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4k0hz··on There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
No idea about your setup but that's probably a fixable driver issue. My desktop with an RTX 40-series GPU takes _maybe_ 4 frames to create an OpenGL context.
4k0hz··on Cerebras CS-4
> Introducing the all new Cerebras CS-4, a revolutionary rack-scale solution that delivers upto 30x faster inference compared to GPUs, enhanced economics, and a simple path todeploy [sic] hyperscale capacity.

Did nobody proofread this?

4k0hz··on Lovable raises $400M Series C
How is a founder meaningfully "technical" if they're not comfortable with things like using the terminal or writing SQL queries?
4k0hz··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
It's not really "instant", i.e. the text is still generated token-by-token, it's just super fast. Reasoning would work with this model without any changes to the chip but it's disabled for speed.
4k0hz··on Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026
Or 12 trillion nuclear power plants with a capacity of 1 Wh each
4k0hz··on The state of open source AI
I agree that it would help the site a lot but Pangram is notoriously inaccurate.
4k0hz··on Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox
Quaaludes are maybe a better analogy since the original, strong ones are mostly gone and the pills being manufactured today are significantly weaker. And their effect on Wall Street's decision making is pretty comparable to AI's
4k0hz··on Fusion Programming Language
It can suck but it doesn't always. It depends a lot on the calling language.
4k0hz··on Fusion Programming Language
I think the target application is writing the same algorithm in multiple places with a guarantee that the logic will be based on a single source of truth. Not unlike Protocol Buffers work to standardize data layout across platforms.

It still feels overcomplicated compared to the standard solution of writing a library in a compiled language you like, exposing a C ABI compatible interface, and hooking it up to any language that can work with that (i.e. any language).

4k0hz··on OpenAI leans toward waiting until next year for IPO
For now.. ;)
4k0hz··on Show HN: An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine
Is there a good reason not to use WebGL to render the scene and compute the character mapping? Even if you're dead set on outputting text to a `<pre>` you could write the ascii values out to a framebuffer and copy from that for a pretty significant speedup.
4k0hz··on Claude Tag
Why? What does Anthropic have that any other software company that's capable of putting MCP integration in a chat app doesn't?
4k0hz··on Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn
To be fair, a lot of that revenue is from subscriptions that aren't necessarily fully utilized. OpenAI said in March [0] that they have 50 million subscribers. Assuming they're all on the $8/month plan, that's $4.8 billion a year, likely at a pretty low COR.

[0]: https://openai.com/index/accelerating-the-next-phase-ai/

4k0hz··on "Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"
> all those things aren't magical tasks that can only occur inside a human skull, they are a product of information processing

I agree but it's useful to remember that 1. brains and especially the human brain are enormous and 2. individual tokens carry significantly more meaning than individual tiny muscle twitches so even extremely primitive "cognition" can look like it's doing more work than it actually is.

4k0hz··on CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers
Let the record reflect that I had this exact idea 2 years ago but never finished it, and remembered it this morning.
4k0hz··on Gigstop
If you're the creator of the platform, you should post this under "Show HN" to make it clear that it's your own business.
4k0hz··on Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
This problem only exists because of the marketing move to call anything even slightly ML related "AI".

I see it as a double edged sword. People that want the category of AI to succeed can claim a victory when someone uses it to approximate protien folding and invent new drugs. But that also means the entire field is constantly being dragged down by low quality vibe coded sites, slop videos on social media, whatever horrific thing Grok is doing this week, etc.

4k0hz··on Branchless Quicksort faster than std:sort and pdqsort with C and C++ API
There's no branch in that code either way. The comparison operator outputs a value (which is arithmetic, not a branch), and that value is added unconditionally.
4k0hz··on 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
I doubt it. Desktops don't add substantial hardware features often or get damaged in the same way phones do.
4k0hz··on Codex-maxxing
The author of this post works at OpenAI on the Codex team.
4k0hz··on Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML
Is HTML really that much worse to edit than MD?
4k0hz··on Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement
Elsevier is shitty to people doing stuff that (imo) should be allowed. Meta is making money doing the same thing and not getting the same shittiness from Elsevier.

Elsevier at least works within the (admittedly broken) system, Meta does not.

4k0hz··on Let's Buy Spirit Air
Airlines were heavily regulated in the US and essentially operated as government contractors until 1978 [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Aeronautics_Board

4k0hz··on Simplest Hash Functions
At least on x86, multiple additions and multiplications can be done with a single `lea` instruction so it's preferable to XOR. Though I have no idea about other architectures, compiler implementations, any interpreters...
4k0hz··on Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?
Modern != brand new shiny hipster thing. Unless you're a devotee of rolling release or unconvential things like Nix, Mint is not obsolete.
4k0hz··on Goodbye to Sora
Is it actually useful and valuable? I can't see any serious use cases except maybe stock video generation.
4k0hz··on Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)
"Decentralized" seems like a stretch for something developed and promoted by monolithic payment processors.
4k0hz··on Good software knows when to stop
> That backlash was short lived. Adobe went from $4.4 billion in revenue in 2021 to $23.7 billion

So? Anecdotally, the vast majority of Adobe product users are still upset about the subscription model (but not upset enough to switch to worse software)

> It used to cost $2500 for the "master collection". Now it's $50 a month.

Illustrator-filmmaker-animator-publisher-photographer-web-designers everywhere rejoice!

4k0hz··on Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
The point is that there was basically no reason to totally kill Wordpad in the way that they did. They're different products and the new Notepad is closer to the ideal version of Wordpad than what Notepad is supposed to be, and now there's no Notepad.
4k0hz··on I was insulted today – AI style
Plus the devaluing of labor in basically every sector (to varying extents).
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