Hacker News with Generative AI: Efficiency

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 12 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 25 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 36 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 56 days ago | 5 comments

1-Bit AI Infrastructure (arxiv.org)
Recent advances in 1-bit Large Language Models (LLMs), such as BitNet and BitNet b1.58, present a promising approach to enhancing the efficiency of LLMs in terms of speed and energy consumption.

Generative AI, Machine Learning, Efficiency, Hardware

157 points by galeos 64 days ago | 30 comments

1-bit architecture is turbocharging LLM efficiency (venturebeat.com)
One-bit large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a promising approach to making generative AI more accessible and affordable.

Generative AI, Efficiency, Architecture

5 points by hochmartinez 65 days ago | 2 comments

Elon Musk to lead new efficiency department named after his favourite crypto (telegraph.co.uk)
Elon Musk has been appointed to lead Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency.

Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Government, Efficiency, Politics

16 points by ENGNR 66 days ago | 13 comments

M4 Mac mini's efficiency (jeffgeerling.com)
I had to pause some of my work getting a current-gen AMD graphics card running on the Pi 5 and testing a 192-core AmpereOne server to quickly post on the M4's efficiency.

Mac, Hardware, Performance, Efficiency, Servers

568 points by marinesebastian 66 days ago | 610 comments

Principles for product velocity (ssoready.com)
Building the right thing shouldn't take very long -- doing away with nonsense makes product development really fast

Product Development, Agile Development, Efficiency

226 points by noleary 71 days ago | 132 comments

Typing fast is not so important (zoemp.be)
In response to https://www.rugu.dev/en/blog/on-typing-fast.

Programming, Typing, Efficiency, Productivity, Software Development

32 points by freediver 79 days ago | 55 comments

Video scraping: extracting JSON from a 35s screen capture for 1/10th of a cent (simonwillison.net)
The other day I found myself needing to add up some numeric values that were scattered across twelve different emails.

Web Scraping, Data Extraction, Automation, Cost Optimization, Efficiency

309 points by simonw 93 days ago | 46 comments

Good Airport Design: Aesthetic vs. Efficiency [video] (youtube.com)

Airport Design, Architecture, Efficiency, Video

9 points by surprisetalk 99 days ago | 4 comments

Improving Parquet Dedupe on Hugging Face Hub (huggingface.co)
The Xet team at Hugging Face is working on improving the efficiency of the Hub's storage architecture to make it easier and quicker for users to store and update data and models.

Data Storage, Machine Learning, Hugging Face, Efficiency

47 points by ylow 102 days ago | 17 comments

The importance of local development (fastpaced.com)
Local development is crucial for efficient software development, it enables faster iteration, better debugging and ensures consistency between local and production environments.

Software Development, Best Practices, Efficiency

103 points by davnn 104 days ago | 91 comments

Serving 70B-scale LLMs efficiently on low-resource edge devices [pdf] (arxiv.org)
Large model inference is shifting from cloud to edge due to concerns about the privacy of user interaction data.

Edge Computing, Privacy, Efficiency

248 points by simonpure 107 days ago | 58 comments

Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022) (sohl-dickstein.github.io)
Increased efficiency can sometimes, counterintuitively, lead to worse outcomes.

Efficiency, Productivity, Counterintuitive Outcomes

917 points by feyman_r 111 days ago | 360 comments

Hours Aren't Equal (37signals.com)
An hour isn’t an hour. It’s a collection of minutes that add up to an hour. And 60 uninterrupted minutes is a higher-quality hour than an hour chopped into four 15-minute sessions. Uninterrupted hours lead to quality time, quality work. Days chunked into tiny blocks of time are a terrible way to work.

Productivity, Time Management, Work, Focus, Efficiency

6 points by tosh 112 days ago | 1 comments

Productivity theater is hard to kill (universalpublicfiend.substack.com)

Productivity, Work Culture, Efficiency

9 points by seltzerboys 137 days ago | 1 comments

Efficiency vs. Accessibility: John Carmack's take on the potential of web games (twitter.com)

Web Games, Gaming Industry, Accessibility, John Carmack, Efficiency

15 points by astlouis44 140 days ago | 3 comments

Representing LLM inputs as HTML instead of JSON to cut input tokens by 11% (skyvern.com)

Optimization, Efficiency

15 points by suchintan 143 days ago | 2 comments

Bundling Information Goods: Pricing, Profits, and Efficiency (1999) [pdf] (stern.nyu.edu)