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New comment by fifilura in "Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation"

fifilura — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:39:26 +0000

Also risk appetite.

Note specifically, my emphasis.

"alongside new backers Cherry Ventures and European Tech Collective"

New comment by fifilura in "Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation"

fifilura — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:29:58 +0000

It matters who owns the company. Where your employees come from matters much less.

As long as there is no investors from Europe, these startups will just be a money funnel to America.

New comment by fifilura in "Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers"

fifilura — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:55:36 +0000

I don't know about Jev, but in my experience, 90% of the time, the confidence score such machine outputs (e.g. simplest case a kalman filter) is bogus because the model is wrong. Or not even wrong, but just not perfect.

Mathematicians build this, and they love the beauty of it so much that they loose touch of reality.

New comment by fifilura in "Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation"

fifilura — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:42:01 +0000

"Existing investors including Sequoia, Lightspeed, Greenfield, Kindred, Lingotto and Promus Ventures participated alongside new backers Cherry Ventures and European Tech Collective."

What share of the investor money is from USA?

New comment by fifilura in "The last time my family was replaced by technology"

fifilura — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:08:52 +0000

> There's plenty more to do now that making CRUD apps

Throwback to HN anno 2021 everyone was complaining about their bread and butter was creating CRUD apps.

New comment by fifilura in "Built Dental Scope"

fifilura — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:21:02 +0000

In this case I applaud the utility of something built in 3 days.

Not the engineering effort behind it.

It still looks great. And very good for understanding whatever it is my dentist is doing with my teeth.

New comment by fifilura in "Ballmer Peak"

fifilura — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:29:17 +0000

There is a danish movie related to maintaining the optimal drunkedness.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10288566/

New comment by fifilura in "One Year of Sponsored Servo Development"

fifilura — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:36:37 +0000

It is not really about reserving cores.

Just that - even if you distribute work to a number of cores (that itself limited), you still need to sync the execution. So unless you have some bigger chunks of computation, the performance increase will be very small.

And yes, there are bigger chunks of work when rendering a web page, but that is typically already outside the css engine and can be distributed without having to rewrite the core engine.

But my comments are a bit generic here, so I am open to comments regarding this particular project.

New comment by fifilura in "One year of sponsored Servo development"

fifilura — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:34:39 +0000

Hot take... There is something about programming projects spending 10x (or 1000x) the effort to parallelize execution when everything is still restricted by von Neumann architecture.

New comment by fifilura in "One Year of Sponsored Servo Development"

fifilura — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:32:45 +0000

I don't really see why they would do that?

New comment by fifilura in "An interactive world map of the stories cultures have told"

fifilura — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:00:06 +0000

Norse Scandinavia must include Iceland. In particular when referencing Prose Edda.

New comment by fifilura in "OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M"

fifilura — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 02:08:00 +0000

I am sure your fantasy could stretch further than that, if you allowed it to.

New comment by fifilura in "Chopping up books when they're physically too big"

fifilura — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:10:25 +0000

Or - don't choose 850 page books for a book club?

You may love it, but your friend may hate it.

Keep it for yourself.

New comment by fifilura in "OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M"

fifilura — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:26:33 +0000

I think you need to look beyond the job factor to see the real dangers of AI development.

New comment by fifilura in "OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M"

fifilura — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:56:41 +0000

Still counter productive.

New comment by fifilura in "OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M"

fifilura — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:02:10 +0000

I think of this as a baker at the nascence of bread-baking factories.

Will you operate the bread baking machine, own a bread factory ($++) or make eco-handmade artisan bread ($--).

Or do something completely different? Trade railway shares?

New comment by fifilura in "OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M"

fifilura — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:55:38 +0000

Why would they rate-limit fixing their own bugs? Seems counter-productive.

New comment by fifilura in "A 386 PC for Your RP2350"

fifilura — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:39:04 +0000

(slackware) Just need to find where you stored all 20 floppy disks...

New comment by fifilura in "We must pace the frontier"

fifilura — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:16:03 +0000

You also IPO if your investors want to cash out.

New comment by fifilura in "AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement"

fifilura — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 03:35:29 +0000

You don't expect to find the global maximum. It will just always be there as an elusive target.

I doubt the human brain is at global maximum.