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Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI

https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/19759
43•lairv•23m ago•5 comments

The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)

https://taalas.com/the-path-to-ubiquitous-ai/
339•sidnarsipur•3h ago•232 comments

Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment

https://www.ft.com/content/dea24046-0a73-40b2-8246-5ac7b7a54323
154•zerosizedweasle•2h ago•101 comments

Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer

https://jimmyhmiller.com/learn-codebase-visualizer
75•andreabergia•5h ago•16 comments

Web Components: The Framework-Free Renaissance

https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2026/02/17/web-components-the-framework-free-renaissance.html
81•mpweiher•5h ago•48 comments

The Rediscovery of 103 Hokusai Lost Sketches (2021)

https://japan-forward.com/eternal-hokusai-the-rediscovery-of-103-hokusai-lost-sketches/
14•debo_•4d ago•0 comments

Mothers (YC X26) Is Hiring

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/9-mothers?utm_source=x8pZ4B3P3Q
1•ukd1•29m ago

Gemini 3.1 Pro

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-pro/
840•MallocVoidstar•22h ago•851 comments

Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss

https://www.together.ai/blog/consistency-diffusion-language-models
159•zagwdt•9h ago•52 comments

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at 873.5MHz with 3.05V Core Abuse

https://learn.pimoroni.com/article/overclocking-the-pico-2
62•Lwrless•5h ago•9 comments

Defer available in gcc and clang

https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/defer-available-in-gcc-and-clang/
217•r4um•4d ago•166 comments

AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton

https://www.kasava.dev/blog/ai-as-exoskeleton
347•benbeingbin•18h ago•385 comments

Minions – Stripe's Coding Agents Part 2

https://stripe.dev/blog/minions-stripes-one-shot-end-to-end-coding-agents-part-2
45•ludovicianul•2h ago•26 comments

I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure

https://www.coinerella.com/made-in-eu-it-was-harder-than-i-thought/
477•willy__•5h ago•245 comments

Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit

https://github.com/olvvier/apple-silicon-accelerometer
88•todsacerdoti•9h ago•49 comments

Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)

https://cep.dev/posts/every-infrastructure-decision-i-endorse-or-regret-after-4-years-running-inf...
327•Meetvelde•3d ago•142 comments

Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

https://micasa.dev
585•cpcloud•22h ago•189 comments

FreeCAD

https://www.freecad.org/index.php
259•doener•3d ago•97 comments

Notes on Clarifying Man Pages

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/02/18/man-pages/
24•surprisetalk•1d ago•11 comments

US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-online-portal-bypass-content-bans-europe-elsewhere-2026-02...
383•c420•1d ago•703 comments

Silicon Valley engineers were indicted for allegedly sending secrets to Iran

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/three-engineers-charged-stealing-google-trade-secrets-data-iran-s...
44•giuliomagnifico•3h ago•5 comments

A beginner's guide to split keyboards

https://www.justinmklam.com/posts/2026/02/beginners-guide-split-keyboards/
179•thehaikuza•4d ago•190 comments

Fast KV Compaction via Attention Matching

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16284
48•cbracketdash•9h ago•2 comments

PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/paypal-discloses-data-breach-exposing-users-person...
9•el_duderino•52m ago•1 comments

An ARM Homelab Server, or a Minisforum MS-R1 Review

https://sour.coffee/2026/02/20/an-arm-homelab-server-or-a-minisforum-ms-r1-review/
92•neelc•12h ago•77 comments

Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-similar-effect-therapy-depression.html
64•PaulHoule•1h ago•65 comments

America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks

https://www.governance.fyi/p/america-vs-singapore-you-cant-save
294•guardianbob•23h ago•434 comments

Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel

https://github.com/tmustier/pi-for-excel
89•rahimnathwani•11h ago•25 comments

Micropayments as a reality check for news sites

https://blog.zgp.org/micropayments-as-a-reality-check-for-news-sites/
178•speckx•18h ago•352 comments

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-wrote-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-4/
455•scottshambaugh•11h ago•385 comments
Open in hackernews

Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment

https://www.ft.com/content/dea24046-0a73-40b2-8246-5ac7b7a54323
151•zerosizedweasle•2h ago

Comments

marcyb5st•1h ago
Oracle debt holders are sweating profusely right now I imagine. How does OpenAI gets 300B$ to pay Oracle [1] when nVidia has to be convinced to shell out "just" 30B for actually purchasing nVidia hardware.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/90aa74a5-b39d-4131-a138-367726cb1...

