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Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-21 | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB GPU → | tags: mini-agi, continual learning, byte-level language model

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>10x More Efficient Pretraining (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-08 | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card → | tags: pretraining, deepseek v4, scaling laws

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Government workers can officially waste time scrolling TikTok again (engadget.com)

2026-08-11 | by Karissa Bell | tags: tiktok, office of management and budget, byte dance

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Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: byte, gateway, page

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Google's HTTP/2 codec slows Envoy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: bits, bits bits, byte

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Show HN: Watch 14-Byte AI "brains" attempt to solve a 2D maze (Its hard) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: show hn, byte, minimio

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Converting Files into Minecraft Worlds (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: minecraft, byte layout, mcdata_rs

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My quest to see all of Tetris (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-02 | by Bill Grieser | get Tetris Puzzle Game → | tags: byte, game, input

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Reverse-engineering Codemasters' BIGF archive format in Ruby (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-30 | by David Silva | tags: binary, byte, bytes

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Senator Raises Alarms Over TikTok’s Handling of American Users’ Data (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-29 | get TikTok Data Privacy Guide → | tags: tik tok, oracle, byte dance

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AI performances and screenplays won't be eligible for Oscars (engadget.com)

2026-05-01 | by Will Shanklin | get AI Screenplay Writing Software → | tags: academy awards, val kilmer, ai-generated acting

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Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-17 | get BYTE Magazine Archive Collection → | tags: byte magazine, internet archive, in-browser bookreader

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Archive of Byte magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-17 | get Byte Magazine Archive Collection → | tags: internet archive, byte magazine, in-browser bookreader

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The Utopia of the Family Computer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-13 | get Nintendo Classic Mini → | tags: family computer, byte magazine, 1981

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The Mouse Programming Language on CP/M (2020) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-10 | tags: mouse programming language, cp/m, peter grogono

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The Mouse Programming Language on CP/M (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-10 | tags: mouse programming language, cp/m, peter grogono

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A Few Good Magazines From the 70s and 80s (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-02 | get Vintage Tech Magazines Collection → | tags: byte, trs-80, sun workstation

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Apple turns 50 with a legacy of reinventing the personal computer (techspot.com)

2026-04-02 | get Apple 50th Anniversary Mug → | tags: apple, apple-1, steve wozniak

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The smallest ELF executable (2021) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-01 | get Tiny ELF Executable Kit → | tags: elf, linux, byte

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Byte Magazine Archive 1975 to 1995 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-27 | tags: byte magazine, microcomputer, personal computers

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ByteDance’s Controversial AI Video Model Reportedly on Hold Globally Due to Copyright Disputes (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-14 | get AI Video Editing Software → | tags: byte dance, ai video model, copyright disputes

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Apple users in the US can no longer download ByteDance's Chinese apps (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-06 | get ByteDance → | tags: tiktok, byte dance, apple

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ByteDance’s AI Ambitions Are Being Hampered by Compute Restraints and Copyright Concerns (wired.com)

2026-03-05 | by Zeyi Yang | get ByteDance → | tags: byte dance, seedance 2.0, doubao

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Apple Blocks US Users From Downloading ByteDance’s Chinese Apps (wired.com)

2026-03-05 | by Zeyi Yang | get ByteDance → | tags: apple, tiktok, byte dance

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In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-04 | get Robot → | tags: maxell, floppy disk, pc mag

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Another Oracle outage is messing up US TikTok (theverge.com)

2026-03-03 | by Stevie Bonifield | get Instagram → | tags: oracle, tiktok, ashburn

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Bytedance's Upcoming Project Swan VR Headset Wants to Be the Computer Meta's Isn't Yet (cnet.com)

2026-03-02 | by See Full Bio | get Swan VR Headset → | tags: byte dance, pico project swan, mobile world congress

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What Happened to Fry's Electronics (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-25 | by Dave Farquhar | get Smartphones → | tags: fry's electronics, micro center, byte

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Seedance 2.0 might be gen AI video’s next big hope, but it’s still slop (theverge.com)

2026-02-24 | by Charles Pulliam-Moore | get AI Video Generator → | tags: byte dance, seedance 2.0, tom cruise

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It's been a big — but rocky — week for AI models from China. Here's what's happened (cnbc.com)

2026-02-14 | by Arjun Kharpal | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: alibaba rynnbrain, tiktok byte dance, openai sora