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fulafel··on Analyzing student votes across AI models for college essay help
We need a new kind of "view source" on the web.
fulafel··on Hot Chips 2026: Applying High Bandwidth Flash (HBF)
Product companies have been talking this up for a year, eg: https://www.sandisk.com/en-ap/company/newsroom/blogs/2025/me...
fulafel··on Oceans hit highest temperature on record
The voters bear much of the blame too. The oil, gas and coal producing countries that still have democracies need to stop voting for short term profits and star voting for rapid rampdown of fossils production.
fulafel··on LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines
Sandboxes are speed bumps. Even the serious ones have spectator sports for compromising them (eg pwn2own vs Chrome). In addition, proprietary GPU sw stacks are notoriously crashy and lacking in robustness against hostile inputs, which the inference engine must have access to and can't be walled off by the sandbox.
fulafel··on Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive
Even if you get past these problems, those models are available only under the condition that Anthropic retains your data.
fulafel··on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
Aaron's case was wrong, but we shouldn't turn coats about "information wants to be free" just because it's gaining more momentum?

It would be petty and counterproductive to do it just for consistency of enforcing the wrongness.

fulafel··on The August 17 outage
Microsoft are doing many things to help the AI coding surge, I'm not sure if this'd be a cost effective thing towards it.
fulafel··on MicroGPT-C in pure C hits 10M TPS on Apple M5
In the README, the C version gets "452× faster than Python", the 2500x one is using OpenBLAS which uses lower level things than what's in C[1].

[1] see eg https://github.com/OpenMathLib/OpenBLAS/tree/develop/kernel/...

fulafel··on Rethinking Database Programming
They might mean static typing in queries.
fulafel··on Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers
Democracies in EU are doing a lot more.
fulafel··on Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix
Fossils use, production and trade needs to be rapidly ramped down to mitigate the climate catastrophe and resulting megadeaths on all fronts.
fulafel··on Asus Bike Booster
Good find. Most people can probably live with not using it in heavy rain, but the text implies it can break even if exposed to heavy rain when parked.
fulafel··on Asus Bike Booster
What do you mean by changing motor speed? It has a cadence sensor so should work like normal ebikes. Pedal faster for more speed, stop pedaling for less speed.

The web page tells that the app can be used to switch between eco/normal mode but that seems to be the extent of it.

fulafel··on Spaghettifying DRAM
This doesn't require physical DRAM access, it's all software.

With ring-0 access, this lets you poke "even things walled off and invisible to ring-0 or the CPU itself" including things that the security processor tries hard to wall off.

fulafel··on Spaghettifying DRAM
Fascinating. So what is the DCT swizzling functionality designed for in the hardware originally?
fulafel··on Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme
Vibecoding means you don't pay much attention to the code, not the case here.
fulafel··on Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
Nobody serious claims Go is fully memory safe. Here's Russ Cox telling you concurrency is a hole in the memory safety: https://research.swtch.com/gorace
fulafel··on What's the best programming language for coding agents?
I feel Python is more concise. Looking at a couple of Rosetta Code examples, they are shorter for Python as well.

Also the post referenced by the article lists Python taking noticeably less tokens than Javascript.

fulafel··on What's the best programming language for coding agents?
JS gives you wrong answers silently when thigns go sideways since for the original browser use case, they didn't want scripts to ever stop execution. It's the opposite of Python in this respect.
fulafel··on What's the best programming language for coding agents?
You can rather easily ship Clojure apps as single binaries, eg with this: https://github.com/avelino/jbundle
fulafel··on U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative
It is not the case that the only rebuildable-from-source open source models are from the USA. There's at least BLOOM, Apertus and OpenEuroLLM, and I'm sure there are many more.
fulafel··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
There's several ways to engineer around that as the errors are detectable. There's a big literature on how to trade off speed or transistors for error correction. [1]

(Is Cerebras doing something novel? CPUs and memory blocks have been doing those things for a long time too, since the error rate is otherwise too high for normal size chips as well)

[1] see eg https://www.vlsimentor.com/dft/redundancy-bisr to get some basic concepts

fulafel··on Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates
Web scraping is the age old pre-LLM way to implement scratch-your-own-itch automations on the web. Anything you do manually with a web browser. Also used in corporate settings to interface with bad "enterprise" software, it's called RPA there. This kind of thing is the logical AI progression of those.

tldr; to workaround the lack (or shortcomings) of public m2m APIs in web apps

fulafel··on Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)
You get AWS certifications, use as many AWS services as possible to pad your CV with the service experience and certifications, get your arguments and "well architected" dogma from AWS sales. Then you can get paid more at the next company (or at least high salary offers to extract a raise).

Also building high complexity systems that require a big expensive cloud engineer staff gets you status and visibility. In a tight spot you can still blame AWS for problems.

(Reality is not quite so bleak as people are not completely cynical)

fulafel··on Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)
There's a lot of wooden bike frame designs that apparently work fine, the frame is one of the easier places to replace steel in.
fulafel··on Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library
Before JS became a common backend language, you could do this with at least one stack: Clojure & ClojureScript.
fulafel··on Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage
Yep, those vendors could conceivably been onboard and using launching on Opteron (if there was no Itanium and Intel was seen as the common enemy). They might have given AMD some help with the validation, RAS etc too.

Of course in the alternative history Intel might have done something else in place of IA64 that competed with amd64...

fulafel··on Show HN: ssh ssh.place
It seems to me you were replying to refute a claim about OpenSSH.
fulafel··on Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage
> If Itanium never happened, 64-bit x86 server chips would have done the same thing to MIPS, Alpha, PA-RISC, SPARC, PowerPC.

If AMD had launched amd64 server chips those vendors onboard we might have had a different 64-bit x86 market. And those vendors would have had a chance to succeed or fail on their own merits instead of due to dead end chip.

fulafel··on Show HN: ssh ssh.place
OpenSSH doesn't use this library.
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