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New comment by fulafel in "Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time"

fulafel — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:42:06 +0000

Where we lost decades of progress was governments pouring enormous amounts of R&D money into nuclear instead of renewables. We got a nuclear a head start that turned out to be a dead end. We could have gotten solar, wind and storage cost competitive with fossils decades earlier. And as a side effect kept the west competitive in energy tech.

New comment by fulafel in "AWS Lambda Web Functions"

fulafel — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:55:19 +0000

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/snapstart-runti... has instructions for SnapStart with Node. But yes it's more hoops.

New comment by fulafel in "AWS Lambda Web Functions"

fulafel — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:13:31 +0000

Presumably it can be combined with SnapStart

There was also this a week ago, maybe you can combine this with containers? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/get-started-with-aws-la...

New comment by fulafel in "Has the Autonomous Trucking Revolution Arrived?"

fulafel — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:51:36 +0000

I was suggesting the licensing be predicated on non fossil fuels.

New comment by fulafel in "Has the Autonomous Trucking Revolution Arrived?"

fulafel — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:14:32 +0000

Allowing fossil powered autonomous trucks would be a huge lost opportunity for mitigating the climate disaster and related megadeaths.

New comment by fulafel in "OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI"

fulafel — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:33:34 +0000

You can specialize memory to LLM usage, like Cerebras.

New comment by fulafel in "Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services"

fulafel — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:15:52 +0000

From the Google blog "Chrome's Response to Recent ccTLD Registry Hijacks":

"These incidents did not involve a compromise of Google’s systems; rather, attackers compromised the third-party ccTLDs, putting any domain ending in .gh, .sl, or .as at risk. During these hijacks, attackers modified authoritative DNS records and obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates covering several Google domains, as well as domains belonging to other organizations."

So entire top level domain registries were compromised. Interesting times. Isn't there really any primary source on this?

New comment by fulafel in "High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days"

fulafel — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 05:50:24 +0000

Significantly: externalities from co2 emissions. Which is not just money, but lives.

New comment by fulafel in "TurboPython – A Python-to-C++ Compiler"

fulafel — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:53:32 +0000

> What advantages does this provide beyond what can be achieved with Cython?

Turing completeness aside, it seems to have a different purpouse entirely.

Cython is Python-compatible with its own syntax extensions, and is meant for writing Python modules.

TurboPython is its own incompatible language that has some resemblance to Python and is presumably meant to be used independently of Python.

New comment by fulafel in "Where's the "Intelligence Explosion"?"

fulafel — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:54:21 +0000

Many are actively harmful (fex. bringing about the climate catastrophe).

New comment by fulafel in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

fulafel — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:11:45 +0000

Directionally correct, but rather: the process moniker became disconnected from the feature size.

New comment by fulafel in "Pilots and Flight Attendants Have the Highest Radiation-Related Cancer Mortality"

fulafel — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:44:31 +0000

Sounds like they controlled for it: "The researchers then examined mortality across occupations, separating out radiation-related and non–radiation-related cancers"

New comment by fulafel in "ASML currently sells no chipmaking machines in Europe, executive says"

fulafel — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:43:32 +0000

Current state of the art in feature sizes is 20 nm metal pitch / 45 nm gate pitch.

New comment by fulafel in "Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space"

fulafel — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:48:54 +0000

Did anyone at and point say it's technically impossible? There's been computers in space since the 60s after all.

It's just far out research experiment like another commented quoted from the text: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834746

New comment by fulafel in "Show HN: How long do I need to work at my salary before I can coast, or retire?"

fulafel — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 04:53:42 +0000

You can use Pyodide for that, no need to stoop to JS.

New comment by fulafel in "We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub"

fulafel — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:41:12 +0000

Github personal access tokens are security footguns. This is an apparently old and forgotten image containing a token from 2023 and it the token gets you admin acces to their repos.

New comment by fulafel in "Closing the IPv6 first-packet gap with GRAND"

fulafel — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:34:53 +0000

Broadly it's true that historically there was this idea for ethernet networks at least. It was always optional though. Even in that long obsolete rfc2464 it's described as the way to do SLAAC which was optional even in 1998.

This kind of thing doesn't normally count as violation of layering though. In protocol design its common to leverage identifiers from lower layers for addressing. For example many workings of the internet would be hard to imaging with the rule that you could not use IP addresses and ports in upper level protocols (like DNS, P2P protocols, etc)

New comment by fulafel in "An update on Wayback Machine access"

fulafel — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:30:37 +0000

CGNAT makes all ISP users appear to come from one v4 address, so blocking by v4 address becomes unworkable.

New comment by fulafel in "Closing the IPv6 first-packet gap with GRAND"

fulafel — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:02:21 +0000

Apparently it's not good to require the router to start a new multicast address resolution on seeing unknown sources. It could be spelled out more but the text "This is particularly relevant for anycast and proxy addresses, where more than one node may be capable of responding" says that in some circumstances a lot of link local addresses might correspond to a single global address, and there could be a lot of traffic generated. So it's better to have the host opt-in to the prepopulating of the STALE entries.

"STALE allows the router to use the information it has already learned without requiring a new multicast address-resolution operation. The router can subsequently verify reachability using the normal Neighbour Discovery mechanisms."

edit: actually the RFC goes over this option as well and the reasoning there is slightly different than above (and maybe even the blog post) - see 8.9 at in https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9131/ . Also notable that the RFC is from 2021.

New comment by fulafel in "Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction"

fulafel — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:09:14 +0000

I'd argue most people would consider it scheduling only if there's some attempt to arrange order of execution to improve throughput. Idling the other execution units when they could be executing instructions is not scheduling, at least not good scheduling.

In estabilished computer architecture terminology, scheduling is decidedly a OoO execution term. (At least if you're talking about processors. There's also static scheduling, which means the compiler does it and the hardware doesn't.)