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1195 points by nateb2022 · 467 comments
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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NitpickLawyer: This will be interesting for a few reasons. First, depending on where the median pricing settles w/ 3rd party providers will tell us what it costs to serve a 3T model. Since it's going to be mxfp4 native, it'll take ~1.
rushingcreek: Many people are talking about price, but I think that the most interesting aspect of this release, by far, is customization. Any startup can download the weights, tinker with them, and fine-tune them.
MeProtozoan: It is online on https://app.fireworks.ai/models/fireworks/kimi-k3 (Uncached Input $3.00/M Cached Input $0.30/M Output $15.00/M)
dilliwal: from the license: If the Licensee or any of its affiliates operates a Model as a Service business, and the aggregate revenue of the Licensee and its affiliates exceeds 20 million US dollars (or the equivalent in other currencies) in total over any consecutive 12 months, the Licen...
867 points by jonbaer · 84 comments
An independent, non-commercial educational visualization of PostgreSQL internals. Not affiliated with Electronic Arts.
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layoric: I love what is trying to be done here. Some feedback to improve would be to cut out a lot of the noise with the "Take tour". There are too many boxes and things changing on the screen to get a sense of what is happening.
seeken: This is really cool to look at. A couple weeks ago I started vibe-coding a Doom for Beam which will allow you to 'run around' a beam VM as a factory floor and see the modules and functions, how they are connected, how 'hot' they are running, and whether they're throwing sparks.
narmiouh: I imagined as soon I saw the initial visual that I would somehow be able to enter a query and it would walk me through the flow through the entire system starting from input parsing to all the way to delivering output and perhaps along the way understand some of the autonomous pr...
willquack: This is very similar to what I imagine whenever I get into a deep focus state debugging a program in gdb... I would love to experience debugging a program in VR with graphics like this,,, there would be no better way to learn a codebase.
384 points by tomlockwood · 292 comments
I think it’s important to be very Canny when someone makes a claim that supports a company’s large valuation.
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Jarred: Bun’s Rust rewrite shipped in Claude Code over a month ago and barely anyone noticed. Claude Code is widely used. The Rust rewrite is going well overall. In the Bun v1.4 video, I promised a certain number of newly passing Node.
SquareWheel: I'm not sure how much insight we can glean from looking at the number of commits and release cadence here. In the aftermath of such a major refactor/rewrite, I would expect it to take some time to get back up to their usual development speed.
benjiro29: I really do not understand how software developer think anymore. Using a LLM to translate a project in a short time, is by itself incredible. Just like one-shot whatever office clone.
bendmorris: As a comparison point, someone decided to try to fix the issues in the Zig original and is now claiming sub-second build times, plus fixed bugs, by modernizing the codebase and sticking with best practices - indicating that all of the issues that justified the rewrite were self-i...
342 points by vinhnx · 141 comments
Open Frontier Intelligence. Contribute to MoonshotAI/Kimi-K3 development by creating an account on GitHub.
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GodelNumbering: Back of the envelope calculation (could be off, correct me if I am) If you are a large enough company that spends million+ on inference a month, it makes sense to buy a GB300 rack ($6M on top range from what I could find) which has 20.7 TB.
m_ke: Also open sourced a bunch of infra to go with it. Anyone who claims open source and open weights models are "decel" needs to get their head checked https://github.com/MoonshotAI/MoonEP https://github.com/kvcache-ai/AgentEnv https://github.com/MoonshotAI/FlashKDA
fahrradflucht: License: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3/blob/main/LICENSE > If the Licensee or any of its affiliates operates a Model as a Service business, and the aggregate revenue of the Licensee and its affiliates exceeds 20 million US dollars (or the equivalent in other currencie...
eamag: > we build a self-evolving, hierarchically organized knowledge graph that agents continuously expand through web-scale exploration across knowledge-intensive and coding domains That's interesting!
217 points by doener · 146 comments
Decathlon Germany is the first market in its group to offer the Wero payment system, with store rollout and a customer campaign planned for 2026.
