Hacker News: electronsoup

New comment by electronsoup in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

electronsoup — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:39:07 +0000

> in secret is impossible without the whole world knowing.

I'm curious about why this is

Outside of an actual test detonation, presumably this could all happen in a secure place?

New comment by electronsoup in "European sunscreens are safer than American (2024)"

electronsoup — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:10:39 +0000

They didn't say they had never traveled south though

New comment by electronsoup in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

electronsoup — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:09:14 +0000

If you put that behind an API, you could sell the service much like the AI providers

New comment by electronsoup in "KVarN: Native vLLM backend for KV-cache quantization by Huawei"

electronsoup — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:05:37 +0000

Why this is not a PR for llama.cpp

New comment by electronsoup in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

electronsoup — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:09:12 +0000

> likely not well thought out

Or it has been, and cruelty is the point

New comment by electronsoup in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

electronsoup — Thu, 21 May 2026 23:59:54 +0000

Surely this will get arbitraged like anything else, where fans who get picks will onsell tickets

New comment by electronsoup in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

electronsoup — Thu, 21 May 2026 23:58:07 +0000

So now we need to run farms of spotify accounts playing songs to get our concert tickets?

New comment by electronsoup in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

electronsoup — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:52:15 +0000

You may need to move on to other services like Apple Music

New comment by electronsoup in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

electronsoup — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:00:34 +0000

So how many of their employees are now familiar with the codebase? zero?

New comment by electronsoup in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

electronsoup — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:46:12 +0000

At what point does spanish internet become too unreliable? There was a thread the other day about someone's CI jobs failing due too this.

New comment by electronsoup in "Rust Threads on the GPU"

electronsoup — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:45:51 +0000

> the GPU apps we are building with them are

I can't help but get the feeling you have use-case end-goal in mind that's opaque to many of us who are gpu-ignorant.

It could be helpful if there were an example of the type of application that would be nicer to express through your abstractions.

(I think what you've shown so far is super cool btw)

New comment by electronsoup in "Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" in Bahrain and Dubai"

electronsoup — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:19:37 +0000

> worth their salt

That's a big assumption. Often there's no time to do things right, or no money, or lack of oversight, and so on.

Not every company is staffed by empowered and highly motivated staff

New comment by electronsoup in "New patches allow building Linux IPv6-only"

electronsoup — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:45:47 +0000

and most OS do enable it by default

New comment by electronsoup in "AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip"

electronsoup — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:44:17 +0000

Whenever I see a chip like this, I think "why wont my company let me use a decent computer"

New comment by electronsoup in "Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs"

electronsoup — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:41:48 +0000

Which mainboards are cheap and have 4 pcie16x (electrical) slots, that don't need weird risers to fit 4 GPUs

New comment by electronsoup in "The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We'll Be "Stunned" by NSA Under Section 702"

electronsoup — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:56:08 +0000

If it was so important, wouldn't he just filibuster it till he got what he wanted?

New comment by electronsoup in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

electronsoup — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:51:14 +0000

> but then again you need to plausibly explain why was someone operating your car while you were not aware of it.

There is no such requirement.

New comment by electronsoup in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

electronsoup — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:23:38 +0000

> and they're just as capable as using AI as anyone

Wouldn't the assumption be the opposite, in that AI is magnifying the decision making of the engineer and so you get more payback by having the senior drive the AI?

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

electronsoup — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:20:44 +0000

I guess the end of copyright is near if this is fine to put on a corporate website

New comment by electronsoup in "The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware"

electronsoup — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:28:24 +0000

That's some weird gatekeeping. The hardware they do support is supported well.