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Fitting DeepSeek V4 Flash's 304B params on a single AMD MI300X in production

A developer has published the full recipe for serving DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, a 304-billion-parameter MoE model, on a single AMD MI300X rather than a multi-GPU

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Four rewrites in 16 days: Taylor Farms' shifting cyclospora story

Food-safety attorney Bill Marler tracks how Taylor Farms has quietly rewritten its public statement about a cyclospora outbreak four times since the July 17 rec

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How Cloudflare squeezes Kimi and GLM onto GPUs without losing accuracy

Second, Cloudflare compresses model weights. For GLM 5.2 it drops FP8 weights to INT4 integers, shrinking the checkpoint from 705 GB to 421 GB and freeing per-G

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ICE Funneled ~920K DNA Profiles Into FBI's Criminal Database in 2025

A Georgetown Law study finds that immigration enforcement has quietly become the largest single source of new genetic profiles in the FBI's Combined DNA Index S

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Jane Street open-sources Bonsai, its OCaml framework for reactive web apps

Bonsai is the UI library Jane Street uses to build nearly all of its internal web tooling, from the corporate directory to interfaces that monitor live trading

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Newfoundland Town Finally Rid of 900,000 Liters of 24-Year-Old Fish Sauce

For over two decades, 110 vats of fermenting capelin and salt have been rotting inside an abandoned factory in St. Mary's, a Newfoundland town of about 300 peop

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No article content supplied — cannot summarize

The submission contains only a headline ("Apple is getting this wrong") and a URL to an OpenAI blog post, with no article body. There is no source text to conde

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On-device runtime runs 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB by streaming MoE experts from SSD

Swiftlet is a Swift and Metal runtime that runs large Qwen3-Next and Qwen3.5/3.6 mixture-of-experts models on Apple Silicon by keeping only each model's small d

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The Dunning-Kruger Effect May Be a Statistical Mirage, Not a Real Bias

The Dunning-Kruger effect — the popular idea that incompetent people are too incompetent to recognize their own incompetence — may be an artifact of how the dat

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To Avoid 'Cognitive Debt,' This Developer Retypes Every Line of AI Code by Hand

Blogger Ankur Sethi describes a deliberately inefficient workflow for coding assistants: rather than letting an LLM edit his projects directly or reviewing the

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Twenty Years of Pandoc: How a Haskell Side Project Became a Universal Document Converter

John MacFarlane released the first version of pandoc on August 3, 2006 — roughly 3,000 lines of Haskell with no dependencies beyond the standard library. The pr

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U.S. Burns Through Nearly All Long-Range Precision Missiles in Iran War

Five months of fighting Iran have drained almost the entire U.S. Army inventory of long-range surface-to-surface missiles — the ATACMS and its newer replacement

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