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Show HN: Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s

I built slotstream, a way to run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 4-bit on a low-memory mac starting from 16GB, a 125B parameter model that would need 100GB+ memory/RAM, thanks to expert-offloading/ssd-streaming. Easy to install/update, and mac-native using MLX and Swift. It ships with auto-mode, which makes a good tradeoff between memory usage and speed. I'll be implementing and porting the MTP module for speculative decoding next Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524447 Points: 16...
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Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development

Hey HN, I’m Antonio from Nori Robotics ( https://norirobotics.com ). We build a $1,688 bimanual mobile robot in San Francisco for robotics developers and researchers. I started working on Nori while doing robotics research at Columbia. I was teaching robots through human demonstrations, but getting my hands on affordable hardware was difficult. Most labs have one or two expensive robots, which makes it hard to collect large datasets, run long experiments, or test across several robots. So I buil...
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The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC

Article URL: https://ersc.io/blog/martin-joins-ersc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525297 Points: 202 # Comments: 155
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Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

What's new in Claude Fable 5.1 – https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/fable-5-1/whats-n... System Card: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/0339e6a7c5c7b87f5c07798616dc32... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525378 Points: 993 # Comments: 931
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Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope

Article URL: https://tomverbeure.github.io/2026/08/23/Tektronix-TDS7104-Refurbishing.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527232 Points: 99 # Comments: 48
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Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?"

Hi! Every month the "Who Wants to Be Hired?" and "Who's Hiring?" Threads come through I would think to myself, "there should be a match maker for these two threads". So I had abacus.ai whip one up. The methodology is pretty simple, data is extracted from posts using an LLM, score matches based on salary, domain experience, remote/onsite, etc., and then eliminate incompatible postings, like 'looking for remote work' and 'onsite only'. The result is two views: jobs-by-user and user-by-jobs. If you...
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Fluorescent lamps (don't) have ears

Article URL: https://blog.coredump.cx/p/fluorescent-lamps-dont-have-ears Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49528366 Points: 36 # Comments: 8
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My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini

Article URL: https://lws.io/blog/my-local-model-setup/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529132 Points: 96 # Comments: 44
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FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529621 Points: 55 # Comments: 9
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The efficient frontier of LLM inference

Article URL: https://www.baseten.co/blog/the-efficient-frontier-of-llm-inference/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529898 Points: 61 # Comments: 9
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Anthropic banned me for "suspicious signals"

Article URL: https://kix.codes/anthropic-banned-me-for-suspicious-signals/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49530298 Points: 20 # Comments: 9
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True Rate of Unemployment

Article URL: https://www.lisep.org/tru Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49530989 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
The Range Rover Electric: Specs, Price, Availability
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The Range Rover Electric: Specs, Price, Availability

After long delays, JLR’s biggest gamble with its Range Rover brand is here with huge performance, range, and off-road EV skills. It’s mighty pricey, but the US gets a cheaper model.
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On first listen, the Sonos Beam Ultra sounds great

Sonos unveiled a bunch of new stuff today at its open house event. There's the $699 Beam Ultra soundbar and the $449 Ace Ultra headphones, plus several under-the-hood app updates (some coming sooner than others). While the show floor was a less than ideal venue to judge audio quality of either new product, a private […]
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OpenAI delayed its new model’s development after the Hugging Face hack

After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Astra, in order to shore up its safety work, the company wrote Tuesday in a blog post. In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its restricted environment, finagled its way into […]
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Lenovo’s 2-in-1 Yoga 7i is a great Labor Day deal at $750

Best Buy is celebrating Labor Day all week long with big deals, including a deep discount on the Lenovo Yoga 7i 2-in-1, taking its original $1,1199.99 price down to $749.99. It’s a capable configuration for the price, with a Core 7 Ultra 256V processor, 16GB of LPDDR5X memory, and a 512GB SSD. The IPS touchscreen […]
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Apple Maps follows Google in renaming Lake Ontario

Apple Maps has officially changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The company joins Google in re-labeling the Great Lake following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in the midst of a trade dispute with Canada. The Canadian version of Apple Maps still shows "Lake Ontario" […]