Hacker News: atty

New comment by atty in "ICE Awards $25M Iris-Scanning Contract to Bi2 Technologies"

atty — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:06:05 +0000

The federal government and the executive branch has a well specified set of responsibilities to the people of this country, and they are massively failing at just about every metric. So yes, they are truly incompetent.

New comment by atty in "Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite"

atty — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:02:26 +0000

> as long as the tests pass

To be pedantic, tests prove that the code passes the test suite, nothing else. They do not prove by themselves that the code is correct, secure, maintainable, efficient, etc. Those are much harder to measure and have a ton to do with organization, architecture, culture, shared knowledge of the maintainers, etc. All of which is lacking during and after this rewrite.

New comment by atty in "Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026"

atty — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:29:03 +0000

I do not work in the space at all, but it seems like Cloudflare has been having more network disruptions lately than they used to. To anyone who deals with this sort of thing, is that just recency bias?

New comment by atty in "Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them"

atty — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:36:02 +0000

I think both your statement and their statement are too strong. There is no reason to think LLMs can do everything a human can do, which seems to be your implication. On the other hand, the technology is still improving, so maybe it’ll get there.

New comment by atty in "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled"

atty — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:46:42 +0000

Never ascribe to malice what can be sufficiently explained by incompetence. And i think it’s fair to say the best and brightest at Google aren’t turning their attention to YouTube lately. Except maybe to make training datasets for Gemini N+1 :)

New comment by atty in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

atty — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 02:41:32 +0000

The unspoken assertion that Rust and Python are interchangeable is pretty wild and needs significant defense, I think. I know a lot of scientists who would see their first borrow checker error and immediately move back to Python/C++/Matlab/Fortran/Julia and never consider rust again.

New comment by atty in "Apple Silicon GPU Support in Mojo"

atty — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 23:09:00 +0000

To be fair, triton is in active use, and this should be even more ergonomic for Python users than triton. I dont think it’s a sure thing, but I wouldn’t say it has zero chance either.

New comment by atty in "Chat Control Must Be Stopped"

atty — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:13:09 +0000

Which ICE are you referring to? This is an EU law.

New comment by atty in "Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig"

atty — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:42:15 +0000

It would be quite strange indeed for Mira Murati to have a say over their technical decisions, considering she does not work for OpenAI :)

New comment by atty in "Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?"

atty — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 20:58:39 +0000

The idea that a GPU is dedicated to a single inference task is just generally incorrect. Inputs are batched, and it’s not a single GPU handling a single request, it’s a handful of GPUs in various parallelism schemes processing a batch of requests at once. There’s a latency vs throughput trade off that operators make. The larger that batch size the greater the latency, but it improves overall cluster throughput.

New comment by atty in "Multiplatform Matrix Multiplication Kernels"

atty — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 02:18:18 +0000

I think they’re referring to hardware like TPUs and other ASICs. Which also exist, of course :)

New comment by atty in "How to solve computational science problems with AI: PINNs"

atty — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 01:12:51 +0000

I work on a team that has actually deployed NN based surrogate models into production in industry. We don’t use PINNs for the simple reason that many industrial scale solvers are solving significantly more complex systems than a single global PDE (at least in CFD, perhaps other areas are simpler). For instance, close to the boundaries, the solver our engineers use uses an approximation that does not satisfy conservation of mass and momentum. So when we try to use physical constraints, our accuracy goes down. Even in the cases where we could technically use PINNs we find they are underwhelming, and spending time on crafting better training data sets has always been a better option for us.

New comment by atty in "Ruff: Python linter and code formatter written in Rust"

atty — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 01:45:20 +0000

I do the same thing, and I keep doing it regardless of how many times I see it working properly.

New comment by atty in "TSMC's Arizona Plant to Start Making Advanced Chips"

atty — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 05:46:20 +0000

That is what Intel 18A is, no? In some ways it’s worse than N2, and in some ways it’s better. Overall seems comparable to me, and apparently it’s still on track for next year.

New comment by atty in "How I ship projects at big tech companies"

atty — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 01:25:24 +0000

Generally the game is created by external forces, not the players. If you’re an independently wealthy individual you can afford to work for pleasure. The rest of us? We like to eat and live in comfortable dwellings and take care of our families, so we play the game of pleasing our superiors in return for the money to live a comfortable existence.

New comment by atty in "CuPy: NumPy and SciPy for GPU"

atty — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 05:19:29 +0000

Jax is, as far as an outsider can tell, Google research/DeepMind’s primary computation library now, not Tensorflow. So it’s safer than most Google projects, unless you think they’re secretly developing their third tensor computation library in 10 years (I suppose if anyone was going to do it, it would be Google).

New comment by atty in "Twelve sentenced for violent home invasion robberies to steal cryptocurrency"

atty — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 04:45:43 +0000

Perhaps these groups could be regulated and insured by an even larger entity, perhaps even one with the authority to punish individuals and organizations for wrongdoing?

New comment by atty in "Intel: New Core Ultra Processors Deliver Breakthrough Performance"

atty — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 01:51:15 +0000

Rather cynical comments so far. I personally am very interested to see how this line of chips does, both in terms of performance (really efficiency, for this sort of chip), and market performance. Hopefully things like Lunar Lake, Arrow Lake, etc, and their 18a node all turn out to be as good as some of the early leaks and press releases make them would indicate, because Intel needs some big wins to get back on track.

New comment by atty in "Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models"

atty — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 19:01:28 +0000

It’s very reasonable to want Google and Bing to index your page for search, but not have your data collected for training models, i think. I’m not familiar with robots.txt to know if it has a whitelisting mechanism

New comment by atty in "AMD unveils Ryzen Pro 8000-series processors"

atty — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 14:12:53 +0000

Apples memory is on package, not on die.