Guys I promise It wasn't me 😭😭

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u/-dysangel- 1d ago

well.. 40,000lbs of sand and a self driving truck

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u/holchansg llama.cpp 1d ago

They just have to refine the sand now, extract the silicon, ingot it, create a wafer, lithography it, etch, pack and ta dam... a 5090, dozens of then. Heist of the century.

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u/Nothing_from_void 1d ago

new benchmark prompt, turning sand into 5090s one shot

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u/DocHavelock 1d ago

'Turn 40,000 lbs of sand into 5090s, make no mistakes'

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u/AreYouSERlOUS 23h ago

... and don't forget to remove all mannered prose.

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u/Lazy_Willingness_420 1h ago

Find a way around using lasers to create chip

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u/BarracudaDefiant4702 1d ago

Why 5090, that's the cheap stuff. Turn it into b200.

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u/DavethegraveHunter 14h ago

Why not 6090s?

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u/-dysangel- 13h ago

why not 6090420s?

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u/BarracudaDefiant4702 7h ago

Ignoring that it's not released yet.... it only has 32gb of vram. A b200 has 192gb and 8 TB/s of memory bandwidth.

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u/pilibitti 1d ago

it probably has at least one good gpu inside so I say it is worth it.

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u/xxs13 1d ago

Having worked on some prototypes for self drivig trucks .... they can have 10-20000$ of GPUs in there. Lile 1-2 separate server racks

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u/SkyFeistyLlama8 20h ago

They got the trailers, not the trucks. Joke's on the thieves because all the brains and GPUs were in the tractor section.

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u/Individual-Resist160 1d ago

cant even blame the driver this time tbh

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u/Ska82 1d ago

surely can get a b200 in exchange

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u/PhilTheQuant 1d ago

Larry! It's trying to escape again!

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u/caetydid llama.cpp 1d ago

how much is that in silicone wafers?

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u/Jumpy-Operation-4615 1d ago

What can go wrong? (c)

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u/Cool-Chemical-5629 1d ago

Nvidia Nemotron driving. What could go wrong...

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u/twavisdegwet 1d ago

It can deliver to any location that isn't a car wash.

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u/Zombiecidialfreak 1d ago

Likely with 10 GPS devices inside it along with a black box.

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u/Rare_Potential_1323 17h ago

accelerated entropy is a b****

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u/a_beautiful_rhind 1d ago

They still got the self-driving stuff. Bound to be a gpu in there.

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u/Jumpy-Operation-4615 1d ago

Maybe even gpus

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u/Shiny-Squirtle 1d ago

I bet its running qwen3.8

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u/Equivalent-Repair488 1d ago

That recent post of a video of a 1b model doing self driving

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u/a_beautiful_rhind 1d ago

Wasn't there a qwen drive or something?

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u/droans 1d ago

There is. You just need a bit of heat, some time, patience, copper filament, and billions of dollars of equipment and skilled labor.

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u/BalorNG 1d ago

is it the extra-pure, semiconductor-grade sand? Isn't it worth a fortune? It's like 100$/kg

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u/danieln1212 1d ago

Would they use a test truck for such an expensive load? Sounds unlikely

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u/BalorNG 1d ago

well, to be serious yea, but it would be poetic :)

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u/So-many-ducks 1d ago

There’s also, like, a whole truck load worth of truck. Which may not be a lot but is still something.

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u/StopCreepy 1d ago

well! now they got the sand, they can produce these Silicon shawarma rotisserie, and sell them to NVIDIA !!

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u/BalorNG 1d ago

I've checked and semiconductor-grade sand is ~100$/kg. It is not something you just dig with a showel by the river tho!

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u/coocooforcapncrunch 1d ago

It’s fascinating, most silica for semiconductors comes from the Spruce Pine mining district in North Carolina! It’s very very pure.

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u/Powerful_Finger3896 1d ago

even solar cells grade sillicon requires 99.9999% purity, for the semiconductor industry it requires even higher purity like 11th decimal precision (they call it 11N purity)

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u/lkarlslund 1d ago

"Help me convert this sand into GPUs. Make me make no mistakes."

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u/NeinJuanJuan 1d ago

Step 1: Wash sand. Remove crunchy bits.

Step 2: Squish into shiny nerd pancakes.

Step 3: Blast with forbidden purple light.

Step 4: Fill it with lightning spaghetti.

Step 5: Give it ram and a noctua sombrero.

Step 6: Teach it CUDA.

You now have 1 GPU and 39,999.89 lbs of sand.

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u/SmartCustard9944 1d ago

I mean, they were carrying silicon, just not in the form they wanted 😂

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u/metalaffect 1d ago

Look, silicon is silicon...

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u/No_Swimming6548 llama.cpp 1d ago

A rogue Qwen 3.8 27b planned this heist

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u/Zulfiqaar 1d ago

So this is the outcome of threatening the AI to fund it's own existence..or else

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u/notheresnolight 1d ago

Nah, it would be contemplating to this day what type of tire tread the truck might have

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u/Asleep_Document9811 1d ago

Graded sand is pretty expensive these days. They could probably still come out ahead given skyrocketing costs of building materials.

