Hacker News: _zoltan_

New comment by _zoltan_ in "Can GROUP BY still be optimized after all these years?"

_zoltan_ — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 10:07:02 +0000

1.6x faster is completely acceptable in natural language.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

_zoltan_ — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:28:21 +0000

I appreciate the time you took to reply to me.

Thank you!

New comment by _zoltan_ in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

_zoltan_ — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:28:50 +0000

so the workers understand cross worker topology? Do they always just see individual tiles? what if there is a dependency - eg I'm streaming data and want to compute something later on an earlier computation? How would that get distributed?

New comment by _zoltan_ in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

_zoltan_ — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:11:32 +0000

sounds very cool - is this basically "C" support for cuTile? :)

New comment by _zoltan_ in "Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X"

_zoltan_ — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:08:24 +0000

In 2 years once it fails and Intel shuts it down completely you mean :)

New comment by _zoltan_ in "QGIS enacts moratorium on AI assisted contributions"

_zoltan_ — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:43:29 +0000

That's not entirely true: my work might get zero traction because nobody will know about it.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "Passkeys are a trap"

_zoltan_ — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:46:49 +0000

hmm, I'm sure with a model that is not restricted, one might be able to extract these locally.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth"

_zoltan_ — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:57:44 +0000

Cold, no sun AND no alcohol? Man that must suck. :)

New comment by _zoltan_ in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

_zoltan_ — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:58:58 +0000

As Terry Tao said, LLMs are not outsmarting us, they are out remembering us.

I'm fairly sure your understanding is not fully accurate.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "Agents don't need memory, they need documentation"

_zoltan_ — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:49:26 +0000

But reading the doc if it's maintained llmwiki style is much cheaper than reading the code on a large codebase.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s"

_zoltan_ — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:34:32 +0000

vast.ai?

New comment by _zoltan_ in "The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)"

_zoltan_ — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:04:33 +0000

reaching the goal is what matters. I never understood people who don't get satisfaction from getting there. I don't care that AI writes the code.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests"

_zoltan_ — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:20:43 +0000

why does it matter that it's a vibe coded website?

New comment by _zoltan_ in "AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up"

_zoltan_ — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:19:15 +0000

I actually look at the tests first. But for this to work, you have to have good hygiene. If the test makes sense, fails without the PR but passed with the PR, I'm almost happy.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator"

_zoltan_ — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:45:35 +0000

billions? who is running BILLIONS of agents?

tens, hundreds, maybe a couple thousand at a time? absolutely.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip"

_zoltan_ — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:46:30 +0000

I optimize a lot of CUDA and it got really, really good at it.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand""

_zoltan_ — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:14:36 +0000

you might be OK with calling everybody using LLMs a bunch of noobs. I disagree. this has nothing to do with my own usage.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month"

_zoltan_ — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:36:38 +0000

Anti LLM is not justified, it's crazy. They are digging their own grave.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

_zoltan_ — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:41:24 +0000

I don't need to go that far, living in Switzerland. I don't know why you'd assume I'm in the US, or somehow that I regard Kraft as great cheese.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

_zoltan_ — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:39:49 +0000

for your point a: writing code by hand puts you ahead of the people who don't write code by hand, eg, the people using LLMs to generate code? that doesn't make much sense assuming both of those personas are senior SWEs.