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Creative Strategies
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Creative Strategies is the company blog at creativestrategies.com, writing about hardware and business. Since 2016, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “A weekend with Apple's Mac Studio with M3 Ultra: The only real AI workstation”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Creative Strategies as a source for Apple silicon and AI hardware analysis, such as an M3 Ultra versus RTX 5090 LLM comparison, and for a survey on Americans deleting Facebook accounts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Creative Strategies connects changes across silicon, systems, platforms, software, and adoption to explain how technology markets move.
Most-linked posts?
- A weekend with Apple's Mac Studio with M3 Ultra: The only real AI workstation2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-12
- Voice Assistant? Yes please, but not in public2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-06
- M5 Max: Chiplets, Thermals, and Performance per Watt2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-09
- iPhone 13 and Apple Silicon2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-23
What Hacker News says?
We have to ditch language processing. And we will with online energy based models that machines boot from. Maxwell could not get the theory of electromagnetism to work until he ditched pulleys and levers he’d included to describe the mechanics. We won’t get AGI until we realize “there is no spoon” and language has nothing to do with our intelligence, just with out social tribalism: https://www.scientificamerican.com…
Comment linking /jensen-were-with-you-but-were-not-there-yet/
on “The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and limitations of reasoning models [pdf]”Submitted Voice Assistant? Yes please, but not in public as a story · 79 points
HN discussionNot for inferencing. M3 Ultra runs big LLMs twice as fast as RTX 5090. https://creativestrategies.com/mac-studio-m3-ultra-ai-workst... RTX 5090 only has 32GB RAM. M3 Ultra has up to 512 GB with 819 GB/sec bandwidth. It can run models that will not fit on an RTX card. EDIT: Benchmark may not be properly utilizing the 5090. But the M3 Ultra is way more capable than an entry level RTX card at LLM inferencing.
Comment linking /mac-studio-m3-ultra-ai-workstation-review/
on “Run LLMs on Apple Neural Engine (ANE)”Submitted Voice Assistant? Yes please, but not in public as a story · 13 points
HN discussionM3 Ultra has a big GPU with 819 GB/sec bandwidth. LLM performance is twice as fast as RTX 5090 https://creativestrategies.com/mac-studio-m3-ultra-ai-workst...
Comment linking /mac-studio-m3-ultra-ai-workstation-review/
on “Run LLMs on Apple Neural Engine (ANE)”Submitted A weekend with Apple's Mac Studio with M3 Ultra: The only real AI workstation as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThis is the best I can do right now. It isn't where I originally read it but google is failing me. https://creativestrategies.com/voice-assistant-anyone-yes-pl... What it comes to is the people on HN don't represent most people using iPhones.
Comment linking /voice-assistant-anyone-yes-please-but-not-in-public/
on “Apple’s Shortcuts will flip the switch on Siri’s potential”Submitted M5 Max: Chiplets, Thermals, and Performance per Watt as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's referring to the neural cores(for matrix mul) in the GPU itself, not the NPU. https://creativestrategies.com/research/m5-apple-silicon-its...
Comment linking /research/m5-apple-silicon-its-all-about-the-cache-and-tensors/
on “Apple Introduces MacBook Pro with All‑New M5 Pro and M5 Max”Submitted iPhone 13 and Apple Silicon as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSurvey done by https://creativestrategies.com/ >They ran a study across 1000 Americans who are "representative of the US population in gender and age." >"Privacy matters to our panelists. Thirty-six percent said they are very concerned about it and another 41% saying they are somewhat concerned. Their behavior on Facebook has somewhat changed due to their privacy concerns. Seventeen percent deleted their Facebook ap…
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on “Nearly one in 10 Americans have deleted their Facebook accounts, survey says”Submitted M5 Max LLM Benchmarks Against M3 Ultra as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Robots That See, Part 2: Vision Transformers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple's Q1 FY25: China Headwinds Test Growth as Company Awaits Stimulus as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Center Cooling Innovation: A Critical Imperative as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple's M2 chips have two subtle upgrades to performance cores, efficiency cores as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unlike Intel and AMD, Apple doesn’t need to focus on speed above all else as a story · 1 points
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