Hacker News: _zoltan_

New comment by _zoltan_ in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

_zoltan_ — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:09:26 +0000

NVIDIA is open source software first for almost everything. You cherry pick a couple of things, but it's not the general sentiment.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "AWS Acquires DuckLabs"

_zoltan_ — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:24:24 +0000

1 mil as generational wealth? what?

New comment by _zoltan_ in "Why some US restaurants are banning tips"

_zoltan_ — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:49:16 +0000

around 3 to 5 CHF, depending on the place, and what kind of coffee you want to drink.

remember, this is Europe - the coffee is not made the same nor looks or tastes the same as you get in the US. it's mind boggling to me that people get a 16oz "cup of coffee", black.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "Why some US restaurants are banning tips"

_zoltan_ — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:27:14 +0000

in Switzerland we almost never tip.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com"

_zoltan_ — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:26:14 +0000

robinhood is not available here in Switzerland unfortunately.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

_zoltan_ — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:24:44 +0000

it's very very important, not at all something you can compare to WiFi.

data processing, LLMs, model loading, MoE loading, etc, etc relies on very fast storage to keep your GPU saturated.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "Why some US restaurants are banning tips"

_zoltan_ — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:16:41 +0000

finally. they should pay employees a better wage instead of relying on patrons to pay the tips (which might or might not end up with the employees...)

New comment by _zoltan_ in "iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com"

_zoltan_ — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:09:51 +0000

I wonder how a single user runs into that.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com"

_zoltan_ — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:08:30 +0000

single use card tied to you, or via some privacy frontend? if the latter, care to share your experience?

New comment by _zoltan_ in "Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive"

_zoltan_ — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:54:30 +0000

This wall of text for nothing. ZDR is a thing. Microsoft and AWS serves these models with zero data retention.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "The August 17 outage"

_zoltan_ — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:55:19 +0000

and? don't use it. switch. abandon.

did we lose anything of value? probably not.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "The August 17 outage"

_zoltan_ — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:13:53 +0000

usual crying from the usual people. AI slop, blahblahb, ...

(I don't mean you. just these so called open source developers.)

New comment by _zoltan_ in "Clean up Claude 5's token vomit with a separate LLM"

_zoltan_ — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:17:06 +0000

Is the nerfed Fable worse or better than Opus 5?

New comment by _zoltan_ in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

_zoltan_ — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:53:00 +0000

Friends "distracting"? Man, that sounds backwards. Work, skip breakfast on purpose, work until 10pm... Nah. That's not a good place.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "Cerebras CS-4"

_zoltan_ — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:33:00 +0000

Press doubt. Single GPU? Maybe. MultiGPU behemoths like NVL144 and NVL576? I don't think so.

NVLink is at gen9. they had a lot of teething problems and can codesign the hardware and software.

in the name of openness (AMD's only """weapon"""), the UALink spec is a hodgepodge of corporate opinions with very different implementations (looking at you, Broadcom). at spec version 1 (in hardware).

I wish them good luck as I really like AMD, but they compete no more on this than Lambo vs Bugatti.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter"

_zoltan_ — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:32:21 +0000

"slop"? come on. we're not in 2020 anymore, Dorothy.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%"

_zoltan_ — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:31:22 +0000

I absolutely see a return. I do not pay for this (we have a corporate gateway), for the price of a junior developer I can get 3-4-5 senior developer's work done. it's insane value.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%"

_zoltan_ — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:30:15 +0000

with ultracode, it goes fast. I can easily get to a billion on a busy day.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work"

_zoltan_ — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:43:50 +0000

there isn't any upvote limit on HN.

New comment by _zoltan_ in "Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work"

_zoltan_ — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:40:26 +0000

far from the fastest - our work on Presto on GPUs would like a word ;-)