🚀 Introducing the latest in tech gymnastics: the "Frozen DuckLakes" 🦆✨—where you can build a "high-performance" data lake with no moving parts, except for all the parts that need to move. 🤔 Apparently, Mark Harrison has found a way to freeze time and logic to make #serverless data access *magically* complex. 🧊🔮
https://ducklake.select/2025/10/24/frozen-ducklake/ #techinnovation #dataengineering #computing #dataarchitecture #magictech #HackerNews #ngated

Alibaba Cloud claims it's achieved a miraculous 82% reduction in Nvidia AI GPU usage, effectively turning a few GPUs into a magical GPU army. 🎩✨ It's as if they're suggesting that instead of buying more GPUs, you can just sprinkle some fairy dust and watch them multiply! 🧚‍♂️💸
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/alibaba-says-new-pooling-system-cut-nvidia-gpu-use-by-82-percent #AlibabaCloud #NvidiaAI #GPUUsage #MagicTech #GPUArmy #HackerNews #ngated

A vacuum, but it’s a portal into an abyssal void contained within an orichalcum tube. #MagicTech

A dirigible, but the balloon's gas comes from wizards casting the Stinking Cloud spell. #MagicTech

A combustion engine, but instead of needing fuel it's powered by a perpetual fireball spell engraved on the steel. #MagicTech

So, like, a gun but it shoots reality distortion rays. #MagicTech

Instead of skyscrapers there are towers of floating cubes connected by bridges #MagicTech