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Google's TurboQuant offers LLMs up to 6x compression

cwt137 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:05:01 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/google-says-new-turboquant-compression-can-lower-ai-memory-usage-without-sacrificing-quality/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521741

Points: 4

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New comment by cwt137 in "Understanding Neural Network, Visually"

cwt137 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:08:28 +0000

This visualizations reminds me of the 3blue1brown videos.

New comment by cwt137 in "Asteroids the size of 22 penguins to pass Earth this weekend (2023)"

cwt137 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:54:12 +0000

There is a big difference between an Emperor penguin and a Galapagos penguin. They should of used a different measure.

Rust (language) at Volvo Cars [video]

cwt137 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 02:22:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBofCW8j70A

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46611516

Points: 2

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New comment by cwt137 in "We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)"

cwt137 — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 12:53:20 +0000

Everyone talks about Websockets for pushing real time data to the browser. This article highlights some of its drawbacks. I use Server Sent Events (SSE) instead. A lot of the problems the author of the article faced are solved with SSE. Also, SSE scales way better than polling all the time.

New comment by cwt137 in "I built my own CDN with Varnish and Nginx"

cwt137 — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:27:04 +0000

I wonder if in the future the author will investigate Anycast. This is the big feature that competes with the big CDN.

New comment by cwt137 in "CATL launches LFP battery with 470 miles range and 10-minute charging"

cwt137 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 23:53:02 +0000

I didn't see anything in the article about battery capacity or the density. This (with the other info in the article) would tell us if this is groundbreaking or not.

New comment by cwt137 in "Ollama and gguf"

cwt137 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:15:27 +0000

It is not true that Ollama doesn't use llama.cpp anymore. They built their own library, which is the default, but also really far from being feature complete. If a model is not supported by their library, they fall back to llama.cpp. For example, there is a group of people trying to get the new IBM models working with Ollama [1]. Their quick/short term solution is to bump the version of llama.cpp included with Ollama to a newer version that has support. And then at a later time, add support in Ollama's library.

1) https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/10557

New comment by cwt137 in "How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip [video]"

cwt137 — Wed, 14 May 2025 17:24:04 +0000

This is the first in a series of posts exploring how to build a smartwatch in 2025!

How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip [video]

cwt137 — Wed, 14 May 2025 17:24:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umQ39BhcyMM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43987057

Points: 2

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New comment by cwt137 in "Bamba: An open-source LLM that crosses a transformer with an SSM"

cwt137 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:08:21 +0000

Not always true! Your statement is only true when the running clock's speed is the same as time. Thus, regular time and the clock's time will never meet.

If the clock is running faster than regular time, it will at point catch up to regular time and thus be correct for a split second. If the clock is slower than regular time, regular time will catch up to the clock and the clock will be right for a split second.

New comment by cwt137 in "User-defined Order in SQL (2018)"

cwt137 — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:40:35 +0000

A lot of things presented in this article reminded me of the same things that were in Joe Celko's “Trees and Hierarchies in SQL” book https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/joe-celkos-trees/978155...

New comment by cwt137 in "Show HN: I made a tool to HTTPS your localhost"

cwt137 — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 15:42:41 +0000

This product seems similar to Ngrok and some other solutions. How does this product differentiate itself from everyone else?

New comment by cwt137 in "Mathematical Optimization for Cargo Ships"

cwt137 — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 01:15:31 +0000

Just last week I was looking into OptaPlanner [1] and MiniZinc [2]. OptaPlanner even has a real-time/continuous optimization mode. There are a whole bunch of other solutions, but these were the most interesting to me.

I wonder why Google didn't just go with an off the shelf solution and integrate it instead of building their own solution?

[1] https://www.optaplanner.org/ [2] https://www.minizinc.org/

New comment by cwt137 in "Bridges in the US are threaten by truck drivers relying on GPS meant for cars"

cwt137 — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:45:26 +0000

I hate articles that talk negatively about GPS when they really mean navigation software. GPS allows you to determine where you are. Navigation software tells you where to go.

Two examples: GPS does not spy on you and tracks your every movement. But the navigation software might. GPS doesn’t tell you to go down the wrong road. But the navigation software might. Etc.

New comment by cwt137 in "Raspberry Pi is manufacturing 70K Raspberry Pi 5s per week"

cwt137 — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 04:33:17 +0000

I was thinking the same thing, that they got their information from Jeff

New comment by cwt137 in "How to store your app's entire state in the url"

cwt137 — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 19:47:49 +0000

A few years ago, I worked on an app where some of the state was kept in the session and some was on the url as GET params. We ran into an issue where some browsers would only accept urls that were less than 1024 chars long. Is that still an issue today?

New comment by cwt137 in "Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project"

cwt137 — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 14:13:47 +0000

I've been watching his videos too for the last 6mo or so. If you like them, you should watch his friend's videos on SerenityOS as well, Linus Groh [1]. He does a lot of stuff on LibJS and LibWeb libraries. I think he is the lead developer for those because every month when Andreas does the monthly summary video of changes in the OS, he defers to Linus to talk about the browser changes.

1) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC84u7JhM9EIAYzyjdf6cBbA

New comment by cwt137 in "Time for Army Corps of Engineers to investigate moving water West?"

cwt137 — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 14:56:14 +0000

> the biggest challenge would be the right of way and litigation

I totally agree. I live in SoCal and there are some infrastructure projects that took forever (ie creating the I105 and finish connecting the I210), or will probably never get completed (ie. finish connecting the I710 and California High Speed Rail) all because of right of way issues and lots of law suits.

New comment by cwt137 in "Rogers Canada, please fix the damn internet in Canada"

cwt137 — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 05:44:59 +0000

The word you are looking for is “oligopoly”. This is when a small set of firms has a monopoly on something.