Hacker News: flakiness

New comment by flakiness in "Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke"

flakiness — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:25:24 +0000

Can anyone explain the difference between sampling vs mononoke?

Edit: I was too lazy. From the README: "Mononoke is the server built for the Sapling Source Control System"

New comment by flakiness in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

flakiness — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:25:18 +0000

They want you to vibecode this using Claude.

New comment by flakiness in "My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps"

flakiness — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:43:16 +0000

The update section is somehow moving. Not sure why. Maybe because it captures the spirit of "もののあわれ" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_no_aware

New comment by flakiness in "Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series"

flakiness — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:21:31 +0000

Android phones don't need (and often don't have) upstreamed "drivers". They use qualcomm's closed-source code. Also, Android user land driver (HAL) isn't useful for non-Android Linux distros.

New comment by flakiness in "Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series"

flakiness — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:38:20 +0000

If the upstream is properly done (that is a big if), this can be a go-to choice for the Linux laptop because it has much smaller config variations compared to Intel-based laptops: Everything from wifi (and even modem?), to audio, to camera ISP is included in the single SoC. If it works it works.

Machine Gods – the official podcast of the singularity

flakiness — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:03:58 +0000

Article URL: https://machinegods.fm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49761893

Points: 3

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New comment by flakiness in "Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?"

flakiness — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:09:08 +0000

https://security.googleblog.com/2023/04/google-authenticator...

So relatively new, and I didn't know this and moved to proton for this reason recently.

New comment by flakiness in "Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA"

flakiness — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:40:14 +0000

Yeah I had a slight hope that they'd be a one of the first real Rapidus customers. but apparently not (for this one at least).

New comment by flakiness in "Shopify moves back to Native from React Native"

flakiness — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:28:36 +0000

mind sharing a link or two on the native code generation bit? I'm far behind from the scene but still curious.

New comment by flakiness in "Qwen3.8-Flash-Next"

flakiness — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:19:18 +0000

I'm not sure it's a bad thing.

If you spend a long time with C++ code base you'll be able to decipher the otherwise-unreadable compiler errors pretty quickly, and I'd consider it a skill.

New comment by flakiness in "AWS Acquires DuckDB"

flakiness — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:40:32 +0000

https://duckdb.org/roadmap

Current Google cache of this page states:

> "The DuckDB project is governed by the non-profit DuckDB Foundation . The Foundation and DuckLabs are not funded by external investors (e.g., venture capital)."

But "(Last updated: Aug 2026)" and I was not able to find this text anymore.

I wonder if they took vc money after all. I guess not, but still, it seem like to be difficult to live as an independent open source company. Getting a big co as a parent/sponsor is probably the next best thing.

New comment by flakiness in "The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source"

flakiness — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:23:27 +0000

If we program NPUs on Qualcomm-based chips using Mojo, the PC AI programming as a hobby would be getting much more interesting. I wish they don't limit this to the server chips.

New comment by flakiness in "The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source"

flakiness — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:21:06 +0000

Also MLIR which is so prevalent in the ML compile stack everywhere.

https://mlir.llvm.org/

New comment by flakiness in "DeepSeek API Pricing Update"

flakiness — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:06:49 +0000

Now Baseten's pricing is cheaper than the official one? Probably won't last, but still interesting.

https://www.baseten.co/pricing/

If anyone has tried Baseten versions of these Chinese frontier models, let me know what you found.

New comment by flakiness in "DeepSeek Harness developer preview"

flakiness — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:07:59 +0000

Tell me more about the ideas behind Cordis the plugin system. The paper is a bit too mathy to consume and I think it deserves a more accessible post or something.

New comment by flakiness in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"

flakiness — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:59:02 +0000

The post in question: https://openjdk.org/legal/ai

It is 'OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI' and their lawyers are writing the final version, according to this page.

It sounds like a sensible action, given past scars around Java and copyright, plus this is from a big old corp.

That said I personally don't expect that final proposal will end up any better.

New comment by flakiness in "I'll be stepping back from leading product for X"

flakiness — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:15:50 +0000

I felt the same before then realized that what I missed was my youth. Plenty of time to kill. No real privacy need. Being a night owl with little hangover, etc. etc.

Not saying that's you. Just cannot help going down the memory lane.

New comment by flakiness in "Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet"

flakiness — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:22:03 +0000

Fair point. Their page doesn't list any investors.

New comment by flakiness in "Discovery Loop"

flakiness — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:58:53 +0000

> we have pioneered massive scale computing and led the creation of critical infrastructure, products, and foundational AI advances that the world relies on, including multiple generations of Google Search, Google Ads, Google News, Google Translate, Google File System, MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner, TensorFlow, Pathways, TPUs, AlphaChip, AlphaStar, AlphaCode, AlphaFold, Gemini, model distillation, mixture-of-experts model architectures, word2vec, sequence-to-sequence models, chain of thought reasoning, neural architecture search, and multiple generations of Large Language Models (LLMs) among others.

holy shit. I've known this, but...

New comment by flakiness in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

flakiness — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:49:14 +0000

Chairman is a stepping stone for a retirement/resignation. Apple's Tim Cook. Google's Eric Schmidt. The list goes on.