The CPU’s growing role in agentic AI infrastructure

Modern AI infrastructure, particularly in the realm of agentic AI, is often discussed through the lens of accelerators, model sizes, and training clusters. However, making large-scale agentic AI systems functional relies heavily on the CPU within these pipelines. As...

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A Look at a Gaggle of Transputer Boards

A long time before Beowulf clusters wired up with commodity Ethernet hardware became a hobbyist thing and a running joke, the transputer took a swing at a very similar architecture. This used stand-alone computers that were networked together with other transputer...

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Why busywork is fooling leaders

In 2025, Cambridge Dictionary added over 6,000 new words. One of them was “mouse jiggler”—a device or piece of software used to make it seem as though a computer mouse is moving so that it seems as though you are working when you are not. It’s a telling addition to...

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A More Convenient iButton Reader

iButtons are microchips housed in small, round, metal containers, and are similar to coin cell batteries in appearance. Among other things, they’re used for logging data in industrial contexts, particularly where it’s desirable to track parameters like temperature...

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Ask HN: Where is our profession (programmer) going?

I had been running a small (3 people) software company for about 4 years. Since closing down, I recently hung out at a friend's company to see what they were working on (15 ppl). To preface: I'm a heavy user of Claude (rarely write code by hand), but what I'm seeing...

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Writers and Drugs

Article URL: https://lithub.com/are-writers-intrinsically-vulnerable-to-alcohol-and-drugs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667853 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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LineShine Is Fastest Supercomputer at Over 2 Exaflops

There is a phenomenon where as you get older, your sense of scale becomes somewhat fixed in the earlier era that shaped you– things like expecting the Dollar Store to carry items for 1$, or to get a burger and fries for less than twenty bucks– or, in this case,...

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