Hacker News: ashvardanian

New comment by ashvardanian in "Claude Sonnet 5"

ashvardanian — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:50:48 +0000

Got really excited for this model and asked my Opus planners in 3 pretty different projects to use Sonnets instead of Opus subagents to help me experiment on HPC kernels faster. Not one of them ended up writing a single line of code... Sonnets just kept spinning, wasting tokens. Can't remember the last time it happened with Opus in my codebases. Reverting back.

KinetIQ Ascend: Toward 100% Reliable Manipulation and Superhuman Speed

ashvardanian — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:51:45 +0000

Article URL: https://thehumanoid.ai/technology/kinetiq-ascend/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48686654

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

Nvidia CUDA Python 1.0 and CUDA 13.3 Release

ashvardanian — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:38:00 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-cuda-13-3-enhances-gpu-development-with-tile-programming-in-c-compiler-autotuning-and-python-updates/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468120

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ashvardanian in "Cloudflare Flagship"

ashvardanian — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:42:17 +0000

I really like the speed at which Cloudflare is executing toward becoming a critical infrastructure player with all of those new product offerings. That said, not everything needs to be serverless. Their Gen 13 hardware looks impressive, and it’s a pity you can’t rent it by the hour like AWS EC2 Metal instances.

Laguna XS.2 and Laguna M.1 by Poolside

ashvardanian — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:25:02 +0000

Article URL: https://poolside.ai/blog/introducing-laguna-xs2-m1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936628

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

FP8 Search and KV-Caching in USearch

ashvardanian — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:31:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.unum.cloud/blog/float8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837721

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Escaping the Fork: How Meta Modernized WebRTC Across 50 Use Cases

ashvardanian — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:49:11 +0000

Article URL: https://engineering.fb.com/2026/04/09/developer-tools/escaping-the-fork-how-meta-modernized-webrtc-across-50-use-cases/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783478

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Porting Go's io package to C

ashvardanian — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:33:26 +0000

Article URL: https://antonz.org/porting-go-io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520573

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Schema as the Core of Reliability in AI Memory

ashvardanian — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:48:30 +0000

Article URL: https://xmemory.ai/schema-as-the-core-of-reliability/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492775

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by ashvardanian in "NumKong: 2'000 Mixed Precision Kernels for All"

ashvardanian — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:51:06 +0000

I'm not aware of that, but it would likely be a great application area for SME!

New comment by ashvardanian in "NumKong: 2'000 Mixed Precision Kernels for All"

ashvardanian — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 05:56:42 +0000

The README was written by a human. I’ve used models extensively to refine the content, but never accepted more than a couple of lines of edits at a time.

NumKong: 2'000 Mixed Precision Kernels for All

ashvardanian — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:29:39 +0000

Article URL: https://ashvardanian.com/posts/numkong/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459447

Points: 47

# Comments: 6

The State of Allocators in 2026

ashvardanian — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:32:10 +0000

Article URL: https://cetra3.github.io/blog/state-of-allocators-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47396806

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ashvardanian in "What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023)"

ashvardanian — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:46:24 +0000

I don't have the inside scoop on Intel's current mess, but they definitely have a habit of killing off their coolest projects.

New comment by ashvardanian in "Meta's Race to Scale AI Chips for Billions: Four Chips in Two Years"

ashvardanian — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:37:26 +0000

Would it be accurate to say that Meta currently produces more RISC-V chips than other vendors? The specs for those chips look extremely interesting and seem much more programmable than Google's TPUs. It would be cool to see Meta making them available to third parties.

Recraft V4

ashvardanian — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:13:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.recraft.ai/blog/introducing-recraft-v4-design-taste-meets-image-generation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47059810

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ashvardanian in "Nebius to buy AI agent search company Tavily for 275M"

ashvardanian — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:58:56 +0000

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-10/nebius-ag...

https://www.tavily.com/blog/tavily-is-joining-nebius

Nebius to buy AI agent search company Tavily for 275M

ashvardanian — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:58:56 +0000

Article URL: https://nebius.com/newsroom/nebius-announces-agreement-to-acquire-tavily-to-add-agentic-search-to-its-ai-cloud-platform

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024216

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by ashvardanian in "Zvec: A lightweight, fast, in-process vector database"

ashvardanian — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:44:55 +0000

8K QPS is probably quite trivial on their setup and a 10M dataset. I rarely use comparably small instances & datasets in my benchmarks, but on 100M-1B datasets on a larger dual-socket server, 100K QPS was easily achievable in 2023: https://www.unum.cloud/blog/2023-11-07-scaling-vector-search... ;)

Typically, the recipe is to keep the hot parts of the data structure in SRAM in CPU caches and a lot of SIMD. At the time of those measurements, USearch used ~100 custom kernels for different data types, similarity metrics, and hardware platforms. The upcoming release of the underlying SimSIMD micro-kernels project will push this number beyond 1000. So we should be able to squeeze a lot more performance later this year.

Running Async WebAssembly on Seastar's Reactor

ashvardanian — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:04:08 +0000

Article URL: https://rockwotj.com/blog/async-wasm-in-seastar/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015044

Points: 3

# Comments: 0