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11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/164250
374•formerly_proven•3h ago•185 comments

An hour of audio transcribed in about 13s on MacBook Air

https://eg2.haku.sh/
192•amrrs•2h ago•50 comments

Apple's Minions: A virtual GPU cloud built from idle Apple Silicon Macs

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/distributed-gpu-cloud
76•acossta•1h ago•30 comments

Hittite royal archive found in Turkey

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/77107
193•benbreen•8h ago•41 comments

Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks

https://pdftomp3.com/connect-ai/
95•janpmz•4h ago•51 comments

Mozilla Introduces Firefox Enterprise

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/enterprise/
186•recvonline•2h ago•91 comments

CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-10-13/cftc-staff-told-to-retract-analysis-of-suspici...
241•helsinkiandrew•4h ago•97 comments

A Visual Intro to Complex Numbers

https://photonlines.substack.com/p/a-visual-intro-to-complex-numbers
14•surprisetalk•2h ago•0 comments

The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)

https://jsomers.net/e-coli-chemotaxis/
346•jsomers•2d ago•97 comments

GLM-Legal

https://z.ai/blog/glm-legal
619•ilreb•22h ago•346 comments

Character.ai files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

https://blog.character.ai/an-update-on-character-ai/
61•nryoo•6h ago•20 comments

Apple HomeView

https://www.apple.com/apple-homeview/
136•etothet•1h ago•166 comments

Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/unprecedented-cyberattack-cripples-supe...
797•Zeekaas•1d ago•915 comments

Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/discrete-gpus/data-center-gpu/d-series.html
272•hurricanepootis•16h ago•145 comments

Document Review with Unsiloed and TypeSafe Jev

https://www.unsiloed.ai/blog/document-review-unsiloed-typesafe-jev
32•ritzaco•5h ago•7 comments

A Modern Web App in C

https://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c
638•prophittcorey•21h ago•278 comments

Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009802/character-ai-files-for-bankruptcy-disney
115•yanis_t•2h ago•72 comments

Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD

https://github.com/prabanta-dev/janas
187•khalidkhair•16h ago•68 comments

Making big downloads resumable in Firefox

https://lunarwatcher.codeberg.page/til/firefox/resumable-big-downloads.html
246•speckx•18h ago•120 comments

Who is vfmaddrnd231pd?

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/who-is-vfmaddrnd231pd/
234•pngmangi•16h ago•21 comments

Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver

https://github.com/h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr
385•djfergus•1d ago•105 comments

Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c620r33plgppo
380•scrlk•1d ago•425 comments

Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum

https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/zx-spectrum-intro
160•zdw•18h ago•29 comments

Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents

146•vishnukool•21h ago•103 comments

AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

https://yyhh.org/blog/2026/10/ai-is-a-tool/
492•layer8•16h ago•398 comments

Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support)

https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft
98•bherbruck•14h ago•22 comments

Auto Research: Integer multiplication below n log n

https://app.getsupers.com/auto-research
72•swesnow•1d ago•37 comments

A look at the math that OpenAI claims computes faster Fourier transforms

https://www.argmin.net/p/faster-fourier-transforms
195•mochomocha•11h ago•127 comments

Solar panels that plug into your wall

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/balcony-plug-in-solar-panels-renewable-energy
228•speckx•23h ago•243 comments

DishwasherBench – Can Frontier Models Stack a Dishwasher?

https://github.com/composo-ai/DishwasherBench
74•mlukewizard•5h ago•41 comments
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Apple's Minions: A virtual GPU cloud built from idle Apple Silicon Macs

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/distributed-gpu-cloud
71•acossta•1h ago

Comments

Bric3d•1h ago
They'll throw this together but still not sell you something you can stick in a rack ?
Telemakhos•46m ago
That seems to be the point: you leverage existing workstations on your corporate network and run compute batches at night while they're idle. You don't have to buy any extra servers for your low-priority AI workloads.
jprd•36m ago
We were doing this decades ago with engineer's HP C3600s under their desks. It wasn't AI, just low-priority HPC / fluid stuff batched out to hundreds of workstations.
macintux•13m ago
That was the original pitch for Ian Murdock's Progeny startup in the late 90s: a Linux-based distributed filesystem for corporate desktops to boot into overnight for distributed computing.
simbas•57m ago
That's why the button is on the underside.
sdoering•52m ago
Pardon me not understanding what this is about?

