Hacker News Reader

cultureulterioron Building a Rust Inference Engine That Matches Llama.cpp

Looks cool! Look at the performance!

cultureulterioron Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated

This is good and cool.

cultureulterioron More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware

All of your sensors are lies

cultureulterioron Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them

This is not true.

cultureulterioron The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves

So it's just a technology problem. As soon as bambu or someone evolves the tech sufficiently to have full color full resolution, the meta will change.

cultureulterioron Is Firefox Firefucked?

As soon as they bring back XUL I'll go back to supporting them.

cultureulterioron IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act

> then no internet regulation can hold for any subject

Good

cultureulterioron Fnox, a secret manager that pairs well with mise

It's a dev tool manager

cultureulterioron Fnox, a secret manager that pairs well with mise

There's no explanation or link to mise from that page that I can see. I now know what mise is, but that's from googling

cultureulterioron Claude Opus 4.1

Claude does the coding, and edits your files. You just sit back and relax. You don't do any tab completion etc.

cultureulterioron British man claims he's unable to watch porn as tattoos confuse age check system

Imagine needing to say p*rn when reporting on this

cultureulterioron Never write your own date parsing library

Pity they're dropping week number- it's used so much in Europe.

cultureulterioron Show HN: Unregistry – “docker push” directly to servers without a registry

This is super slick. I really wish there was something that did the same, but using torrent protocol, so all your servers shared it.

cultureulterioron Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book

It's not clear that it's incorrect.

cultureulterioron Microsoft's ICC blockade: digital dependence comes at a cost

It's certainly not incredibly important. It is, however, incredibly undemocratic

cultureulterioron Show HN: Can I run this LLM? (locally)

Great, but it should have image and video models too.

cultureulterioron A notification for you, Apple: There is no husband

Was interviewing for a role. Interviews lasted for 7 months total, 12 interviews, for 2 teams, and then they closed the roles and didn't hire anyone. Not really impressed by Apple.

cultureulterioron Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?

For me O1 found this by telling it "There is a further significant optimization possible."

cultureulterioron Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?

O1 found it.

https://chatgpt.com/share/67782b6b-6248-8012-882d-238b600ef9...

cultureulterioron IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine

It's interesting that the Iron prefix means rust now. It used to mean .NET

cultureulterioron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)

Yes

cultureulterioron Show HN: Remove-bg – open-source remove background using WebGPU

Nice, works perfectly on win/chrome

cultureulterioron There is still the need for a better Goodreads alternative

I disagree with the politics here.

cultureulterioron What We're Working on in Firefox

Bring back xul or keep your promise on supporting tab tree, please.

cultureulterioron HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought by AMD

Seems like you could have a separate shell organization that built this functionality by looking at existing drivers, and just provide the patch to the kernel.

cultureulterioron In 2024, please switch to Firefox

As soon as they bring back xul

cultureulterioron You Can’t Trust the AI Hype

Did this contain any actual arguments or was it all smear?

cultureulterioron HashiCorp adopts Business Source License

Yeah, time to fork terraform. I'd contribute.

cultureulterioron Vale's first prototype for immutable region borrowing

That algorithm would be infinitely much faster if you were to use bitboards

cultureulterioron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023)

ThousandEyes (Cisco) London/Lisbon(hybrid), a well known network monitoring company, hiring for SRE, Infrastructure

https://boards.greenhouse.io/thousandeyes