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New comment by plombe in "Googlebook"

plombe — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:29:39 +0000

When I saw the name, Googlebook I had my fingers crossed that Google had finally built something that could compete with the Apple MacBook. If that ad is anything to go by, this will flop and there will be no shortage of consumers who will go along for the ride.

If it ends up having ML-centric hardware, like a version of their TPUs, the story could change, especially if they don't try to keep it locked within their ecosystem. Local AI is the future.

New comment by plombe in "A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia"

plombe — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:05:38 +0000

Is there any other African country that’s not this beholden to China?

New comment by plombe in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

plombe — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:52:52 +0000

Not. You don’t need to pay $100 to upload your app to an iPhone, even with XCode for iOS 26

New comment by plombe in "Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish"

plombe — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:39:50 +0000

Well Claude was named after Shannon

New comment by plombe in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

plombe — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:22:48 +0000

Wasn’t composer trained on Kimi? Has anyone had a chance to compare the latest Kimi model to composer?

New comment by plombe in "Claude Opus 4.7"

plombe — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:27:01 +0000

Anthropic shouldn't have released it. The gains are marginal at best. This release feels more like Opus 4.6 with better agentic capabilities. Mythos is what I expected Opus 4.7 to be. Are users gonna be charged more with this release, for such marginal gains. It could set a bad precedent.

New comment by plombe in "Muse Spark: Scaling Towards Personal Superintelligence"

plombe — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:28:27 +0000

Looks like a lightweight article. But memory usage went from 316MB -> 502 MB when I hit refresh. Not sure why? Any one have any ideas? Why does it need half a gig of ram in the first place?

New comment by plombe in "Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs"

plombe — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:58:07 +0000

Interesting post. Curious to know how they arrived at intelligence density = Negative log of the model's error rate divided by the model size.