisQuo – open-source deepfake detector with explainable AI

https://github.com/VeridisQuo-orga/VeridisQuo
1•theocastillo•18m ago•1 comments

Friday Links #33 – Fresh JavaScript Tools and Trends

https://jsdevspace.substack.com/p/friday-links-33-fresh-javascript
1•javatuts•19m ago•0 comments

Moss-kernel: a Linux-compatible kernel written in Rust

https://github.com/hexagonal-sun/moss-kernel
1•ravenical•23m ago•0 comments

A Simulation of Being Dropped Randomly in the Ocean Every Day for 5 Years

https://old.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/1q840uk/self_a_simulation_of_being_dropped_rando...
1•debesyla•24m ago•0 comments

Looking Back at the Best Inventions of 2001

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/01/looking-back-at-the-best-inventions-of-2001/
2•blenderob•24m ago•0 comments

Organ Meat Is All the Rage Thanks to MAHA and the Natural Food Fad

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-09/liver-heart-and-tallow-are-maha-favorites-foun...
2•helsinkiandrew•25m ago•2 comments

Transcript: Are martial arts the answer to AI? – Yuval Noah Harari

https://www.danielfalbo.com/bookmarks/martial-arts-ai
2•danielfalbo•25m ago•0 comments

No 10: Grok changes 'insulting' and make deepfake creation a 'premium service'

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/no-10-grok-changes-insulting-121140676.html
1•chrisjj•27m ago•1 comments

TuneKit: Fine-Tune SLMs

https://tunekit.app/
1•handfuloflight•27m ago•0 comments

39c3: In-house electronics manufacturing from scratch: How hard can it be? [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-in-house-electronics-manufacturing-from-scratch-how-hard-can-it-be
1•fried-gluttony•27m ago•0 comments

TicTacToe for the AGC

https://github.com/NeilFraser/AGC-code/blob/main/Apps/TicTacToe.agc
1•ColinWright•28m ago•0 comments

Casio AE1200WH-1A

https://www.casio.com/us/watches/casio/product.AE-1200WH-1AV/
1•geowalker•29m ago•1 comments

China's humanoid robots come out fighting

https://www.ft.com/content/46d5a159-f6e5-4fd3-a08b-e58dd83ca0b1
1•ashishgupta2209•29m ago•0 comments

Elixir v1.19.5 Released

https://elixirforum.com/t/elixir-v1-19-5-released/73923
2•amalinovic•30m ago•0 comments

The Future of Coding Agents

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-future-of-coding-agents-e9451a84207c
2•terryf•30m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Nvidia Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI with Rubin

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/rubin-platform-ai-supercomputer
54•TSiege•19h ago

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TSiege•19h ago
Extreme Codesign Across NVIDIA Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, NVLink 6 Switch, ConnectX-9 SuperNIC, BlueField-4 DPU and Spectrum-6 Ethernet Switch Slashes Training Time and Inference Token Generation Cost

Technical details available here https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/inside-the-nvidia-rubin-pl...

Groxx•18h ago
... it took a couple searches to figure out that "extreme codesign" wasn't actually code-signing, but "co-design" like "stuff that was designed to work together"
alfalfasprout•18h ago
same I was so confused
pyuser583•18h ago
Me too. Good style says to avoid creating words with dashes - it’s Un-American. But clarity matters more than rules.
gilrain•17h ago
Is there any American style guide that insists hyphens be avoided even when a closed compound would cause ambiguity? I follow Chicago, but I imagine other style guides also already emphasise clarity.
mortehu•17h ago
Wouldn't "code sign" be two words in English? And "code signing" rather than "code sign"?
Groxx•15h ago
Mostly yes, and I prefer it that way, but it does get smashed into a single word sometimes. "co-design" I've mostly only seen hyphenated, though I don't see it often enough or in broad enough contexts to really claim anything about the frequency in a general sense.

Maybe it's caused by `codesign` tools? Like `codesign --extreme` which probably requires two signers to sign one thing?

utopiah•17h ago
Even << "co-design" like "stuff that was designed to work together" >> sound strange to me. Typically when I read about co-design is stuff that was designed together, by more than 1 party.
metalliqaz•18h ago
Elon's emoji-filled blurb for that press release is the most cringe things I've seen this week.
cinntaile•18h ago
I find all the blurbs weird, do they usually include that? If not, why now? It doesn't look professional.
bredren•17h ago
I think it is interesting. Is there any other company in a position today that could put together endorsement quotes from such high ranking people across tech?

Also: Tim Cook / Apple is noticeably absent.

utopiah•17h ago
That's because of financial links. They are so intertwined propping up the same bubble they are absolutely going to share quotes instantly. FWIW just skimmed through and the TL;DR sounds to me like "Look at the cool kid, we play together, we are cool too!" without obviously any information, anything meaningful or insightful, just boring marketing BS>
mrandish•14h ago
> They are so intertwined propping up the same bubble they are absolutely going to share quotes instantly.

Reading this line, I had a funny image form of some NVidia PR newbie reflexively reaching out to Lisa Su for a supporting quote and Lisa actually considering it for a few seconds. The AI bubble really has reached a level of "We must all hang together or we'll surely hang separately".

