FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs(twitter.com)

304 points by gslin 3 years ago | 244 comments

State-of-the-Art Chatbot, Vicuna-7B, now runs on MacBook with GPU acceleration(twitter.com)

81 points by weichiang 3 years ago | 54 comments

Neural networks in the 1990s(twitter.com)

122 points by jrott 3 years ago | 75 comments

Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10(twitter.com)

388 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 332 comments

Tweet by Łukasz Langa noting Meta's Threads backend runs on Python 3.10 via Instagram's Cinder fork with a JIT, lazy imports, and other tweaks.

Apple should re-release Safari for Windows(twitter.com)

53 points by cacozen 3 years ago | 39 comments

Llama.cpp can do 40 tok/s on M2 Max, 0% CPU usage, using all 38 GPU cores(twitter.com)

40 points by samwillis 3 years ago | 9 comments

Why I love FreeBSD(it-notes.dragas.net)

485 points by enz 7 months ago | 246 comments

A personal blog post on the IT Notes site explaining why the author loves the FreeBSD operating system.

Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again(jsteuernagel.de)

376 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 148 comments

A personal blog post describing how the author switched to FreeBSD to make self-hosting enjoyable again after feeling burned out on their previous setup.

A Love Letter to FreeBSD(tara.sh)

401 points by rbanffy 10 months ago | 266 comments

A personal blog post written as a love letter to FreeBSD, praising its coherent base system, boot environments, and long-term stability.

FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me(vladimir.varank.in)

387 points by varankinv 8 months ago | 311 comments

Blog post describing how the author used AI coding tools to build a FreeBSD Wi-Fi driver for the Broadcom BCM4350 chip in a 2016 MacBook Pro.

A year of funded FreeBSD development(daemonology.net)

370 points by cperciva 1 year ago | 121 comments

Colin Percival's blog post reflecting on a year of Amazon-sponsored work on FreeBSD, including EC2 support and release engineering duties.

OpenBSD Developers Reject Uutils Coreutils(news.lavx.hu)

23 points by pjmlp 22 days ago | 11 comments

News article reporting that OpenBSD developers rejected a port of the Rust-based uutils coreutils, citing licensing and compatibility concerns.