Hacker News: deadmutex

New comment by deadmutex in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

deadmutex — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:27:50 +0000

Out of curiosity: what is your input to the model? A CAD file or a drawing?

I find it does a good job at isometric views from floor plans. However, I needed Gemini 3.1 Pro to be able to have a chance at rendering 3D human point of view images from floor plans.

New comment by deadmutex in "86 GB/s bitpacking with ARM SIMD (single thread)"

deadmutex — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 22:40:14 +0000

Here is a repro using GCE's C4A Axion instances (c4A-highcpu-72). Seems to beat Graviton? Maybe the title of the thread can be updated to a larger number :) ? I used the largest instance to avoid noisy neighbor issues.

  $ ./out/bytepack_eval
  Bytepack Bench — 16 KiB, reps=20000 (pinned if available)
  Throughput GB/s

  K  NEON pack   NEON unpack  Baseline pack   Baseline unpack
  1  94.77       84.05        45.01           63.12          
  2  123.63      94.74        52.70           66.63          
  3  94.62       83.89        45.32           68.43          
  4  112.68      77.91        58.10           78.20          
  5  86.96       80.02        44.32           60.77          
  6  93.50       92.08        51.22           67.20          
  7  87.10       79.53        43.94           57.95          
  8  90.49       92.36        68.99           83.88

New comment by deadmutex in "A Research Preview of Codex"

deadmutex — Fri, 16 May 2025 21:35:06 +0000

Perhaps the role will merge into one, and will replace a good chunk of those jobs.

E.g.:

If we have 10 PMs and 90 devs today, that could be hypothetically be replace by 8 PM+Dev, 20 specialized devs, and 2 specialized PMs in the future.

New comment by deadmutex in "Alexa+"

deadmutex — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 19:54:42 +0000

I don't know the specifics of this case, but maybe the investigators just asked in case there was an accidental trigger, or a real trigger etc. Seems reasonable for the detective to attempt to turn over any stone they can to aid the investigation.

New comment by deadmutex in "Google offers 'voluntary exit' to all US platforms and devices employees"

deadmutex — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 02:21:56 +0000

Also, for a lot of people working on hardware, the alternatives aren't great. Big Tech players like Apple, Meta, Amazon, etc. all have downsides. Startsups are extremely risky, and don't pay employees as well (ex: Humane, Rabbit, Peleton, etc.)

A slightly better story for those working on software (e.g. Google Photos App or Backend). They have more options, but relatively good jobs (high pay, flexibility, great coworkers non-crazy hours, etc.) as still hard to come by. They exist, but not sure about the quantity.

New comment by deadmutex in "Please don't force dark mode"

deadmutex — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 23:36:28 +0000

+1, grey-on-grey can be hard for older folks too

New comment by deadmutex in "Ads chew through half of mobile data"

deadmutex — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 20:14:19 +0000

Sure, and someone else can say otherwise. Comparing anecdotes doesn't provide a global view, IMO, and can lead to incorrect conclusions.

Maybe better to look at data instead, e.g. Netflix ad-supported plans vs ad-free plans, or YouTube Premium vs YT ad-supported, etc.

New comment by deadmutex in "What we learned copying all the best code assistants"

deadmutex — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 02:56:22 +0000

Interesting. On lmsys, Gemini is #1 for coding tasks. How does that compare?

https://lmarena.ai/?leaderboard

New comment by deadmutex in "GPT-5 is behind schedule"

deadmutex — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 04:26:56 +0000

"ChatGPT" Coding... is it impartial? the name sorta sounds biased.

New comment by deadmutex in "Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference"

deadmutex — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 07:11:08 +0000

> Also, I assume financial applications such as hedge funds would be buying these things in bulk now.

Please elaborate.. why?

New comment by deadmutex in "We're forking Flutter"

deadmutex — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 07:27:12 +0000

I think there should be a distinction here. E.g. if you work on a browser, possibly implementing parts of image loading, or javascript parser, etc.

Are you consider a dogfooder if you use the browser? or do you need to lots of write Javascript yourself, etc. to be considered "a user of your product"?

Typically, these are two different sets of people.

So, I don't buy the "always, always" part

New comment by deadmutex in "AMD EPYC Turin delivers better performance/power efficiency than AmpereOne"

deadmutex — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 23:38:25 +0000

Future can be 6 days from now or 6 centuries from now. This statement is useless without specific details.

New comment by deadmutex in "Bento: Jupyter Notebooks at Meta"

deadmutex — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:39:24 +0000

This sounds plausible, but would love a source

New comment by deadmutex in "Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport"

deadmutex — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 04:52:38 +0000

> Can you honestly claim that you keep in touch with those people?

Nope, but maybe the data below can shed some light on it:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

New comment by deadmutex in "Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport"

deadmutex — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 04:51:45 +0000

Swift >> Messi >> Durov in popularity among the general population. Your unique interests may not generalize.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

New comment by deadmutex in "Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport"

deadmutex — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 22:24:48 +0000

Yep, and I have yet to see evidence of this being a huge story for those people. He's no Messi or Bieber or Swift.

New comment by deadmutex in "Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport"

deadmutex — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 22:01:02 +0000

> This is an insanely big developing story.

For people in tech

New comment by deadmutex in "Google TV Streamer: Our new entertainment and smart home hub"

deadmutex — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 20:58:53 +0000

Performance is more than just media playback. E.g. smoothness of the UI, input latency, etc. all matter. Sometimes you also want to play a video at 2x speed, or play multiple video at once (e.g. sports use case).

New comment by deadmutex in "Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay"

deadmutex — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 20:48:10 +0000

Please also consider that suburbs are often much cheaper to rent a 1800 sqft of living space (say a decent 3 BR 2 Bath) vs the city.

New comment by deadmutex in "Ask HN: Am I crazy or is Android development awful?"

deadmutex — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 22:48:23 +0000

I read that, but it doesn't really make sense in context.