<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: almostgotcaught</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=almostgotcaught</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:22:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=almostgotcaught" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by almostgotcaught in "Show HN: Hover – IDE style hover documentation on any webpage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> For whom?<p>what is the name for this kind of pointless, lazy, selective, quoting that willfully misconstrues what's being quoted? the answer to this question is incredibly clear: for the developer that created this tool. if that makes you unhappy enough to malign them then maybe you should just not use it?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:34:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46492530</link><dc:creator>almostgotcaught</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46492530</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46492530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by almostgotcaught in "TinyTinyTPU: 2×2 systolic-array TPU-style matrix-multiply unit deployed on FPGA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are so many people on here that are outsiders commenting way out of their depth:<p>> Google Gemini already uses their own TPU chips<p>Google has been using TPUs in prod for like a decade.</p>
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<p>> The use tracks with the Latin or English definitions<p>No it doesn't<p>> sequitur noun : the conclusion of an inference : consequence<p><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sequitur" rel="nofollow">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sequitur</a><p>> "malapropism" is a five dollar word<p>It is of course but I spent my $5 wisely because my use is syntactically and semantically correct.</p>
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<p>Lol if you say so. I contribute to an OSS project with thousands of industry users and we break downstreams all the time - we literally have no stability guarantee. In the 2 years I've been a contributor I've seen exactly once when someone got upset about a breakage.</p>
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<p>> and you can basically forget about ever meaningfully refactoring that codebase.<p>Ummm why? Breaking changes aren't the end of the world? Deprecate and communicate clearly and people are usually fine with them (if it's meaningful progress instead of churn).</p>
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<p>> German government is just as draconian as the US<p>this is called "disinformation"</p>
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<p>Greiner's QFT book is by far the best I've ever seen.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:45:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46423166</link><dc:creator>almostgotcaught</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46423166</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46423166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by almostgotcaught in "CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> xAI is now firmly in the top 4 of AI companies worldwide<p>Lolol literally no one thinks this</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:43:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46420674</link><dc:creator>almostgotcaught</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46420674</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46420674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by almostgotcaught in "Why I Disappeared – My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How do people get away with this kind of dishonesty today? It's shameful.</p>
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<p>> tech workers to be quite intellectually lazy and revisionist<p>i have yet to meet a single tech worker that isn't so</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:36:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46394806</link><dc:creator>almostgotcaught</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46394806</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46394806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by almostgotcaught in "CUDA Tile Open Sourced"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it's all over this thread (and every single other hn thread about GPU/ML compilers) - people quoting random buzzword/clickbait takes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 03:20:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388911</link><dc:creator>almostgotcaught</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388911</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by almostgotcaught in "CUDA Tile Open Sourced"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Google leading XLA & IREE<p>IREE hasn't been at G for >2 years.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 03:19:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388905</link><dc:creator>almostgotcaught</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388905</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by almostgotcaught in "FPGAs Need a New Future"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> we need a tiled layout<p>You are presuming an existing tile IP - if you're already in possession of such an IP then the place and route is already coarse grained. There are lots of papers on this.<p>> (like the GPU does)<p>What exactly does the GPU <i>do</i>? Yes there are tiles but it's up to you to now tile your <i>workload</i>. You understand this is the exact same problem you're bemoaning re place and route - you need to figure out how to shuffle individual bits efficiently through an existing fabric (roughly it's the same thing as routing 32 wires at a time).<p>> we need for this to happen is for the companies making the FPGAs to open up the board layout file spec<p>What exactly is this going to do for you if you're placing tiles? Also you can already recover this by exhaustively enumerating all a->b paths (yes people really do this).<p>To anyone else that thinks they just absolutely are certain of the silver bullet for digital design: download a copy of Vivado and report back what you discover!</p>
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<p>> The time it needs to run is irrelevant for its correctness. And so they can stack and stack and stack<p>This is a very naive take - the very direct translation of what you're saying doesn't happen does in happen in analysis all the time: there are many inequalities which can be "stacked" to prove a bound on something but their factors are too large so you cannot just stack them if you need a fixed bound for your proof to go through. Unsurprisingly this is exactly how actual runtime analysis also works (it's unsurprising because they're both literally math).</p>
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<p>I don't know what you're bemused by - there's no mystery here - you can read the release notes where it literally says this was added to support MLX:<p><a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-26_2-release-notes#New-Features" rel="nofollow">https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-note...</a><p>Which I'm sure you saw in literally yesterday's thread about the exact same thing.</p>
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<p>You can always depend on "brilliant" hn users to contribute the most braindead business hot-takes (not you but the person you're responding to).</p>
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