Hacker News: fintler

New comment by fintler in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

fintler — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:02:13 +0000

Don't forget about the (awesome) cluster scheduler, Flux.

https://hpc-tutorials.llnl.gov/flux/

New comment by fintler in "It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle"

fintler — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:40:42 +0000

Yes!

I started going down the path of building a ripple carry adder already (which seems to work fine). Then I was going to try for a full on ALU, then some sort of ISA that sits on top of it all.

I have no idea what the end result will look like if it all comes together. Hopefully I'll find some weird primitives along the way. :D

It's very hand-wavy, but I'm kinda hoping I can somehow have a machine manually constructed out of neurons that can naturally interact with one built with looser hebbian learning rules.

New comment by fintler in "It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle"

fintler — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:29:53 +0000

I had fun reading this. Thanks for sharing.

With dendritic compartments, this seems like a waste of a perfectly good neuron that we could productively use elsewhere. ;)

Note that a SINGLE neuron can compute nonlinear functions like XOR.

Shameless plug: If anyone is interested, I did a post a while back on how neurons can act as logic gates:

https://blog.typeobject.com/posts/2025-neural-logic-gates/

This article builds on the first and creates a half adder out of neurons:

https://blog.typeobject.com/posts/2026-timing-is-the-bit/

New comment by fintler in "No way to parse integers in C (2022)"

fintler — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:32:20 +0000

Although vcpkg is probably the most popular, I’m a fan of https://conan.io/center

New comment by fintler in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

fintler — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:31:00 +0000

Need to pee? Take the a-trap to Shell.

New comment by fintler in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

fintler — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:14:32 +0000

Its an eternal september moment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

Barn Owls Know When to Wait

fintler — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:14:08 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.typeobject.com/posts/2026-barn-owls-know-when-to-wait/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46928105

Points: 16

# Comments: 1

New comment by fintler in "Tesla is committing automotive suicide"

fintler — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:40:47 +0000

Don't get me wrong, both are pretty terrible. I'm not going to defend Tesla.

But BYD is on a whole different level with that stuff (e.g. human trafficking, suicides and the factory that collapsed and killed a bunch of people).

There's no way that being able to cut costs to that level doesn't help their bottom line.

New comment by fintler in "Tesla is committing automotive suicide"

fintler — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:31:00 +0000

BYD uses slave labor.

"In the dormitories of the Jinjiang Group, the company hired by BYD to carry out the work, there were no mattresses on the beds, and the few toilets served hundreds of workers in extremely unhygienic conditions. The workers also had food stored without refrigeration.

The Brazilian Labor Prosecutor's Office (MTP) also accused the companies of withholding the workers' passports and keeping 60% of their wages; the remaining 40% would be paid in Chinese currency."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Brazil_working_conditions_...

It's hard for any company to compete with that (I hope they don't).

New comment by fintler in "Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws"

fintler — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:24:10 +0000

Speaking from past experience with the DoE (I'm happy I don't need to deal with security like this anymore), there were constant and randomized checks to make sure fiber cables (they were all fiber to make it harder to tamper with and to avoid accidental RF) were fully visible (e.g. not hidden under a desk or something) and not tampered with. Also, lots of locks and doors, both electrical and mechanical. The guy at the front desk with a big gun probably helped too.

New comment by fintler in "Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws"

fintler — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:13:26 +0000

They have multiple networks. One of them is definitely airgapped (red for RD). The medium security one is protected by annoyingly strict network ACLs (yellow for ITAR). Then there's a low security one for stuff like sharepoint (green).

This article is full of nonsense and speculation.

Neural Logic Gates

fintler — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:14:37 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.typeobject.com/posts/2025-neural-logic-gates/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45162225

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

TrueTime Meets STDP

fintler — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:45:31 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.typeobject.com/posts/2025-stdp-meets-truetime/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44987424

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by fintler in "Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer"

fintler — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 18:26:10 +0000

They already have CUDA cores in production. This is a lab that's looking for the next big thing.

New comment by fintler in "Neuromorphic computing"

fintler — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:07:05 +0000

Probably because they're hosting an exascale-class cluster with a bazillion GH200s. Also, they launched a new "National Security AI Office".

New comment by fintler in "Starcloud"

fintler — Tue, 13 May 2025 22:57:02 +0000

Not to be confused with StarTree Cloud:

https://startree.ai/products/startree-cloud

New comment by fintler in "Square Root Day"

fintler — Thu, 01 May 2025 23:58:53 +0000

2025/5/5 is the next square root day. The next one won't happen until 2036/6/6.

Also, the year itself is a square (45^2=2025).

If I'm calculating right, the last time this was the case was on 1936/6/6 (44^2=1936).

Square Root Day

fintler — Thu, 01 May 2025 23:58:09 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Root_Day

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43864729

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by fintler in "Reversible computing with mechanical links and pivots"

fintler — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:46:37 +0000

Classical reversible computing feels like it would be a good way to interface with a quantum computer (since it's also reversible in theory).

New comment by fintler in "Reversible computing with mechanical links and pivots"

fintler — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:42:17 +0000

It's very similiar. The rod logic in diamond age (Eric Drexler was the one who originally came up with it) moves linearly -- not rotationally like this does. It's also reversible.