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Magic
Company blog · magic.dev/blogaiprogramming
Magic is the company blog at magic.dev, writing about ai and programming. Since 2023, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “100M Token Context Windows”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Company blog posts on its long-context models, including the 100M token context window post and the LTM-1 demo. HN commenters mostly link them as reference points and note their dates.
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.
Magic is an AI company that is working toward building safe AGI to accelerate humanity’s progress on the world’s most important problems.
Most-linked posts?
- 100M Token Context Windows5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-08-29
- LTM-1, an LLM with a 5M token context window2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-06-06
- 10x More Efficient Pretraining2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-08
What Hacker News says?
They have a history of making grandiose claims like this[1] from 2024, with no visible products or research. [1]: https://magic.dev/blog/100m-token-context-windows (also linked to in their blogpost)
Comment linking /blog/100m-token-context-windows
on “Compute-efficient pretraining and scaling to trillion-parameter models”Submitted Compute-efficient pretraining and scaling to trillion-parameter models as a story · 118 points
HN discussionIts this https://magic.dev/blog/100m-token-context-windows was discussed here a bit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41393252
Comment linking /blog/100m-token-context-windows
on “Claude for Enterprise”Submitted 100M Token Context Windows as a story · 94 points
HN discussionThere's a short demo from June last year https://magic.dev/blog/ltm-1
Comment linking /blog/ltm-1
on “Magic AI Secures $117M to Build an AI Software Engineer”Submitted 10x More Efficient Pretraining as a story · 18 points
HN discussionhttps://magic.dev
Comment linking /
on “AI 'coworker' startup quintuples funding with $117M in fresh cash”Submitted 100M Token Context Windows as a story · 3 points
HN discussionURL should probably be: https://magic.dev/blog/100m-token-context-windows instead.
Comment linking /blog/100m-token-context-windows
on “LTM-2-Mini is our first model with a 100M token context window”Submitted LLM Data Bounty as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's easy[1] to promise, it's hard to deliver. I hope the best for them. [1]: https://magic.dev/blog/ltm-1 (note the date)
Comment linking /blog/ltm-1
on “Subquadratic – Introducing SubQ 1.1 Small”Submitted >10x More Efficient Pretraining as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Magic LTM-1, a coding assistant LLM with a 5M token context window as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted LTM-1, an LLM with a 5M token context window as a story · 1 points
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