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Still plugging away on https://flopper.io

Added models and pricing there recently too. Aiming to be a huge place for all GPU data when it comes to mathematical performance. Things like FP8 for AI inference etc.

Tempted to make the infrastructure a bit more sound.

Aside from that I'm working on https://solarable.org - which is aiming to provider understanding of solar panels before finding an installer and plotholes.app (https://plotholes.app) which is a consensus network for potholes as reported and determined by cyclists.

Interesting option for CDNA architecture chips. I wonder if this moves to an open standard?

AMD GPUs build for AI specs for reference: https://flopper.io/gpus?vendor=AMD&page=1

I worry about the safety element of this. I'm not sure that having people walking around completely oblivious to their environments is a good thing.

In a multiple of ways: you become disconnected from nature and closed off to environments, and you also reduce safety because you don't know what is going on around you (high % of population live in cities).

Not a uniquely Apple problem though, I suppose.

Pulling together lots of solar data trying to promote solar panel installation in the UK.

We've had three back to back heatwaves so far this summer in the UK. THREE!

Hopefully it inspires people to make an informed decision to get the best price and starts generating more questions and leads for solar companies.

https://solarable.org

Cool concept, but lots of processing to get to that point still.

Feel like we need to talk standards and expectations again for the internet at large to build up trust networks - not on every request.

Efficiency seems so far away from engineering standards now. Odd how we got here.

GATCHA would be a better name but I digress

Looks loads better bromeo!

Interesting that the PFLOP value on FP4 is around the datasheet quote (20k TFLOP): https://flopper.io/gpu/amd-instinct-mi355x-oam

Great work, thanks for the write up.

FWIW: Agree with font, lots of a11y constraints. I ended up using Reader Mode

Still plugging away trying to build a AI Infrastructure Database - any input super welcome

https://flopper.io

Aside from that, I've launched a new tool that tries to promote Solar panels. The UK has some of the most expensive energy in the world, so I've been trying to let homeowners and building managers understand if their building's are suitable.

Uses some APIs all plugged together - including the DEFRA datasets for DSM (LiDAR from planes).

https://solarable.org

Potential specs:

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080: https://flopper.io/gpu/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5080-16gb

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090: https://flopper.io/gpu/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090-24gb

Hey man, absolutely.

Let me know what you're after here, as super cool to do it.

Also might be cool to do a backlink share too if you are up for that?

Working on trying to give some guidance on solar panels.

Plug in solar became legal here in the UK

Still sussing it out but started shipping something

Finding the pitch direction of the roof is kinda hard

Uses data from the house to try and get a rating

https://solarable.org

THe interface - or the garage itself - is huge here.

I want multiple ways to publish. Sometimes I wanna share images, sometimes I just wanna pipe output from a command and add some context.

Pretty frustrated of going into apps like X that break my train of thought instantly.

1. https://flopper.io - a resource to find AI infrastructure benchmarks and soon - compare providers. Reach out if you're a provider!

2. https://boulderinglist.com - a catalog of climbing gyms across the world

3. https://livedsupport.com - AI driven support for colorectal issues

4. https://radiusing.uk - find where people are willing to do something to improve the social fabric of where they live

5. https://llmstxt.studio - generate rich and full llms.txt files for your website. Then we check if AI queries would cite you based on this.

6. https://probe.bike - aggregate and tell stories with your cycling data

7. https://paletter.dev - a color design system for the modern era - based on design systems

8. https://llmstxt.work - a directory of llms.txt files

Probably working on too many projects at the moment - but really enjoying building again.

Working hard to figure out how to market, interested in trying to push things out a bit more.

Working on a benchmarking tool with https://flopper.io for GPUs too - written in Rust - which should allow me to try to get people to submit their general flop values for consumer hardware to run local llms/models.

Any feedback super welcome!

looks good to me - who is your target audience with this?

This is cool, I'll add these as desktops to https://flopper.io!

How do you test/generate these numbers?

Sometimes to move fast - we have to go slow.

That's a mantra I learned when getting into technology.

Asking questions about how things work, why it is a certain way, or why a shortcut was made often give you far better insights than anything else.

