Hacker News: bufo

New comment by bufo in "C++20 Modules: Practical Insights, Status and TODOs"

bufo — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:04:50 +0000

Were you using pre-compiled headers before?

New comment by bufo in "Gemini CLI"

bufo — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:53:53 +0000

Grateful that this one supports Windows out of the box.

New comment by bufo in "Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge"

bufo — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:37:20 +0000

Brave.

New comment by bufo in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"

bufo — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:17:42 +0000

The plan is to have many, many Mechazillas.

LLM Demand Is Currently Inelastic

bufo — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 19:39:56 +0000

Article URL: https://fernand.pajot.net/llm-demand-is-currently-inelastic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41303272

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

LLM-Centric Software Paradigms

bufo — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 14:59:39 +0000

Article URL: https://fernand.pajot.net/llm-centric-software-paradigms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41171498

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bufo in "Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead"

bufo — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 21:46:25 +0000

Because Go has massive traction both inside and outside of Google, whereas Dart/Flutter never got big traction.

New comment by bufo in "Reproducing GPT-2 in llm.c"

bufo — Tue, 28 May 2024 18:48:36 +0000

The RTX 4090 has about the same BF16 Tensor Core TOPs than the A100, assuming 50% MFU (like the A100 40 GB PCIe) it would take 8x longer on 1 RTX 4090 vs 8x A100 80GB SXM, so 12 hours. Datasheet here for the TOPs https://images.nvidia.com/aem-dam/Solutions/geforce/ada/nvid... 50% MFU should be achievable on the 4090.

New comment by bufo in "Perplexica: Open-source Perplexity alternative"

bufo — Fri, 24 May 2024 21:38:16 +0000

I recommend Phind.com, it’s been much better and faster for me than Perplexity Pro. I typically use their custom 70B model but you can also use GPT4 o or Turbo, or Claude 3 Opus.

New comment by bufo in "Vice website is shutting down"

bufo — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 02:56:29 +0000

It takes a while to take down job posts. Everyone likely learned the decision recently. I don’t think the employees who are going to be laid off care about updating the job posts at the moment…

New comment by bufo in "Vice website is shutting down"

bufo — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 02:54:19 +0000

“Vice website is shutting down” is 100% accurate. Note that they will also lay off most of their staff.

New comment by bufo in "Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI"

bufo — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 05:40:58 +0000

Was Google a chip designer before the first TPU?

New comment by bufo in "Seniors spend the equivalent of 3 weeks a year on health care, study says"

bufo — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 01:52:41 +0000

That doesn’t seem like a bad number.

New comment by bufo in "--libcurl"

bufo — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:38:50 +0000

Seriously!!

New comment by bufo in "How to do OCR on a Mac using the CLI or just Python"

bufo — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:55:35 +0000

Way, way better than Tesseract!

New comment by bufo in "Show HN: A pure C89 implementation of Go channels, with blocking selects"

bufo — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 12:44:21 +0000

Kqueue! Not the same design or as flexible as io_uring though.

New comment by bufo in "Show HN: A pure C89 implementation of Go channels, with blocking selects"

bufo — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 12:42:56 +0000

Build 22000 is Windows 10 21H2.

New comment by bufo in "Intel launches Core Ultra processors"

bufo — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:58:14 +0000

Actual benchmarks and useful info here https://youtu.be/WH-qtuVRS2c

New comment by bufo in "Show HN: A pure C89 implementation of Go channels, with blocking selects"

bufo — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 21:49:16 +0000

Oh yeah I meant io_uring too. Plus Windows copied it so you can implement things very similarly for Windows.

New comment by bufo in "Show HN: A pure C89 implementation of Go channels, with blocking selects"

bufo — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 20:22:09 +0000

Great! I was looking into something like this. I assume ending up with epoll will be better?