<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: akelly</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=akelly</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:58:20 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=akelly" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akelly in "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>HBM uses about twice as much DRAM silicon per GB due to all the space for interconnect</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:42:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864362</link><dc:creator>akelly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864362</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akelly in "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've heard GenAI.mil still has Gemini 2.5 only.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:37:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864289</link><dc:creator>akelly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864289</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akelly in "How I got scammed on Facebook Marketplace (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fake tracking numbers are a common occurrence in scams now. Somehow the scammers are getting access to a database of real time legitimate tracking numbers, they wait until there’s a shipment in their database going to the same city as the buyer, and then use that tracking number to claim that they shipped the package. Maybe they’re paying a real merchant for access to their shipping database? Or are UPS tracking numbers short enough to brute force?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 18:33:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39292333</link><dc:creator>akelly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39292333</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39292333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akelly in "Reverse-engineering an airspeed/Mach indicator from 1977"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Higher frequency means smaller and therefore lighter transformers, which is very important on aircraft. Nowadays a DC voltage supply would be better, but DC to DC voltage converters didn't exist when the 24V 400Hz standard was created.<p>For mains voltage we use 50-60 Hz because lower frequencies work better with very large AC generators in power plants and, and lower frequencies are more efficient to transmit long distances.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2023 19:45:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34359280</link><dc:creator>akelly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34359280</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34359280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akelly in "What’s Left in the Apple Silicon Transition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple doesn't want you to know this but they do their mechanical and electrical design on Windows PCs (using Siemens NX and OrCAD respectively)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2023 11:01:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34216588</link><dc:creator>akelly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34216588</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34216588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akelly in "Data of 30M Indian Railways users is up for sale on a dark forum"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow I'm shocked how cheap this is:<p>Prices, to keep this data anti public and affective only 5 copies will be sold<p>price per copy is 400$ [ negotiable ]<p>exclusive sale, only 1 person : 1500$<p>if you want to have the data + vulnerabilities we used to get into the database - 2000$</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2022 10:30:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34147409</link><dc:creator>akelly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34147409</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34147409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akelly in "Ask HN: How does ChatGPT work?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Right I intentionally left off Step 1 from that chart to simplify the explanation, since it didn't seem necessary. Is Step 1 just for creating the ChatGPT content blocker?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2022 21:03:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33947474</link><dc:creator>akelly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33947474</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33947474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akelly in "Ask HN: How does ChatGPT work?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The way they went from GPT-3 to ChatGPT is really quite genius. My understanding is that it's something like this:<p>1. Start with GPT-3, which predicts the next word in some text and is trained on all the text on the internet<p>2. Take thousands of prompts, generate several responses for each of them, and have human reviewers rank the responses for each prompt from best to worst<p>3. The GPT model needs a massive amount of training data, it would be cost prohibitive to get enough human feedback to fine tune GPT manually. So you train another model, called the reward model, to predict how the humans will rate each response. Then you train the GPT model against the reward model millions of times<p>5. Feed a small percentage of the output from that training process back to the human reviewers to continue training the reward model, based on heuristics like reward model uncertainty which predict how helpful the human feedback will be towards improving the reward model<p>6. Release ChatGPT to the public, and use user feedback like response upvotes/downvotes to further optimize the reward model, while continuing to train ChatGPT against the reward model<p><a href="https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/" rel="nofollow">https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/</a><p><a href="https://openai.com/blog/deep-reinforcement-learning-from-human-preferences/" rel="nofollow">https://openai.com/blog/deep-reinforcement-learning-from-hum...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2022 05:05:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33940303</link><dc:creator>akelly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33940303</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33940303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akelly in "Emergency SOS via satellite"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A friend's 18yo brother was motorcycling in the mountains with their father, crashed and broke his femur. Ambulance would have taken hours, they had helicopter rescue insurance, but the only helicopter company that operated there wouldn't take it. Got a $25k bill for the helicopter ride and negotiated down to $16k iirc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2022 22:37:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33616144</link><dc:creator>akelly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33616144</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33616144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akelly in "FTX’s balance sheet was bad"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Where did all the money go?