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anticrymactic: Wero is such a valuable asset for Europe and couldn't have come at a better time. It's built on the excellent SEPA system, which standardized bank transfers and "Lastschrift" in Europe.
vmaurin: > The Wero app can be installed on any mobile device or tablet running iOS 17.4 or later, or Android 9 or later. We recommend updating your device to the latest version of its operating system for maximum performance and security.
jabiko: I recently bought something from fahrrad.de and was surprised to see Wero as an payment option. I don't know what I expected, but scanning the QR code and acknowledging the payment in my banking app worked without any issues.
sireat: Decathlon is pretty neat and technologically advanced actually, so not surprising news for them to adopt Wero. In eastern European stores they use RFID for every product, so you just throw stuff in a bin without scanning and can self check faster than usual self scan.
197 points by surprisetalk · 179 comments
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wodenokoto: > why would you clean them when you're about to sell the house? So they look good and the potential buyer sees something that looks to be in good condition and working well.
tpoindex: I have a 19 year-old, roof mounted, 6.3 kW nominal system in two arrays (east/west facing), 40 deg. north. I've never washed the panels outside of rain and occasional hail storm "scrubbing". Replaced a failed inverter two years ago.
rcxdude: Re: the slightly strange shape of the curve. The drop at the beginning could be due to the matching between the panels getting worse. Solar panels in a bank don't like being in different conditions.
jillesvangurp: Was just watching a video about a guy who has a boat that runs on solar power that he drove all the way from Finland to the Mediterranean in Winter. Obviously in the winter he was charging his batteries using shore power.
186 points by Ralfp · 127 comments
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james2doyle: I actually tried to use HTMX on a site recently. I used the 4.0 beta. The site needed an interactive filterable product-listing-page-type experience to list out all their vendors. Form filters on the left and the list of results "cards" on the right.
snorremd: I think HTMX is a great fit for forum software. Forum websites mostly deliver non-interactive content in the form of text and maybe some audio, video, or image content. All of this can be represented as HTML and CSS.
prologic: I basically use HTMX for all my Web Apps, including PWA(s) that run as ~near native apps on iOS/Android. It's great! I aso pair this with DaisyUI+TailwindCSS. YOu really can't go wrong, there is something quite pleasant about writing your web apps in ordinary HTML with partials a...
rubylimetea: As others mentioned, not great for rich interactivity. Example: Render a scrollable list and you need to change contents of the li items mid scroll - it resets the scroll position to the top because of how it replaced the entire HTML on render.
179 points by migmartri · 93 comments
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gste: > Data. Our deepest advantage. Decades of building world-class security systems now give us trillions of daily signals across identity, endpoint, cloud, and network, and an unmatched record of real exploits and remediations. No one can manufacture this history.
zurfer: It looks cool but how can I use it? Somehow i don't want to go hunting for access through the rabbit hole that is Microsofts Corporate blog.
bonoboTP: Poking one hole in the walls will always be easier than guarding the entire frontier. To defend properly, you need either either much more formally mathematically verified layers, or always-on online monitoring and intrusion detection running alongside the service.
144 points by andros · 66 comments
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teddyh: More people should be aware of their history. This text made the rounds in the late 1990s as spam was starting to become a problem. Everybody and their dog had their own “ultimate solution” to the spam problem, which they all thought was obviously the correct one, but all of the...
jerf: I would advise reconsidering keeping the current format exactly. Something that would allow conventional email addresses to kept in a list that disambiguates them unambiguously would probably be a good idea. You don't want to embed the entire email in JSON.
8organicbits: I think the network effects make email hard to replace, virtually everyone online has an email address. If this could include a migration path, with backwards compatibility with SMTP, I think it would have a better shot of getting adoption.
amelius: > First-contact consent: an unknown sender doesn't get into the mailbox; they land in a "requests" box with their first message visible (like Signal's message requests). You accept, and the thread opens forever.
141 points by klaussilveira · 16 comments
Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines - libsm64/libsm64
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schmeichel: This is one of my favorite libraries from the premise alone. Here is an example of Mario in Half-Life 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld3qhqkegNw
pizzathyme: This is incredible. This was the promise of the proclamations of "the metaverse" or interchangeable crypto game items/characters, but is using none of those things. Like Ready Player One come to life without the hype. Curious how easy the setup is for gamers who are non-engineers
dev0p: Wrap it in an API, sell Mario 64 as a service. (@Nintendo: this is a joke, you can put down the rifle)
ParadisoShlee: Any demo videos? or just need to imagine it? found this: https://youtu.be/NXpOCfg8O64
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