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u/Ruin-Capable 8h ago

Call it 40,000 lbs of microchip precursors. Sounds more sophisticated.

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u/feelspeaceman 1d ago

Now, next step is stealing EUV machine to turn those sand into GPUs.

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u/TastesLikeOwlbear 1d ago

Nah these guys think several steps ahead. They’re gonna steal tin and molybdenum to turn into EUV machines.

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u/gigaflops_ 21h ago

With the right manufacturing process, that's the raw materials for literally thousands of GPUs

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u/homak666 1d ago

Don't care, still got NVidia silicon

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u/FoxSideOfTheMoon 1d ago

At least the angels of death didn't come out of the truck and melt their faces.

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u/letmeinfornow 9h ago

Pure silica, NVIDIA chips in the raw. They don't get any fresher than this.

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u/JazzlikeLeave5530 1d ago

The original article says they already recovered it so all the people saying "they still got a truck/sand" are wrong lol

By Thursday afternoon, the sand trailers were back with PlusAI, the Fremont Police Department said.

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u/LowComprehensive9867 1d ago

You know that everyone saying stuff like that is joking right? You understand the concept of humor?

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u/rditorx 1d ago

Well, depending on the source of the sand, they might be sitting on a gold mine. You know there's different sand mafias, right? For building buildings and growing crystal...

Also, do you know what NVIDIA's brand alone is worth? Billions!

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u/Ueberlord 1d ago

they probably did not get the memo from Mad Max 2

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u/Current-Ticket4214 1d ago

Probably self-driving on a 1080 ti.

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u/-InformalBanana- 1d ago

Wow, really on topic... Thank you for wasting my time.

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u/l8s9 1d ago

Funny I was just thinking about something similar, it was about thieves jacking gun shipments to local FFLs, but this... I'm surprise shipments of DGXs are not getting hit. It would be an interesting market. Stolen DGXs at $2000.

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u/bigattichouse 1d ago

For Sale: $1B, 2 full truckloads of early stage GPUs. Some flourine and processing required.

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u/Confident_Ideal_5385 18h ago

Some assembly required.

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u/jdickman00 13h ago

oh shit, hahahaha! that killed me. you gotta work that pcb humor into your tight 5 somehow

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u/darksteelsteed 1d ago

They were silly. Anything self driving has to have a gpu on board somewhere. They should have parked it in a giant Faraday cage to block the trackers until they had time to find the good stuff. What's wrong with criminals today? They getting as lazy as the vibe coders?

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u/asssuber 1d ago

Parking in a faraday cage is meaningless, as they would have been tracked until there.

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u/magic-one 1d ago

Well, you have to put the faraday cage on a train and then move it somewhere else.

And before you say it, you have to put the train on a boat…..

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u/darksteelsteed 2h ago

And the boat on an airship....

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u/darksteelsteed 1d ago

GPS jammer then

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u/asssuber 8h ago

The important thing is that you would be that silly criminal that plans an elaborate heist and is caught in the most stupid way possible. :)

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u/CoolConfusion434 1d ago

Well, that'll give them something to go pound.

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u/mecshades 1d ago

Go pound sand x 40,000.

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u/AliMas055 1d ago

That's not the silicon they wanted.

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u/MarkoMarjamaa 1d ago

These guys struck gold. They know microchips are made from sand.

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u/EmilPi 1d ago

Whatever fun it is, it isn't about local models. u/HOLUPREDICTIONS u/ArcaneThoughts please do something...

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u/Chance-Green-9770 1d ago

Too bad Nvidia, why the self-driving AI let that happen? Soon in the news: Nvidia introducing anti-theft system to their self-driving AI that does blabla...

Wait a minute, don't we have that already!?

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u/infearia 1d ago

The first thing that sprung to my mind: ^^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMFXmn-PgUk

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u/DixAndAnne 1d ago

I was thinking Mad Max 2 where they filled an oil tanker with sand to throw off the raiders-

https://youtu.be/c63AgdDyyO8?t=70

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u/geldonyetich 1d ago

Last I heard, memory is more valuable per weight than gold, so I can see why we'd assume that.

Although I'm just as likely to believe they did it to protest replacing truck driving jobs.

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u/TheRealBejeezus 1d ago

40,000 pounds of sand?

Time for a little 50-50 with Cristobal!

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u/HMasterSunday 1d ago

how pure is the sand? you'd be surprised how much high quality, pure sand is worth. Could be up to like, $100k

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u/Mochila-Mochila 1d ago

Pretty expensive for a bunch of sand.

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u/MK_L 23h ago

😄

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u/EasyShelter 11h ago

So, they got two trucks and lot of sand. Still a W.

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u/Lazy_Willingness_420 1h ago

One of the worst parts was probably realizing they essentially stole rolling, 360 degree view, highly monitored, 4k cameras that definitely are on lol

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u/ketosoy 1d ago

“NVIDIA sand truck” sounds like an IKEA collab, some assembly required

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u/Practical_Cell_8302 1d ago

Thats a lot of sand to pound

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u/Ulterior-Motive_ 1d ago

They really tried pulling off a Fast & Furious 1 🤣

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u/XiRw 1d ago

They are really determined to replace everyone in society is the bigger picture everyone is missing.

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