Hacker News: eecc

New comment by eecc in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

eecc — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:01:29 +0000

Why not try… master is now main after all

New comment by eecc in "Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics"

eecc — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:48:25 +0000

It’s not just about credit. Mortgages require money and money comes from working a job.

R&D and its practitioners are already under mighty pressure to justify their existence, if credit is taken off the table it’s the end of it as a means to survive (let alone comfortably).

New comment by eecc in "The Curse of Soldered RAM"

eecc — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 08:30:11 +0000

To counterweight all the cynical takes about soldering RAM being a conspiracy to force device obsolescence, I can think of at least one other dynamic that could have resulted in today's scenario: smartphones.

Smartphones also need RAM and are especially subject to requirements of always being thinner, lighter, and have a durable battery, yet have spacious amounts of RAM.

Growing demand for smartphone RAM pushed for its optimization and production scaling and since all its requirements also match laptops, this convergence was inevitable.

Hopefully the growing demand for datacenter RAM density will make modular interface standards like LPCAMM2 more available (soldered has no place in datacenter).

New comment by eecc in "Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities"

eecc — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:42:00 +0000

No, vulns have been created by waves of leads clinging to their personas of “computer sorcerers”, gatekeeping, excluding anyone sounding the alarm or more humbly attempting to fix the mess. Whenever I hear “with great power comes great responsibility” (and the implication that the speaker is condescendingly containing the irresponsible) I cringe so hard that my teeth crack

New comment by eecc in "How abliterated models can get you pwned"

eecc — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:16:05 +0000

it's the same "trusted compiler" argument, only at a different level. Though at least here you could -- if you wanted -- check the generated source.

New comment by eecc in "Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage"

eecc — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:12:11 +0000

interesting, I've been working on something similar myself... do you want to have a chat about it?

New comment by eecc in "Chapter 1 of "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger (1972)"

eecc — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:35:44 +0000

yep, and Sony Music Entertainment auto-ensured shareholder value was maximized

New comment by eecc in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

eecc — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:55:55 +0000

My only true worry is if AI begins to see us as competitors for resources, energy in particular.

It could decide to let us starve and die of exposure to secure all energy resources to itself.

We'd better use "dumb" and "not fully assertive" AI to solve fusion before it spins out of control (or alignment).

New comment by eecc in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

eecc — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:12:22 +0000

I don’t understand, the Florida law is about making threats and announcing them in public. But discussing this with an AI isn’t the same as posting them to Facebook

New comment by eecc in "I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records"

eecc — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:31:54 +0000

She’s glorious in the movie, though she does play the part of an extremely high maintenance woman uncannily well…

New comment by eecc in "US jury says Apple owes record $5.7B in haptic technology patent case"

eecc — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:37:53 +0000

Like the parent wrote: one “patent” is a miniature vibrator, something like those found in cheap sex toys, the other consists of poaching people working on the frontiers of knowledge, corrupting them to steal such unique ideas for money.

Tell me you’re not so thick

New comment by eecc in "Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM"

eecc — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 05:30:24 +0000

Oef, still kicking the “communism” horse. It’s dead Jim, especially in China it’s dead and buried

New comment by eecc in "Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter"

eecc — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:26:39 +0000

Well, we can reduce every human activity to 0 value and take it from there: if there’s no value in understanding there’s no place for humans in the process, we can just go back to worshipping stones and let the AIs burn tokens deluding themselves chasing their hallucinations

New comment by eecc in "Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop"

eecc — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:26:57 +0000

Well, doing the most immoral and reprehensible thing on the edge of what’s lawful is a guaranteed “blue ocean” strategy so it’s inevitable that the most sociopathic will take the opportunity

Milo Yiannopoulos Detained by ICE in Louisiana

eecc — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:07:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/milo-yiannopoulos-detained-by-ice-in-louisiana/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484814

Points: 35

# Comments: 8

New comment by eecc in "The Dutch are filling gas wells with cement"

eecc — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:48:27 +0000

Don’t expect anything to be decided by this cabinet. Springtime elections are pretty certain IMHO

New comment by eecc in "The Work Number: credit score but for your employment history – by Equifax"

eecc — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:53:54 +0000

Sure, depends for whom.

“Rules for thee, not for me”

New comment by eecc in "Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny"

eecc — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:12:25 +0000

“No one out there is just eating spoons of sugar because of its addictive properties.”

Says who?

Go check how much sugar is dissolved in soda, it’s more that a spoonful and ask yourself why? .

Nvidia AI Factory Compute Is Becoming an Investable Asset Class

eecc — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:59:57 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/jensenhuang/status/2086934705207959965

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49268358

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by eecc in "Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant"

eecc — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:46:32 +0000

It’s the second of third year in a row that this happens.

At some point it will be the new normal.