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Sunday, 23 August 2026

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Hacker News
TechHacker Newsfelineflock

Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

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The same model can produce different outputs and even fail at tool calls depending on the attention backend, quantization level, and other runtime settings—it's not the model being dumber, but the implementation.

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Life & WorkHacker Newstosh

Scrap (2006)

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In Pittsburgh, scrap metal is a serious business — even a bathtub can vanish overnight, and living there means dealing with scavengers.

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Uncharted Territories
Society & IdeasUncharted TerritoriesTomas Pueyo

Uncharted Territories, the TV Series

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The author entered the Future Vision XPrize to create a sci-fi TV series that portrays technology positively, aiming to inspire real-world change.

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Life & WorkHacker Newsandsoitis

To become a better writer, read as much as you can

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The one golden rule for becoming a better writer is to read voraciously — it matters more than any writing class and literally rewires the brain.

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硅谷居士
Business & Product硅谷居士

倒霉的清华紫光

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Tsinghua Unigroup collapsed from over-expansion, but its subsidiary YMTC has surged on rising memory prices and could top a trillion yuan in market value—a classic case of 'Tsinghua stumbles, Wuhan feasts.'

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