Hacker News: dorkypunk

New comment by dorkypunk in "Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model"

dorkypunk — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:26:55 +0000

There are models that do that, for example the Olmo family of models, although they have Gemma 3 performance levels for that matter.

New comment by dorkypunk in "Cerebras CS-4"

dorkypunk — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:33:54 +0000

What you describe is basically Cerebras case, at the bottom it's just a really big die (about x28 an NVIDIA GB200) with a lot of work to reduce memory latency and improve throughput. What it's actually amazing is how can they make a chip so big and still have a decent yield to be commercially viable.

New comment by dorkypunk in "'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling"

dorkypunk — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:31:08 +0000

I've also argued this on the past, it just seems redundant, but people eat the VPN ads like they were gospel.

New comment by dorkypunk in "Bringing Semiconductors to Kazakhstan"

dorkypunk — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:58:50 +0000

Wouldn't this just be the same as any other fabless company?

New comment by dorkypunk in "Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%"

dorkypunk — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:07:25 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

New comment by dorkypunk in "MCP-Scanner – Scan MCP Servers for vulnerabilities"

dorkypunk — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 19:06:50 +0000

I'm still laughing on how the error handling for tools is done, it's just a boolean field IsError.

https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/ser...

New comment by dorkypunk in "VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT"

dorkypunk — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:04:13 +0000

Because they don't have exclusive control, unlike social media where you can't take your data and move it to another provider, you can just take your repo to whichever provider or self-hosted GitOps option you want.

New comment by dorkypunk in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"

dorkypunk — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:26:29 +0000

Then you have to replace those professionals with even more specialized and expensive professionals in order be able to deploy anything.

New comment by dorkypunk in "How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?"

dorkypunk — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:24:56 +0000

Because they are used to the even insaner markup of smaller retailers that would ask 10USD for an IC that cost 5 cents at bulk

New comment by dorkypunk in "The great software quality collapse or, how we normalized catastrophe"

dorkypunk — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:05:13 +0000

Probably architecture changes (x86 has a lot of historic baggage that difficults newer designs) and also more specialized hardware in the CPU, probably this might also be one of the reasons Apple went this way with the M Silicon

New comment by dorkypunk in "Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 support is about to end"

dorkypunk — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:09:09 +0000

Does it really matter? i've run Minecraft servers with Coretto 21 on Arm and had no issues at all even with the weird setup

New comment by dorkypunk in "Europe is locking itself in to US LNG"

dorkypunk — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:56:33 +0000

Could pumped-storage batteries help in that case?

New comment by dorkypunk in "Meta is spending $10B in rural Louisiana to build its largest data center"

dorkypunk — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:00:50 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

New comment by dorkypunk in "Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS"

dorkypunk — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:01:14 +0000

Relevant: https://xkcd.com/927/