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New comment by abound in "Fly.io is getting rid of GPU-accelerated machines"

abound — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:00:57 +0000

I got an email from them which said:

"""

Hi!

You’re recieving this email because your organization [...] has Fly Apps with one or more Fly Machines deployed using an A100 40GB PCIe GPU in [...]:

[...]

As part of the process of deprecating Fly.io GPUs, we are shrinking our GPU footprint and are will no longer be offering GPU-enabled machines of this model. We will continue to host these workloads until May 31st, 2026, after which they will be destroyed. Please take any necessary actions to migrate these workloads or preserve their associated data before this time.

For the near-term (at least through to the previously announced Fly GPU deprecation date of of July 31st, 2026), we are still offering A100 80GB GPU-enabled machines that may be compatible with your workloads, subject to available capacity.

[...]

"""

The website has very limited information about why they're doing this, especially since they have many blog posts about their GPU support and why it's great and all that.

Fly.io is getting rid of GPU-accelerated machines

abound — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:00:57 +0000

Article URL: https://fly.io/docs/gpus/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165706

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

New comment by abound in "Cal.com is going closed source"

abound — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:14:36 +0000

Oh wow the coss.com thing makes this so much worse. Making such an aggressive and public commitment to open source to then turn around and do something like this is a pretty rough look.

New comment by abound in "Cal.com is going closed source"

abound — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:08:33 +0000

This certainly makes me feel better about the project I started a few months ago to replace my Cal.com instance with a smaller, simpler self-hosted tool

https://git.sr.ht/~bsprague/schedyou

New comment by abound in "Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war"

abound — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:06:32 +0000

"Above average" is underselling it: the US has by far the the highest incarceration rates of the rich world [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

New comment by abound in "ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month"

abound — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:55:46 +0000

One example I can think of is Google + Project Maven [1], where Google was partnering with the DoD but "withdrew in 2018 after internal protests". Though they've since partnered with the DoD on other initiatives [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Maven

[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-dep...

New comment by abound in "Some Unusual Trees"

abound — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:57:45 +0000

In the age of LLMs, it wouldn't be hard to build a UI on top of a Wikipedia dump [1] that satisfied any particular idea of serendipitous flipping.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

New comment by abound in "Show HN: ctx – an Agentic Development Environment (ADE)"

abound — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:08:48 +0000

That's a bummer, especially since folks normally use the ".rs" TLD for Rust projects, so the (perhaps accidental) implication from the domain is that this is a Rust project with the source available somewhere.

New comment by abound in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

abound — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:12:10 +0000

Obligatory shout-out to Berkeley Mono [1], which understandably isn't on this site because it's a paid font. I really enjoy the customizer that comes with it, I use the font on all my terminal/IDE environments, as well as on my blog.

(FWIW, I just did the codingfont bracket and got Source Code Pro, which I've used in the past, along with Iosevka and Commit Mono)

[1] https://usgraphics.com/products/berkeley-mono

New comment by abound in "GitHub is once again down"

abound — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:52:54 +0000

Unironically, I think 9% uptime would be "one-tenth of a nine".

New comment by abound in "Kill Chain"

abound — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:13:11 +0000

A bit later though:

> LLMs are late additions to Palantir’s ecosystem;they were added in late 2024, years after the core system was operational, “AIP” was added as a natural language layer that summarizes documents or constructs and answers queries.

So LLMs are now a part of these systems, even if it sounds like they aren't directly involved in targeting yet.

New comment by abound in "Java is fast, code might not be"

abound — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:01:49 +0000

I don't think that's a charitable take of the article. To many programmers, it wouldn't be obvious that some of these footguns (autoboxing, string concatenation, etc) are "bad", or what the "good" alternatives are (primitives, StringBuilder, etc).

That said, the article does have the "LLM stank" on it, which is always offputting, but the content itself seems solid.

New comment by abound in "OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier"

abound — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:02:47 +0000

Looking at the patch itself (linked in the article), the description has this:

> We now support configuring bandwidth up to ~1 Tbps (overflow in m2sm at m > 2^40).

So I think that's it, 2^40 is ~1.099 trillion

New comment by abound in "The RAM stick is dying, and the replacement is something most have never seen"

abound — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:42:53 +0000

It makes sense that each "stick" needs to be higher density since you can fit far fewer of them flat on a motherboard (especially true for servers, I'm curious to see what that'll look like).

New comment by abound in "Reviewing Large Changes with Jujutsu"

abound — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:34:03 +0000

I use Jujutsu in mostly the same way at work. I have a `jj review ` alias that checks out a copy, and then I do the review with three copies open: the IDE (for quick navigation and LSP integration), the diff (i.e `jj diff` with a nice pager), and prr [1] so I can leave comments directly from my editor.

[1] https://github.com/danobi/prr

New comment by abound in "The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books"

abound — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:17:22 +0000

For reference for Kobo in particular: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools

I recently threw an LLM at it to turn the Obok plugin into a statically linked CLI in Rust, it works great.

New comment by abound in "Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation"

abound — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:29:27 +0000

Wouldn't a hash work great for this purpose? I.e.

1. User requests for email alice@example.com to be removed from database

2. Company removes "alice@example.com" from 'emails' table

3. Company adds 00b7d3...eff98f to 'do_not_send' table

Later on, the company buys emails from some other third-party, and Alice's email is on that list. The company can hash all the email addresses they received, and remove the emails with hashes that appear in their 'do_not_send' table.

You'd have to normalize the emails (and salt the hashes), but seems doable?

New comment by abound in "Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories"

abound — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:27:04 +0000

Yeah it would have been nice to end with "and here's a five-line shell script to check if your project is likely affected". But to their credit, they do have an open-source tool [1], I'm just not willing to install a big blob of JavaScript to look for vulns in my other big blobs of JavaScript

[1] https://github.com/AikidoSec/safe-chain

New comment by abound in "Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software"

abound — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:59:53 +0000

Came here looking for this. The Logi+ Options app is, as others have noted, less than stellar. I just want to control the zoom, flip, and coloring on my MX Brio.

New comment by abound in "The “JVG algorithm” only wins on tiny numbers"

abound — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:33:02 +0000

Same with RSA and other things, I think the author's point is that slapping your name on an algorithm is a pretty big move (since practically, you can only do it a few times max in your life before it would get too confusing), and so it's a gaudy thing to do, especially for something illegitimate.