Hacker News: d3k

New comment by d3k in "GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks"

d3k — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:24:19 +0000

AFAIK, only CoreML can use Apple's NPU (ANE). Pytorch, MLX and the other kids on the block use MPS (the GPU). I think the limitations you mentioned relate to that (but I might be missing something)

New comment by d3k in "I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens"

d3k — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 08:26:30 +0000

I totally agree with the post. The definition of a museum is "an institution dedicated to displaying or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects", according to Wikipedia. Most of the time I do not see anything significant on these screens in museums, since equivalent content can be easily reached on any phone. Real, relevant objects are much harder to find and find a way to create interest around them. But that is exactly what makes a museum a good museum, not the screen.

Hugging Face Collaborates with Proxima Fusion on ML for Stellarator Optimization

d3k — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:31:02 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/blog/cgeorgiaw/constellaration-fusion-challenge

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44441677

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by d3k in "FastVLM: Efficient vision encoding for vision language models"

d3k — Tue, 13 May 2025 09:51:18 +0000

Very nice! I wish they were more keen to contribute to AI/ML community an publish weights and model definition on HuggingFace. Funny enough I have just seen today a similar demo that is using a freely available VLM: https://github.com/ngxson/smolvlm-realtime-webcam

New comment by d3k in "Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web"

d3k — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:26:59 +0000

Nice! it reminds me of a very similar project a friend of mine did like 10 years ago https://github.com/simias/gb-rs

New comment by d3k in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023)"

d3k — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 19:47:51 +0000

Brainchip | Software Engineer | Full-time | On-site (hybrid) | Toulouse, France

Brainchip builds edge AI on-chip processing and learning IPs. We are building the next generation of our edge AI hardware and software products.

We are hiring for these roles in our Toulouse based office:

* C++ software engineer with 2+ years of experience, possibly with embedded systems. Full description: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3653985060/

* Python software engineer with experience with TensorFlow/Keras, Pytorch, ONNX. Full description: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3653973926/

New comment by d3k in "Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf"

d3k — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 11:55:19 +0000

It seems nice. When programming envs tend too complicated though, I tend to switch to docker: a given image will handle a given version and it's mostly hassle free. That probably would not make sense on macOS or Windows, if you want to run native versions.

New comment by d3k in "Why does Google use location for language rather than browser settings?"

d3k — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 14:07:47 +0000

This is a common thing in software too I fear. I have Firefox on macOS. Everything is configured for US English, but I live in France. When I tell Firefox to save a page (or download something), the dialog prompts me to "Enregistrer sous..." (i.e.: "Save As..."). No idea why this happens.

New comment by d3k in "Undocumented x86 instructions to control the CPU at the microarchitecture level [pdf]"

d3k — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 20:42:05 +0000

It should be possible to see if a given "secure" binary makes use of a given microcode instruction. If that is the case, it could be possible to use udbgrd/udbgwr to modify the microcode instruction to do something else, e.g. to store some register data in the URAM or the SRAM. By doing this you should be able to "spy" the data the "secure" binary is processing.

New comment by d3k in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)"

d3k — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 21:39:34 +0000

Brainchip | Software Engineer | Full-time | On-site (hybrid) | Toulouse, France

https://brainchipinc.com We are looking for a C++ software engineer with 5+ years of experience to work with a small team to design and build software products that are part of the Akida Development Environment.

The Akida Development Environment is an easy to use, complete machine learning framework for the creation, training, and testing of neural networks, supporting the development of systems for Edge AI on Brainchip’s Akida event domain neural processor.

Job description and application: https://app.trinethire.com/companies/14851-brainchip-inc/job...

New comment by d3k in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)"

d3k — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 07:43:19 +0000

Brainchip | Software Engineer | Full-time | Onsite | Toulouse, France

https://brainchipinc.com - Brainchip is searching a C++/Python software engineer with 3+ years of experience to work with other team members to design and build software products that are part of the Akida Development Environment.

Job description and application: https://app.trinethire.com/companies/14851-brainchip-inc/job...

New comment by d3k in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)"

d3k — Mon, 03 May 2021 21:22:20 +0000

Brainchip | Software Engineer | Full-time | Onsite | Toulouse, France

Job description and application: https://app.trinethire.com/companies/14851-brainchip-inc/job...

New National Lockdown in France

d3k — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 21:26:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54716993

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24924321

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Cost of owning a BMW i3

d3k — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:09:44 +0000

Article URL: https://tomkiss.net/life/cost_of_owning_a_bmw_i3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818955

Points: 40

# Comments: 99

New comment by d3k in "Cppyy – Automatic Python-C++ bindings"

d3k — Thu, 09 May 2019 09:05:13 +0000

One thing I wanted to do for a project at work is to add python bindings to our c++ library, having the least effort for having a decent python binding. Two features I am looking for are support for return values of custom objects of arbitrary size and c++ exceptions raising python exceptions. Cppyy seems to support these, do you know if/how they work on pybind11?

Cppyy – Automatic Python-C++ bindings

d3k — Tue, 07 May 2019 11:33:12 +0000

Article URL: https://cppyy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19848450

Points: 68

# Comments: 22

New comment by d3k in "Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week"

d3k — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 20:34:26 +0000

I had always seen HN as a place where people curious about technology, culture and society share article links and comment about them. The moderation is what makes it work. I really do not see why censorship (or detox if you prefer) on political matters should be necessary. if HN really needs this, it might even mean that its audience needs to be educated. And if that is the case it might mean the level you get in here is deemed to decline.

New comment by d3k in "Fixing C"

d3k — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 11:35:59 +0000

The top change I would love to see in C is to have a way to have conditional macros, that could produce efficient statically compiled chunk of texts of defines. I think you can get some of that in C++ with templates, but without the whole C++.

New comment by d3k in "How can an introvert Asian engineer like me make friends?"

d3k — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 09:02:56 +0000

The parent comment is really a good advice. I really think that doing an activity in a group helps: when you get too shy you can comfortably hide in the group, when you want to talk you will have people with similar interests that will be keen to listen.

Now I am in my 30s, but when I was 24 I left my home country in Europe to work for an year and a half in the US, then moved again to another foreign country (UK). Work was great, but it was really difficult to meet new people, not to mention girls. My English wasn't good and I didn't know anybody apart from my colleagues. So I learned it the hard way: I enjoy photography and I got into a local flickr group. Doing photo walks allowed me to get in touch with different people with the same passion as me, without having to think too much as the way I used to speak. The "walks" allowed me also to walk by with one person at the time, avoiding the awkward moments when you are supposed to talk in a table where all the other people can talk easier than you. I also met a good bro who I still see quite often! And when bored, I could ask him if he wanted to go to the cinema, to have a beer or to see an art exhibition. Few years later we even got into talking to some girls in bars. That didn't go too far most of the time, but it helped the self esteem and I could feel better when talking to random people. I also started rowing (but you could try another team sport). It was a beginners' team, and even if I left it in the end I really think it boosted my confidence to hear the other guys support.

Also, I really think you can improve your English by watching TV and films. And learning to drive/having a car might inspire you to join interesting activities (my experience says that the US can be a difficult country to live in without a car).

New comment by d3k in "Parrot Bebop"

d3k — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 07:39:40 +0000

I worked on the development of the P7, and yes, it is a dual core CPU powered by ARM cores with a quad-core GPU. The CPU is meant to be used for other projects too, so a quad core GPU makes sense.