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sakex··on Startup Nights 2026 is comming up on 5-6 Nov. in Switzerland
Hey we invented LSD
sakex··on It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs
It's a throwaway account.
sakex··on Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising
What do you mean? It's exactly what I assumed
sakex··on Resetting Xbox
3% profit margin means you're better off selling the business and investing the cash into US bonds at current rates.
sakex··on Stroustrup's Rule (2024)
Another thing in that vein is features that were built because the previous approach was obtuse. For instance, find it harder to explain async/await in JS to people who never experienced callback hell, or why there is a borrow checker in Rust to people who never tried C++.
sakex··on Swedish parliament abolishes permanent residence visas for migrants
Too much immigration too quick, people got fed up from what I gather
sakex··on Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
I worked at google for 3 years and can confirm what you've heard. Obviously, every org is somewhat different.
sakex··on Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
While I agree we need to keep our immigration under control, this is not the solution.
sakex··on Show HN: KVBoost – chunk-level KV cache reuse for HuggingFace, 5–48x faster TTFT
Is this based on paged attention with hashing of the pages?
sakex··on 2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email
Incredible to see my high school mentioned here
sakex··on Every GPU That Mattered
Gaming GPUs only which are those we are all nostalgic about, but hardly the ones that matter now for Nvidia.
sakex··on Decided to fly to the US to buy some hard drives
I also bought a laptop with an RTX 5090 (mobile) in New York last month. I paid half what I would have paid in my country. Especially when you consider how low the USD is trading at.
sakex··on How I Left YouTube
Levels in big tech are just a way to keep you motivated. You'll work harder to get a promo.

In the end it doesn't matter, you'll make more money by either leaving or getting a retention offer.

sakex··on US sanctions EU government officials behind the DSA
Exactly like Trump is doing to you.
sakex··on Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
I'd be surprised if they didn't scale it up.
sakex··on There are no new ideas in AI, only new datasets
There are new things being tested and yielding results monthly in modelling. We've deviated quite a bit from the original multi head attention.
sakex··on Link Time Optimizations: New Way to Do Compiler Optimizations
Maybe add the date to the title, because it's hardly new at this point
sakex··on CT scans could cause 5% of cancers, study finds; experts note uncertainty
What about MRI? Just had one. Sorry if it's a stupid question, I don't know much about this
sakex··on Knowing where your engineer salary comes from
The anomaly here are AI researchers
sakex··on Users don't care about your tech stack
> They won’t notice those extra 10 milliseconds you saved

Depends what you're doing. In my case I'm saving microseconds on the step time of an LLM used by hundreds of millions of people.

sakex··on The Generative AI Con
The point you're missing is that people were making the same kind of comments about Amazon and Uber not too long ago
sakex··on A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work
I was laid off from Google in January last year alongside 150 people in my extended team. I managed to find a different team in Gemini, so now I'm part of Deepmind. I have very conflicting feelings because on one hand I really enjoy the work, the team, and the absolute genius of people I get to talk to; but on the other hand, I have some resentment for being so inhumanely laid off, I am sad for the people in my team who were not as lucky as me, and I know it can happen again any time.
sakex··on Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith
> I have some doubt about #2. Weren't Big Tech companies paying senior engineers $300K+ - in 2025-adjusted dollars - back in 2013?

Yes but big tech got bigger. Google had a 4th of its current workforce for instance, Meta a 10th, etc. It got much easier to get into those companies.

sakex··on Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?
Such an accurate description of what I went through in Switzerland. Kids are mean, and I had to be mean to survive too. It stained my character in ways I am still trying to overcome more than a decade later.
sakex··on Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
Name and shame
sakex··on Einsum in Depth
That's something I wish I had when I started looking at einsums. It gets interesting when you start thinking about optimum paths (like in the opt_einsum package), sharded/distributed einsums, and ML accelerators.
sakex··on Why Canada Should Join the EU
I have a hard time imagining who would suffer from this more, but I have an even harder time imagining anyone would benefit from this.
sakex··on Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA)
Great article. I think what you should cover next is collective matmuls and sharding.
sakex··on Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA)
Using Jax, you should be able to get good performance out of the box
sakex··on Neuroevolution of augmenting topologies (NEAT algorithm)
Shameless plug:

I have an implementation in Rust (CPU only) with added GRU gates

https://crates.io/crates/neat-gru

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