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OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/openai-to-buy-apple-veteran-jony-ive-s-ai-device-startup-in-6-5-billion-deal
404•minimaxir•3h ago•560 comments

For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time

https://www.quantamagazine.org/for-algorithms-a-little-memory-outweighs-a-lot-of-time-20250521/
23•makira•52m ago•1 comments

Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT

https://mattweidner.com/2025/05/21/text-without-crdts.html
114•samwillis•3h ago•23 comments

Animated Factorization

http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization/animated-diagrams/
196•miniBill•5h ago•38 comments

The curious tale of Bhutan's playable record postage stamps (2015)

https://thevinylfactory.com/features/the-curious-tale-of-bhutans-playable-record-postage-stamps/
26•ohjeez•1h ago•0 comments

Storefront Web Components

https://shopify.dev/docs/api/storefront-web-components
71•maltenuhn•3h ago•19 comments

Introducing the Llama Startup Program

https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-startup-program/?_fb_noscript=1
112•mayalilpony10•4h ago•36 comments

LLM function calls don't scale; code orchestration is simpler, more effective

https://jngiam.bearblog.dev/mcp-large-data/
87•jngiam1•3h ago•21 comments

Devstral

https://mistral.ai/news/devstral
213•mfiguiere•6h ago•41 comments

Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12540
51•jxmorris12•2h ago•17 comments

New dwarf planet found in our solar system

https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25K47.html
31•ddahlen•1h ago•20 comments

Understanding the Go Scheduler

https://nghiant3223.github.io/2025/04/15/go-scheduler.html
56•gnabgib•3d ago•6 comments

Harper (YC W25) Is Hiring Applied AI / AI Context Engineers and Data Scientist

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/harper/jobs
1•nairtu•3h ago

An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-ai-studio-native-code-generation-agentic-tools-upgrade/
24•meetpateltech•2h ago•9 comments

Show HN: Confidential computing for high-assurance RISC-V embedded systems

https://github.com/IBM/ACE-RISCV
3•mrnoone•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I've built online video editor

https://clipjs.vercel.app/
8•mohyware•36m ago•4 comments

The US has a new most powerful laser hitting 2 petawatts

https://news.engin.umich.edu/2025/05/the-us-has-a-new-most-powerful-laser/
63•voxadam•5h ago•65 comments

It's So Over, We're So Back – Doomer Techno Optimism

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/05/its-so-over-were-so-back-doomer-techno-optimism/
3•Multicomp•16m ago•1 comments

Launch HN: SIM Studio (YC X25) – Figma-Like Canvas for Agent Workflows

40•waleedlatif1•4h ago•29 comments

'Turbocharged' Mitochondria Power Birds' Epic Migratory Journeys

https://www.quantamagazine.org/turbocharged-mitochondria-power-birds-epic-migratory-journeys-20250519/
70•rbanffy•6h ago•46 comments

By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall

https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/
233•feross•3h ago•142 comments

Building my own solar power system

https://medium.com/@joe_5312/pg-e-sucks-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-building-my-own-solar-system-acf0c9f03f3b
371•JKCalhoun•3d ago•275 comments

What Is the Difference Between a Block, a Proc, and a Lambda in Ruby? (2013)

https://blog.awaxman.com/what-is-the-difference-between-a-block-a-proc-and-a-lambda-in-ruby
40•Tomte•3d ago•5 comments

Show HN: Appwrite Sites – the open-source vercel alternative

https://appwrite.io/blog/post/announcing-appwrite-sites
34•eldad_fux•2d ago•23 comments

Show HN: Evolved.lua – An Evolved Entity Component System for Lua

https://github.com/BlackMATov/evolved.lua
38•blackmat•4h ago•7 comments

Lune: Standalone Luau Runtime

https://github.com/lune-org/lune
54•erlend_sh•5h ago•33 comments

Python Tooling at Scale: LlamaIndex’s Monorepo Overhaul

https://www.llamaindex.ai/blog/python-tooling-at-scale-llamaindex-s-monorepo-overhaul
20•cheesyFish•3h ago•8 comments

All That Glitters

https://magazine.atavist.com/all-that-glitters-jona-rechnitz-lawsuit-jadelle-jewelry-coba-ethereummax-mayweather/
10•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

Ratatoi is a C libary that wraps stdlib's strtol (as atoi does), but it's evil.

https://github.com/rept0id/ratatoi
5•rept0id-2•1h ago•4 comments

Visualizing entire Chromium include graph

https://blog.bkryza.com/posts/visualizing-chromium-include-graph/
26•bkryza•5h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Someone got an LLM running on a Commodore 64 from 1982, and it runs as well

https://www.xda-developers.com/llm-running-commodore-64/
47•ghuntley•3d ago

Comments

JPLeRouzic•3d ago
Here is the repo:

https://github.com/ytmytm/llama2.c64

Leynos•2d ago
0.002 tokens per second
JPLeRouzic•14h ago
Given that it uses a CPU that is one millionth slower than a modern CPU, its performance is impressive.
oac•3d ago
It runs a model with 260K params, so hardly a "Large" LM. Nevertheless, a cool project.
aaronharnly•2d ago
And also not exactly a Commodore 64 is it, since it requires an addon with 30x the RAM. Still very cool and impressive though!
actionfromafar•8h ago
It's a borderline thing. The official Commodore REU only supported 8x the RAM. But you could modify it yourself to 32x. Creative Micro Design also had the third party 1750 REU which supported 32x RAM. (2 megabytes.)

So it is somewhat period accurate, albeit very expensive at the time.

robertlagrant•7h ago
Imagine if someone had run that LLM on that hardware in the 1980s, though. Incredible!

(Probably couldn't have trained the model, but still.)

bunchofnumbers•7h ago
You'd have needed a ZX Spectrum for that!
blkhawk•8h ago
If anyone wants to try it with an esp32:

https://github.com/DaveBben/esp32-llm

needs a board with PSRAM but they are surprisingly plenty these days - almost standard. I tried it a few months back.

Quarrel•7h ago
I've read the criticisms here, but well, as someone whose first computer was a C64, this is cool as hell.

Like, what?!

On an 8-bit, 64Kb, ~1MHz CPU!

Amazing.

Sure, there are too many caveats, but this isn't really about making this a viable modern alternative.

It's just about, well, being very cool? Nostalgic!

And in that, I think it succeeds.

vardump•7h ago
Not 64 kelvinbits, but 2 megabytes of RAM.

Or should I say 2 mebibytes. </pedantic>

Quarrel•6h ago
fairy nuff. Not 64Kb, but 64 kilobytes of RAM, + 20 kilobytes of ROM!

Plus, we had a 320x200 display in a glorious 16 colours!

Revolutionary sprites, too!!

FWIW, my first game, ie all I cared about on a C64 at the time, was the amazing Revenge of the Mutant Camels!

ben_w•6h ago
> Revenge of the Mutant Camels

The most Jeff Minter name of all Jeff Minter's games.

Quarrel•5h ago
My kid would think it is the lamest thing ever, but, w/e! :)
vardump•3h ago
You forgot that 2 MB REU (RAM expansion unit).
johann8384•5h ago
Imagine where we would be today if this was where we were on the C64 in 1982. If we had the concept and ability to create these models and run them on machines and how much that would have evolved by now.

Amazing.