lm28469•1h ago
> How does OpenAI gets 300B$ to pay Oracle

Easy, they just have to sell their overpriced vram chips (which haven't been manufactured yet), from their GPUs (which haven't been bought yet) which are in their data centers (the ones they're planning to build "soon"). It really isn't rocket science

__patchbit__•1h ago
Reallocate the $70 billion split difference to orbital station AI datacenters and Moon mass driver launched life cycle renewal equipment resupplies.
rvnx•1h ago
Good point, let's all invest in the SpaceX.ai IPO
hshdhdhj4444•1h ago
Or as OpenAI has been trial ballooning for months, the government bails them out.
mnky9800n•1h ago
This reminds me when F22s blasted Chinese balloons out of the sky.
hagbarth•30m ago
I have no idea why they would do that. Outside blatant corruption, which we shouldn't discount.
SecretDreams•25m ago
> Outside blatant corruption

Are we acting like this is a low probability outcome?

pawelduda•1h ago
Maybe they could sell the RAM reserves they've been hoarding
Aerroon•56m ago
Can they? The articles said that they bought wafers, not finished RAM. Is there interest in buying something like that?
jimnotgym•50m ago
They could sell them, but not at the price they bought them for!
bandrami•49m ago
They would have to actually get fabricated first
this_user•1h ago
I am very curios if OpenAI's IPO attempt this year will turn into WeWork 2.0 where all the air suddenly comes out of the valuation once the market acknowledges that they have no moat and lack a clear path to profitability that would make these huge investments worthwhile.
onlyrealcuzzo•50m ago
There are at least plausible scenarios where OpenAI is a VERY valuable company in the near future.

There were not with WeWork.

The SpaceX/xAI IPO will be more interesting.

SecretDreams•26m ago
All of these things are vastly overvalued. Only one with tangible value is SpaceX because that's actually a moat-space. OAI holds no moat, has not done a good enough job to entrap their users, and has poor cost structure.

xAi isn't even a point of discussion.. it's just a scheme to rip off investors.

WeWork.. hard to take anyone seriously that ever invested in this bad boy.

Ectiseethe•10m ago
> WeWork.. hard to take anyone seriously that ever invested in this bad boy.

Masayoshi Son may not be providing returns for its investors but he is providing entertainment for the rest of the world.

paxys•24m ago
There’s a reason OpenAI and Anthropic are both trying to accelerate their IPO while still being wildly unprofitable. There is still unlimited AI hype in the market. If they go public this year the entire world is going to blindly buy them without looking at their books.
zerosizedweasle•6m ago
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/03/childs-play-sam-kriss-ai... I hope so
october8140•1h ago
This thing is about to pop.
lm28469•1h ago
You know it's bad when even scam altman calls for regulations. They spend their entire lives telling you regulations are bad and taxation is theft but as soon as they need to drown the competition they lobby for more regulations

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/openai-chief-sam-altman-...

mnky9800n•1h ago
Rules for thee not for meeeeeee
villgax•57m ago
Altman has been calling for it since 2023, lobbying world leaders meeting them to push on this Lol, were you under a rock or something?
Capricorn2481•39m ago
But he's been doing that for years too.
raincole•38m ago
This comment cannot be further from reality. Altman has always been a very loud advocate for AI regulation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/technology/openai-altman-...

raw_anon_1111•25m ago
Of course he has. Major incumbents want regulation that makes it harder for new comers
shmageggy•24m ago
Except when that regulation actually has teeth, which is why he opposed California’s SB 1047. I agree with GP that Altman (and all the rest) want regulation insofar as it protects their moat but no further.
freetonik•9m ago
Using words like “Scam Altman” instantly reduces credibility of the author in my eyes. If you want to convince people of something, perhaps it’s better not to use childish methods.

No disrespect, just sharing my thoughts. I see “Elmo Musk” and “Orange Man” etc., and I immediately think this is not worth reading (regardless of my opinion of those persons).

criddell•56m ago
Have you moved your retirement account money out of stocks and index funds into something safer? I've actually been thinking about it...
marcyb5st•41m ago
I did. I moved to sovereign debt (not US), bonds and stocks of boring companies (staples, energy, medicine, ...) that have at least AA rating. Might miss out a few months of glamorous growth, but fuck that, it reached a point that just one company hiccuping will send the whole thing tumbling (IMHO).
criddell•37m ago
Energy and healthcare has big AI exposure too. If it pops, you're going to be better off but not totally spared. I suppose that's probably a smart move though...
marcyb5st•7m ago
Fair enough and thank you for the comment.

