Hacker News: PeterCorless

New comment by PeterCorless in "US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize"

PeterCorless — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:34:17 +0000

I am so disgusted by this current regime.

New comment by PeterCorless in "Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours"

PeterCorless — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:33:40 +0000

American and European data center providers should start thinking about design for resiliency versus drone and missile strikes.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/techland/drone-and-data-ce...

New comment by PeterCorless in "Streamhouse: What It Is, What It Isn't, and What's Missing"

PeterCorless — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:14:38 +0000

This is actually a great article. We, as an industry, need to make sure that we address the points raised in this article. Especially What is, and what isn't a "streamhouse?"

How would you know you've achieved "streamhouse?" What objective requirements does it need to meet?

Disclosure: I work at Redpanda, which was part of the launch, and I will be hosting a webinar soon with some of the companies part of the technical working group. I'll try to raise some of the points made in this blog as part of the discussion if I have the chance.

Astronomers capture an unprecedented view of gas giant formation in action

PeterCorless — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:06:17 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-09-astronomers-capture-unprecedented-view-gas.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836127

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Scalable Intra-Process Data Redistribution W Ring-Buffer Shuffle (Redpanda Oxla)

PeterCorless — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:26:03 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29099

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480561

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Importance of Out-of-Band Metadata for Safe Autonomous Agents [Redpanda]

PeterCorless — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:47:02 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29082

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334445

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by PeterCorless in "Benchmark demonstrates 5-37x improved performance for query on Iceberg tables"

PeterCorless — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:06:43 +0000

This is really cool stuff. Amazing the efficiencies Pinot brings to data systems.

[Disclosure: I used to work at StarTree. Still a fan!]

New comment by PeterCorless in "A Peer-Vetted AI Stack for Builders"

PeterCorless — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:02:29 +0000

I think that's the issue: a human can't. We'll need to set up "radar" agents to find out new tools for agents.

A Peer-Vetted AI Stack for Builders

PeterCorless — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:26:49 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@vishakha041/a-peer-vetted-ai-stack-for-builders-03bb3af8adf5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577186

Points: 8

# Comments: 8

New comment by PeterCorless in "We built an observability database for agents, not humans"

PeterCorless — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:49:41 +0000

> Agents are cardinality-hungry. They want the high-cardinality data you'd normally drop: individual trace IDs, per-request attributes, full tag sets. They are very patient. They will sift through it.

The agents themselves are not likely going to be doing the high cardinality queries or they will keel over. They have limited memory buffers. They will take many seconds to return results. They are likely going to be limited in terms of QPS.

From the blog: > Apache Iceberg, with data stored as Parquet on S3, and most of the system implemented in Go

You have just ensured that queries will have a p99 >1 second. This is kind of antithetical to having an agent be fast.

You couldn't run any sort of real-time service, where hundreds of thousands to millions of events were occurring per second, and you needed to adjust to that in milliseconds.

The terms "p99" and "QPS" do not occur anywhere in the article. Which leaves the question of scalability to a user's imagination.

I applaud the direction. I am looking for objective evidence.

New comment by PeterCorless in "Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI"

PeterCorless — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:54:01 +0000

Vera does what NVIDIA calls Spatial Multithreading, "physically partitioning each core’s resources rather than time slicing them, allowing the system to optimize for performance or density at runtime." A kind of static hyperthreading; you get two threads per core.

It's somewhat different from how x86 chips do simultaneous multithreading (SMT),

New comment by PeterCorless in "Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI"

PeterCorless — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:48:01 +0000

This is the related benchmark blog from Redpanda [disclosure: I work for Redpanda and I helped write this. Credit to Travis Downs & others at Redpanda for the heavy lifting on the testing and analysis.]

https://www.redpanda.com/blog/nvidia-vera-cpu-performance-be...

Redpanda pushes the envelope on Nvidia Vera

PeterCorless — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:46:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.redpanda.com/blog/nvidia-vera-cpu-performance-benchmark

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47405385

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Redpanda Agentic Data Plane (ADP) now in limited availability

PeterCorless — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:34:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.redpanda.com/blog/redpanda-agentic-data-plane-adp-is-now-available

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47064457

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The convergence of AI and data streaming – Part 1: The coming brick walls

PeterCorless — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:44:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.redpanda.com/blog/convergence-ai-data-streaming-part-1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46620570

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by PeterCorless in "IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world"

PeterCorless — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 01:54:01 +0000

The reason being? IP proxy gateways. They obviated the need to move away from the limited address space of IPv4. Which was 90% of the reason to do IPv6.

New comment by PeterCorless in "US Administration halted largest Offshore Wind project in the U.S."

PeterCorless — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:59:31 +0000

Should be far, far larger news, to be honest.

New comment by PeterCorless in "Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1"

PeterCorless — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:00:33 +0000

"You are entirely correct!"

New comment by PeterCorless in "Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1"

PeterCorless — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:00:02 +0000

Exactly.

New comment by PeterCorless in "IBM to acquire Confluent"

PeterCorless — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:59:18 +0000

Fair. A good callout. And maybe the right move. However, a healthy IBM would not have needed to calve off its entire Global Technology Services business.