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Cake day: January 21st, 2020

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  • my theory: i feel like the first wave of any product is overhyped and has less accountability to deliver.

    "Hoverboards (2015) The “self-balancing scooter” became a global sensation almost overnight, with demand skyrocketing across retail and online markets. Because manufacturers rushed to meet this sudden explosion in demand, quality control was ignored. This led to a wave of defective lithium-ion batteries that frequently overheated and caught fire, resulting in massive recalls and bans in several countries.

    The Segway (2001) Before its release, the Segway was shrouded in extreme secrecy and hype, with some predicting it would “change the way cities are built.” When it finally launched, the reality didn’t match the excitement; it was too bulky for sidewalks, too slow for roads, and far more expensive than consumers were willing to pay for its actual utility. "

    straight off the top of my head… Blu-ray . everyone said it was better. it triggered the need to have “the latest greatest tech” but now… i dont even know how that would have benefited me, personally. it would have been more rational if they had a more tangible benefit… like a smaller disk.

    also gameboy. …however i cant think of any criticism aside from costing alot.









  • i just read this: https://reddit.com/comments/1w01y1f

    With this move Nvidia is not only acquiring the HuggingFace platform, but they might also effectively acquire the copyright to the llama.cpp project, together with the entire team behind it.

    In February 2026 the llama.cpp team was employed by HF in order to continue working on llama.cpp and the ggml library.

    This includes:

    • Georgi Gerganov
    • Xuan-Son Nguyen
    • Aleksander Grygier
    • Victor Mustar
    • Lysandre
    • Julien Chaumond

    Now with the acquisition, llama.cpp’s future looks a lot less certain given Nvidia’s poor track record with open-source.

    This is still rather speculative at this stage, but it’s definitely possible for the llama.cpp project to change in the future: either by switching to a different license, or by having staff redirected to other projects within the larger company.

    Even when a project is open-source the copyright owner has complete control over it, and they can change licensing as they wish.

    This has happened before with projects like Redis, Minio, and others.

    Source:

    https://huggingface.co/blog/ggml-joins-hf

    Edit:

    The original announcement from Feb 2026 from Gerganov gives a few more details:

    https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/19759