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A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better"
Dmitry Grinberg published a long piece explaining his distaste for RISC-V, you can read his article here: RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better - Dmitry.GR. It went to the front page of Hacker News and it started a good argument on Lobsters. It is the most substantial criticism the architecture has had in a while and though I switched my entire stack away from STM32 and ARM to RISC-V and did a video on it about a year ago Goodbye STM32 ARM – Meet the CH32 RISC-V Chips That Replaced It! , part of me is infuriated because so much of what he said seems like a biased perspective.
Dmitry Grinberg published a long piece explaining his distaste for RISC-V, you can read his article here: RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better - Dmitry.GR. It went to the front page of Hacker News and it started a good argument on Lobsters. It is the most...
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Jane Street hit with $15B loss amid AI hedge fund meltdown
Jane Street's run of record revenue took a sharp turn in July: The trading firm recorded a roughly $15 billion loss, WebNovare reports, citing unnamed sources. Jane Street's worst month ever stemmed in part from exposure to Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness, which was forced to liquidate most of its portfolio following steep losses on AI stocks. Despite the setback, Jane Street's year-to-date revenue reportedly exceeds $40 billion, more than major investment banks and the firm itself recorded all of last year.
Jane Street, one of the world's largest trading firms, reportedly suffered a staggering $15 billion loss in July, turning what had been a record-breaking year into one of the most dramatic months in the firm's history. The loss would represent Jane Street's...
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SpaceX fortifies AI foothold with $60B Cursor deal
SpaceX officially owns Cursor after Elon Musk's juggernaut on Friday completed a $60 billion acquisition of the San Francisco-based coding startup. The deal, which was first announced in April, gives SpaceX a boost in its bid to compete with rivals Anthropic and OpenAI. Last month, SpaceX and Cursor debuted Grok 4.5, a joint model that specializes in coding, finance and legal tasks. Musk told SpaceX staff at a recent meeting that "AI will be 99% of the value of SpaceX" within about five years.
SpaceX has officially completed its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor, the artificial intelligence coding startup behind one of the fastest-growing developer tools in the industry. The transaction became effective on August 14, marking a major expansion of...
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Mistral OCR 4.1
Our latest OCR service powering our Document AI stack, with native paragraph-level bounding box extraction, structural block labels, and block-level confidence scores.
Our latest OCR service powering our Document AI stack, with native paragraph-level bounding box extraction, structural block labels, and block-level confidence scores. Source: mistral.ai (209 points, 83 comments) Hacker News discussion
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Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory
Play DONKEY.BAS in your browser — the classic IBM PC game by Bill Gates and Neil Konzen, for the 45th anniversary of the IBM PC.
Play DONKEY.BAS in your browser — the classic IBM PC game by Bill Gates and Neil Konzen, for the 45th anniversary of the IBM PC. Source: donkeybas.com (151 points, 59 comments) Hacker News discussion
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NP-Overrated
If you learned about NP-hard problems in university, your takeaway was probably this:
If you learned about NP-hard problems in university, your takeaway was probably this: Source: gruhn.me (77 points, 29 comments) Hacker News discussion
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Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast
Cerebras powers OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast in the OpenAI API, delivering frontier intelligence at real-time speeds for critical AI work.
Cerebras powers OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast in the OpenAI API, delivering frontier intelligence at real-time speeds for critical AI work. Source: cerebras.ai (316 points, 123 comments) Hacker News discussion
