Hacker News with Generative AI: Efficiency

Implement Your Language Twice (futhark-lang.org)
One of the challenges you face when programming is figuring out what your program will do when you run it.

Programming Languages, Software Development, Efficiency

16 points by birdculture 12 hours ago | 0 comments

A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers (alexwlchan.net)
I store a lot of data in SQLite databases on remote servers, and I often want to copy them to my local machine for analysis or backup.

Databases, SQLite, Efficiency, Data Management, Remote Servers

506 points by ingve 8 days ago | 196 comments

Rigor and Urgency (blueberrypediatrics.blog)
Blueberry is a 24/7 clinic startup. We need to move fast and not break things. This requires us to have a disciplined balance of rigor and urgency.

Startup Culture, Healthcare, Efficiency, Agile Development

11 points by kierangill 16 days ago | 0 comments

JEDEC finalizes HBM4 memory standard with major bandwidth and efficiency upgrade (tomshardware.com)

JEDEC, Memory Standards, Hardware, Bandwidth, Efficiency

3 points by ksec 20 days ago | 0 comments

Microsoft’s “1‑bit” AI model runs on a CPU only, while matching larger systems (arstechnica.com)
Future AI might not need supercomputers thanks to models like BitNet b1.58 2B4T.

Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Hardware, Efficiency

4 points by LinuxBender 21 days ago | 2 comments

Microsoft researchers developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft researchers claim they’ve developed the largest-scale 1-bit AI model, also known as a “bitnet,” to date.

Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft, Research, Hardware, Efficiency

146 points by libpcap 22 days ago | 64 comments

Work Simplification and the History of Government Efficiency and Management (governance.fyi)
Dave Deek: Okay, recording has started. How's your week been going?

Government, Efficiency, History, Management

17 points by RetiredRichard 30 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: For those who want to stay informed without reading 10 articles (worldpulsenow.com)
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News Aggregation, Information Consumption, Efficiency, Time Management, News Summarization

10 points by x110 38 days ago | 3 comments

Tao: Using test-time compute to train efficient LLMs without labeled data (databricks.com)

Generative AI, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Efficiency

29 points by chriskanan 44 days ago | 2 comments

Better Shell History Search (tratt.net)
I spend an awful lot of my day in Unix terminals running shell commands. For some reason, the variance in efficiency between different people when using the shell is huge: I know people who can run rings around me, and I’ve come across more than one paid professional who doesn’t use the “up” key to retrieve the previous command.

Shell, Unix, Efficiency, Productivity, Command Line

213 points by ltratt 44 days ago | 93 comments

LED's Efficiency Exceeds 100% (2012) (phys.org)
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that an LED can emit more optical power than the electrical power it consumes.

LEDs, Physics, Efficiency, Energy

42 points by thunderbong 50 days ago | 34 comments

AutoHete: An Automatic and Efficient Heterogeneous Training System for LLMs (arxiv.org)
Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in sequence modeling and text generation, with improvements scaling proportionally with model size.

Generative AI, Machine Learning, Efficiency, Research

44 points by PaulHoule 55 days ago | 0 comments

Command A (cohere.com)
Command A is on par or better than GPT-4o and DeepSeek-V3 across agentic enterprise tasks, with significantly greater efficiency.

AI, Generative AI, Benchmarking, Efficiency

3 points by saikatsg 55 days ago | 0 comments

Command A: Max performance, minimal compute – 256k context window (cohere.com)
Command A is on par or better than GPT-4o and DeepSeek-V3 across agentic enterprise tasks, with significantly greater efficiency.

Generative AI, Performance, Efficiency, Enterprise Applications

77 points by lastdong 56 days ago | 19 comments

Cohere's minimal compute new LLM (cohere.com)
Command A is on par or better than GPT-4o and DeepSeek-V3 across agentic enterprise tasks, with significantly greater efficiency.

