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New comment by antimora in "Ultraviolet corona discharges on treetops during storms"

antimora — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:24:51 +0000

> “This just goes to show that there’s still discovery science being done,” said McFarland, lead author on the paper. “For more than half a century, scientists have theorized that corona exists, but this proves it.”

"proves it" ?? What kind of science is that?

Change your Google Account email

antimora — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:10:03 +0000

Article URL: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/19870?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587649

Points: 4

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Show HN: Wordchipper – Rust BPE tokenizer, 9x faster than tiktoken

antimora — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:20:18 +0000

Hey HN,

We're ZSpaceLabs, Burn framework contributors working to make Rust a first-class AI/ML stack.

We just released wordchipper, a Rust-native BPE tokenizer for the OpenAI GPT-2 tokenizer family (r50k, cl100k, o200k). On a 64-core machine with the o200k vocab (GPT-4o / GPT-5 tokenizer), we measured 2.4 GiB/s, about 9.2× faster than tiktoken-rs. Through the Python bindings it is typically 2–4× faster than tiktoken, depending on thread count.

The main design goal was to make the internals easy to swap. The tokenizer is split into two parts: pre-tokenization (lexer) and BPE span encoding. Each part can be replaced independently, which makes it easy to experiment with different combinations of lexer backends and span encoding algorithms.

Right now there are three lexer implementations. One uses fancy-regex and is fully compatible with tiktoken. Another uses regex-automata with a runtime DFA and is about 4–8× faster. The third uses logos with a compile-time DFA and is about 14–21× faster on cl100k and o200k.

Write-up with more details: https://zspacelabs.ai/wordchipper/articles/substitutable/

GitHub: https://github.com/zspacelabs/wordchipper

Happy to hear feedback, especially from people working on tokenization, large-scale inference pipelines, or Rust ML tooling.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47507725

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Anthropic vs. Dow

antimora — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:31:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27781298-anthropic-v-dow/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311299

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Anthropic sues Defense Department over supply chain risk designation

antimora — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:09:18 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/anthropic-sues-defense-department-over-supply-chain-risk-designation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310940

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding the Rust Experiment

antimora — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:21:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-Rust

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968473

Points: 19

# Comments: 0

iRobot Stock Is Surging. Retail Traders Think It's a New Short-Squeeze

antimora — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:54:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/irobot-stock-price-short-squeeze-retail-investors-irbt-meme-stock-2025-12

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268994

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by antimora in "Google Antigravity"

antimora — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:33:09 +0000

Why is scrolling modified on this page? I how to disable it?

Burn 0.19.0 Release: Quantization, Distributed Training, and LLVM Back End

antimora — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:19:57 +0000

Article URL: https://burn.dev/blog/release-0.19.0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736707

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

FOXP3 and scurfy: how it all began

antimora — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 01:31:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/nri3650

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45554331

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by antimora in "Claude was down"

antimora — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 02:59:10 +0000

Is it worse for you?

Chinese woman convicted in UK after ' biggest' Bitcoin seizure

antimora — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0415kk3rzo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45429898

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Amazon to Pay $2.5B in Prime Membership Settlement

antimora — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:06:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/technology/amazon-ftc-settlement.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45374591

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

Amazon reaches $2.5B settlement with FTC over 'deceptive' Prime program

antimora — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:02:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/25/amazon-ftc-prime-settlement.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45374512

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Trump to Add New $100k Fee for H-1B Visas in Latest Crackdown

antimora — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:04:11 +0000

Article URL: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/trump-to-add-new-100-000-fee-for-h-1b-visas-in-latest-crackdown

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45305196

Points: 20

# Comments: 7

New comment by antimora in "How I solved PyTorch's cross-platform nightmare"

antimora — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:00:50 +0000

Check out https://github.com/tracel-ai/burn project! It makes deploying models across different platforms easy. It uses Rust instead of Python.

New comment by antimora in "Anthropic is endorsing SB 53"

antimora — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:20:09 +0000

Anthropic saying they want "stronger" requirements is easy when you're helping write them. The tell is that they're endorsing a bill that just happens to match what they're already doing - classic regulatory capture where industry turns their business model into law and calls it "safety."

New comment by antimora in "What Is the Fourier Transform?"

antimora — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:48:16 +0000

I think the best explanation and understanding I received about Fourier Transform was from studying linear algebra.

The Fourier Transform equation essentially maps a signal from the time domain onto orthogonal complex sinusoidal basis functions through projection.

And the article does not even mention this. =)

New comment by antimora in "Amazon must face US nationwide class action over third-party sales"

antimora — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:37:20 +0000

Can't wait till Amazon is hit with a class action on showing ads on my Echo Show that I can't disable anymore.

Google Issues Worldwide Gmail Data Breach Warning

antimora — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 16:32:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newsweek.com/google-gmail-data-breach-warning-2122287

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45084475

Points: 18

# Comments: 3