Hacker News: dkdcdev

New comment by dkdcdev in "Lies, Damn Lies and Database Benchmarks"

dkdcdev — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:51:09 +0000

see also “ Fair Benchmarking Considered Difficult: Common Pitfalls In Database Performance Testing” by the DuckDB folks with a classic Figure 1

New comment by dkdcdev in "Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?"

dkdcdev — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:40:02 +0000

you can also put that REST API behind a self-documenting CLI. that’s how I setup my agents to talk to each other

New comment by dkdcdev in "Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers"

dkdcdev — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:58:57 +0000

The idea that an LLM can discern intent on any given prompt is farcical. I might be researching nukes to commit an atrocity, or to prevent one. I might be asking about laundering money to commit a crime, or to prevent one. I might be researching the Nazis because I want to commit a genocide, or I want to read up so I know how to prevent one. Same with cybersecurity. Same with anything.

In my opinion, these companies should put their effort elsewhere. Obviously if all someone is doing on their platform is looking up how to build a nuke, where to buy uranium, the best city to explode it in, etc. please report them to the authorities. If someone is clearly just using LLMs to write hate speech they go post on the internet, ban them. And so on.

This cat & mouse game trying to have LLMs police inquiries is ridiculous to me.

New comment by dkdcdev in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

dkdcdev — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:39:20 +0000

they also already do this…

Anthropic and OpenAI license to the public clouds. Google reportedly licenses to Apple. licensing to Fortune 100 companies running on their own infra is an obvious next step

it is a race to the bottom and I’m not sure the labs win that race. we’ll see!

New comment by dkdcdev in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

dkdcdev — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:24:01 +0000

at their scale they could also just run a large on-premise or rented (basically still cloud, but cheaper) GPU cluster and run through that. fixed costs, even license a SOTA model’s weights if you’d like

New comment by dkdcdev in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"

dkdcdev — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:31:52 +0000

I believe the canonical example is Databricks on round L

New comment by dkdcdev in "White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems"

dkdcdev — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:54:37 +0000

it is useful e.g. to align the phase of signals being sent from different locations

New comment by dkdcdev in "Full-Text Search with DuckDB"

dkdcdev — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:25:36 +0000

I believe as it states that’s only for the core extensions listed here: https://duckdb.org/docs/current/core_extensions/overview

all are by the DuckDB team except three third-party owners. I’m unfamiliar with Vortex, but presume it’s like LanceDB and MotherDuck with a serious company behind it. and presumably the DuckDB team trusts them not to ship malware in their extension

I think it’s a UX trade off that benefits users with minimal security downsides. and you can configure this behavior. some docs here: https://duckdb.org/docs/current/operations_manual/securing_d...

New comment by dkdcdev in "The Soul of an Old Machine"

dkdcdev — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:19:08 +0000

I still need to read “The Soul of a New Machine”, should I save this until after?