Generative AI, AI, Efficiency

10 points by Knajjars 57 days ago | 1 comments

AMD EPYC 9845 Makes for a Persuasive Upgrade with Performance and Efficiency (phoronix.com)
With the new AMD EPYC 9005 processors there are SKUs up to 500 Watt with the likes of the EPYC 9965 flagship at 192 cores for Turin Dense cores or 128 Turin classic cores with the EPYC 9755. But for those looking at upgrading from an existing EPYC 9004 series server and bound by the motherboard BIOS support and/or cooling/power capacity, 400 Watts is a sweet spot.

AMD, Processors, Servers, Performance, Efficiency

3 points by ksec 59 days ago | 1 comments

Federal employees begin to receive second work accomplishment email (thehill.com)
Federal employees on Friday began receiving a second email asking them to list bullet points on what they did during the past week, as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues to recommend cuts to the workforce.

Government, Work, Efficiency, Politics

22 points by jarsin 68 days ago | 5 comments

Speed matters (2021) (scattered-thoughts.net)
I think that one of the most important things to focus on improving is how fast you can work.

Productivity, Time Management, Efficiency

66 points by mefengl 82 days ago | 25 comments

On Bloat (docs.google.com)

Software, Programming, Efficiency

183 points by ingve 84 days ago | 136 comments

Are efficiency and horizontal scalability at odds? (buttondown.com)
Why are scalable systems locally-inefficent, and locally-efficient systems unscalable? Plus, new book release!

Software, Scalability, Efficiency

49 points by todsacerdoti 86 days ago | 37 comments

Fire the Contractors: Paradoxically adding government employees reduces costs (washingtonmonthly.com)
Voters are right to want a less bloated and wasteful government. But Elon Musk’s plan will fail because the most inefficient parts lie outside it.

Government, Economics, Politics, Efficiency, Public Policy

45 points by pdfernhout 91 days ago | 37 comments

Department of Government Efficiency Live Tracker (doge-tracker.com)

Government, Efficiency, Tracking, Data Visualization

10 points by wslh 92 days ago | 6 comments

Fluid Compute (vercel.com)
While dedicated servers provide efficiency and always-on availability, they often lead to over-provisioning, scaling challenges, and operational overhead. Serverless computing improves this with auto-scaling and pay-as-you-go pricing, but can suffer from cold starts and inefficient use of idle time.

Cloud Computing, Serverless Computing, Efficiency

10 points by mlejva 94 days ago | 2 comments

Better AI Is a Matter of Timing (ieee.org)
New MEMS-based clocks aim to improve efficiency by reducing idle compute times

Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Efficiency

15 points by headalgorithm 95 days ago | 2 comments

Jevons paradox (wikipedia.org)
In economics, the Jevons paradox (/ˈdʒɛvənz/; sometimes Jevons effect) occurs when technological advancements make a resource more efficient to use (thereby reducing the amount needed for a single application), however, as the cost of using the resource drops, overall demand increases causing total resource consumption to rise.

Economics, Efficiency, Resource Consumption

196 points by wslh 100 days ago | 159 comments

Caltrain's electric fleet more efficient than expected (caltrain.com)

Caltrain, Transportation, Efficiency, Public Transportation, Electric Vehicles

340 points by ssuds 104 days ago | 290 comments

Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture (anildash.com)
For the last few months, there's been a lot of conversation around the "Department" of Government Efficiency, which is ostensibly an effort at improving government efficency, with a primary narrative being around government spending.

Cryptocurrency, Government, Efficiency

8 points by archagon 123 days ago | 4 comments

Google CEO reveals major job cuts as part of "efficiency" move (techradar.com)

Google, Layoffs, Technology, Business, Efficiency

7 points by antimora 136 days ago | 1 comments

I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper (mfasold.net)
Recently, I’ve been looking for a quality-of-life improvement for our family’s morning routine: the daily check of the timetable and substitution plan for the kids’ school.

Education, Technology, Parenting, Efficiency

221 points by mfld 147 days ago | 118 comments

Switching to the meow modal editing system from evil Emacs (esrh.me)
The first modal editing system I used was vim. After the initial learning curve that comes with getting used to not being able to type in every mode, it introduced me to a few key ideas that I feel lead to decidedly more efficient editing

Text Editors, Programming, Efficiency, Vim

17 points by fanf2 168 days ago | 5 comments