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nimchimpsky

238 karma · joined November 6, 2016

Java Dev, or words to that effect
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nimchimpsky··on Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%
EU Chip industry : ASML, 2nd to only nvidia, 0.5T mkt cap
nimchimpsky··on System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
barely competitive ? Mythos column is the first column.

You are the only person with this take on hackernews, everyone else "this is a massive a jump". Fwiwi, the data you list shows the biggest jump I remember for mythos

nimchimpsky··on Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering
the model is open source, you can run it locally. You don't think thats significant ?
nimchimpsky··on Seven diabetes patients die due to undisclosed bug in Abbott's glucose monitors
as a T1D parent, agreed, this a nonsense article and shows the author has no real experience.
nimchimpsky··on GPT-5.2-Codex
"In my mind, they're hardly making any money compared to how much they're spending"

everyone seems to assume this, but its not like its a company run by dummies, or has dummy investors.

They are obviously making awful lot of revenue.

nimchimpsky··on Anthropic acquires Bun
back in my day we used to write code on punch cards.
nimchimpsky··on DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]
Pretty amazing that a relatively small Chinese hedge fund can build AI better than almost anyone.
nimchimpsky··on Google Pixel 9 Pro
tokens per second is normally the biggest cause of latency, so amortized I would bet a decent LLM on the phone is still slower than groq/aopenai etc
nimchimpsky··on Germany: Police seize bitcoins worth €2B
they didn't say that, they said 3.8b of volume
nimchimpsky··on Tastes are a point in space
where do you get the data for beer industry ?
nimchimpsky··on Do black holes have singularities?
no it would be weightless, as all the gravity would cancel each other out.
nimchimpsky··on Hacker News moved off AWS again at 10:17 PM PST
This isn't really a debate is it ? You like it for reasons other than value. OK, but its more expensive than other vps providers.

Customer service : if you need to use cusomter service something has gone wrong, and I literally move provider.

nimchimpsky··on Four times I felt discriminated against for being a female developer
the flamewar was started by the post being flagged, your post is patronising.
nimchimpsky··on Hedge fund Melvin sustains 53% loss after Reddit onslaught
Citadel is just a marketmaker that rh uses, they could switch all their flow to a different mm (who are doign the other 40% of flow already) easily.

They don't own it.

nimchimpsky··on Jane Street and the OCaml Compiler (2018) [video]
"wanting to saturate the write channel into a database in general. Consistent hashing document DBs like DynamoDB, Cassandra, etc. are basically infinitely scalable for writes."

I don't really understand what are you are saying there ?

But we use disruptors for processing millions of messages/events as quickly as possible, with a variety of different consumers.

nimchimpsky··on Ask HN: Smallest laptop that is decent for coding?
I love mine, going to get another one. Actually maybe I should the air or the pro just to see.
nimchimpsky··on Ask HN: Smallest laptop that is decent for coding?
get a secondhand or refurb macbook, the completely solid ones. Just plain ol macbook, now discontinued. I love mine.
nimchimpsky··on Sourcetrail, interactive source explorer, is now free and open-source
it hit reddit aswell
nimchimpsky··on Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform
github pages, and commit my own vanilla html
nimchimpsky··on Iterate faster with this dead simple, super fast key-value API
whats the size limit on the values ?
nimchimpsky··on Netflix is now worth more than $100B
> single, real, useful product or service materialize

The ASX is implementing blockchain for its ledger, via the digitalassets company. Right now.

HST voting dapp is being used at the world economic forum, this week.

Thats two I know of, off the top of my head.

As well as the obvious btc and eth being used to purchase stuff everyday, all over the world.

Its actually happening if you bother to look.

nimchimpsky··on Google signs agreement with HTC
> Google software is practically a non-starter

And what was chosen instead that had a significantly easier uptake for "seniors" ?

nimchimpsky··on French chef asks to be stripped of three Michelin stars
wow, I forget that people like you exist.
nimchimpsky··on Google signs agreement with HTC
Steve Ballmer strikes me as an idiot.

He doesn't run google.

nimchimpsky··on Google signs agreement with HTC
It's almost as if the people running Google are not idiots.
nimchimpsky··on French chef asks to be stripped of three Michelin stars
> So what?

Lots of people don't like xenophobia.

> have the right to choose who to do business with?

Ah here we go. Like the hoteliers who don't allow gay people to stay ?

nimchimpsky··on French chef asks to be stripped of three Michelin stars
thats not what he said though.

He said "how can a bunch of foreigners tell us what is good or bad."

There is no undertone, its explicitly xenophobic.

nimchimpsky··on I recommend against using biometric identification
Which is torture, so they could do that until he tells them the passcode aswell.
nimchimpsky··on A hypercane is a hypothetical class of extreme tropical cyclone
I thought supermonsoon was much more likely.

Hyercane sounds like sci fi.

nimchimpsky··on Java: Free at Last
Maintenance mode, that's ridiculous.

It's just had one of the biggest releases in years, with 8.

And 9 I understand it is going to be even bigger, with jigsaw - the goal being much smaller dependency.

The Dev community is thriving, growing in fact. The latest release has made lots of people think Java is actually pretty good.

The reference implementation is now the open jdk. So yadda yadda yadda with oracle.

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