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The HN title does not reflect the title that OpenAI used. This is critical given that the work has not yet been peer reviewed.
Re:I Built a Drone with Only One Motor [video] on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:35PM (#50168973)
Rather than slap patents on it, he's open sourced it. This guy gets it.
Re:Mozilla Introduces Firefox Enterprise on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:10PM (#50078820)
Here's an easier way to view the release history: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/firefox-enterpris...
The linked wiki focuses on a new user agreement from January 2025. A link to the referenced article might have been more appropriate:

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Disney-New-user-agreement-allow...

As far as I can tell, this new user agreement only applies to Germany, at least for now.

Re:Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @09:52AM (#48279908)
It's not a Mega Drive-"Style" shoot-em-up, it is a Mega Drive shoot-em-up. 100% Mega Drive code, with a physical cartridge release planned for later this year. It runs on other platforms via emulation.
Re:Mo RAM, Mo Problems on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @08:21AM (#47933511)
It sounds like a problem related to memory interleaving. He doesn't say whether the memory modules are identical, my bet is that they differ. Could also be a poor performing motherboard.
Re:1-Bit Bonsai: The First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @11:43AM (#47767149)
Related paper

BitNet: Scaling 1-bit Transformers for Large Language Models (2023): https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11453

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