<p>One theory is that the crypto quant funds figured out how to exploit the Alameda FTX market maker starting in 2020-2021 to take tons of money from Alameda. But FTX couldn't just turn off the Alameda market maker because most of the FTX trading volume, and therefore FTX revenue, was these crypto quant funds taking money from Alameda. So if they turned off the Alameda money spigot then their revenue would drop off a cliff and they wouldn't be able to raise more money from Sequoia or the UAE. And the value of FTT was tied to the trading volume and was a huge portion of their assets, so if volume fell they would be insolvent.<p>Basically they turned customer deposits into revenue at pennies on the dollar.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2022 21:34:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33601494</link><dc:creator>akelly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33601494</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33601494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akelly in "Never trust a system that seems to be working"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>High impedance (low current flow) signals are more prone to electrical interference. This is particularly bad when you're running long wires across a factory with big electric machines running. And if your signals are low impedance (significant current flow), then you get voltage drop across your long wire, so you can't use voltage-based signaling.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2022 17:27:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33236867</link><dc:creator>akelly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33236867</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33236867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akelly in "Apple Has Reportedly Rejected TSMC's Chip Price Hike of 6%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The rumor I read was the entire M2 line was designed for N3 and then that got delayed so they backported to N5P.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2022 14:38:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33008498</link><dc:creator>akelly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33008498</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33008498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akelly in "Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sorry I saw this on Twitter today and it didn't include it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2022 05:29:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32820949</link><dc:creator>akelly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32820949</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32820949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akelly in "Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can someone test whether you can do this style of prompt injection to discover what the rest of the prompt is?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2022 04:57:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32820796</link><dc:creator>akelly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32820796</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32820796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akelly in "Companies are hacking their way around the chip shortage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a whole industry in China. There are buildings in Shenzhen with hundreds of vendors selling scavenged storage and memory chips, because those are highly standardized. And discontinued chips from the 80s and 90s are salvaged and sold on ebay and AliExpress so people can repair their old electronics. I've even seen broken laptops get their CPUs desoldered and turned into desktops with custom adapter boards. They're incredibly creative when there's profit to be made.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2022 18:42:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32814881</link><dc:creator>akelly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32814881</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32814881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akelly in "iPhone 14 Pro comes with dual-frequency GPS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow you're right, GPSTest on my 2019 Oneplus 7 shows L5 GPS satellites, in addition to L1 GPS, GLONASS, Michibiki, and dual-band Galileo.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2022 00:12:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32795651</link><dc:creator>akelly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32795651</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32795651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akelly in "Apple Introduces Apple Watch Ultra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Making miniature electronics is really hard!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2022 18:30:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32754360</link><dc:creator>akelly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32754360</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32754360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akelly in "Tesla’s Dojo Microarchitecture"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tesla has been shipping custom 14nm inference chips in cars since 2019.
<a href="https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/tesla_(car_company)/fsd_chip" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/tesla_(car_company)/fsd_chip</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 05:16:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32720813</link><dc:creator>akelly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32720813</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32720813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akelly in "Lenovo’s Glasses T1 let you bring a private big screen display with you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With transparent lenses and no tracking, how are these better than the non-transparent video glasses that have been available for two decades and never caught on? The contrast ratio on any transparent display is terrible since the pixels can't block light, only add light. The darkest black levels you can get is however much tinting you apply to your glass.<p>Looks to me like Lenovo developed some display tech for AR and then couldn't get the tracking working and decided to ship a tech demo.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2022 17:22:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32704002</link><dc:creator>akelly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32704002</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32704002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akelly in "The Merge"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Today there is $20mm a day of ETH being printed and given to miners, most of which is sold immediately to pay their operating costs. After the merge there will be only $0.5mm a day being printed and given to stakers. Plus the money printed will go to people who are ETH holders, and are therefore less likely to sell.</p>
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