Hacker News: arnaudsm

New comment by arnaudsm in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"

arnaudsm — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:22:04 +0000

Variable refresh rate displays are becoming popular in smartphones and PCs, hopefully this won't be a technical issue soon.

New comment by arnaudsm in "As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise"

arnaudsm — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 09:33:23 +0000

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New comment by arnaudsm in "As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise"

arnaudsm — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 09:29:02 +0000

That's economical theory, but the real world is often non-linear.

Crucial is dead. There's a finite amount of rare earth. Wars and floods can bankrupt industries, supply chains are tight.

New comment by arnaudsm in "What I learned about deploying AV1 from two deployers"

arnaudsm — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 18:09:46 +0000

Thank you for the detailed answer!

New comment by arnaudsm in "What I learned about deploying AV1 from two deployers"

arnaudsm — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:46:02 +0000

What's the optimal strategy then ? 50 GB Blu-ray remux => 3 GB AV1 ?

New comment by arnaudsm in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

arnaudsm — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:14:03 +0000

Google Chrome is likely around $400M, while Mozilla's core browser team is around $200M but are technologically far behind. Hard to find precise numbers, it's just an order of magnitude estimate

New comment by arnaudsm in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

arnaudsm — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:42:26 +0000

The standard can be forward compatible. A light website is always great, you're using one right now.

New comment by arnaudsm in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

arnaudsm — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:32:36 +0000

There's an elephant in the room: why is maintaining a web browser costing $400M/y?

The web standards are growing faster than non-profit engines can implement them. Google & Apple are bloating the web specs in what looks like regulatory capture.

If Blink/Webkit dominate for long enough, they will lock everything down with DRMs & WEI. Maybe it's time to work on lighter protocols like Gopher & Gemini that don't need 20GB of RAM to open 20 tabs ?

New comment by arnaudsm in "GPT-5.2"

arnaudsm — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:50:42 +0000

#1 models are usually priced at 2x more than the competition, and they often decrease the price right when they lose the crown.

New comment by arnaudsm in "Ecosia: The greenest AI is here"

arnaudsm — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:22:13 +0000

Running an LLM by default when I open your site is the most energy-consuming thing a computer can do, and the thing consumers hate the most in 2025.

New comment by arnaudsm in "Mistral 3 family of models released"

arnaudsm — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:50:30 +0000

Could be optimized for benchmarks, but Gemini 3 has been stellar for my tasks so far.

Maybe an architectural leap?

New comment by arnaudsm in "Mistral 3 family of models released"

arnaudsm — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:00:11 +0000

Geometric mean of MMMLU + GPQA-Diamond + SimpleQA + LiveCodeBench :

- Gemini 3.0 Pro : 84.8

- DeepSeek 3.2 : 83.6

- GPT-5.1 : 69.2

- Claude Opus 4.5 : 67.4

- Kimi-K2 (1.2T) : 42.0

- Mistral Large 3 (675B) : 41.9

- Deepseek-3.1 (670B) : 39.7

The 14B 8B & 3B models are SOTA though, and do not have chinese censorship like Qwen3.

New comment by arnaudsm in "Stackoverflow Outage"

arnaudsm — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:35:23 +0000

Now that SO is almost dead, how will the AI labs train their LLMs on all the programming edge cases it used to document?

Will synthetic data and documentation RAG really be enough? Or will we be stuck at 2022 debugging knowledge forever?

New comment by arnaudsm in "I built a faster Notion in Rust"

arnaudsm — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:27:08 +0000

This is great, I wish tech giants focused more on latency.

Gmail, Notion, Facebook, are painfully slow on my high-end laptop with gigabit ethernet. Something is wrong in our modern engineering culture.

New comment by arnaudsm in "Project Gemini"

arnaudsm — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:22:33 +0000

The Gemini protocol started in 2019, before Google's Gemini in 2023.

It's proably a popular word for tech workers fans of the american space race.

New comment by arnaudsm in "Steam Frame"

arnaudsm — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 11:21:28 +0000

Sorry Stan, forgot about the Lynx, huge fan of your work!

New comment by arnaudsm in "Android developer verification: Early access starts"

arnaudsm — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:44:10 +0000

@dang this post title was editorialized against the rules, and is highly misleading. Should we revert it ?

New comment by arnaudsm in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

arnaudsm — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:11:27 +0000

I'm glad em dashes exist, they help me spot AI spam.

New comment by arnaudsm in "Steam Frame"

arnaudsm — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:09:53 +0000

This is the first standalone headset with an open ecosystem. That's a big deal.

Meta Quests & Apple Visions require developer verification to run your own software, and provide no root access, which slowed down innovation significantly.

New comment by arnaudsm in "Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams"

arnaudsm — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 15:06:52 +0000

Most FAANG executive and engineers use premium plans or AdBlockers, they probably don't care or even notice how dangerous their products are getting.