Hacker News: foobiekr

New comment by foobiekr in "Designing an Ethernet Switch ASIC"

foobiekr — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:53:09 +0000

Wow that rings a bell.

The lack of end to end ECC protection in some packet paths on very high end ASICs is something I just can’t get over.

New comment by foobiekr in "AMD's Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun"

foobiekr — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:50:06 +0000

He has engaged in a ton of bullshit marketing for years.

New comment by foobiekr in "AI 2040: Plan A"

foobiekr — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:30:20 +0000

The Russians signed it and then completely ignored the agreement.

That is an objective fact and has nothing to do with the rest of the cultural relativism you're engaging in.

Whataboutism about the US _not signing_ things is also irrelevant.

The whole AI treaty discussion is about a treaty countries will _actually sign_ and the relevance of Russia cheating on the BWC is that the signatures of some countries are absolutely worthless, which _is_ relevant.

New comment by foobiekr in "S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-"

foobiekr — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:46:58 +0000

Google would have to start selling them (the real ones, complete with interconnect) to third parties. If google does that, though, Nvidia is done.

Unlike AMD, Google can actually ship software. AMD has never shipped good software other than drivers (maybe) in the entire history of the company, including both ATi's history and true AMD. They have always relied on Intel to provide the software.

New comment by foobiekr in "S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-"

foobiekr — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:44:50 +0000

Nvidia's moat is the IBM, Microsoft moat:

I am about to spend $20M, if I buy anything other than Nvidia, and things go wrong, I am going to get blamed, and if things go right I will get no credit. This is why AMD is making no progress outside of very narrow cases and supercomputing.

New comment by foobiekr in "S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB – only one notch above junk level"

foobiekr — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:43:15 +0000

Their "own" as in built by Marvell and Broadcom. Especially Trainium but also TPU4.

New comment by foobiekr in "AI 2040: Plan A"

foobiekr — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:04:32 +0000

I doubt we can even track all of the chip production capacity.

New comment by foobiekr in "AI 2040: Plan A"

foobiekr — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:03:51 +0000

A lot of it relies on what is effectively "the AI will be so smart it can solve anything" magic.

New comment by foobiekr in "AI 2040: Plan A"

foobiekr — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:02:32 +0000

The Soviet Union systematically ignored the BWC. There's tons of evidence.

New comment by foobiekr in "Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour"

foobiekr — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:26:49 +0000

Blade servers have been doing this for 25+ years.

New comment by foobiekr in "India's surprise baby bust"

foobiekr — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:38:17 +0000

Until you get cancer.

Survivalist fantasies aren’t realistic.

New comment by foobiekr in "India's surprise baby bust"

foobiekr — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:36:47 +0000

Being able to punish and control others, especially sexual exploitation, is a huge part of the draw. You need lots of slaves for that.

New comment by foobiekr in "Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)"

foobiekr — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:16:00 +0000

There's also the story "Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird" by Sonya Dorman in the first Dangerous Visions which is like this, in a way.

New comment by foobiekr in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"

foobiekr — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:00:19 +0000

Are you familiar with Elon Musk's endless, repeated and obvious lies for the last decade?

New comment by foobiekr in "SpaceX S-1"

foobiekr — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:58:42 +0000

A shocking number of the neocloud teams have exactly one skill set: raising money.

A few of them also have locked in power agreements.

Almost none of them have the expertise to build anything. Some of them are even outsourcing that to geezer tech and consulting shops.

It's not going to go well.

New comment by foobiekr in "SpaceX S-1"

foobiekr — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:56:26 +0000

No. xAI is buying Nvidia, not using Tesla chips.

New comment by foobiekr in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

foobiekr — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:18:04 +0000

Are you implying that it might be exploited by unethical tech bros looking to build data sets?

New comment by foobiekr in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

foobiekr — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:14:36 +0000

Anyone who would voluntarily work for Musk when he went obviously has things going on that aren't great.

New comment by foobiekr in "The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers"

foobiekr — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:20:43 +0000

The tech companies will just use face recognition, tracing, gait recognition, unique properties (like scratches) etc. etc. for the same purpose, same way they pioneered browser fingerprinting.

New comment by foobiekr in "What Is Date:Italy?"

foobiekr — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:26:42 +0000

Attacks in general are all rare in practice in the grand scheme of the internet. So?