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New comment by connicpu in "Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs"

connicpu — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:35:21 +0000

I hate the word crypto, very ambiguous. In my professional life it almost always refers to cryptography.

New comment by connicpu in "Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs"

connicpu — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 01:42:16 +0000

x86 has a built in instruction for doing AES. That's just moving the ASIC into the CPU core, not eliminating it.

New comment by connicpu in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

connicpu — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:24:00 +0000

On Android I use Firefox despite the rough edges simply because the usability gain of the mobile web with ublock Origin is insane. Also it's nice sending tabs between desktop and mobile.

New comment by connicpu in "2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up"

connicpu — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 03:03:25 +0000

Could even run on the computers at my middle school, nobody thought to block it

New comment by connicpu in "2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up"

connicpu — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 03:01:47 +0000

Validating that a path on a grid doesn't move through impassable objects is definitely much cheaper than running a pathfinding algorithm, especially on 2004 hardware. You'd have to make those checks as well in order to run the pathfinding.

New comment by connicpu in "Get your Windows license refund"

connicpu — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:42:59 +0000

Other countries are free to find a way to incentivize building home-grown equivalents and prioritizing that software or even applying tarrifs to foreign software.

New comment by connicpu in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

connicpu — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:18:55 +0000

One of the reasons I loved learning Helix is that it shows you the list of possible next keypresses every time you press the first key in a combo. Amazing for discoverability. It even works for user defined shortcuts!

New comment by connicpu in "Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive"

connicpu — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:46:39 +0000

It feels so degrading talking to the bot. Last time I did it I was trying to upgrade my service to take advantage of a 2.5GbE modem I bought and I almost said screw it because it was so frustrating with the long pauses after everything I said!

New comment by connicpu in "I'm becoming AI-blind"

connicpu — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:38:58 +0000

We're using grok and while I can usually understand the comments they're always at least 2x as verbose as they need to be. It loves explaining everything in two different ways, putting one of the explanations in parenthesis.

New comment by connicpu in "How Kubernetes Probes Work"

connicpu — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:33:11 +0000

The better solution is to not have too many critical upstream services :)

New comment by connicpu in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

connicpu — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:11:15 +0000

I think the more likely explanation is that the Cursor data they effectively acquired for $10B was extremely valuable for their training when combined with the insane number of GB300s xAI has for training.

New comment by connicpu in "License plate reader searches should require a warrant"

connicpu — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:09:49 +0000

Sometimes the law is vibes, SCOTUS will probably create a set of tests where lower courts will have to look at how many points it hits and decide whether it's over the line on a case by case basis.

New comment by connicpu in "Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”"

connicpu — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:14:45 +0000

I think the point is more that the patent office has been too broad with issuing software patents. I'm sure some are reasonable, but many are "obvious to someone skilled in the art" and should not have been issued.

New comment by connicpu in "Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1"

connicpu — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:00:49 +0000

If you've collected data on a California resident with the intent to profit from its sale then you're doing some type of business with respect to California

New comment by connicpu in "Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1"

connicpu — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:32:43 +0000

The company would have to not have any interstate presence at all. If you are a business based in the united states that has customers in California, you are easily reachable under California law.

New comment by connicpu in "Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust"

connicpu — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:23:24 +0000

This is part of why my text editor is built from source on my own branch where I only occasionally pull in changes from master. I know I'm probably a very rare exception here.

New comment by connicpu in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"

connicpu — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 20:17:32 +0000

Some jobs are also just so much that there's little room for doing something so similar to your work after you get home.

New comment by connicpu in "What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard"

connicpu — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:47:20 +0000

I would assume the 200K lines of software and the firmware is presumably flashed after receiving the product from the assembly house.

NASA Taps SpaceX's Starlink to Deliver Artemis III Imagery from Orion

connicpu — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:18:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/07/16/nasa-taps-spacexs-starlink-to-deliver-artemis-iii-imagery-from-orion/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48953329

Points: 6

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New comment by connicpu in "The state of open source AI"

connicpu — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:52:29 +0000

Technically open source requires some amount of monetary volunteering, it's just that the electricity to run a code editor and compile (most) open source code bases is within hobby budget for most people.