Hacker News: KeplerBoy

New comment by KeplerBoy in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

KeplerBoy — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:01:31 +0000

I think a majority of old rich people is pretty much unavoidable at a return tour.

New comment by KeplerBoy in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

KeplerBoy — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:30:42 +0000

How does Darwin matter more than Windows?

New comment by KeplerBoy in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

KeplerBoy — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:47:33 +0000

That's literally the same chip. With pricing being whatever, who cares which one they revive.

New comment by KeplerBoy in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

KeplerBoy — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:45:17 +0000

Which problems would that be? Nasdaq crashing by a few percent and a major player to go under. Seems almost inevitable at some point.

New comment by KeplerBoy in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

KeplerBoy — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:40:24 +0000

At least it seems to not get worse.

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

KeplerBoy — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:44:57 +0000

That's true. You can just point the agent at a python function and tell it to slap some fastapi around that and spin up a frontend.

New comment by KeplerBoy in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

KeplerBoy — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:28:37 +0000

Thanks for the correction. I should have looked it up; I only remembered it being somewhat odd.

New comment by KeplerBoy in "Nvidia announces new AI chip for personal computers"

KeplerBoy — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:26:54 +0000

It's inevitable. What might be a prosumer device today priced at 4000$ will be a regular consumer device in 10 years and models only get better.

Local models today are fine for a lot of mundane tasks and will continue to be so. The use cases where paying for frontier models is worth it, will continue to shrink for folks not doing frontier work.

New comment by KeplerBoy in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

KeplerBoy — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:50:40 +0000

To be fair the connectx-7 in the spark can't even push 2x200 Gbps since it is connected via 4 pcie lanes.

New comment by KeplerBoy in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

KeplerBoy — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:55:39 +0000

It means nothing. The LLM thought it was edgy.

New comment by KeplerBoy in "Surface Laptop Ultra"

KeplerBoy — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:43:22 +0000

Also RAM was still quite a bit cheaper when the DGX was announced back in early '25.

New comment by KeplerBoy in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

KeplerBoy — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:38:24 +0000

they also announced a GB10/N1X windows desktop mini PC.

New comment by KeplerBoy in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

KeplerBoy — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:36:54 +0000

The DGX also contains the 200 GbE networking and linux support.

New comment by KeplerBoy in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

KeplerBoy — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:40:10 +0000

Not at all. This is a more like what Apple has been doing the past few years. A bunch of decent arm cores paired with a beefy integrated GPU.

New comment by KeplerBoy in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

KeplerBoy — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:21:30 +0000

It's not that different in Europe depending on the route.

Checked bags are a hassle and cost money.

New comment by KeplerBoy in "AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes"

KeplerBoy — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:55:11 +0000

It is completely different. FPGA tooling is not the same as a driver for a consumer product.

A lot of the serious CUDA compute stuff is also not supported on all platforms (it's linux only, because why would you do such stuff on windows).

New comment by KeplerBoy in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

KeplerBoy — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:11:15 +0000

And that's probably necessary if you want a competent model. There simply isn't much norwegian literature on let's say banana farming.

New comment by KeplerBoy in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

KeplerBoy — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:11:33 +0000

How true is this statement: "He asserted that any country with its own language that did not have a sovereign LLM trained in that language was at a disadvantage as a globally trained, English-speaking LLM would not know about that country’s history, news and culture that was described in the local language."

I thought all big players already train on basically everything remotely available to them no matter the language or quality, so his take sounds like an opinion formed in the early days of generally available LLMs.

New comment by KeplerBoy in "Ferrari Luce"

KeplerBoy — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:29:07 +0000

Interesting fact from the page: "The lowest drag coefficient in Ferrari history, achieved through aero-styling convergence, active air shutters, and ride-height logic that lowers the front by 10 mm even while cruising"

I guess not having large air intakes and generally a slightly larger frontal area helps with that (the coefficient of drag is always multiplied by the area, so this might not be the most aero Ferrari ever, that's a different claim).

New comment by KeplerBoy in "Ferrari Luce"

KeplerBoy — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:19:40 +0000

Interesting idea, but ultimately not going to happen (or matter). I doubt the latency in that DSP Pipeline is below a millisecond, heck given the state of non-critical automotive Software it might a second.