XorNot•16h ago
Why is that interesting?
bredren•15h ago
It could be an indicator that Apple is not as leveraged up on NVIDIA as to provide a quote. Cook did make a special one of a kind product for the current POTUS, so he is nothing if not pragmatic.
saaaaaam•16h ago
Quotes from known names in a boring corporate press release are absolutely standard. It gives journalists a hook to build a story. “Elon Musk says new Nvidia tech is…”
dataking•16h ago
Because standing out gets attention?
saaaaaam•16h ago
I wonder what the significance of a green heart is, in Elon-world.
dannersy•17h ago
Riveting.
codyb•17h ago
If their new platform reduces inference token cost by 10x, does that play well or not well with the recently updated GPU deprecation schedules companies have been playing with to reduce projected cost outlays?

For context, my understanding is that companies have recently moved to mark their expected GPU deprecation cycles from 3 years to as high as 6 which has huge impacts on projected expenditures.

I wonder what the step was for the Blackwell platform from the previous. Is this slower which might indicate that the slower deprecation cycle is warranted, or faster?

m3kw9•16h ago
but token required for quality generation may increase as much very soon.
codyb•16h ago
Yea, definitely a good point. Going to be interesting to see how it plays out. I definitely do not have the expertise to answer the question
UltraSane•16h ago
Companies are playing games with GPU depreciation.
causal•16h ago
Unsure why you were downvoted; I'm curious to understand this comment. Playing finance and accounting games I presume you mean.
UltraSane•12h ago
Yes they are depreciating GPUs for longer than usual time periods like 6 years.
drexlspivey•16h ago
No way you throw away Blackwell GPUs after just 3 years. Google runs 8 year old TPUs still at 100% utilization. Why would you depreciate them in just 3 years?
ryanmcgarvey•14h ago
The conversation around GPU lifecycles seems to be conflating the various shear rates within the data center. My layman understanding is that the old 3 year replacement cycle had more to do with some component, not necessarily the memory or the processor, going wrong for half of their units by 3 years, at which point GPUs were cheap enough and advancing faster enough that it was more cost effective to upgrade than to fix. However, that calculus changes completely when the GPU and the HBM are orders of magnitude more expensive than the rest of the system. I suspect that we will see repairs being done on on the various brittle bits of the system and the actual core expensive components will continue to operate much longer than 3 years.
Animats•16h ago
Their own CPU, too - 88 ARM cores.

So it's an all-NVidia solution - CPU, interconnects, AI GPUs.

tibbydudeza•14h ago
Afaik MediaTek helped them with the CPU part.
2OEH8eoCRo0•16h ago
Rebuild all the data centers!
metalliqaz•16h ago
lol haven't even started building half the Blackwell datacenters yet
mk_stjames•16h ago
Whenever I see press on these new 'rack scale' systems, the first thing I think is something along the lines of: "man I hope the BIOS and OS's and whatnot supporting these racks are relatively robust and documented/open sourced enough so that 40 years from now when you can buy an entire rack system for $500, some kid in a garage will be able to boot and run code on these".
wmf•16h ago
The firmware is UEFI and Vera should have good upstream support. The GPU driver is proprietary though, so you'll have to dig up the last supported version from 2036.
criemen•16h ago
What's the power hookup to just boot one rack? I'd imagine that's more than you get anywhere in residential areas for a single house.
embedding-shape•15h ago
Hopefully in 40 years we'll all be running miniature cold fusion power or something, so we can avoid burning the planet to the ground.
MisterTea•14h ago
Depends on the residence. I have personally seen a large house in Brooklyn with dual 200 amp 120/208 volt three phase services (two meters, each feeding a panel.) I have seen someone setup an old SGI rack scale Origin 3000 systems in their garage. I think they even had an electrician upgrade their service to accommodate it.
wmf•14h ago
170 kW
pureagave•12h ago
100% this. But don't forget the garden hose running full blast so you can cool it! It's not impossible to get up and running for fun for an hour, but this isn't a run 24/7 kinda setup any more than getting an old mainframe running in one's garage is practical.
exacube•16h ago
does anyone know how well this 5x petaflop improvement translates to real world performance?

I know that memory bandwidth tends to be a big limiting factor, but I'm trying to understand how this factors into it its overall perf, compared to blackwell.

wmf•16h ago
The blog post has more technical details and fewer quotes from customers: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/inside-the-nvidia-rubin-pl...
mrandish•13h ago
That link was somewhat clearer, thanks.

As a software guy who follows chip evolution more at a macro level like: new design + process node enabling better cores/tiles/units/clocks + new architecture enabling better caches, busses, I/O == better IPC, bandwidth, latency and throughput at given budget (cost, watts, heat, space) - I've yet to find anything which gives a sense of Rubin's likely lift vs the prior generation that's grounded in macro-but-concrete specs (such as cores, tiles, units, clocks, caches, busses, IPC, bandwidth, latency, throughput).

Edit: I found something a bit closer after scrolling down on a sub-link from the page you linked (https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/inside-the-nvidia-rubin-pl...).

alecco•13h ago
For dev info we'll need to wait for GTC 2026 March 16–19. CES is just hype.
wmf•13h ago
They're intentionally drip-feeding information over time until the actual release.