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nathaah3

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nathaah3··on I built a language model out of cellular automata
Thanks!
nathaah3··on DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
DS v4 flash has been my goto model for tasks in work. its been unsurprisingly fast and cheap.
nathaah3··on Why malloc always does more than I asked for?
thanks for pointing that out. will update the repo and the content!!!
nathaah3··on Why malloc always does more than I asked for?
That's a good point, and I could have worded that better. What I implemented accepts an explicit alignment parameter because it made the allocator easier to explain. A real malloc() only guarantees alignment suitable for any object type (typically alignof(max_align_t)), since it has no idea what the caller will store there.
nathaah3··on Why malloc always does more than I asked for?
update: thanks to everyone who pointed out the mistake in the back pointer layout. the diagrams and explanation have been corrected.
nathaah3··on Why malloc always does more than I asked for?
glad you found it useful :)
nathaah3··on Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research
This is gold!!!!
nathaah3··on I made a programming language with M&Ms
this is so cool!
nathaah3··on Learn System Design by being a detective in a game
yeah this was cool and genuinely informative.

i found myself mostly reading the summary on the left though.. it was doing most of the heavy lifting. the graph looked nice, but it didn’t really add much to the understanding for me.

nathaah3··on Ask HN: Anyone else tired of working in tech?
this is exactly how i feel!
nathaah3··on Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines
really impressive work!!! the depth of research and the way the website presents it are both well executed.

i grew up in erode, a major handloom hub in tamilnadu.. so this hits close to home. research like this helps preserve and better understand regional textile ecosystems that often don’t get enough structured documentation.

thanks for sharing.

nathaah3··on ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
that was so brilliant! i loved it! thanks for putting it out :)
nathaah3··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
that was so fun to watch
nathaah3··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
i had fun, seeing your animations! thank you for putting it out :)
nathaah3··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
so cool
nathaah3··on One million (small web) screenshots
i didn't know about onemillioscreenshots before but..

this is one of the coolest blogs i have ever read!