I went with a bit of Roche, Novartis, ... So something that would at least cushion the fall with dividends and not being in the GenAI crossfire since they definitely use AI/ML (I got them through an ETF). Also almost all my assets are now either CHF or Euro denominated/hedged. I am also not comfortable with the dollar weakening and the next Fed head probably cutting rates again like Trump wishes

hypeatei•34m ago
Valuations really aren't that crazy, but the incestuous deals between Nvidia, Oracle, and OpenAI might cause a decent correction. I'm not too worried about my portfolio personally. It'll be a small bump in the road and you're better off not trying to time the market.
SecretDreams•25m ago
> Valuations really aren't that crazy

Okay

hypeatei•7m ago
What public company is massively overvalued in your opinion? Nvidia right now is trading at 44 P/E which is higher than the S&P average, sure, but not anything like the dotcom bubble with a median of 120x earnings.
baggachipz•30m ago
Yes. Went from 100% S&P500 fund into a gold ETF and a high-dividend fund (SCHD). Still a good portion in S&P but gotta hedge some.
sethops1•7m ago
Similar. Went from near 100% VOO down to 25%, with about 50% in SCHD and the remaining 25% sitting on cash, for now.
2OEH8eoCRo0•24m ago
No for a few reasons. I'm not close to retiring, I already own a good deal of bonds, and moving money because of emotion defeats the purpose.

I rebalanced the same as I always have.

toomuchtodo•12m ago
Enough VXUS to minimize the impact of Mag 7 exuberance on my portfolio.
SirensOfTitan•1h ago
Regardless of the promise of the underlying technology, I do wonder about the long-term viability of companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Not only are they quite beholden to companies like Nvidia or Google for hardware, but LLM tech as it stands right now will turn into a commodity.

It's why Amodei has spoken in favor of stricter export controls and Altman has pushed for regulation. They have no moat.

I'm thankful for the various open-weighted Chinese models out there. They've kept good pace with flagship models, and they're integral to avoiding a future where 1-2 companies own the future of knowledge labor. America's obsession with the shareholder in lieu of any other social consideration is ugly.

chasd00•1h ago
I think google ends up the winner. They can keep chugging along and just wait for everyone else to go bankrupt. I guess apple sees it too since the signed with google and not OpenAI.
piker•59m ago
And what about Microsoft?
napolux•55m ago
See Apple in my previous comment
mrbungie•54m ago
They don't have the know how (except by proxy via OpenAI) nor custom hardware and somehow they are even worse at integrating AI into their products than Google.
raw_anon_1111•26m ago
They don’t need to. Just like Amazon they are seeing record revenues from Azure because of their third party LLM hosting platforms only being gated because no one can get enough chips right now
napolux•56m ago
downvote all you want. google has all the money to keep up and just wait for the others to die. apple is a different story, btw, can probably buy openai or anthropic, but for now they're just waiting like google, and since they need to provide users AI after the failure with Apple Intelligence, they prefer to pay for Google and wait for the others to fight against each other.

openai and anthropic know already what will happen if they go public :)

aurizon•45m ago
Google is vulnerable in search and that already shows as we see a decline as many parallel paths emerge. At the beginning it was a simple lookup for valid information and it became dominant - then pages of pay ranked preference spots filled pages that obscured what you wanted = it became evil.
raw_anon_1111•28m ago
We see no such thing. Google just announces review revenue and profit and Apple hinted at it not seeing any decline in revenue from their search deal with Google which is performance based.
wooger•23m ago
And Gemini is already integrated into the results page and gives useful answers instantly, alongside advertising... What problem for google are you seeing?
r0b05•39m ago
What will happen if they go public?
mrcwinn•23m ago
That’s not a well informed argument. Even if Apple could finance the $1T+ it would cost to buy Anthropic - they’re not making that money back by making the iPhone a little better. The only way to monetize is by selling, as Anthropic does, enterprise services to businesses. And that’s not Apple’s “DNA,” to use their language.
sethops1•52m ago
This is the conclusion I came to as well. Either make your own hardware, or drown paying premiums until you run out of money. For a while I was hopeful for some competition from AMD but that never panned out.
m-schuetz•49m ago
Also Gemini works absolutely fantastic right now. I find it provides better results for coding tasks compared to ChatGPT
logicallee•39m ago
have you compared it with Claude Code at all? Is there a similar subscription model for Gemini as Claude? Does it have an agent like Claude Code or ChatGPT Codex? what are you using it for? How does it do with large contexts? (Claude AI Code has a 1 million token context).
airstrike•36m ago
it's nowhere near claude opus

but claude and claude code are different things

landl0rd•14m ago
- yes, pretty close to opus performance

- yes

- yes (not quite as good as CC/Codex but you can swap the API instead of using gemini-cli)

- same stuff as them

- better than others, google got long (1mm) context right before anyone else and doesn't charge two kidneys, an arm, and a leg like anthropic

frde•35m ago
Don't want to sound rude, but anytime anyone says this I assume they haven't tried using agentic coding tools and are still copy pasting coding questions into a web input box

I would be really curious to know what tools you've tried and are using where gemini feels better to use

m00x•30m ago
Gemini is a generalist model and works better than all existing models at generalist problems.

