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Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | by Simon Edwardsson | tags: midi, rolltab, iphone 15

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Microgpt in pure C hits 10M tps on Apple m5 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: microgpt, apple m5, c programming

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Qwen 3.8 27B (news.ycombinator.com)

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

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The Download: the next big thing in LLMs and how AI academic research is shifting (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-11 | by Thomas Macaulay | tags: llm, transformers, schmidt sciences

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These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-10 | by Will Douglas Heaven | tags: transformers, large language models, subquadratic

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An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: esp32-s3, tinyml, qapla

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Our favorite memories at the movies (theverge.com)

2026-08-04 | by Tc Sottek | tags: imax, spider-man, transformers

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TokenTown: A visual way to understand how LLMs work (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: transformer model, tokenization, attention

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Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-Design (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: transformer, robot co-design, diffusion guidance

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Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Max (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: kimi k3, apple silicon, m1 max

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Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Mac (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: kimi k3, apple silicon, m1 max

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The ‘Transformers: The Movie’ 40th Anniversary Concert Was a Pure Shot of Nostalgia (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: transformers, san diego comic-con, nostalgia

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AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-23 | by Julie Bort | tags: etched, ai chip, sequoia

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The Must-Have Exclusives From San Diego Comic-Con 2026 (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: transformers, godzilla, hot wheels

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Hasbro and Scooby Doo team up for one of the goofiest Transformers yet (engadget.com)

2026-07-07 | by Sam Rutherford | get Transformers x Scooby-Doo Figure → | tags: hasbro, scooby, scooby doo

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14× faster embeddings: how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manticore (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-03 | get ONNX Runtime for Manticore → | tags: onnx, manticore, sentencetransformers

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Is One Layer Enough? A Single Transformer Layer Matches Full-Parameter RL Train (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-02 | get Transformer Model Starter Kit → | tags: transformer, reinforcement learning, one layer

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Shark's new PowerDetect Transformer turns into three different types of vacuum (engadget.com)

2026-06-30 | by Mariella Moon | get Shark Vertex Cordless Vacuum → | tags: shark, powerdetect, transformer

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Shark's New Transformer Vacuum Breaks Down Into Three Different Vacuums (cnet.com)

2026-06-30 | by See Full Bio | get Shark Rocket Pet Pro → | tags: shark, powerdetect, ninja

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Generating Images with a 2025 Android (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-30 | get Android Image Generator Tool → | tags: android, samsung galaxy s25+, prismml

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Is your phone charger wasting electricity when it's not charging? (engadget.com)

2026-06-26 | by Lawrence Bonk | get Smart Power Strip → | tags: phone charger, standby power, energy consumption

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OpenAI debuts Jalapeño, its first custom AI chip to cut ChatGPT costs and reduce Nvidia dependency (techspot.com)

2026-06-25 | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: openai, jalapeño, chatgpt

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OpenAI debuts Jalapeño, a custom chip built to cut ChatGPT costs and reduce Nvidia reliance (techspot.com)

2026-06-25 | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: openai, jalapeño, nvidia

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DiffusionBench: Towards Holistic Evaluation of Generative Diffusion Transformers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-24 | get Diffusion Model Art Prints → | tags: diffusionbench, diffusion transformers, imagenet

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Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-23 | by Sangwu Lee | tags: krea 2, diffusion models, image generation

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Krea 2 Technical Report (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-23 | by Sangwu Lee | tags: krea 2, diffusion models, image generation

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Overfitted a 900KB Transformer to Compress a 100MB CSV into 7MB (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-23 | get Transformer Data Compression Kit → | tags: transformer, arithmetic coding, enwik9

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Unlimited OCR: One-shot long-horizon parsing (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-23 | get OCR Text Scanner App → | tags: unlimited-ocr, modelscope, huggingface transformers

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Keanu Reeves Is Helping to Build a New Lego Movie (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-22 | get LEGO Star Wars Building Kit → | tags: keanu reeves, lego movie, toy story 4

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LLMs Are Complicated Now (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | by .Wp-Block-Post-Author-Name Box-Sizing Border-Box | get GPT-4 AI Language Model → | tags: meta, llama, transformer