Ten Takes on DeepSeek by paulpauper

Yes, DeepSeek is impressive. But the buzz around DeepSeek is potentially more impressive – not since GPT4 have I seen a single AI model take the entire world by storm. Rarely in my life have I seen as many bad takes. It’s time to go through some of the hype and set the record straight.

ByHackTechFebruary 2, 20250Comments

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It takes 3k sheep to maintain solar panels on rural land by speckx

When one of the world’s largest solar power plants was installed near his home in Texas, sheepherder JR Howard never imagined it would become a lucrative opportunity for his sheep business. Context. Despite being the U.S.’s top oil producer, Texas has made one of the nation’s strongest commitments to renewable energy, even surpassing California in

ByHackTechJanuary 27, 20250Comments

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PostgreSQL Takes a New Turn by unripe_syntax

When PostgreSQL started, its uses were relatively niche, said Jonathan Katz of Amazon Web Services in this episode of The New Stack Makers. Today, its uses are widespread across applications and workloads, said Katz, a principal product manager and technical lead at Amazon RDS and a core team member at Amazon Web Services on the

ByHackTechNovember 9, 20230Comments

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Toyota Takes Aim at EVs with Ammonia Engine by rbanffy

Over the years, Toyota has made quite a buzz for its alternative energy ideas, and forward-thinking fueling goals. Does anyone recall that hydrogen-powered 5.0-liter V8 RC-F engine that Toyota commissioned a couple of years back? Yeah, pretty forward-thinking stuff indeed. But hydrogen engines and (yawn) hybrid motors aren’t the only things that Toyota is dabbling in.

ByHackTechOctober 17, 20230Comments

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California takes first step in acquiring trains for High-Speed Rail by thunderbong

ByHackTechAugust 29, 20230Comments

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It Takes Long to Become Gaussian by kqr

There’s a popular LessWrong post about how quickly the central limit theorem overpowers the original shape of a distirbution. In some cases, that is true – but the conclusion of the article concerns me: This helps explain how carefree people can be in assuming the clt applies, sometimes even when they haven’t looked at the

ByHackTechJuly 20, 20230Comments

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Ask HN: Why does favoriting a post takes me to list of my favorite posts? by ketanmaheshwari

I would expect (and want) that favoriting a post just marks that post as my favorite and let me read the discussions. However, I end up visiting list of my favorite posts and then I need to come back to that post again. Am I doing something wrong? Feels counterintuitive.

ByHackTechMay 11, 20230Comments

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So many bad takes. Learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story by mparnisari

Excerpt from Serverless First deck first published in 2019The Prime Video team published this story: Scaling up the audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%, and the internet piled in with opinions and bad takes, mostly missing the point. What the team did follows the advice I’ve been giving for years (here’s a video

ByHackTechMay 7, 20230Comments

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Njalla takes control over customer domains by m1guelpf

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ByHackTechMarch 26, 20230Comments

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China takes extreme measures to keep teens off TikTok by mgl

China Report is MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. As I often say, the American people and the Chinese people have much more in common than either side likes to admit. For example, take the shared concern about how much time children and teenagers

ByHackTechMarch 11, 20230Comments

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