Coding has been vastly improved in 3.0 and 3.1, but Google won't give us the full juice as Google usually does.

FartyMcFarter•14m ago
My guess is that Google has teams working on catching up with Claude Code, and I wouldn't be surprised if they manage to close the gap significantly or even surpass it.

Google has the datasets, the expertise, and the motivation.

f311a•20m ago
It's good enough if you don't go wild and allow LLMs to produce 5k+ lines in one session.

In a lot of industries, you can't afford this anyway, since all code has to be carefully reviewed. A lot of models are great when you do isolated changes with 100-1000 lines.

Sometimes it's okay to ship a lot of code from LLMs, especially for the frontend. But, there are a lot of companies and tasks where backend bugs cost a lot, either in big customers or direct money. No model will allow you to go wild in this case.

gman83•5m ago
You need to stick Gemini in a straightjacket; I've been using https://github.com/ClavixDev/Clavix. When using something like that, even something like Gemini 3 Flash becomes usable. If not, it more often than not just loses the plot.
nobody_r_knows•30m ago
ChatGTP isn't even meant for coding anymore, nor Gemini. It's OpenAI Codex vs Claude Code. Gemini doesn't even have an offering.
pastjean•6m ago
opencode + gemini is pretty nicely working
kdheiwns•22m ago
I've had the same experience with editing shaders. ChatGPT has absolutely no clue what's going on and it seems like it randomly edits shader code. It's never given me anything remotely usable. Gemini has been able to edit shaders and get me a result that's not perfect, but fairly close to what I want.
Aboutplants•48m ago
The minute Apple chose Google, OpenAI became a dead duck. It will float for a while but it cannot compete with the likes of Google, their unlimited pockets and better yet their access to data
awongh•36m ago
I think it points to OpenAI trying to pivot to leveraging their brand awareness head start and optimizing for either ads or something like the Jony Ive device- focusing on the consumer side.

For now people identify LLMs and AI with the ChatGPT brand.

This seems like it might be the stickiest thing they can grab ahold of in the long term.

dakolli•31m ago
Ads in GPT, might literally be the worst business decision ever made. Google can get away with Ads, its expected from them, but not OpenAI
_aavaa_•25m ago
Sergei and Brin were pretty vocal about the problems with ads and why they don't belong in search engines when they started.

The only reason it's expected now is because of a slow boil.

duskdozer•18m ago
They ideally will not want you to realize you're looking at ads.
raw_anon_1111•31m ago
OpenAI is not going to fund themselves with $20 subscriptions and advertising enough to be profitable.
neya•32m ago
Google is the new Open AI. Open AI is the new Google. Guess who wants to shove advertisements into paying customers' face and take a % of their revenues for using their models to build products? Not Google.
Forgeties79•30m ago
Don’t worry, Google is profiting off of your data one way or another lol
SecretDreams•29m ago
> Guess who wants to shove advertisements into paying customers' face and take a % of their revenues for using their models to build products? Not Google.

But, also, probably google.

ipaddr•26m ago
The majority of people who use Google for AI encounter it at the top of an ad filled search engine.
pell•23m ago
>Not Google.

Google's main revenue source (~ 75%) is advertising. They will absolutely try to shove in ads into their AI offerings. They simply don't have to do it this quickly.

stego-tech•6m ago
I’ll second this. Google’s investment in underlying accelerators is the big differentiator here, along with their existing datacenter footprint.

Everyone else has to build infrastructure. Google just had to build a single part, really, and already had the software footprint to shove it everywhere - and the advertising data to deliver features that folks actually wanted, but could also be monetized.

techpression•58m ago
How is censorship / ”alternative information” affecting them? Genuinely curious as I’ve only read briefly about it and it was ages ago.
whynotmaybe•13m ago
I've tried deepseek a few months ago and asket about the Tiananmen square protests and massacre.

At first the answer was "I can't say anything that might hurt people" but with a little persuasion it went further.

