Hacker News: eggsome

New comment by eggsome in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

eggsome — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:16:06 +0000

But the energy requirements per token would be orders of magnitude worse than chips made at 3nm. So probably better for your hypothetical state to just pay the extra for more efficient chips so that they don't have (as much) of an energy problem.

New comment by eggsome in "ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips"

eggsome — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:01:15 +0000

Do you have a link for the all-in-one project? I'd like to know more.

New comment by eggsome in "Samsung Raises DRAM Prices Another ~30% for Q2 2026"

eggsome — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:33:05 +0000

I'm interested in building a Ryzen 9 box with ECC UDIMMs, but only 2 sticks due to reported stability issues with 4. Did it work well? Would you recommend it? (I would only be running Linux).

New comment by eggsome in "Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)"

eggsome — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:39:12 +0000

Surely you mean F-15 right? (F-14 was exclusive to the Navy + Iran exports)

New comment by eggsome in "Dabao Evaluation Board for Baochip-1x (Xous)"

eggsome — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:36:22 +0000

Rationale for development and architecture details on youtube here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DaWkfSmIgRs

New comment by eggsome in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

eggsome — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:57:18 +0000

As someone trying to spec out a Ryzen workstation right now I can tell you it's actually harder because Ryzen (unlike EPIC) uses UDIMM ECC, not RDIMM ECC. It's a niche that very few companies wanted to service before AI ram madness. Now the only vendor I can find is v-color:

https://v-color.net/products/ddr5-ecc-oc-u-dimm-server-memor...

But they no longer have 6000mhz stuff in stock (which is ideal for Ryzen due to the 1 to 1 speed match to the memory controller).

It's frustrating :(

New comment by eggsome in "Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed]"

eggsome — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:26:25 +0000

Sure, as a percentage it's very rare - but some people have died as a result: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

I think most would agree that cases like that act as a deterrent?

New comment by eggsome in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

eggsome — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 03:24:24 +0000

Are there any hobby projects to hack/replace the controller board to make a new/fancy TV into a dumb tv? Would be nice to be able to use a new OLED panel like that...

New comment by eggsome in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

eggsome — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:11:29 +0000

Ads can be disabled in the settings.

New comment by eggsome in "The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed"

eggsome — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 03:54:48 +0000

To be fair the F22 would have been closer to the F35 in price if the number produced were larger so that the R&D was spread over a larger number of airframes. Such a pretty plane.

New comment by eggsome in "PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double throughput again"

eggsome — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 01:47:49 +0000

Has the DGX actually shipped anywhere yet?

New comment by eggsome in "It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean)"

eggsome — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 04:19:06 +0000

Surprised that no one has corrected them that it's not RS232 anymore. It was eventually ratified and it's technically called EIA-232-F (at least for the most recent 1997 version).

New comment by eggsome in "AI cameras change driver behavior at intersections"

eggsome — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 06:22:48 +0000

In Australia there is a scheme to pay lower wages to people with disabilities (lowest is approx $3 per hour).

Seems to work well for people who would otherwise not be able to participate in the workforce.

https://www.fairwork.gov.au/pay-and-wages/minimum-wages/empl...

New comment by eggsome in "The Future of Flatpak"

eggsome — Fri, 23 May 2025 12:32:55 +0000

> I doubt Linus ever talks to the GTK people in any meaningful way

Interestingly he has had arguments with them over the years, most fervently related to the development of https://subsurface-divelog.org/

New comment by eggsome in "Turkish university annuls Erdogan rival's degree, preventing run for president"

eggsome — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 22:01:55 +0000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-rupee_note

New comment by eggsome in "Why is my CPU usage always 100%?"

eggsome — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 03:39:11 +0000

There were a number of hacks to deal with this. RAIN was very popular back in the day, but AMNHLTM appears to have better compatibility with modern CPUs.

New comment by eggsome in "How I got promoted to staff engineer twice"

eggsome — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 21:51:29 +0000

lol - Sounds like a Terminal Lance comic strip.

New comment by eggsome in "Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license"

eggsome — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 05:55:27 +0000

What do you mean by Plan B? From what you've just said it sounds like their proposal was rejected, so there is no plan b now?

New comment by eggsome in "To Be Born in a Bag"

eggsome — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 23:07:30 +0000

I think api may have been alluding to the potential end state, where conception is performed in the lab.

New comment by eggsome in "Calculating position from raw GPS data (2017)"

eggsome — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 21:59:50 +0000

Here is another good open source implementation: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dVD1Yws__v0