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New comment by scrlk in "Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated"

scrlk — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:56:26 +0000

And Sony as well - AI-LLM1000XM5 Mark II.

New comment by scrlk in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

scrlk — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:24:20 +0000

The rationale behind the Fn-Ctrl layout used on ThinkPads until very recently:

> The Fn key was originally placed by the ThinkPad designers in the lower left hand corner to make the key easier to locate when using the keystroke combinations. There was a rationale. This is especially handy for turning on the ThinkLight in the dark. Aim for the two extreme corners.

https://web.archive.org/web/20111115202457/http://www.lenovo...

IMO, putting Ctrl in the bottom left still isn't great for ergonomics: Ctrl should be where Caps Lock is, in line with the home row. This was the case on the original PC keyboard (IBM Model F) before it was moved to the bottom left in the Model M.

One of the only mass-produced keyboards that has Ctrl in this position today is the Apple Japanese keyboard: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/mxcl3j/a/magic-keyboard-u...

System Card: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 [pdf]

scrlk — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:58:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d00db56fa754a1b115b6dd7cb2e3c342ee809620.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463811

Points: 213

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New comment by scrlk in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

scrlk — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:17:26 +0000

A bug affecting M5 MBAs & MBPs made it impossible to connect to a WiFi network on the activation screen. The workaround was to use an Ethernet dongle: https://x.com/TheBobPony/status/2033958150936703363

New comment by scrlk in "Uber blows through its AI budget in 1 quarter"

scrlk — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:58:57 +0000

> after incentivizing employees to adopt the technology through an internal leaderboard ranking teams by total AI tool usage.

When you pay by the dead cobra, don't be surprised when people start breeding cobras.

New comment by scrlk in "Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7"

scrlk — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:06:56 +0000

> I also recall this 3D shell where your desktop was basically like an first-person shooter, where there would be a literal desk with files that you could click on, a media wall that would display your photos and so on.

Was it Task Gallery from Microsoft Research?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-tas...

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/332040.332482

Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal

scrlk — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:25:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-intel-have-reached-preliminary-chip-making-deal-wsj-reports-2026-05-08/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066169

Points: 229

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The problem with 'S-curves'

scrlk — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:32:11 +0000

Article URL: https://energynetworks.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-s-curves

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47996300

Points: 3

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New comment by scrlk in "Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team"

scrlk — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:38:48 +0000

Next up: learning effective radio communication from Ferrari F1 race engineers ;)

New comment by scrlk in "CATL claims 6-minute charge and 1,500km range for new electric vehicle batteries"

scrlk — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:36:55 +0000

https://archive.ph/D5IJd

CATL claims 6-minute charge and 1,500km range for new electric vehicle batteries

scrlk — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:36:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/1773de37-2595-4d9f-9536-dbe03ff1f8d3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855574

Points: 4

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Kelp DAO Exploited for $292M

scrlk — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:08:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/04/19/2026-s-biggest-crypto-exploit-kelp-dao-hit-for-usd292-million-with-wrapped-ether-stranded-across-20-chains

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820312

Points: 4

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New comment by scrlk in "An Interview with Pat Gelsinger"

scrlk — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:31:45 +0000

Sadly nothing about why Pat was forced out of Intel. Panther Lake is quite a good CPU and 14A looks like it'll be a competitive process. IMO, it vindicates the decisions that Pat made a few years ago and wasn't able to see through to completion.

"Designing microprocessors is like playing Russian roulette. You put a gun to your head, pull the trigger, and find out four years later if you blew your brains out." (Robert Palmer, former DEC CEO)

New comment by scrlk in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

scrlk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:34:52 +0000

More specifically, it was the end of Dennard scaling [0] that killed off the growth in clock speeds in the mid-2000s.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling

New comment by scrlk in "Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing"

scrlk — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:56:56 +0000

LG never really recovered after releasing several phones with bootlooping issues between 2015-16: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_smartphone_bootloop_issues

Plus their software support was poor, even for the era.

AI Futures Project: Q1 2026 Timelines Update

scrlk — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:27:23 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.aifutures.org/p/q1-2026-timelines-update

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619732

Points: 2

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New comment by scrlk in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

scrlk — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:44:10 +0000

I transposed the table so that it's readable on mobile devices.

I should have mentioned that the Qwen 3.5 benchmarks were from the Qwen3.5-122B-A10B model card (which includes GPT-5-mini and GPT-OSS-120B); apologies for not including the smaller Qwen 3.5 models.

New comment by scrlk in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

scrlk — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:38:18 +0000

Comparison of Gemma 4 vs. Qwen 3.5 benchmarks, consolidated from their respective Hugging Face model cards:

    | Model          | MMLUP | GPQA  | LCB   | ELO  | TAU2  | MMMLU | HLE-n | HLE-t |
    |----------------|-------|-------|-------|------|-------|-------|-------|-------|
    | G4 31B         | 85.2% | 84.3% | 80.0% | 2150 | 76.9% | 88.4% | 19.5% | 26.5% |
    | G4 26B A4B     | 82.6% | 82.3% | 77.1% | 1718 | 68.2% | 86.3% |  8.7% | 17.2% |
    | G4 E4B         | 69.4% | 58.6% | 52.0% |  940 | 42.2% | 76.6% |   -   |   -   |
    | G4 E2B         | 60.0% | 43.4% | 44.0% |  633 | 24.5% | 67.4% |   -   |   -   |
    | G3 27B no-T    | 67.6% | 42.4% | 29.1% |  110 | 16.2% | 70.7% |   -   |   -   |
    | GPT-5-mini     | 83.7% | 82.8% | 80.5% | 2160 | 69.8% | 86.2% | 19.4% | 35.8% |
    | GPT-OSS-120B   | 80.8% | 80.1% | 82.7% | 2157 |  --   | 78.2% | 14.9% | 19.0% |
    | Q3-235B-A22B   | 84.4% | 81.1% | 75.1% | 2146 | 58.5% | 83.4% | 18.2% |  --   |
    | Q3.5-122B-A10B | 86.7% | 86.6% | 78.9% | 2100 | 79.5% | 86.7% | 25.3% | 47.5% |
    | Q3.5-27B       | 86.1% | 85.5% | 80.7% | 1899 | 79.0% | 85.9% | 24.3% | 48.5% |
    | Q3.5-35B-A3B   | 85.3% | 84.2% | 74.6% | 2028 | 81.2% | 85.2% | 22.4% | 47.4% |

    MMLUP: MMLU-Pro
    GPQA: GPQA Diamond
    LCB: LiveCodeBench v6
    ELO: Codeforces ELO
    TAU2: TAU2-Bench
    MMMLU: MMMLU
    HLE-n: Humanity's Last Exam (no tools / CoT)
    HLE-t: Humanity's Last Exam (with search / tool)
    no-T: no think

New comment by scrlk in "First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales"

scrlk — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:03:28 +0000

TI started production at their SM1 fab back in December 2025, which focuses on 28 nm to 130 nm.

Apple introduces age verification for iCloud accounts in the UK

scrlk — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:53:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/apple-introduces-age-verification-for-icloud-accounts-in-the-uk-115340237.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517373

Points: 5

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