Wednesday, April 01
Daily News Stuff 1 April 2026
Bunny Edition
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Top Story
- Anthropic's Claude Code developer tool leaked. (Dev.To)
Which... Well, so what? You can download it. Countless thousands of people have. I have. Anyone who wanted to put in the effort to pick it apart could have done so.
Anthropic left a debug option set it one release and that made all the source files visible, but that just made it easier.
The real brains - Anthropic's AI models like Sonnet and Opus - run safely on their servers and haven't leaked anywhere.
If you're interested though it's available on GitHub.
- If you want to run your own LLM and not just local tools that talk to a remote server somewhere Bonsai from PrismML might be of interest. (PrismML)
Because the 1.7 billion parameter model runs in 240MB of memory - yes, M, not G - and churns through 130 tokens per second on an iPhone 17.
Which uses noticeably less power than a rack full of high-end graphics cards.
Bonsai 8B uses 1.15GB of RAM.
While it doesn't lead in test scores, it's being tested against 16GB models, which require an entirely different class of hardware. It would be interesting to see how a 70 billion parameter model would perform on the same tests if it's possible to perform the same trick - quantising the model down from half-precision (16 bits) per parameter to 1 bit with error correction.
Tech News
- The IRGC has issued threats not just against the US and Israel and the Arab world - that's old hat - but now against Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, IBM, Cisco, and Tesla. (Tom's Hardware)
Gotta warn you guys, Tesla has a friend with a global lock on orbital space lasers. Might want to tread carefully.
- Fujitsu is developing a new AI processor - an NPU - aimed at the upcoming 1.4nm process node. (Tom's Hardware)
That's not the interesting part.
The interesting part is that this will be manufactured at the Rapidus plant in Hokkaido. With Rapidus ramping up production Japan has leapt directly from 40nm chip fabrication to 2nm, largely catching up with Taiwan, Korea, and the United States, and leaving China trailing behind.
- Looks like we won't be rid of OpenAI just yet. (Tech Crunch)
They just raised $122 billion. Apparently from wealthy masochists.
- GMKtec's new Evo T2 mini-PC is now shipping with Intel's Panther Lake CPU and its class-leading graphics performance coupled with 64GB of soldered RAM. (Liliputing)
Just two problems: First, it costs $1899, and the Minisforum model I bought around Christmas cost about $600. Sure, the integrated graphics on that model are a lot slower than Panther Lake, but not that much slower. (This site suggests the difference is around 25%.)
Second, it's out of stock.
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Oh, there it is.
Disclaimer: It definitely wasn't me. Burp.
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Given that Nvidia is an active and very willing supplier of hardware to the PRC (Subjected only to US export restrictions and regulations.), Iran is basically threatening their largest ally.
Makes sense.
Makes sense.
Posted by: cxt217 at Thursday, April 02 2026 02:36 AM (ZLF73)
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Iran may be pretty much wordceling, at this point. They do have hardware, but they were already gonna try to kill the big tech employees in Israel. We can basically wait, and see who is really pinched, and see who has water armies as their best strategic option, etc. (Trent Telenko has an 'irrational regime' model or just-so story, that predicts that 'Iran' does not care who it is threatening. I don't think that randos like me rationally know anything definite about what on earth is happening in the PRC. )
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thursday, April 02 2026 05:29 AM (s6adZ)
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In that case, Iran is reverting to the form they had during the Iran-Iraq War, or at least the wreckage of the regime is. A paranoid view of the world where everyone is an opponent and target for hatred can be extremely comforting, since it takes the effort out of determining who is your enemy. But it is hell on actually getting along with other people who you might need help from.
That is why the allegedly policy by the Iranian leadership to decentralize decision-making for their attack campaign probably did a better job at making Iran a pariah within the Islamic community, let alone the world. Taking continuous shots at Oman was a terrible move, and there is no way they were holding loose the reigns on the Pasdaran after that, since all it takes is one even more insane than normal Pasdaran officer to take a shot at the Indians or Chinese for the Iranians to suddenly have no friends left.
That is why the allegedly policy by the Iranian leadership to decentralize decision-making for their attack campaign probably did a better job at making Iran a pariah within the Islamic community, let alone the world. Taking continuous shots at Oman was a terrible move, and there is no way they were holding loose the reigns on the Pasdaran after that, since all it takes is one even more insane than normal Pasdaran officer to take a shot at the Indians or Chinese for the Iranians to suddenly have no friends left.
Posted by: cxt217 at Thursday, April 02 2026 10:28 AM (ZLF73)
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