Hacker News: eulgro

New comment by eulgro in "A Periodic Map of Cheese"

eulgro — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:29:35 +0000

At what point does milk become oil?

New comment by eulgro in "The RAM shortage could last years"

eulgro — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:08:07 +0000

The law of supply and demand works in a perfect competition market.

There are two RAM suppliers...

New comment by eulgro in "Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026"

eulgro — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 21:03:34 +0000

> The report estimates that carbon emissions from models with the least efficient inference are over 10 times as high as those with the most efficient inference. DeepSeek’s V3 models were estimated to consume around 23 watts when responding to a “medium-length” prompt, while Claude 4 Opus was estimated to consume about 5 watts.

This makes absolutely no sense. I suppose they meant watt hours, and that's a weird way to explain carbon emissions...

New comment by eulgro in "Now is the best time to write code by hand"

eulgro — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:08:54 +0000

And vegan of course

New comment by eulgro in "Minecraft Java Edition 26.2 Snapshot 1: Initial Vulkan Support"

eulgro — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:18:27 +0000

It's impressive how much details they give in the release notes, down to the filenames of added sprites and changes to the shaders. I can't think of another game that does that.

New comment by eulgro in "How to make a sliding, self-locking, and predator-proof chicken coop door (2020)"

eulgro — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:02:51 +0000

The channel owner seem to be a non-speaking person so that explains it.

New comment by eulgro in "Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data"

eulgro — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 02:30:08 +0000

In science fiction maybe. We're hitting real limits on compute while AI is still far from a level where it would harmful, and FHE is orders of magnitude less efficient than direct calculation.

New comment by eulgro in "Training a Human Takes 20 Years of Food"

eulgro — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:03:29 +0000

That's 58 GWh, but considering each food calorie actually require 5-10 calories of input energy (oil mostly), let's say 290 GWh.

I couldn't find much on training AI models. Apparently GPT-3 used 1.3 GWh for training. So maybe ~10 GWh for newer models?

So... let's stop training humans I guess.

New comment by eulgro in "Tiny C Compiler"

eulgro — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 02:51:21 +0000

To be honest, these all seem like pretty basic features.

Goto is easier to implement than an if statement. Postincrement behaves no differently in a switch statement than elsewhere.

New comment by eulgro in "Ode to the AA Battery"

eulgro — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:54:51 +0000

This makes no sense. With the li-on batteries you would need everything you listed, minus the extra batteries.

New comment by eulgro in "How many chess games are possible?"

eulgro — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:50:33 +0000

Well there is. The three/five fold rule. And 50 moves rule.

New comment by eulgro in "First, make me care"

eulgro — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:44:27 +0000

Thanks. Ironically, the article started off great with that but clearly it wasn't going to answer the question, so I only read the first paragraph.

New comment by eulgro in "CSS Optical Illusions"

eulgro — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:57:55 +0000

They could make capchas out of these.

New comment by eulgro in "Is passive investment inflating a stockmarket bubble?"

eulgro — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 02:05:33 +0000

https://archive.is/ppHt0

Paper this article is based on (2021): https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28967/w289...

New comment by eulgro in "China obsesses over America's "kill line""

eulgro — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:47:54 +0000

https://archive.is/H0Egd

New comment by eulgro in "How to store a chess position in 26 bytes (2022)"

eulgro — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:10:18 +0000

Given the current upper bound on legal chess positions is 7.7e45 ≈ 152.4 bits, you either have found a better upper bound or your memory doesn't serve.

New comment by eulgro in "Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20"

eulgro — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 03:15:11 +0000

From the stats we see that most bugs effectively come from the limitations of the language.

Impressive results on the model, I'm surprised they improved it with very simple heuristics. Hopefully this tool will be made available to the kernel developers and integrated to the workflow.

New comment by eulgro in "High-Fidelity 3D Shape Generation"

eulgro — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:00:52 +0000

There must be 100-200 MB of images on this page, it's insane.

New comment by eulgro in "Assorted less(1) tips"

eulgro — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:53:58 +0000

Some of these come intuitively when you know how to use vim. I expect to be able to search when pressing / in terminal programs, just like I expect Ctrl+F to work in GUIs.

New comment by eulgro in "Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder"

eulgro — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 01:25:26 +0000

Picture: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh...