Hacker News: fooblaster

New comment by fooblaster in "Dolly Parton's Imagination Library"

fooblaster — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 22:13:33 +0000

I've been reading these books to my kids for the last year and a half. Such a wonderful gift to so many children.

New comment by fooblaster in ""I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math"

fooblaster — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 01:36:10 +0000

It would work fine. seriously what are you on about?

New comment by fooblaster in "Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel"

fooblaster — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:04:45 +0000

Yes the Linux kernel was in desperate need of a c++ rewrite

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

fooblaster — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:59:54 +0000

Assembly is source code...

New comment by fooblaster in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

fooblaster — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 13:35:21 +0000

The Russians have been targeting civilian infrastructure the entire war? Why is blowing up a Amazon warehouse suddenly opening a paradoras box?

New comment by fooblaster in "EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model"

fooblaster — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:50:19 +0000

I also don't understand.

New comment by fooblaster in "LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents"

fooblaster — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:43:39 +0000

I don't think he's concerned at all. He wants to destroy their profitability before they remove his chips from inference. Thats why they are selling billions at scale of chips to China, he needs llms to be commodities. He wants to eliminate any company that can rival him, like any monopolist oligarch.

New comment by fooblaster in "LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents"

fooblaster — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:27:29 +0000

AGI hasn't arrived. why would you care about a prognostication that has not yet played out?

New comment by fooblaster in "Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)"

fooblaster — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:43:33 +0000

How? you can write exactly the same low level code today.

New comment by fooblaster in "On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted"

fooblaster — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:28:50 +0000

Talk about poor duty of care to users... been using him for 20 years and I have to enable it in my vimrc to take effect. So stupid. Why would I want this to be off?

Such amazing design...

" Enable persistent undo set undofile

New comment by fooblaster in "On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted"

fooblaster — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:26:57 +0000

How does one use persistent undo in vim?

New comment by fooblaster in "Show HN: Agentic CUDA Kernel Optimizer"

fooblaster — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:30:13 +0000

Can someone explain why this isn't better accomplished through a single prompt to Claude code or codex? I don't think I understand.

New comment by fooblaster in "Anthropic classifiers prohibit kernel development"

fooblaster — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:08:47 +0000

Has anyone hit this? the language is so vague I'm concerned this is going to stop my non-LLM cuda work.

New comment by fooblaster in "Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls"

fooblaster — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:03:02 +0000

It's open ended to solicit the advice of anyone who cares. But, given it didn't work, 80 gallon capacity / 2 bedrooms / 2 bathrooms

New comment by fooblaster in "We Must Pace the Frontier"

fooblaster — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:54:45 +0000

The outcome is the same!

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

fooblaster — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:50:43 +0000

He's working on the monster slime mold! He's head monster slime mold grower! how can you take these people seriously?

New comment by fooblaster in "Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls"

fooblaster — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:07:29 +0000

can anyone recommend the best heat pump water heater for the us market?

New comment by fooblaster in "Tesla killing Solar Roof is leaving installers with six-figure losses"

fooblaster — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:04:23 +0000

The entire premise is stupid. Panels need to be large to have reduced install costs and wiring costs. Install costs dominate solar install pricing in the United states. It is far far cheaper to install a new roof and giant solar installation than to go with a solar roof. It's just a broken concept at the very start.

New comment by fooblaster in "GPT-6 Astra"

fooblaster — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 03:38:46 +0000

please tell us why

New comment by fooblaster in "Mark Zuckerberg's Social Reckoning"

fooblaster — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:40:32 +0000

Unfortunately, it really depends who you consider a journalist. With internet advertising destroying journalism as a revenue source, as anyone can really say anything about who they are