US Bell - New Area Codes
Why Hacker News recommends it
Seattle-area commenters bring it up as a nostalgic local joke when area codes or Eastside versus Seattle rivalry come up.
What it is
A sketch from the Seattle comedy show Almost Live! in which Pat Cashman plays a US Bell rep explaining the new 425 area code. It first aired in 1997.
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Cites dabockster · 2026-06 · on “Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash Scores 51% SWE-Bench Pro with Just 5B Active Params”
Qwen HAS to be a part of the discussion here, even though Microsoft is a US based entity. Their 30b MoE models absolutely hit way above their weight when paired with the right harness program, and can be ran on "Costco gaming computer" specs when configured correctly in llama.cpp. Sorry Trump Administration, but while the US has been downloading more ram by throwing data centers at everything and burning up everyone's power and water, China has come out with what's effectively a prototype edge compute capable AI model - regardless of how they built it. And arguably I can tokenmaxx on it just fine at around 30-40 tokens/sec. And also, ASICs are on the way. Imagine one of those with a heavy hi