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Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf]

2026-07-11 @ 13:33:17Points: 28Comments: 8

Networking and the Internet, from First Principles

2026-07-11 @ 12:30:40Points: 150Comments: 45

Your code is fast – if you're lucky

2026-07-11 @ 10:50:10Points: 92Comments: 44

Show HN: Richest people in the world by wealth creation instead of ownership

2026-07-11 @ 09:54:14Points: 29Comments: 19

The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018)

2026-07-11 @ 05:19:41Points: 164Comments: 52

Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows

2026-07-10 @ 22:30:44Points: 320Comments: 137

Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

2026-07-10 @ 20:47:09Points: 1324Comments: 715

An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation

2026-07-10 @ 19:38:34Points: 259Comments: 273

GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]

2026-07-10 @ 18:29:19Points: 492Comments: 405

New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices

2026-07-10 @ 18:26:24Points: 582Comments: 293

SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

2026-07-10 @ 17:51:07Points: 240Comments: 846

The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)

2026-07-10 @ 16:48:41Points: 239Comments: 81

Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

2026-07-10 @ 16:37:52Points: 215Comments: 160

QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall

2026-07-10 @ 15:59:53Points: 660Comments: 217

A love letter to flashcards

2026-07-10 @ 15:30:44Points: 176Comments: 100

After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell

2026-07-10 @ 13:30:41Points: 191Comments: 228

Late Bronze Age Collapse

2026-07-10 @ 11:59:55Points: 398Comments: 276

Good Tools Are Invisible

2026-07-10 @ 10:32:41Points: 497Comments: 227

AI 2040: Plan A

2026-07-09 @ 16:21:44Points: 336Comments: 379

Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer

2026-07-09 @ 08:05:04Points: 877Comments: 221

But then I thought, "I wonder how it would work on a normal computer like mine," and above all, "I wonder if it would work without going into OOM on a computer like mine." So I started working with the help of agents to test this possibility.

I started converting the model to int4, understanding MTP usage, and if possible implementing DSA for long context. How it responds in int4 and whether the quality is maintained or not. Until I got to the point, on my computer with 32GB of RAM, I was able to communicate with GLM 5.2 with times that, of course, aren't high in cold start, but even then, we're talking about 0.1 tok/s, but that wasn't important to me. The important thing was the journey to reach this goal. I just wanted it to work at all costs, even slowly.

So I created Colibrì, which was born from a very simple idea, to be honest, but tested in every way, where a 744B Mixture-of-Experts model activates only ~40B parameters per token—and only ~11 GB of those change from token to token (the routed experts). So:

The dense part (attention, shared experts, embeddings—~17B params) stays resident in RAM at int4 (~9.9 GB); The 21,504 routed experts (75 MoE layers × 256 experts + the MTP head, ~19 MB each at int4) live on disk (~370 GB) and are streamed on demand, with a per-layer LRU cache, an optional pinned hot-store, and the OS page cache as a free L2.

The engine is a single C file (c/glm.c, ~1,300 lines) plus small headers. No BLAS, no Python at runtime, no GPU.No GPU or serious hardware because I don't have that hardware so I can't test it on hardware that is more powerful than my computer.Colibrì is a one-person project, written and tested entirely on a 12-core laptop with 25 GB of RAM — the numbers above are the ceiling of what I can measure at home.

Any feedback is welcome! (and if anyone wanted to participate in the project I would be delighted)

Repo: https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri

Book: RISC-V System-on-Chip Design

2026-07-09 @ 05:28:42Points: 25Comments: 6

Otary – Image and Geometry Python Library Now Has Tutorials

2026-07-08 @ 11:30:12Points: 64Comments: 1

Google Search lets creators know more about their reach

2026-07-07 @ 23:51:49Points: 53Comments: 27

Silent speech with ultrasound

2026-07-07 @ 23:06:09Points: 83Comments: 18

Show HN: HTMLDrive – serve HTML files from your Google Drive

2026-07-07 @ 17:40:14Points: 19Comments: 9

I found that AI tools are generating excellent HTML documents nowadays, yet there's no easy way to show them to others. Yes, there's GitHub pages - but I don't know if it is user-friendly for non-technical people. This app allows you to keep your HTML file in your Google Drive and serve it from there. Feedback is most welcome.

An iroh powered smart fan

2026-07-07 @ 13:30:17Points: 141Comments: 41

Inference Optimization for MiMo v2.5: Pushing Hybrid SWA Efficiency to the Limit

2026-07-07 @ 06:06:25Points: 103Comments: 39

Alternate clock designs and time systems

2026-07-06 @ 21:09:56Points: 179Comments: 100

The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reason about bits

2026-07-05 @ 22:33:08Points: 51Comments: 5

Combustion engine web-based simulator

2026-07-05 @ 17:11:38Points: 209Comments: 72

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