GoKawiil - Tech News

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Benchmarking Pocket-Scale Inference (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-27 | tags: liquid ai, inference, mobile phones

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Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-22 | tags: llm, gpu, inference

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Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: shoehorn, hugging face, llama.cpp

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Qwen 3.8 27B (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: qwen, transformers, fp8 quantization

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Qwen 3.8 27B is out: open weights, best local dense model yet (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: qwen, qwen 3.8, hugging face

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Compression is prediction (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | by Annie Sexton | tags: compression, language models, quantization

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Compression Is Prediction (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | by Annie Sexton | tags: compression, language models, quantization

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Show HN: Cactus Hybrid: We taught Gemma 4 to know when it's wrong (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: gemma 4, cactus hybrid, huging face

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The 4-Bitter Lesson: Balancing Stability and Performance in NVFP4 RL (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-10 | tags: backward, backward pass, pass

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Asymmetric Quantization: Near-Lossless Retrieval with 97% Storage Reduction (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-29 | by Mixedbread Team | get Quantization Neural Network Kit → | tags: wholembed, silo, asymmetric quantization

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Integer Quantization: Deep Dive (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-18 | by Anwaar Khalid | get TensorFlow Lite Model Kit → | tags: transformer quantization, integer quantization, fp16

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KVarN: Native vLLM KV-cache quantization back end by Huawei (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-04 | get Huawei Cloud AI Server → | tags: vllm, kv-cache, huawei

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Show HN: I successfully failed at one-shot-ing a video codec like h.264 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-04 | get H.264 Codec Developer Kit → | tags: sinter video codec, claude agent teams, lapped transforms

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Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’ (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-25 | by Sarah Perez | get AI Memory Compression Device → | tags: google, turboquant, pied piper

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Google's TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-25 | get AI Compression Toolkit → | tags: google research, turboquant, large language models

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Google says new TurboQuant compression can lower AI memory usage without sacrificing quality (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-25 | get AI Memory Optimization Toolkit → | tags: google research, turboquant, large language models

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Quantization from the Ground Up (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-25 | by Sam Rose | get Deep Learning Quantization Kit → | tags: ngrok, qwen-3-coder-next, large language models

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TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-25 | get TurboTax Deluxe Software → | tags: turboquant, ai models, vector quantization