Hacker News: 10GBps

New comment by 10GBps in "Claude Fable 5"

10GBps — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:04:34 +0000

The monks got mad too when the printing press was invented because it took their jobs of hoarding knowledge.

AI is just another tool, learn to use it.

New comment by 10GBps in "How LLMs work"

10GBps — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:01:38 +0000

Yep. It's nearly identical to the neural nets we were using in the 90s. Back then even a supercomputer wasn't big enough or fast enough to do what we do today.

I have to wonder though. Is this all a human brain is? A similar thing to an LLM just scaled exponentially larger. I mean a brain is not just neurons with simple connections to each other. The neurons, axons, dendrites, , etc in a brain are all holding and processing information in different ways and doing it nearly 100% in parallel. That's a really big model.

The biological discoveries show how complex a biological brain actually is. Even the tiny brains in a bee or spider are able to solve puzzles and use tools. That's crazy.

New comment by 10GBps in "How LLMs work"

10GBps — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:49:59 +0000

I learned TCP/IP by watching and reading raw packets over packet radio at 1200 baud.

I've noticed the same thing is possible if you watch the output of a slow LLM. Eventually you start to see the machinery. input tokens = output tokens, it's math. I can't exactly predict the tokens generated but I can see how they are formed. It's a lot like chess. You can't see every possible move but the mechanism is understandable.

New comment by 10GBps in "First beta of Nintendo Switch emulator Suyu goes live"

10GBps — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 14:38:27 +0000

In some ways Nintendo suing the original project was a good thing. It brought the project to the attention of a lot more people. Now there is a new version with a bunch of bugs fixed. Who knows how many new developers will be working on it now.

I have to think Nintendo knew this. They had to defend what they could and did so because the original project actually seemed to be doing some sketchy stuff. They know they can't stop everything though.

New comment by 10GBps in "While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working"

10GBps — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 08:50:52 +0000

Reminds of of reddit. Man that text edit box is so dysfunctional. Sometimes you type and nothing happens. Sometimes typing will start selecting random stuff on the page, hiding comments, saving some, and other weird stuff. Cut and paste is a 100% gamble. Random keys won't work some times. Sometimes you post a comment and only half shows up or other weird things.

It's really bizarre and I think has to do with some sort of logging/spyware they run on the site.

New comment by 10GBps in "A collection of modern games for the TI-99/4A"

10GBps — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 20:42:06 +0000

TI-99 was my first real computer bought in 1982 for $50 from K-mart. I learned to program on it. I remember buying a few "whatever" games to get the speech synthesizer for cheap (or free?). Took forever to save enough money to buy Extended Basic so I could do sprites and stuff.

Fun times. I still have it in the original box with all the carts and speech synthesizer. I always wanted that big expansion module with the disk drives. Never could afford it.

A few years later got an excellent deal on a used C64 and moved on to it where it was a little more open platform.

New comment by 10GBps in "The Linux Distributions of 1992"

10GBps — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 18:33:38 +0000

I remember it but it was no competition to VMware which I had been a user of since 1999.

New comment by 10GBps in "The Perils of an .xyz Domain"

10GBps — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 19:07:08 +0000

I run email servers and I get such a massive amount of spam on "vanity" TLD's that I just block them outright. I don't automatically block them all but any that start sending serious levels of spam get blocked. Which is most of them and that block covers the whole TLD. It's just too much work to try anything else.

Now this is just for incoming email. I still allow web browsing and links to these domains through various systems and outgoing mail to those domains works.

The incoming mail though, I just can't allow it. It's just pure spam at ridiculous levels.

New comment by 10GBps in "Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater"

10GBps — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 02:49:16 +0000

I don't think prices are "cratering" so much as just returning to normal rather than price gouging.

Now if I could just buy a GPU for a normal price...

New comment by 10GBps in "Sheriff's Office Told Officer to Play Copyrighted Music to Shut Down Recordings"

10GBps — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 01:24:51 +0000

We have all this deepfake AI technology. It could probably be trained to filter out background music. Seems like a good research project.

New comment by 10GBps in "Linux Sucks 2021 – The End of Linux Is Nigh [video]"

10GBps — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 00:38:02 +0000

Eh, after using Linux mostly as my primary OS and 100% for servers for nearly 30 years I think Linux is only just now in the last 10 years started to come in to its own. The game isn't ending, it has just started! Linux is more than ChromeOS and Android. Everything Internet is Linux, IoT, routers, appliances, cameras, vehicles, the list is endless.

Fuchsia, being Google, will be as evil as Chrome. And it may be popular just like Chrome and Windows but that doesn't mean there isn't something better for users who care about control, security, and privacy.

There is no way in hell Fuchsia or anything else is going to run the Internet like Linux does. Even the alternate OS's like Fuchsia, Haiku, MacOS, etc don't have server versions. The mammoth Microsoft even failed at servers and they do have server versions.

Barring some unforeseen conspiracy, Linux is going to be around for a long, long time.

New comment by 10GBps in "Why Not Signal?"

10GBps — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 22:33:59 +0000

This article sort of makes the case for Matrix but I find Matrix incredibly clunky and slow. Plus every time it "verifies" me it always goes back to the app on my phone like it's some sort of permanent and authoritative identifier. So in that sense it's similar to Signal and Telegram being attached to your phone in some way.

Hard to know what to trust these days. "Nobody" I guess.

New comment by 10GBps in "Xiaomi Unveils Xiaomi Smart Glasses"

10GBps — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:39:27 +0000

Xiaomi has a history of using open-source to power their stuff like their cameras. Though I'm uncertain how often they strictly follow the rules like GPL they have published some amount of open-source. I wonder if these will be hackable and the source published. That would really make these popular I think.

New comment by 10GBps in "Firefox Browser: best for a free web"

10GBps — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 02:27:18 +0000

Agree with the management issues. Also their political activities have not made them look good. They need to focus more on the software.

Also, stop removing useful features from Firefox. It's insane the amount of functionality that has been totally chopped out.

New comment by 10GBps in "Facebook denies having '2 systems of justice' for users after WSJ report"

10GBps — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 02:16:54 +0000

It seems they both denied and admitted to it at the same time, with twisted wording.

Has anyone come up with a decentralized social media platform yet? I wonder if it's even possible without it devolving in to a complete cesspool even worse than the centralized cesspools.

New comment by 10GBps in "YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 recording"

10GBps — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 02:08:02 +0000

YouTube has so many bad practices beyond just this kind of stuff. There are a lot of reasons not to go there any more.

We need suitable alternatives. Maybe something decentralized in nature.

New comment by 10GBps in "X Window System on a Floppy"

10GBps — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 20:52:50 +0000

Nice. Now do it in Rust running (and building) on a Pentium.

New comment by 10GBps in "LibreELEC 10.0"

10GBps — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 04:35:45 +0000

I play 1080p and 720p H.265 all the time without issue on my 3 B+. It's just barely fast enough.

New comment by 10GBps in "LibreELEC 10.0"

10GBps — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 04:27:01 +0000

Kodi's Achilles heel is their choice to implement in Python. I've gotten used to the interface though it gets slower with every release.

New comment by 10GBps in "LibreELEC 10.0"

10GBps — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 04:17:13 +0000

Sucks the Pi3 is not supported. "current development is focused on RPi 4"... Yeah, the Pi3 is only like the most widely used embedded system on the planet and Pi4's are still incredibly hard to find. I would have focused on the 3 first. :/