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121.

Approximating Hyperbolic Tangent (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-22 | by Tom Schroeder | get Hyperbolic Tangent Calculator → | tags: tanh, neural networks, ieee-754

122.

Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-22 | by John Higgins | get Anker AI Power Bank → | tags: anker, thus processor, soundcore

123.

Nvidia backs AI company Vast Data at $30 billion valuation (cnbc.com)

2026-04-22 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: nvidia, vast data, coreweave

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Google unveils chips for AI training and inference in latest shot at Nvidia (cnbc.com)

2026-04-22 | by Jordan Novet | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: nvidia, google tpu, ai chips

125.

Anker's 'Thus' chip brings AI to its headphones and other products (engadget.com)

2026-04-22 | get Anker Soundcore Bluetooth Headphones → | tags: anker, thus chip, compute-in-memory

126.

Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products (theverge.com)

2026-04-22 | by John Higgins | get Anker AI Power Bank → | tags: anker, thus processor, soundcore

127.

Types and Neural Networks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-21 | by Bruno Gavranovic | get Neural Network Starter Kit → | tags: neural networks, large language models, idris

128.

4-bit floating point FP4 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-18 | by John Cook | get FP4 Floating Point Emulator → | tags: fp4, floating point, neural networks

129.

Could This AI-Simulated Brain Lead to Human Mind-Uploading? (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-16 | get Neuralink Brain-Computer Interface → | tags: brain simulation, mind-uploading, human consciousness

130.

Epicycles All the Way Down (2025) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-16 | by Rohit Krishnan | tags: llm, neural networks, poker

131.

Epicycles All the Way Down (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-16 | by Rohit Krishnan | tags: large language models, neural networks, poker strategy

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Show HN: MacMind – A transformer neural network in HyperCard on a 1989 Macintosh (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-16 | get Vintage Macintosh Emulator Software → | tags: hypercard, hypertalk, macintosh

133.

This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts (wired.com)

2026-04-16 | by Emily Mullin | get NeuroSky MindWave Mobile → | tags: brain-computer interface, neuralink, sabi

134.

"TotalRecall Reloaded" tool finds a side entrance to Windows 11's Recall database (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-15 | get Windows 11 Recovery Toolkit → | tags: windows 11, microsoft, recall

135.

Study: Back-to-basics approach can match or outperform AI in language analysis (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-15 | by Joe Stafford | get AI Language Analysis Book → | tags: lambdag, university of manchester, ai systems

136.

Brain–machine interface reveals the origin of a widely used neural signal (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-15 | get Neural Signal Recording Headset → | tags: brain–machine interface, neural signal, nature.com

137.

Composable neural emulators accelerate thermoelectric generator design (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-15 | by Li | get Neural Network Emulator Kit → | tags: comsol, tegnet, pytorch

138.

Max Hodak’s Science Corp. is preparing to place its first sensor in a human brain (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-14 | by Tim Fernholz | get Brain-Computer Interface Kit → | tags: neuralink, max hodak, brain-computer interface

139.

What It’s Like to Live With an Experimental Brain Implant (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-04-14 | by Edd Gent | get Neurostimulator Brain Implant → | tags: brain implant, robotic arm, neural signals

140.

Veteran Windows dev shows off AI running on 47-year-old PDP11 with 6 MHz CPU and 64KB of RAM — 'gloriously absurd' project runs transformer model written in PDP-11 assembly language (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-14 | by Mark Tyson | get Vintage PDP-11 Emulator Kit → | tags: pdp-11, neural network, transformers

141.

You Should Be More Freaked Out by Shingles (wired.com)

2026-04-13 | by Rosie Taylor | get Shingles Vaccine → | tags: shingles, herpes zoster, varicella zoster

142.

Did Neuralink make the wrong bet? (theverge.com)

2026-04-13 | by Elissa Welle | get Neuralink Brainwave Headset → | tags: neuralink, brain-computer interfaces, elon musk

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Benchmarking Nvidia's RTX Neural Texture Compression tech that can reduce VRAM usage by over 80% (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-11 | by Dan Mateescu | get Nvidia RTX Neural Texture Book → | tags: nvidia, rtx, neural texture compression

144.

Cooperative Vectors Introduction (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-10 | get Vector Mathematics Textbook → | tags: neural networks, vulkan cooperative matrix, neural radiance caching

145.

The Training Example Lie Bracket (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-09 | tags: neural networks, gradient descent, vector fields

146.

Author Correction: Foundation model of neural activity predicts response to new stimulus types (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-08 | by Wang | get Neural Activity Prediction Kit → | tags: conv-lstm, cvt-lstm, neural activity

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Intel introduces its own Neural Compression technology with a fallback mode that works on GPUs without dedicated AI cores — early performance is on the level of Nvidia NTC (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-07 | by Aaron Klotz | get Intel Neural Compression Kit → | tags: intel, neural compression, nvidia ntc

148.

Principles of Mechanical Sympathy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-07 | by Caer Sanders | get Mechanical Sympathy Book → | tags: google, wayfair, cryptographic protocols

149.

Intel joins Nvidia in pushing neural texture compression, can shrink game assets by up to 18x (techspot.com)

2026-04-07 | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 40 Series → | tags: intel, nvidia, neural texture compression

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AI breakthrough cuts energy use by 100x while boosting accuracy (sciencedaily.com)

2026-04-06 | get AI Energy Efficiency Kit → | tags: neural-symbolic ai, chatgpt, gemini