Hacker News: Tpt

New comment by Tpt in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

Tpt — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:35:13 +0000

My bet (I don't think there is any confirmation of it) is that the AMD board is still the one released last year. The main difference I see is that the new Intel board uses LPCAMM2 memory whereas the AMD board relies on usual socketed memory that has higher latency and is more memory hungry.

New comment by Tpt in "Notes on Writing WASM"

Tpt — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:38:31 +0000

I guess it's mostly because cpython has a fairly good C API allowing PyO3 to just write "safe" wrappers on top of cpython APIs and provide macros to generate boilerplate whereas wasm-bindgen has to generate both Rust and JS sides and deal with the painful linear memory intermediate.

New comment by Tpt in "Servo 2025 Stats"

Tpt — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:22:46 +0000

Igalia is a quite specific "consulting" agency that employs developers and get contracts from client to implement specific features or fix specific bugs, usually around FOSS. They have people who knows how to contribute to Firefox, Chrome, WebKit, Linux, Mesa... It's the go to company if you want to get something done in these projects when not having the resources for that in house.

For example they work for Valve to make the Radeon drivers better and got a grant to get basic MathML support done in the three major web browsers.

New comment by Tpt in "Interop and MathML Core"

Tpt — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:24:20 +0000

It's amazing to see MathML moving forward. As a european, I really like this usage of my taxes euros.

New comment by Tpt in "Ask HN: Python developers at big companies what is your setup?"

Tpt — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:58:04 +0000

UV for packaging and dependency management, Ruff for linting, Mypy for type checking (will be likely replaced by Ty when ready) and whatever editor people like (PyCharm, VSCode, Helix...)

New comment by Tpt in "The Italian towns selling houses for €1"

Tpt — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 06:42:42 +0000

A lot of large castle owners in France have setup a small apartment on the side for winter and use the main rooms only occasionally and during summer. This is not something new, in Versailles you can visit the king actual private bedroom that is much smaller and easy to heat than the official one.

New comment by Tpt in "Saab achieves AI milestone with Gripen E"

Tpt — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 13:39:15 +0000

There is slightly more information on Helsing website: https://helsing.ai/centaur

New comment by Tpt in "Why is Good Friday called Good Friday?"

Tpt — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 07:24:12 +0000

No, it's the first day of the holy week

New comment by Tpt in "Usability Improvements in GCC 15"

Tpt — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:56:34 +0000

There is now libgccjit that aims at allowing to embed gcc https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/jit/

There is an alternative backend to rustc that relies on it.

New comment by Tpt in "Aiter: AI Tensor Engine for ROCm"

Tpt — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 05:39:53 +0000

If I understand correctly, this library provides some Torch kernels customized for AMD hardware. Why haven't they just upstreamed them to PyTorch for better adoption? Also, they seem to demo usage with Torch default eager execution mode and not Torch JIT/TorchScript. Is this library compatible with TorchScript?

New comment by Tpt in "Catholic Group Spends Millions on Dating App Data to Out Gay Priests"

Tpt — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 09:37:07 +0000

But before becoming priest there is a quite long training program (often 5-6 years). Dropping out of it is quite common.

And even after becoming a priest, they can asked to be relieved for their obligations, including celibacy. But in this case they would have to find an other job.

New comment by Tpt in "France bans short haul domestic flights in favour of train travel"

Tpt — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 12:59:56 +0000

Rail lines are massively subsidized and the French government is regularly bailing out SNCF (the national rail company). So imho it not clear that the global market distortion is in the favor of plane.

New comment by Tpt in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2022)"

Tpt — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 15:15:49 +0000

Location: France

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Rust, Python, PHP, JS, Lua, Java, SQL, SPARQL, PyTorch, MediaWiki, NLP, Linked Data...

Résumé/CV: https://thomas.pellissier-tanon.fr/cv.pdf

Email: thomas at pellissier-tanon dot fr

I am a software engineer with a strong research background. I am mainly focusing on data management, databases, and NLP.

See my website for a more detailed description: https://thomas.pellissier-tanon.fr/

New comment by Tpt in "RDF 1.1 Primer (2014)"

Tpt — Wed, 04 May 2022 06:06:23 +0000

There are nice libraries for that like https://ontop-vkg.org/ that translate sparql queries to sql queries and provides some OWL inference.

New comment by Tpt in "EULAs Aren't Inherently Evil"

Tpt — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 08:47:48 +0000

> the customer can run, patch, and run as patched, but not share with others. > the seller guarantees the software will work as documented, won’t be infected with malware, won’t be riddled with security holes, won’t contain plagiarized code.

The two points together are dangerous: they make the seller commit that the software works as intended, even if it is patched by the customer.

The second point is also terrible for the seller: it creates an unbounded liability in case of bug or security issues. Let's assumme that a security vulnerability is discovered, the seller is liable for its exploitation even if they released a patched version that the customer has not applied.

New comment by Tpt in "Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)"

Tpt — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 15:41:12 +0000

I am currently building a single-node graph database implementing the SPARQL query language. It is written in Rust and is named Oxigraph: https://github.com/oxigraph/oxigraph

I would love to get help, I have a working MVP but there are a lot of work left to get good performances for which I would love help. Some current problems are:

- Very big write amplification (the database size on disk is very large).

- The query optimizer is basically non existent.

- The query evaluation code might be easily optimized further.

There is not yet a lot of developer-focused documentation. Feel free reach out here or on Gitter: https://gitter.im/oxigraph/community

New comment by Tpt in "MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch"

Tpt — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:56:03 +0000

Apple is maintaining a Tensorflow plugin: https://developer.apple.com/metal/tensorflow-plugin/

New comment by Tpt in "MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch"

Tpt — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:55:43 +0000

The neural engine seems to be only about inference. For training it seems most systems rely on Metal like the Apple Tensorflow plugin [1]. But I have never tried to do ML on macs so I am maybe wrong.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/metal/tensorflow-plugin/

New comment by Tpt in "MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch"

Tpt — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:37:49 +0000

I'm very curious to see how the 64GB of RAM GPU performs with deep learning models fine-tuning. It might be impressive.

Community Power Part 4: The Gnome Way

Tpt — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 18:07:24 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2021/07/13/community-power-4/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27824152

Points: 4

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