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The New York State legislature passed a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, the first statewide ban of its kind if Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul signs it into law. Lawmakers behind the bill say it's meant to give policymakers time to understand the impact of large data centers on the environment and energy prices. […]
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Hey HN, Guanming and Bill here from General Instinct (https://general-instinct.com/).
After years of working in robotics, we kept running into the same problem: the best models never fit the hardware we actually had available.
The models that performed best were usually designed around datacenter assumptions: large GPUs, lots of memory bandwidth, and reliable network access. But most physical systems have the opposite constraints.
That led us down the path of figuring out how much of a frontier model could be preserved while still making it practical to run on edge hardware.
As part of that work, we recently open sourced InstinctRazor (https://github.com/General-Instinct/InstinctRazor)
One result we're excited about is compressing Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, a roughly 245 GB BF16 MoE model, into a 48 GiB GGUF. The resulting model is actually smaller than Gemma-4-26B-A4B while outperforming it on benchmarks like MMLU-Pro and GPQA-D etc. we preserve the parts that are always active (router, norms, Gated-DeltaNet/SSM layers, vision pathway, etc.) and quantize the routed experts much more aggressively. We then use on-policy distillation to recover capability lost during quantization.
The model can also run in a "small GPU" configuration where experts are streamed from system RAM. With an 8k context window, peak VRAM usage is around 7.6–8 GB.
If you're interested in the technical details, we wrote up the approach here (https://general-instinct.com/blog/frontier-moe-sub-4-bit)
We're especially interested in hearing from people deploying models onto robots or other edge devices. What models are you trying to run locally today? What has been the biggest bottleneck in getting them into production?
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Supabase, an example of an open source project becoming a fast-growing company, has greatly benefited from AI tools like Claude, Codex, and other vibe-coding platforms.
Even if you've done nothing wrong, it's never a good idea to hand your phone to the cops. But international travelers at American airports often have no choice - even if they're US citizens. When Minnesota labor organizer Janette Zahia Corcelius returned home from a three-week trip to Europe in late April, she was detained […]
The Logitech G512 X 98 lets you swap between mechanical and analog switches in an attempt to achieve the best of both worlds. Unfortunately, its solution isn't as well thought-out as I'd hoped.
Cybercriminals, part of a gang known as Silent Ransom Group, have sent people pretending to be IT support employees to law firms' offices, where the criminals have stolen data using USB drives or remote access tools.
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/the-u-s-military-quietly-turned-gps-into-a-global-numbers-station-evidence-suggests/
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Your trip starts impacting the planet before you even leave home. Here are a few pointers for keeping your footprint small.