57 points | by samyok 8 hours ago ago
7 comments
I think this is the first time an "I made an agent swarm do something" blog post was actually written by a human, what a breath of fresh air.
"I estimate that this factorization cost about 4,900 GPU-days, or 13.5 GPU-years, which is about $400k at current market prices"
"factorization ran at no marginal cost on spare or fragmented compute that couldn’t be used for other purposes"
Interesting use of stranded compute.
Recent and related: RSA-260 Factorized - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49546284 - Sept 2026 (77 comments)
Normally we'd downweight a follow-up [1] but this is a good article and arguably adds SNI [2] in its own right.
[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
This is so well written as to be refreshing
Who is Devin and why do they listen to the author?
My guess would be https://devin.ai/
Devin … now that’s a name I’ve not hear in a long time
I think this is the first time an "I made an agent swarm do something" blog post was actually written by a human, what a breath of fresh air.
"I estimate that this factorization cost about 4,900 GPU-days, or 13.5 GPU-years, which is about $400k at current market prices"
"factorization ran at no marginal cost on spare or fragmented compute that couldn’t be used for other purposes"
Interesting use of stranded compute.
Recent and related: RSA-260 Factorized - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49546284 - Sept 2026 (77 comments)
Normally we'd downweight a follow-up [1] but this is a good article and arguably adds SNI [2] in its own right.
[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
This is so well written as to be refreshing
Who is Devin and why do they listen to the author?
My guess would be https://devin.ai/
Devin … now that’s a name I’ve not hear in a long time