The answer wasn't the current official answer but way more nuanced that Wikipedia's article. More in the vein of "we don't know for sure", "different versions", "external propaganda", "some officials have lied and been arrested since"

In the end, when I asked whether I should trust the government or ask for multiple source, it strongly suggested to use multiple sources to form an opinion.

= not as censored as I expected.

delaminator•57m ago
Anthropic is also using lots of Amazon hardware for inference.
jpalomaki•47m ago
Both Anthropic and OpenAI are working hard to move away from being "just" the LLM provider on the background.
ulfbert_inc•40m ago
>LLM tech as it stands right now will turn into a commodity

I am yet to see in-depth analysis that supports this claim

wejwej•39m ago
To take the other side of this, as computers got commodified there still was a massive benefit to using cloud computing. Could it be possible that that happens with LLMs as well as hardware becomes more and more specialized? I personally have no idea but love that there’s a bunch of competition and totally agree with your point regulation and export controls are just ways to make it harder for new orgs to compete.
AznHisoka•33m ago
Anthropic at least seems to be doing well with enterprises. OpenAI doesnt have that level of trust with enterprise use cases, and commodization is a bigger issue with consumers, when they can just switch to another tool easily
nvarsj•28m ago
I don't think you can put OpenAI and Anthropic together like that.

Anthropic has actually cracked Agentic AI that is generally useful. No other company has done that.

enceladus06•19m ago
OpenAI and Anthropic don't have a moat. We will have actual open models like DeepSeek and Kimi with the same functionality as Opus 4.6 in Claude Code <6mo IMO. Competition is a good thing for the end-user.
zozbot234•14m ago
The open-weight models are great but they're roughly a full year behind frontier models. That's a lot. There's also a whole lot of uses where running a generic Chinese-made model may be less than advisable, and OpenAI/Anthropic have know-how for creating custom models where appropriate. That can be quite valuable.
mattmaroon•10m ago
That's a lot now, in the same way that a PC in 1999 vs a PC in 2000 was a fairly sizeable discrepancy. At some point, probably soon, progress will slow, and it won't be much.
jnovek•8m ago
I just did a test project using K2.5 on opencode and, for me, it doesn’t even come close to Claude Code. I was constantly having to wrangle the model to prevent it from spewing out 1000 lines at once and it couldn’t hold the architecture in its head so it would start doing things in inconsistent ways in different parts of the project. What it created would be a real maintenance nightmare.

It’s much better than the previous open models but it’s not yet close.

lvl155•3m ago
Think LLM by itself is basically a commodity at this point. Not quite interchangeable but it’s more an artistic differences rather than a technological one. I used to think it was data and that would give companies like Google a leg up.
cmiles8•57m ago
There are serious balance sheet concerns for these companies with exposure to OpenAI, Anthropic and such.

It’s all fun and games till it’s not. All this capital investment is going to start hitting earnings as massive deprecation and/or mark-to-market valuation adjustments and if the bubble pops (or even just cools a bit) the math starts to look real ugly real quick.

jimnotgym•47m ago
The market is not there at all though is it? Nobody is paying what it actually costs to deliver AI services. It is not clear to me that it is cheaper than just paying people to do the work.
zerosizedweasle•31m ago
Someone did a calculation using heat generated - energy usage (which is ultimately the base cost of the universe) - and the human brain and body is just incredibly most cost efficient than how we're doing AI. So for basic tasks it's just absurdly expensive to be using AI instead of a human.
rhubarbtree•11m ago
we don't pay humans in the food they consume
jimnotgym•52m ago
Now the only question is when. When does this bubble burst?

Great promise, replace all your call centre staff, then your developers with AI. It is cheaper, but only because the AI companies are not charging you what it really costs to do the work.

raw_anon_1111•21m ago
One of my specialties is implementing hosted call centers using Amazon Connect - the AWS version of the call center that Amazon uses internally.

The fully allocated cost of one call to a human agent is $3-5. That pays for a lot of inference.

rhubarbtree•12m ago
pricing as an objection to ai is just cope. it might hurt the current status quo when they can no longer burn capital, but the long-term course will remain unchanged
aurizon•51m ago
I wonder how the huge slug of memory that might now have to re-direct mid-ramp as this (and other AI pullbacks) ramify forward? Will Crucial re-enter the desktop market? Or will it create a slow/fast subsidence in memory? We will live in interesting times..
baggachipz•28m ago
Follow the ball... which shell is the ball under? Keep an eye on the ball!
hz231•13m ago
Good, AI is bad.
danielovichdk•3m ago
Idiots, this is a splendid example of circular economy.

OpenAi gets 30b, buys chips from nvidia for 30b.

How is that an investment?