Links

Links for Apr 7, 2026

1. "Concrete Laptop Stand" "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024) | Hacker News"
2. "My Experience As A Rice Farmer" "My Experience as a Rice Farmer | Hacker News"
3. "Meta Adaptive Ranking Model: Bending the Inference Scaling Curve to Serve LLM-Scale Models for Ads"
4. "YouTube Now Worlds Largest Media Company, Topping Disney"
5. "Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation compute"

   see also: today’s Stratechery

6. "Dylan Patel The single biggest bottleneck to scaling AI compute" "Google Gemini Eats The World – Gemini Smashes GPT-4 By 5X, The GPU-Poors"

   also this; about halfway through and it’s interesting wrt what are the specific bottlenecks for scaling AI Stratechery also cites him (Dylan Patel, SemiAnalysis)

7. "Amazon in talks to buy $9bn satellite group Globalstar in bid to rival Elon Musks Starlink"

   “Amazon in talks to buy $9bn satellite group Globalstar in bid to rival Elon Musk’s Starlink”

8. "OpenAIs ChatGPT App Store Took Aim at Apple, But Results Lag So Far"

   “OpenAI’s ChatGPT App Store Took Aim at Apple, But Results Lag So Far”

9. "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era" "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era | Hacker News"

   Mix of marketing hype and interesting claims; note that a GPT model version announcement is rumored later this week