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haha, computer go brrr

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kevmo314··on Meta's Muse is fantastic for web scraping
Muse ran into a captcha and asked me if I wanted it to solve it.

So of course I clicked yes and it dutifully convinced the site that it was not a bot.

kevmo314··on Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
The article states that they exercised their options.
kevmo314··on Contrastive Language Models
It seems like caching has a huge contribution towards the low latency numbers they report. With a single request and no cache it appears to be quite slow, roughly in line with what you observed.
kevmo314··on Introducing System One Models and Jev
Don't your numbers suggest DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, for $100 more, gets you to slightly better agreement?
kevmo314··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
I'm working on a GPU over IP bridge called lupine! https://github.com/lupinemachines/lupine
kevmo314··on Programming is Art
Boring and standard more often than not results in me having to trace through six files.
kevmo314··on P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names
It would skip the Cloudflare to server network hop that the author mentions being rather expensive for cache misses.
kevmo314··on P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names
If you’d like to reduce the network latency further you can store each trie node as a file, naming it conveniently the prefix path to that node. Then dump the few hundred million files onto R2.

Now the traversal can be done completely via CDN lookups!

kevmo314··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
I'll pause on the response for now since the condescension is not warranted.
kevmo314··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
They did make a decision? The current decision is no, that’s what it means to pause applications.
kevmo314··on Laion Big Video Dataset
That’s a pretty penny on the bandwidth bill alone!
kevmo314··on I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
That's like saying the only way to do real engineering is with Google-scale Borg deployments. You can do quite a lot on very little hardware, r/StableDiffusion is a prime example.
kevmo314··on Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents
Maybe we can help businesses fail faster
kevmo314··on Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
Riding the marketing hype train, of course.
kevmo314··on Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast
The pot calling the kettle black…
kevmo314··on Solving Wordle using information theory
Next week on HN: Solving Multiple Parallel Wordle with SIMD
kevmo314··on How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
Their competitive advantage is not so much running the browser but rather making the browser undetectable.

They boast a large residential proxy network too, which tells you all you need to know.

kevmo314··on What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes
The other 2% your entire prod deployment gets deleted.
kevmo314··on Firewood Splitting Simulator
It starts stacking a second circle
kevmo314··on Building a Korean ambiguity solver fast enough to skip the GPU: 7,300 words/SEC
If it's only 14M parameters, why not ship it to the client and run on the user's device?
kevmo314··on I design with Claude more than Figma now
Free with an easy monthly payment of $20!
kevmo314··on Anyone can build a platform now. Almost nobody can get people to find it
I’ll take one vibe life please
kevmo314··on Floor and Ceil versus Denormals on CPU and GPU
> This is not the first time we can see Nvidia taking shortcuts to achieve maximum performance of their GPUs

Why is implementing it correctly not performant? For context I have no idea how rounding is typically implemented anyways.

kevmo314··on Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term
If he had made less money doing it he probably would have gotten away with it.
kevmo314··on Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?
It's surely possible but if it's, for example, 10% slower, that easily eats into execution time and that directly translates into a sense of "maybe it's just worth it to pay the license fee for this year" after just a few 20h place and route runs.

Of course, if it were faster, that would be a huge win for the open source implementation.

kevmo314··on Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?
The difficult part is the place and route algorithm, not the bitstream. The proprietary ones already take quite a long time to solve: I regularly have 12-24h runs. Perhaps an open source one could do better? But it's not quite as straightforward as reverse engineering a proprietary bitstream.
kevmo314··on Don't Roll Your Own
Management wants you to want to have an experience.
kevmo314··on Google Is Killing ChromeOS: Aluminium OS, Its Android-Based Replacement
Does TinOS come next?
kevmo314··on Why Japanese companies do so many different things
The American work week has been progressively shortening over the years: https://www.gallup.com/workplace/658235/why-americans-workin...

Americans including myself love saying we’re busy though.

kevmo314··on Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP
Maybe if we destroy the internet faster we’ll move on to the next thing sooner
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