Hacker News: f311a

New comment by f311a in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

f311a — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:45:17 +0000

It’s better to compare this to computer science, especially, theoretical one. LLMs stop people from exploring new languages, architectures and so on.

New comment by f311a in "I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 years"

f311a — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:29:45 +0000

You can use ClickHouse cloud to host it on AWS.

But given the majority of use-cases of CH, AWS can be quite expensive.

New comment by f311a in "Shopify acquires Tailwind"

f311a — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:18:39 +0000

They got like 10 new sponsors, you can see it on their page. They are one of the top OSS projects in terms of revenue.

I can't recall any other OSS project that makes so much money and has nothing to do with infra/cloud.

They were making around $1M a year back when they complained about the revenue. A lot of Linux distros can only dream about such an amount of money.

The Education of a Doomer

f311a — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 21:19:12 +0000

Article URL: https://borretti.me/article/the-education-of-a-doomer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49603092

Points: 67

# Comments: 61

New comment by f311a in "I Changed My License"

f311a — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:54:39 +0000

A lot of open source that we used to use as dependencies is trivial. Sometimes you only need 10% of the library. No one is talking about kernel.

Also, changing license does not prevent you from forking the source code before the change. There are no new libraries with kernel level effort that use uncommon license.

New comment by f311a in "GPT-6 Astra"

f311a — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 03:42:37 +0000

Well, people don't play like computers, so this kind of practice can be useless.

New comment by f311a in "Pre-Release of Polars 2.0"

f311a — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:12:02 +0000

Because we use regular CH in production. I'm pretty familiar with it and I can always run large queries on a production server with 1TB of RAM.

Regular CH also support external data sources, so I can read 500GB of JSON from S3 and group by it on production server very fast and in memory.

New comment by f311a in "Pre-Release of Polars 2.0"

f311a — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:03:49 +0000

I've been using clickhouse-local for quite some time, instead of DuckDB. There is also chDB.

After using pandas for 10 years, I favor SQL now, for some reason.

New comment by f311a in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

f311a — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:49:40 +0000

Is the google infra stable enough right now? At the start of the year, the flash model was unusable for a whole month via gemini CLI. They could not fix it for a whole month and I was a paid customer.

New comment by f311a in "Ending my elixir exploratory writing"

f311a — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:31:59 +0000

I feel the same, there are still lots of people who are interested in learning internals, but they are hard to reach. Even such people don't use Google anymore, so they won't find your content.

New comment by f311a in "I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs"

f311a — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:02:35 +0000

Why not? There is $700k reward for the next iteration of this benchmark https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/arc-prize-2026-arc-agi-2...

I would not call this overfitting, it's finetuning for specific task where you have a benchmark.

New comment by f311a in "I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs"

f311a — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:48:12 +0000

The whole point of his model is to optimize for a very specific benchmark.

BUT, he does not use labels when training, so the model does not know the answers.

New comment by f311a in "The safest job from AI may be writing"

f311a — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:52:23 +0000

Robotics cost way more to produce and support, unlike software

New comment by f311a in "A CVE Dispute"

f311a — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:10:00 +0000

Unless it's a critical CVE, they're worth very little now for your career.

Same for a lot of side projects or small contributions to OSS, people are still chasing them and wasting everyone's time for nothing. They wouldn't even work on them before AI.

New comment by f311a in "Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache"

f311a — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:34:49 +0000

There are more than 10 crates for arenas with different tradeoffs, I'm well aware of them. They are still very limited compared to C/Zig.

New comment by f311a in "Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache"

f311a — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 02:14:33 +0000

You can’t allocate collections without nightly or without reimplementing them in the library. Every implementation uses it’s own set of trade offs to provide safety in unsafe implementation.

New comment by f311a in "Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache"

f311a — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 02:12:44 +0000

Stabilized soon, really? They did not stabilize it after 10 years and were thinking about different approach. I thought it’s dead.

New comment by f311a in "We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer"

f311a — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:09:01 +0000

He won’t reply, he’s busy promoting himself and his peojects with AI.

New comment by f311a in "Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache"

f311a — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:59:39 +0000

Unfortunately, Rust is not a good choice for this kind of tricks. This is where Zig shines. In Rust, you can’t even use proper arenas, which can help a ton with allocations.

Cloudflare started to pick Zig recently, for projects, that have memory constraints.

New comment by f311a in "Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are"

f311a — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:36:42 +0000

This does not account for anti fingerprinting. Also, are there any new tricks that are not in fingerprintjs?