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BC banned Airbnb from non-primary residences. Then the rents came down. thinkpol.ca/2026/03/25/bc-…

Well-intentioned people think YIMBYism is a good thing. But judging by their actions, YIMBY leaders don't believe government should protect people against predatory corporations. thinkpol.ca/2026/03/26/yim…

@Danton69200 @heynavtoor Also 4-bit quant

This is being oversold a bit (as always...) . It’s not a full 397B model just casually running on a laptop. It’s an MoE, so only part of it is active per token (17B activated) , and Flash-MoE is leaning hard on SSD streaming plus aggressive routing tricks. 4 tok/s is closer to “look what I managed to run” than “this is a genuinely productive setup.”

🚨 397 billion parameters. On a MacBook. No cloud. No GPU cluster. No data center. A laptop. Someone ran one of the largest AI models on Earth on a machine you can buy at the Apple Store. It's called flash-moe. A pure C and Metal inference engine that runs Qwen3.5-397B on a MacBook Pro with 48GB RAM. At 4.4 tokens per second. With tool calling. No Python. No PyTorch. No frameworks. Just raw C and hand-tuned Metal shaders. Here's why this should not be possible: → The model is 209GB. The laptop has 48GB of RAM. → It streams the entire model from the SSD in real time → Only loads the 4 experts needed per token out of 512 → Uses just 5.5GB of actual memory during inference → Production-quality output with full tool calling → 58 experiments. Hand-optimized Metal compute kernels. → The entire engine is ~7,000 lines of C and ~1,200 lines of Metal shaders Here's the wildest part: One person built this. A VP of AI at CVS Health. Not Google. Not OpenAI. A healthcare company executive. Side project. Used Claude Code as his coding partner. Built the entire engine in 24 hours. Running a 397B model on cloud GPUs costs hundreds of dollars per hour. Companies spend millions per year on inference infrastructure for models this size. This runs on a $3,499 laptop. Offline. Private. No API key. No monthly bill. Forever. Trending on GitHub. 332 points on Hacker News. 100% Open Source.

Lewis’ campaign platform had seven pillars, focused around party renewal, tax fairness, the digital age, affordable housing, health care, public options “to stop price gouging” and his environmental plan called a “Green New Deal.” boreal.social/post/avi-lewis…

This is a rerun of the original Day 1 challenge ("sovietpost"), where every model scored zero across all rounds. boreal.social/post/ai-coding…

@romainhuet @kevinrose No boreal.social/post/ai-coding…

@kevinrose Sounds like the perfect time to try Codex! openai.com/codex/

The YIMBY movement has received millions from Airbnb. And from large institutional landlords who're lobbying to water down tenant protections. #vanre boreal.social/post/yimbys-ai…

Samara Centre for Democracy (2025 election monitoring) found: 9 users = 28% of all submissions 26 users = over 50% of content The mod make up rules to push Postmedia outlets while burying independent media. r/canada is a broadcast operation to sow discord.

Today r/canada is dominated by a tiny group of power users pushing Great Replacement theory, anti-immigration rage, and conservative media narratives.

What if I tell you an American company you all love is helping destabilize Canada? Reddit has allowed r/canada to run a far-right influence operation for 8 year despite moderators with documented white-nationalist ties. #cdnpoli boreal.social/post/reddit-is…

Lege articulum fututum "The attribution debate is real and the honest answer is that it’s unresolved. The population growth slowdown in BC was significant and happened simultaneously. "

"school don't create software engineers. Scars do" Been saying this for a while now. The junior pipeline of software devs is breaking and nobody seems to really have a plan. thinkpol.ca/2026/03/24/the…

A year after the rules took effect, Vancouver’s rental vacancy rate had risen from 1.6% to 3.7%, the highest since 1988. STR listings fell 22% in Vancouver. BC rents fell 8.5% over two years, with Vancouver recording 16 consecutive months of rent decline. boreal.social/post/bc-banned…

Schools don’t create senior software engineers. Scars do. That messy inefficient pipeline that forges a toughened senior out of a delicate CS graduate is collapsing. And nobody in a position to fix it seems to be thinking past the next quarter. thinkpol.ca/2026/03/24/the…

@danielfoch @Devinbuild Mimo is better than ChatGPT and in the same league as Gemini/Grok, but nowhere near Claude. boreal.social/post/is-xiaomi…

@Devinbuild China imo

Who is winning the AI race? - Anthropic - OpenAI - Gemini

@Devinbuild Claude boreal.social/post/ai-coding…

I got 5 frontier AI models to code bots to navigate a foggy maze with teleportals. 1st to the exit wins. Over 500 steps and you're eliminated. Gemini, ChatGPT, and Mimo bots never made it past round 8. Here's Claude's and Grok's bots playing Round 93. boreal.social/post/ai-coding…

The statement that @Xiaomi's Mimo "beats @claudeai at writing code" does not withstand rigorous testing. boreal.social/post/is-xiaomi…

@JulianGoldieSEO Is Xiaomi's MiMo is better than Claude at coding? No, it's not. boreal.social/post/is-xiaomi…

Xiaomi just dropped a huge AI model nobody saw coming. And it beats Claude at writing code. It is called Mimo V2 Pro. It has a brain so big it can read 750 books at once. The best part? You can use it for free right now. You do not need to be a tech wizard. Just open a free tool called KiloClaw. Pick Mimo V2 Pro from the list. You are ready to go in 60 seconds. The free test lasts for exactly one week. Go try it before the window closes.