Hacker News: KenoFischer

New comment by KenoFischer in "Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia"

KenoFischer — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:42:22 +0000

You'd think so, but Julia has been around a while now. Julia was one of the first non-python languages added back when it was still called ipython. I remember sitting in a room at the CfA with Fernando Perez and Steven Johnson and hacking up then original integration. Don't remember exactly when that was but more than a decade ago.

New comment by KenoFischer in "Cleve Moler has died"

KenoFischer — Fri, 22 May 2026 05:32:23 +0000

I only met him twice, so I don't have much to say, but let me share Alan's message instead, since he knew him well: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cleve-moler-rip/137235.

New comment by KenoFischer in "Making Julia as Fast as C++ (2019)"

KenoFischer — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:27:11 +0000

It always amuses me when people assume that the nefarious scheme is taking open source contributions and selling them. That's not the nefarious scheme. The nefarious scheme is going to partners, funding agencies and investors and saying "look at this unique capability / important research / profitable business opportunity that we can do together, but oops, all of our code is written in Julia, so I guess we better pay some people to maintain it so it'll all come crashing down, wouldn't want that to happen".

Also, I'm of course using nefarious in jest here in both cases. While we don't directly try to monetize our open source work, I respect that sometimes people need to do that. As long as people are transparent about it, I don't have a problem. Doing the thing we're doing seems to work, but it's a lot harder, because you have to build a successful pice of software and a (or multiple) successful something elses that has a critical dependency on it. It's like hitting the lottery twice.

New comment by KenoFischer in "RISC-V Server Platform Spec Ratified"

KenoFischer — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:23:48 +0000

It's tragic to see these hardware vendors repeat mistakes of the past by forcing UEFI on platforms that do not need it.

Anthropic PBC Risk Assessment Report (Unredacted) [pdf]

KenoFischer — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:50:26 +0000

Article URL: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.465515/gov.uscourts.cand.465515.148.1.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722829

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by KenoFischer in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

KenoFischer — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:01:32 +0000

While we have you here, could you fix the bash escaping bug? https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/10153

Anthropic PBC vs. U.S. Department of War (3:26-CV-01996)

KenoFischer — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:39:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72379655/anthropic-pbc-v-us-department-of-war/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311421

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by KenoFischer in "Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory (2021)"

KenoFischer — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:03:33 +0000

I'm still surprised I was the first one to notice when Linus tried to change this - I always thought it was a pretty well known behavior.

New comment by KenoFischer in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

KenoFischer — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:20:13 +0000

I'll submit my bit flip story for consideration also :) https://julialang.org/blog/2020/09/rr-memory-magic/

Cutile.jl: Tile-Based GPU Programming for CUDA GPUs

KenoFischer — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:40:00 +0000

Article URL: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-cutile-jl-tile-based-gpu-programming-for-cuda-gpus/136011

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47254987

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by KenoFischer in "Oxide raises $200M Series C"

KenoFischer — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:27:42 +0000

Congratulations to the Oxide team! It's a tough market out there :)! I'm still personally frustrated that I don't get to play with the hardware (too expensive for our internal server needs; not the right fit for our datacenter partners/customers), but I'm excited to see that they're successful and hopefully they'll come around to my use case eventually :). In the meantime, I appreciate that they're building largely in the open - every once in a while I'll glance at their issue tracker for light bedtime reading. Just recently we had some fun internally throwing our controls software at their thermal loop as a usage example - it's often hard to find compelling real-world systems to use as openly sharable examples (of course we have interesting customer problems, but that's all NDA'd), so having companies build real stuff in the open is fantastic. Great company, wish them the best.

New comment by KenoFischer in "Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot"

KenoFischer — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:55:07 +0000

> Do they have "leggo my eggo" itself trademarked?

As a matter of fact, they do:

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=77021301&caseType=SERIAL_...

The full complaint linked above has a full list of trademarks. There's also a claim for trade dress infringement, since the food truck uses the same font and red-yellow-white color scheme.

New comment by KenoFischer in "Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out"

KenoFischer — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:54:59 +0000

You're supposed to generate a random one, but the only consequence of not doing so is that you won't be able to register your package if someone else already took the UUID (which is a pain if you have registered versions in a private registry). That said, "vanity" UUIDs are a bad look, so we'd probably reject them if someone tried that today, but there isn't any actual issue with them.

New comment by KenoFischer in "Access BMC UART on Supermicro X11SSH"

KenoFischer — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 19:42:39 +0000

One of them I managed to fry the pcie root complex somehow, not sure exactly how. One I damaged the traces to the BMC SPI flash. Two others I think just have bricked firmware, but it's been years, so I don't remember for sure.

New comment by KenoFischer in "Access BMC UART on Supermicro X11SSH"

KenoFischer — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:13:30 +0000

Funny to see this come back and see my write-up linked. I did this 8 years ago and think I was the first on this particular board (although others had done similar on other boards). I still have a pile of them sitting on my desk because I accidentally kept bricking them by being ... not careful. That said, even at the time this board was already old, so I guess it's positively prehistoric at this point. I eventually stopped working on this because I thought that others were making sufficient progress. It hasn't really fully materialized yet, but between openbmc, opensil, DC-SCM and the work the oxide folks are doing, I'm still hopeful that we'll get out of server firmware hell eventually.

New comment by KenoFischer in "Gemini CLI"

KenoFischer — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 01:12:50 +0000

Tried it out.

1. First authentication didn't work on my headless system, because it wants an oauth redirect to localhost - sigh.

2. Next, WebFetch isn't able to navigate github, so I had to manually dig out some references for it.

3. About 2 mins in, I just got ``` ℹ Rate limiting detected. Automatically switching from gemini-2.5-pro to gemini-2.5-flash for faster responses for the remainder of this session. ``` in a loop with no more progress.

I understand the tool is new, so not drawing too many conclusions from this yet, but it does seem like it was rushed out a bit.

The Dyad Language Toolchain

KenoFischer — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 17:00:23 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/DyadLang/dyad-lang

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44320455

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by KenoFischer in "GitHub Copilot Coding Agent"

KenoFischer — Mon, 19 May 2025 21:18:48 +0000

What's the motivation for restricting to Pro+ if billing is via premium requests? I have a (free, via open source work) Pro subscription, which I occasionally use. I would have been interested in trying out the coding agent, but how do I know if it's worth $40 for me without trying it ;).

New comment by KenoFischer in "Efabless – Shutdown Notice"

KenoFischer — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 23:46:21 +0000

It's linked from the main website if you hit the "Log In" button and there was communication to customers about this, though I had the same initial reaction, which is why I looked around for corroboration before posting this.

New comment by KenoFischer in "Efabless – Shutdown Notice"

KenoFischer — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 22:10:35 +0000

My understanding is that the TinyTapeout people were using efabless as a service provider and efabless was also providing some sponsorship, but that they are institutionally distinct. There's a LinkedIn post from the TinyTapeout folks that they're looking into alternatives.