https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=amitbidlanHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 07 May 2026 08:30:12 +0000Planning ahead, bulk processing, storing for later. Sounds less like primitive survival and more like logistics. Every time we dig deeper the gap between them and us gets smaller.

]]>Sun, 03 May 2026 03:30:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993053amitbidlanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993053https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993053Mostly ASM for performance critical paths is a pattern that never gets old. The VideoLAN team did the same with dav1d and it paid off. Curious how much of dav2d ends up staying C as AV2 matures.

]]>Sun, 03 May 2026 03:29:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993047amitbidlanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993047https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993047Jeeves was just too early — natural language queries in 1997, before anyone called it conversational AI.

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