Basically SETI for AI workloads? At least, this is the impression the landingpage left me with.

I am a bit lost, tbh.

railka•36m ago
Minions is an internal enterprise system already in use at Apple. It pools idle Mac GPUs into a shared compute cluster for ML inference.

There is no distributed execution of a single LLM across multiple GPUs using tensor parallelism here. Instead, it relies on task-level parallelism-breaking down a large workload into independent subtasks that run across separate machines. For example, generating embeddings for a million documents.

alt227•18m ago
So basically works the same way as Folding@Home?
rramon•16m ago
Only on the same local network I guess.
veexx103•45m ago
This project sounds good.

What is it actually like?

tom1337•43m ago
I guess for companies this can be nice? Run some inference in the off-hours on the machines that you already have. Could be useful for analytical tasks that don't require to be instant. On the technical side this doesn't seem that groundbreaking for me though.
pm90•43m ago
My warm take is that Apple is leaving a lot of money on the table by not investing in creating an independent supply chain for their chips and building their own cloud. They arguably had the first mover advantage when it came to general purpose arm compute; all they had to do was flood the market and make it easy for anyone to rent it. Not only would they corner a part of the market but perhaps ease demand pressure on other chip manufacturers too.
sigmoid10•37m ago
Apart from straight up buying TSMC's or Samsung's fabs I don't see a way of building a vertically integrated high-end chip supply chain for Apple. At least not on timeframes measured below a decade. And on those time frames the current supply issues will probably be resolved by companies who put all their effort into it instead of just tweaking their bottom line.
alt227•17m ago
TBH Im surprised they havent already bought one of these companies.
macintux•15m ago
They've had a great deal of success playing them off against each other.
r_lee•15m ago
because their entire thing is to focus on a few product lines... I'm not surprised at all
pjmlp•21m ago
gempir•29m ago
Interesting, so this is basically Apple's version of exo ? https://github.com/exo-explore/exo
skhameneh•10m ago
Reading the “paper”, this is just a job runner built on Ollama. Exo, and the teams at Apple that built the foundations Exo uses, actually use modern distributed compute.
brandonpelfrey•25m ago
I don't get it. In the paper it sounds like it's "just" a CRUD DB, then you have some fleet of Macs, and they store inputs and outputs in S3. What's the innovation here? Not trying to poo on this, but it looked like the most basic and obvious approach.
pjmlp•23m ago
Apple rediscovering HPC clusters, but without OS X Server to serve alongside it.
skhameneh•23m ago
I’m a bit disappointed in the lack of depth (and use of Ollama): https://arxiv.org/html/2610.12970v1

Apple has released some small models previously that seemed genuinely great, along with some quality research/efforts. I’m just not seeing the same level of depth here, am I missing something?

serhack_•13m ago
true, shame on apple for the paper quality
tw1984•13m ago
internal system, so the IT/HR department is the solution to leechers.

nothing new here.

djoldman•12m ago
Paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.12970

Shortest promoted paper I've seen from a FAANG.

sehw•8m ago
>Apple steals your electicity while you take a dump
lynndotpy•5m ago
[delayed]
They don't get enterprise, A/UX, mkLinux, OS X Server, Mac Pro tower, all gone now.

Swift's main reason to go open source and have good Linux support was naturally for app developers to be able to use it on server side, which naturally wasn't going to be macOS.

I macOS wasn't required for developing iDevices apps, they would surely sell even less desktops.

yohannparis•13m ago
My guess is that it's already hard for them to get as many chips fabricated for their devices, which is still their main source of income so far.

Maybe their chip team is already on the work, or already made, a server chip for AI purposes used internally, and doesn't have to talk about it yet.

alt227•7m ago
https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/08/24/this-is-the-first...