<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: anvuong</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=anvuong</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:49:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=anvuong" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anvuong in "XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's just not true. You think subtracting/adding 64-bit numbers actually take 64 cycles?<p>There is sequential implementation of ripple carry adder that uses clock and register, this will add 1-bit per cycle, but no body uses this for obvious reason, it's just a toy example for education. A normal ripple carry adder will have some delay in propagation time before the output is valid, but that is much less a clock cycle. You can also design a customized adder circuit for 4-bit 8-bit 16-bit etc separately that would greatly minimizes the propagation delay to only 2 or 3 levels of gates, instead of n gates like in the ripple carry adder.</p>
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<p>But crashing in LEO is not as disastrous as GEO or higher. It's an unstable orbit so eventually everything will deorbit, crash, and burn. May take a while though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:19:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784682</link><dc:creator>anvuong</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784682</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anvuong in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A modern browser is much more complicated and heavier than the old Outlook, and probably the latest Outlook too.</p>
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<p>Unlikely. If you are talking about adding headers, or encryption, then yeah the compression might give worse result, it's due to more input data and/or encryption increasing the entropy of the signal. Otherwise, transparent encoding should not affect any decent compression algorithms, where frequency and entropy are leveraged.</p>
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<p>Obsolete? My team has an onboard document that spells out lines that needed to be add to host file so they can access internal resources. These are machines directly bought/rented and maintained by the team, so we prefer to use host files instead of going through the company DNS, which is maintained by an entirely different team.</p>
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<p>This is the worst take I've seen in a while on HN. Nvidia doesn't make games, and for its case, they can either sell the same die as a gaming GPU for $2,000, or as a server GPU for >$30,000, the math is simple and obvious, which is why the stock jumps.<p>Epic doesn't have anything else besides the gaming market. And the gaming market is huge, it's more than music and movies <i>combined</i>, so please just stop spilling bullshit.</p>
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<p>Huh, many companies use TSMC, in fact, probably all of them use TSMC, including Intel, yet there are only a few who dominates in performance. There are much more in designing chips than what you just listed.</p>
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<p>I have visited Seattle, SF, LA, Phoenix, Miami, Shanghai, Tokyo, Paris, and Amsterdam in the past 2 years, and I can say with 100% confident that the cities in the US are shit compared to those in Asia and EU. They are not even close, they are just simply shit, there is no comparison at all. I have no idea what the statistics is, but I feel much less safe in US cities.</p>
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<p>Maybe it's time to stop caring about these stereotypes over-amplified by social media? I'm from Asia and I speak English with a heavy accent, the only French I know is "merci beaucoup", "toilet?", and "au revoir". I've visited Paris twice (1 week each time) and language barrier or the so-called "Parisian elitism" had never prevented me to enjoy my stay there.<p>That being said, there is still a lot to hate about Paris: dirty and overcrowded subway, shady people everywhere, especially around tourists' places of interest, etc. Not that much different from big cities like NYC, SF, Seattle, etc.</p>
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<p>The IRGC is fighting for survival, most Iranian want them gone, and Iran will be better as a whole if the IRGC is all dead. Don't try to conflate the government with the country, they don't always align.</p>
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<p>I've always hated this argument. Why should I want a system that can drive "just as any human driver can"? I want it to be much much much better than the best driver out there, like 100x or 1000x better.<p>That argument is dumber and dumber any time I think about it. And we haven't even gotten into the fact that human eyes and its partner in crime the brain work much different than a camera.</p>
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<p>Saying Maduro was democratically elected was too rich.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:01:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445062</link><dc:creator>anvuong</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445062</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anvuong in "Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> many still saw the "metaverse" vision as inevitable<p>TBH, people who don't use VR probably think it inevitable due to all the ads, marketing, and especially movies' romanticized of the virtual world. People who actually bought a headset and put it on their faces know this shit will never become mainstream in the current form factor.</p>
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<p>It's very different though. Alphabet was created more for financial book keeping. Google apps have no Alphabet branding. On the other hand, Meta was created because the Facebook brand was down in the rabbit hole, almost every product of it has the Meta branding prominently displayed.<p>Anecdotal but my parents know about Meta, because they use FB/Messenger daily. They have no idea what Alphabet is.</p>
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<p>Huh? There is nothing called "empty memory". There is always something being stored in the memory, the important thing is whether you care about that specific bits or not.<p>And no, the articles you linked is about caching, not RAM access. Hardware-wise, it doesn't matter what you have in the cells, access latency is the same. There is gonna be some degradation with #read/write cycles, but that is besides the point.</p>
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<p>RIP<p>Hyperion Cantos is the most influential scifi story I've ever read personally. The first book is a masterpiece, while the rest remains one of the greats.<p>:(</p>
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<p>Yeah that part is either just bullshit or OP gave the bot access to his camera previously, which is just dumb.</p>
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<p>At every companies I've worked at the CFO always has a large presence at every townhall, after all they are the one who is responsible for sending your paychecks on time. As for CTO, yeah it's a mixed bag in my experience, I mostly see them as just another layer between the CEO/COO and the principle engineers. Maybe that's exactly what they want though.</p>
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<p>This brings me back to DSP class, man learning about FFT was eye-opening.</p>
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<p>Actually read like one of those AI-fueled cringe LinkedIn post.</p>
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