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New comment by fcanesin in "Reflections on 30 years of HPC programming"

fcanesin — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:20:13 +0000

Wait what!? I have been programming CUDA since 2009 and specifically remember it being pushed to C++ as main development language for the first few years, after a brief "CUDA C extension" period.

New comment by fcanesin in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

fcanesin — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:37:21 +0000

Anthropic is a great showing for startup founders how if you have a great product people will buy it, even if they dislike your pricing, your marketing and the CEO opinions.

Real PMF sells itself. The risk is of course the competition catching up, I bet switching costs are very low on this setup.

New comment by fcanesin in "End of "Chat Control": EU parliament stops mass surveillance"

fcanesin — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:36:26 +0000

To get "End of Chat Control" EU should actually pass laws prohibiting it, this whack a mole will eventually lose.

New comment by fcanesin in "GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark"

fcanesin — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:57:26 +0000

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New comment by fcanesin in "Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed"

fcanesin — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:16:20 +0000

The harness is the model "body", it's weight the cognition. Like in nature they develop together and the iteration of natural selection works at both.

If smaller labs (Zai, Moonshot, deepseek, mistral..) get together and embrace a harness, like opencode for example, as a consortium just by the power of "evolution across different environments" they might hit jackpot earlier than bigger labs.

New comment by fcanesin in "Lance table format explained simply, stupid (Animated)"

fcanesin — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:01:27 +0000

Inserts become increasingly slow. Became >10sec for a chat completion insert after 10_000 entries on k8s Longhorn atop NVMe.

New comment by fcanesin in "Lance table format explained simply, stupid (Animated)"

fcanesin — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:47:31 +0000

My experience trying LanceDB has been abysmal. It worked great on dev and small testing environments but as soon we tried production workloads it would get extremely slow. We shifted to PostgreSQL + pgvector and had absolutely no issues, even if it is not "engineered for multimodal data". Maybe we were doing something wrong but we did put effort in trying to make it work - it is this hard to get it performant?

New comment by fcanesin in "Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]"

fcanesin — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:10:36 +0000

Great stuff, now if could please do gemini-2.5-pro-code that would be great

New comment by fcanesin in "EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages"

fcanesin — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:13:17 +0000

Nice, congrats. But that O looks like an ass.

New comment by fcanesin in "The React Foundation"

fcanesin — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 08:41:09 +0000

this, Vercel is at ~10B valuation with a business built atop React - they should and will probably take more of Meta space as stewards for it.

New comment by fcanesin in "Microsoft memo advises H1B employees to return immediately if currently abroad"

fcanesin — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 00:44:33 +0000

You are correct [although what was said at the oval office was different].

New comment by fcanesin in "Microsoft memo advises H1B employees to return immediately if currently abroad"

fcanesin — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 17:50:06 +0000

Summed together with the study visa changes: Thanks Trump for helping solve Brazil's brain drain.

New comment by fcanesin in "Microsoft memo advises H1B employees to return immediately if currently abroad"

fcanesin — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 17:43:51 +0000

yes, and it started from today.

New comment by fcanesin in "Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B"

fcanesin — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:14:42 +0000

Missing a zero here for a realistic valuation of the indisputable market leader in the most important interface of computing.

New comment by fcanesin in "New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source"

fcanesin — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 01:17:18 +0000

I feel like mathematicians should be able to do a second doctorate level degree a few years after their first PhD, that must be in a adjacent field of their own, but not the same.

New comment by fcanesin in "Baidu: The Open Source Release of the Ernie 4.5 Model Family"

fcanesin — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:53:41 +0000

ERNIE 4.5, a new family of large-scale multimodal models comprising 10 distinct variants. The model family consist of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models with 47B and 3B active parameters, with the largest model having 424B total parameters, as well as a 0.3B dense model.

Baidu: The Open Source Release of the Ernie 4.5 Model Family

fcanesin — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:53:41 +0000

Article URL: https://ernie.baidu.com/blog/posts/ernie4.5/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44422165

Points: 9

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New comment by fcanesin in "InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel"

fcanesin — Mon, 19 May 2025 11:06:30 +0000

Does anyone know if extensive genetic editing for construction wood optimization has been tried? Some planted forests have no food chain role whatsoever (like Eucalyptus in Brazil) so this seems super safe high reward endeavor.

New comment by fcanesin in "OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B"

fcanesin — Tue, 06 May 2025 20:59:51 +0000

LMAO, like one hour after. And guess what, it is a coding upgrade .

New comment by fcanesin in "OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B"

fcanesin — Tue, 06 May 2025 14:33:43 +0000

OpenAI knows that everyday someone uses Gemini their ChatGPT brand dies a bit faster. Wonder what Google has in storage for I/O now in May, would be a death sentence to just steamroll with Gemini-3.