Slowing down and understandng is great. With AI this is even easier. But choose wisely, brains get full.

hey brotato,

added this to the best of my ability

weird values due to VRAM implementation (lower FP stinks)

Hope this helps ya

https://flopper.io/gpus?vendor=Apple&page=1

this could be cool to use cloudflare's edge to do some monitoring of endpoints actual content for synthetic monitoring

1. flopper.io - a resource to find AI infrastructure benchmarks and soon - compare providers. Reach out if you're a provider!

2. boulderinglist.com - a catalog of climbing gyms across the world

3. livedsupport.com - AI driven support for colorectal issues

4. radiusing.uk - find where people are willing to do something to improve the social fabric of where they live

5. llmstxt.studio - AI-SEO via sitemaps, llms.txt, and AI search

6. probe.bike - tell stories with your cycling data

need to find a way to get more sleep

If anyone is up for benchmarking with one of these - please let me know.

Interested to see what FP32 values they have for a site I've been working on [0].

[0]: https://flopper.io

Thanks!

It's difficult. It takes time away from my evenings and weekends at the moment and the only way that I can really justify that is by making it paid.

Otherwise I won't get up at 0600 to fix an SLA.

Let's see! I've priced it on the cost of an inner-tube a year. So fingers crossed.

I had an hour to vibe tonight and it looks like it may have gone.

Spent it in bloody Figma instead :(

Sweeeeeeet!

This is cool, I really like a lot of tunes and try to mix them in only to find it hard and just hack to whack it in. I'll give this a go!

Added a fifth project this month. Most likely very unwise...

1. probe.bike - tell stories with your bike rides. It allows you to aggregate your cycling trip into one datapoint. Will likely break this out to skiing over the break and rebrand slightly. Adding yearly cards as we speak!

2. flopper.io - I'm seeing traffic rise and rise for this and it's been a great way to translate my every-increasing understanding of AI Infrastructure architecture to a new project. It acts as a benchmark website for GPUs and systems (e.g. Nvidia NVL72.

3. llmstxt.studio - still feel like llms.txt as an idea make sense - so hedged that and but let's see. Got my first customer this month. B2B and need more features/marketing.

4. rides.bike - the oldest - a catalogue or well researched cycling destinations and information about destinations. Will be adding more very soon!

> a small fraction of kids branching off into fringe networks that are off the radar and will take them to very dark places very quickly.

I've been grappling with this all afternoon and I still cannot determine what my stance on this.

I grew up when the internet was a bit of a wildwest, and I've definitely seen things online that I wish I never had without my consent.

But there's also a bizarre thought that mayb exposure to this isn't such a bad thing because it keeps us human, and aware of privilidge and our safety - and why that is such an important thing to think about

I'd equate it at some level to seeing the inside of the production of food and being put of eating meat, or eating anything non-organic again.

I'm not sure I would like my own children to see it, but I'm hyper aware of what conflict and crime looks like as a result.

Comparatively to social media at least I was making a choice to click on something risky or that I would not like to see rather than having a algorithm choose for me. Not sure if I am just becoming a middle-aged tech dinosaur though.,

My partner doesn't get why I'm enjoying this so much. Thanks for sharing!

Happily found out on Monday that it is available on Spotify!!111

Sent it to said sister. Strange how something can exit your life then re-enter it heavily in the same week (soundtrack, and now HN).

Agree with your point. It's going to be super interesting to see whether languages become more lower or higher on the stack. My guess is unuseful: both.

We've not really seen what impact this will have just yet.

Nice comment! How is the HD collection?

Hmm, I think the flaws are what generally make games.

I played thousands of hours on a bunch of Quake 3 engine games (Q3:A, RTCW, ET)...

If you moved your mouse in a certain way you would go faster, and as a result there were a class of players that were speed demons.

These flaws are often ground out now, and I think that limits community-driven creativity. Especially since most games are impossible to mod now.

Eventually we found ways to limit this (limit fps in competitive configs as an e.g.) to prevent those with the best PCs have an unfair advantage.

My sister picked this up from a random supermarket in 1998/1999, and I sank 100s of hours into watching her play it through.

She does this thing where she wants to start games over and over again from the start, play them for a bunch of hours, then start it again.

The soundtrack and the challenge of beating the game at that age was wonderful.

I beat it a few years ago for the first time all the way through again. Really enjoyed it, but never played the sequel.

I find a lot of modern games unisnpiring. Too much focus is on creating a general great game, rather than focusing on story / mechanics.

Thanks for the post!