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Startup Recursive released Flint, a free coding model small enough to run on a laptop, built in under four months with heavy assistance from the company's automated research system, the Eureka Machine. The model is a mixture-of-experts design using 2.5 billion of its 40 billion parameters per task, and is available on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license.
Recursive, a new AI company led by CEO Richard Socher, has released an open-weight coding model called Flint. Socher says the model was developed using an internal system called the Eureka Machine, which automated much of the training pipeline, including new training methods, architectures, and chip-specific code optimizations, allowing a small team to build the model in a few months. Recursive has published benchmark scores claiming Flint outperforms similarly sized models on coding tasks.
An Ask HN post questions whether there's a viable small business in selling routers that ship with DD-WRT pre-installed, noting that similar open-source router products already exist, such as the GL.iNet Flint and OpenWrt One. The poster describes their own DIY setup of multiple DD-WRT-flashed routers and cites AI-estimated startup costs of roughly $125,000 to reach a prototype, including $30,000 for regulatory approval and $10,000-plus for engineering.
A new analysis argues that digital infrastructure—search engines, cloud platforms, and networks people rely on daily—should be designed, built, and maintained with the same rigor applied to physical infrastructure like water systems and power grids. It draws comparisons to failures such as Flint's water crisis and Puerto Rico's electrical grid collapse to illustrate what happens when essential systems are neglected.