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Will it be possible to do LLM Pool Training?

1•slicktux•51m ago
Inspired by Crypto Pool Mining: would it be possible to train LLMs as a pool of volunteers? I feel like that would be a good way to have frontier models that are open and don’t rely on big corporations with data centers to train and release them…

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verdverm•33m ago
possible, yes, people already have projects

practical, not yet, if ever (?)

the difference is data and calculation dependencies, in crypto they are independent

Wildfires Overrun NASA Deep Space Communications Complex in Spain

https://newscord.org/article/wildfires-overrun-nasa-deep-space-communications-complex-in-robledo-...
1•OgsyedIE•41s ago•0 comments

Virginia study on groundwater, data centers calls for tighter water regulations

https://apnews.com/article/data-centers-virginia-groundwater-gov-spanberger-study-564e5d3c2520190...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•1m ago•0 comments

Wind turbine is being used to produce zero-carbon "green ammonia" fertilizer

https://energiesmedia.com/wind-turbine-stopped-electricity-wind-water-air/
2•speckx•3m ago•0 comments

MouthPad: Human-Mouth Interface [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xReyIF5pwRo
1•mgh2•3m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT invoked God, told pastor not to worry about his symptoms

https://www.wionews.com/trending/chatgpt-invoked-god-told-pastor-not-to-worry-about-his-symptoms-...
1•theanonymousone•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Less-pager-mini: What a cross-platform pager would be like

https://github.com/dawsonhuang0/Less-Pager-Mini
1•dawson0•5m ago•1 comments

Zig by Example

https://zigbyexample.neocities.org/
2•signa11•6m ago•0 comments

C/C++ Path Library

https://likle.github.io/cwalk/
1•ankitg12•6m ago•0 comments

FreeBSD ports frozen after someone commits the 150MB Linux Copilot binary

https://www.osnews.com/story/145593/freebsd-ports-frozen-after-someone-commits-the-entire-150mb-l...
1•birdculture•7m ago•0 comments

Soccer outcome probabilities are calculated

https://ronikobrosly.github.io/blog/2026/7/23/soccer_sim/
1•venice_dev•8m ago•0 comments

Timed YouTube video transcripts in .txt and .pdf

1•cristyg0101•8m ago•0 comments

Laserbrain: The Smart Recursion Harness

https://phronesis.world/laserbrain/
1•theanonymousone•9m ago•0 comments

Apple's Robo-Repo

https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/25/cruel-cruelty-oh-cruelty/#digital-arm-breakers
1•nashashmi•10m ago•0 comments

Just Surf

https://ben.page/surf
1•pavel_lishin•10m ago•0 comments

Most Common English Words, 1953 vs. 2023

https://pudding.cool/2026/07/essential-words/
1•e8d08f•11m ago•0 comments

YC: Requests for Startups – Fall 2026

https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs
1•kpw94•12m ago•0 comments

Tesla swapped a solar owner's lease contract for the Book of Enoch

https://electrek.co/2026/07/23/tesla-solar-lease-contract-book-of-enoch/
1•pavel_lishin•13m ago•0 comments

The Open-Source Release of ML Video Codec (MLVC)

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/linuxandopensourceblog/announcing-the-open-source-releas...
1•jongalloway2•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built remembered checkout for Voice calls

https://ringup.dev/
1•atifnayeem•14m ago•0 comments

How to Mount a Balcony Awning

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2025/07/how-to-mount-a-balcony-awning/
1•karakoram•14m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: A.I Labs are headed by people without world manufacturing experience

1•dzonga•15m ago•0 comments

Nobody catches themselves envying – the cover story arrives first

https://pilgrima.ge/p/the-evil-eye
1•momentmaker•17m ago•0 comments

Bringing PyTorch Monarch to AMD GPUs

https://pytorch.org/blog/bringing-pytorch-monarch-to-amd-gpus-single-controller-distributed-train...
1•gmays•18m ago•0 comments

The Dark Night of Mathematics

https://kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-night-of-mathematics
4•rmdmphilosopher•18m ago•2 comments

Claude helps reduce our technical debt

https://ninkovic.dev/blog/2026/how-claude-helps-reduce-our-technical-debt
1•Brajeshwar•19m ago•0 comments

Secondhand fashion got expensive

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/jul/24/secondhand-fashion-thrifting-depop-cost
1•keiferski•20m ago•0 comments

Japan weighs regulating Pokemon cards amid trading mania

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/23/japan-weighs-regulating-pokemon-cards/
2•anigbrowl•20m ago•0 comments

Remember Tesla?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/tesla-elon-musk-comeback-cars/688056/
1•paulpauper•20m ago•0 comments

People are deceiving the justice system with AI

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-07-25/how-people-are-deceiving-the-justice-system-with...
1•root-parent•21m ago•1 comments

Brazilian farmers tokenized dairy cows to get loans, bypassing bank limits

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/07/24/brazilian-farmers-tokenized-dairy-cows-to-get-loans-b...
5•paulpauper•22m ago•0 comments