<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: alain94040</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alain94040</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:47:21 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=alain94040" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alain94040 in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple is not "just using arm chips". They have been designing their own 100% custom cores for more than a decade.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:21:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441492</link><dc:creator>alain94040</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441492</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alain94040 in "I'm becoming AI-blind"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed, what I call "have your AI talk to my AI" [1]<p>I think that's where the future is going. It presents interesting challenges, but also some opportunities to make life better for everyone.<p>[1*] <a href="https://foundrs.com/have_your_ai_talk_to_my_ai.html" rel="nofollow">https://foundrs.com/have_your_ai_talk_to_my_ai.html</a><p>(*) I dislike the HN trend of starting citations at 0, I find it snobbish.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:59:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49401556</link><dc:creator>alain94040</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49401556</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49401556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alain94040 in "Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting story.<p>I don't know anything about the Linux scheduler, but if one core out of 96 is busy chasing after those ghost allocations, why would a network thread not use one of the other 95 cores, and instead be stuck for seconds? Unless that one core is blocking the entire kernel, but then that would be a lot more visible instantly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:25:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157046</link><dc:creator>alain94040</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157046</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alain94040 in "The Art of 64-bit Assembly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Yes. Its "simplicity" is exactly why we pick and assemble piece by hand - we imagine the leanest way<p>Professionally, assembly is the last thing I would let an LLM generate for me. That's because if you need to write something in assembly, it's because it's critical: operating system context switch, interrupt handler, that kind of thing. You don't want to be 99% correct, you need that code to be 100% good.<p>I can imagine some other professional scenarios that I'm less familiar with, where you want to write a tight numeric loop of NEON64 assembly and let the LLM do it, because it's frankly a pain to do by hand, and you can test it to some degree of confidence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:40:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136586</link><dc:creator>alain94040</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136586</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alain94040 in "Why I am not going to buy a computer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Neither the original 1987 story nor the blog post make any sense to me. I feel the authors are focused on a niche aspect: exchanging deep human thoughts with other humans. For that use case, sure, don’t use a computer, don’t use AI.<p>But there’s nothing wrong with a car made by a robot factory. The car is useful, regardless of how it was made. AI lets some people create new products, those may be useful.</p>
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<p>Use price per page (standard English text)? That would also help make the metric easier to visualize.<p>If you think a page is too vague, use a famous known writer's work as a reference.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690101">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690101</a></p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:23:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/06/26/openai-says-us-government-will-vet-users-its-latest-ai-model/</link><dc:creator>alain94040</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690101</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alain94040 in "Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The European Union passed The Artificial Intelligence Act, which classifies:<p><i>High-risk – AI applications that are expected to pose significant threats to health, safety, or the fundamental rights of persons. Notably, AI systems used in health, education, recruitment, critical infrastructure management, law enforcement or justice. They are subject to quality, transparency, human oversight and safety obligations</i><p>That's a pretty common sense legislation to me.</p>
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<p><i>Neither coding nor internal prototypes were the slow part</i><p>That is not my experience mentoring 100+ startup founders. Building a prototype, the gateway to serious customer engagement, used to take months and many startups would die before finishing their first one.</p>
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<p>Not my experience at all. One slow part was coding. AI takes care of that. But more importantly, the slow part was iterating through concepts, ideas, and prototypes. I thought people on this site embraced lean startups and agile development. AI really helps make that feedback loop 10X faster. I can do an experiment, show it to coworkers and get feedback in a morning, for something that would have taken me almost a week in the past. So now we can try a lot more options, whereas before, we kept getting hit by the sunk cost fallacy: I spent a week on this, I really don't want to start again from scratch with this other approach that may or may not be better.</p>
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<p>That discussion triggered a memory from a comment I made a long time ago here (2020, found it: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24841235">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24841235</a>).<p>There is a way to make the campfire approach a little bit less utopian: California could pass a law that makes it legal to have a second temporary job. So that FAANG engineers for instance, would be allowed to campfire/interview at another company with legal protections. Put a bit of grease in the interview system is good for candidates.</p>
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<p><i>the labour cost of having an intern/entry level engineer spend ~30-60s looking through these is likely close to $0.20</i><p>Did you do the math? Your estimate feels way off. First, I doubt an intern would process one PR in 30s. Maybe 2-3 minutes, to read 10 lines carefully looking for typos and indentation mistakes. We pay interns close to $100K these days (in a company like CloudFlare), so that's ~80c/minute. My estimate is therefore closer to $1.6 per PR. About 10X.<p>You are correct that there is a residual value with the intern, over time they would start learning (a little bit) about the code base.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 15:28:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324411</link><dc:creator>alain94040</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324411</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alain94040 in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We all have had the client from hell: they don't know what they want, they change their requirements all the time. Whenever they have a new half-baked idea, I need to scramble and re-design the architecture. They have no clue that a small change request has a big impact on the code.<p>Well... Now I can be that client. And let AI deal with my incomplete, always changing requirements. And get it done anyway.</p>
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<p>That matches my experience. At least on the solo front, there were so many topics I wasn't an expert on, that limited what I could build. Now with AI assistance, the sky is the limit. I don't need to be an expert in frontend, backend, I can just build on my personal expertise in a functional domain, and leverage AI to fill in the gaps. I believe many people will benefit from being to build exactly what they want, without gatekeepers or investment.</p>
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<p>This paragraph from September 2025 didn't age well:<p><i>Like you, we have seen numerous reports that more and more firms are capping their total headcount in favor of leaning on more AI tools, leading to downsizing their intern and new-graduate hiring. [...] But we think this misreads the moment completely, so we’re heading in the opposite direction.</i></p>
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<p>Correct (well, maybe not half a century, maybe 30 years or so). I was just about to reply that I'd love a version of this that shows instructions going in and out of a re-order buffer. That would be enlightening.</p>
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<p>You're not wrong, but blocking assignments (and their equivalent in VHDL, variables), are useful as <i>local</i> variables to a process/always block. For instance to factor common sub-expressions and not repeat them. So using only non-blocking assignments everywhere would lead to more ugly code.</p>
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<p>Good question. For a long time I think the justification was location: Microsoft is in Seattle, and it’s only the Bay Area that is getting inflated salaries.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:39:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569092</link><dc:creator>alain94040</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569092</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alain94040 in "Arm releases first in-house chip, with Meta as debut customer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not misleading for people in the industry. ARM so far was selling IP (Verilog source code) that other chip makers would include in a full chip design.<p>Now ARM for the first time (this century) is making its own chip [design], which like most of its customers, is manufactured by a fab like TSMC.<p>The title is clear.</p>
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<p>Agreed, in my experience, rule 5 should be rule 1. I think I also heard it said (paraphrased) as "show we your code and I'll be forever confused, show me your database schema and everything will become obvious".<p>Having implemented my shared of highly complex high-performance algorithms in the past, the key was always to figure out how to massage the raw data into structures that allow the algorithm to fly. It requires both a decent knowledge of the various algorithm options you have, as well as being flexible to see that the data could be presented a different way to get to the same result orders of magnitude faster.</p>
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