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Amazon cracks down on 'CPU waste' among engineers as agentic AI crunch intensifies — CPU demand makes low-utilization EC2 instances a hot commodity [Updated] (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jake Roach | tags: amazon, capacity, cpus

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Amazon cracks down on 'CPU waste' among engineers as agentic AI crunch intensifies — CPU demand makes low-utilization EC2 instances a hot commodity (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jake Roach | tags: amazon, cpus, demand

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Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: free, instance, instances

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Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: free, instance, instances

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MacPaw taps Liquid AI to offer on-device inference to devs building for its app store (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-05 | by Ivan Mehta | tags: liquid ai, macpaw, eney

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AMD plummets 8% in premarket trading despite beating expectations (cnbc.com)

2026-08-05 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | tags: amd, nvidia, data center

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Building a Rust Inference Engine That Matches Llama.cpp (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | by Antonello Fratepietro | tags: ferrox, gguf, llama

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Netflix quietly unlocked 4K in Chrome, but you’ll need more than an update (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: netflix, chrome, windows

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Show HN: cMCP, deny an AI agent's tool call and get a signed receipt (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: cmcp, trusted execution environment, snowflake

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A less powerful Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip is now officially a thing (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: snapdragon 8 elite gen 5, qualcomm, redmi k100 pro

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16GB GPUs and 8-core CPUs officially become the most popular configs on Steam — Latest hardware survey shows modern gaming's growing hunger for more resources (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: gpu vram, steam hardware, amd resurgence

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Homebench – Benchmark local LLMs for speed, memory, and quality (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: llama.cpp, homebench, ollama

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Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | by John Goerzen | tags: kermit, c-kermit, ibm mainframes

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Show HN: Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | by Armature | tags: show hn, product analytics, agent sessions

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Andy Pavlo Joins ClickHouse to Establish ClickHouse Labs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: clickhouse, andypavlo, cplusplus

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CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: cpm‑386, cp/m‑68k, pc bios

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Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | by Pinterest Engineering | tags: kubernetes, pinterest, ray

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AMD's upcoming Zen 6 processors could fix microstutters and improve 1% lows in games — Next-gen CPUs tipped to feature per-core optimizations for thermal and power budgets (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: amd zen 6, ryzen 10000, cpuc performance control

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Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | by Simon Willison | tags: model context protocol, anthropic, mcp 2.0

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SpaceXAI says it will take a year to fully remove unpermitted gas turbines from its Mississippi data center (engadget.com)

2026-07-31 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | tags: spacex, spacexai, gas turbines

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Show HN: How to build and self-host a code review agent (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: tilde, ai agents, mcp servers

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SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-31 | by Tim De Chant | tags: spacex, xai, gas turbines

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30 years of CPUs at Tom’s Hardware — looking back on three decades of processors, from the Pentium II to Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jake Roach | tags: amd, intel, ryzen

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Tom’s Hardware’s 30th Anniversary — From Intel feuds and DIP switches to 30 years of unbiased testing (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Paul Alcorn | tags: intel, nvidia, 3dfx

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Save $900 on this RTX 5070 gaming PC from MSI in this limited-time Woot deal, now $1,399 — grab a huge saving on this Codex R2 rig with a 10-core Intel CPU, 32GB DDR5, and a 1TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Ben Stockton | tags: msi, rtx 5070, nvidia geforce

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New MCP Specification Addresses the Main Barrier To Enterprise Adoption (slashdot.org)

2026-07-30 | tags: mcp protocol, anthropic, stateless protocol

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New MCP specification addresses the main barrier to enterprise adoption (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: mcp specification, agentic ai foundation, anthropic

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With a stateless makeover, new MCP spec targets enterprise scale (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: mcp, agentic ai foundation, anthropic

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RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | by Mark Nottingham | tags: ietf, tcp, dns

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Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | by Laurentiu Raducu | tags: logic gates, cpu, chip builder