Hacker News: GeekyBear

New comment by GeekyBear in "Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads"

GeekyBear — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:08:03 +0000

They didn't allow unlimited cloud photo storage for all those years out of the goodness of their hearts.

That was all used as training data.

New comment by GeekyBear in "Google staff resign in backlash over its AI contracts with military"

GeekyBear — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:25:26 +0000

The last two non-evil employees at Google.

New comment by GeekyBear in "Qwen3.8-27B on the iPhone 18 Neural Engine at 15–70 tok/s (1.5 bpw)"

GeekyBear — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:03:30 +0000

The neural engine is optimized for energy efficiency, and the GPU is optimized for performance.

You're going to get much better battery life and much less heat running on the neural engine.

New comment by GeekyBear in "Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio"

GeekyBear — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:04:50 +0000

How many 5080 16 Gig cards would you have to buy to run the same model, and what would that cost?

New comment by GeekyBear in "Apple routed a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to dissipate heat"

GeekyBear — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:46:33 +0000

Is there a naming scheme dumber than Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495?

New comment by GeekyBear in "Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad"

GeekyBear — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 03:17:52 +0000

Touch support was added this year.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102597

New comment by GeekyBear in "Apple routed a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to dissipate heat"

GeekyBear — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:25:54 +0000

The High Yield YouTube channel has a good early look at die shots of the new A20 chip used in the iPhone Duo and discussion of the changes from the prior generations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8bxkCKNiuA

They have a similar video comparing the M6 to the M5.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uA7WLmlg1kM

New comment by GeekyBear in "Muse Spark Open"

GeekyBear — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:06:45 +0000

Apple research has also posted information on the topic.

> In this post, we show how to run the latest frontier-class model — Muse Spark Open, with nearly a trillion parameters — right from your desk, using the latest version of MLX, released today. On a cluster of four Mac Studios, Muse Spark Open generates over 36 tokens per second

Beginning on a single Mac Studio (up to 512GB of unified memory), then scaling out across multiple Macs with the RDMA over Thunderbolt driver, below we share an overview of the range of models you can now run on Mac Studio.

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/mlx-distributed-i...

New comment by GeekyBear in "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"

GeekyBear — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:20:12 +0000

Allowing Google to use their control of the web to kill the most effective method of blocking ads is the solution?

No.

People need to stop using Chrome and Chromium based browsers and use browsers based on implementations of the web standards that are out of Google's control.

Firefox on Android supports the full version of uBlock Origin.

Chrome on Android doesn't support it.

New comment by GeekyBear in "New Apple TV 4K"

GeekyBear — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:34:59 +0000

Privacy advocates recommend Apple TV for a reason.

> Breaking down why Apple TVs are privacy advocates’ go-to streaming device

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/all-the-ways-apple-t...

New comment by GeekyBear in "New Apple TV 4K"

GeekyBear — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:34:15 +0000

> It's mind-blowing how one of the most advanced technology forums on the internet can take privacy for granted just because the marketing of a for-profit corporation...

This is a common judgement among the technically literate.

> Breaking down why Apple TVs are privacy advocates’ go-to streaming device

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/all-the-ways-apple-t...

New comment by GeekyBear in "Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD"

GeekyBear — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:20:09 +0000

There is a new standard for High Bandwidth Flash that is under development.

> Asianometry: High Bandwidth Flash Is Coming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nTpW52nioI

New comment by GeekyBear in "Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt down Don Lemon's producer"

GeekyBear — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:33:25 +0000

The law in question calls out obstruction of religious services.

New comment by GeekyBear in "Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt down Don Lemon's producer"

GeekyBear — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:29:52 +0000

For context:

A law was passed under President Clinton that made it illegal for protesters to interrupt religious services or impede access to an abortion clinic.

> The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act is a United States law that was signed by President Bill Clinton in May 1994, which prohibits the following three things: the use of physical force, threat of physical force, or physical obstruction to intentionally injure, intimidate, interfere with or attempt to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person who is obtaining an abortion, the use of physical force, threat of physical force, or physical obstruction to intentionally injure, intimidate, interfere with or attempt to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person who is exercising or trying to exercise their First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship...

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Access_to_Clinic_E...

We've seen anti-abortion protesters found guilty and sentenced to prison under the same law in the past.

> Six pro-life activists convicted of federal FACE Act charges, face over a decade in prison

https://ewtn.co.uk/article-six-pro-life-activists-convicted-...

New comment by GeekyBear in "High console prices push PlayStation and Xbox sales to new lows"

GeekyBear — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:01:41 +0000

> IDC: PC Sales Nosedived 20.1 Percent in Q3

https://www.thurrott.com/hardware/342655/idc-pc-sales-nosedi...

> Smartphone Shipments Set for Record 16.7% Drop in 2026, as the Memory Crisis Hits Full Force

https://www.idc.com/resource-center/blog/smartphone-shipment...

IDC: Smartphone Shipments Set for Record 16.7% Drop in 2026

GeekyBear — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 21:59:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.idc.com/resource-center/blog/smartphone-shipments-set-for-record-16-7-drop-in-2026-as-the-memory-crisis-hits-full-force/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50037611

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

IDC: PC Sales Nosedived 20.1 Percent in Q3

GeekyBear — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 21:48:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thurrott.com/hardware/342655/idc-pc-sales-nosedived-20-1-percent-in-q3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50037524

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

High console prices push PlayStation and Xbox sales to new lows

GeekyBear — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 21:46:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.polygon.com/game-console-sales-down-ai-component-crisis-ram/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50037510

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

The RAMpocalypse has led global PC shipments to drop 20 percent

GeekyBear — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:37:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-rampocalypse-has-led-global-pc-shipments-to-drop-20-percent-in-just-12-months

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50027454

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by GeekyBear in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

GeekyBear — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:35:41 +0000

> CXMT started 11 years ago and only now is reaching any real volume. If they decided a year ago to react to the current demand cycle they'd be 6-7 years out.

It's taken them this long to catch up to the DDR5 standard. They've only recently been through qualifications to be a DDR5 supplier for the big boys.

> Every Major Motherboard Maker Now Validates CXMT DDR5

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/321572/20260725/every-maj...

After their recent IPO, they have more than enough cash to ramp up in a major way.

It's just a matter of time.