Hacker News: alphabetag675

New comment by alphabetag675 in "DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models"

alphabetag675 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:13:06 +0000

I do not understand this. Was the order secret for all this time?

New comment by alphabetag675 in "Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025)"

alphabetag675 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:56:13 +0000

Compared to something like openstack.

New comment by alphabetag675 in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

alphabetag675 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:44:16 +0000

Actually it is a anti-demo, because while software allows you to do it, I don't think many software engineers can work on this.

New comment by alphabetag675 in "Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting"

alphabetag675 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:00:28 +0000

When we are installing docker repositories on my Rockylinux installation on 100 nodes at once, should we need to manually put an age of the person who is running the script somewhere in the process? Will docker be forced to prevent me from downloading its packages if I do not transmit the age in a header?

New comment by alphabetag675 in "Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System"

alphabetag675 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:53:42 +0000

I wonder what you have to say about our new generation fertilizers and vaccines.

New comment by alphabetag675 in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

alphabetag675 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:53:44 +0000

Will WebRTC be the one needed to be mandated?

New comment by alphabetag675 in "I made my own Git"

alphabetag675 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:10:08 +0000

When you are learning, everything is important. I think it is okay to cut the person some slack regarding this.

New comment by alphabetag675 in "Giving university exams in the age of chatbots"

alphabetag675 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 10:01:51 +0000

You are arguing the converse. Access to information doesn't make people educated, but lack of access definitely puts people at a big advantage. Chatbots are not just information, they are tools and using it needs training because they hallucinate.

New comment by alphabetag675 in "Giving university exams in the age of chatbots"

alphabetag675 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:41:40 +0000

They would fall behind in the world just like people from developing and poor countries do today.

New comment by alphabetag675 in "Provenance Is the New Version Control"

alphabetag675 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 06:56:13 +0000

As long as your language is good enough to generate correct code at any point, it is a specification. If not, it is an ambiguous approximation.

New comment by alphabetag675 in "Provenance Is the New Version Control"

alphabetag675 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 06:53:56 +0000

If you could regenerate some code from another code in a deterministic manner, then congrats you have developed a compiler and a high-level language.

New comment by alphabetag675 in "Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri"

alphabetag675 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 08:53:12 +0000

Times New Roman was designed for a time when printing quality was not that good. With 1080p screen nowadays, that barrier is removed, so optimization of readability has different constraints.

New comment by alphabetag675 in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

alphabetag675 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 01:01:47 +0000

Cheap compute would be a boon for science research.

New comment by alphabetag675 in "Why IP address truncation fails at anonymization"

alphabetag675 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:17:44 +0000

Such a long blog post about privacy failure due to correlation and no mention of things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-anonymity

Disappointing.

New comment by alphabetag675 in "Sodium-ion batteries have started to appear in cars and home storage"

alphabetag675 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 08:37:55 +0000

Sodium batteries are much better for environment. Sodium is everywhere.

New comment by alphabetag675 in "Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel"

alphabetag675 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:06:38 +0000

That's patently untrue. They do not remove stuff, they just keep changing the APi which means that the modules need to keep evolving.

New comment by alphabetag675 in "Investigating a Forged PDF"

alphabetag675 — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 06:36:06 +0000

Finally an explanation for the three copies. Always wondered about this, but somehow was too busy to look it up.

New comment by alphabetag675 in "OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems"

alphabetag675 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 22:07:25 +0000

It's easy to see what it could be by looking at Green500.

New comment by alphabetag675 in "OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems"

alphabetag675 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:41:44 +0000

Account for around 3MW for every 1000 GPUs. So, 10GW is around 333 * 10 * 3MW so 3.33 * 1k * 1k GPUs, so around 3.33 M GPUs