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New comment by grg0 in "Extra Big Ass Intelligence"

grg0 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:54:18 +0000

I actually like the web design, so colourful. Beats any mainstream site riddled with ads.

Unfortunately, there are no hot singles in my fusion reactor.

New comment by grg0 in "SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX"

grg0 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:13:51 +0000

Which is not to say that they are necessarily auto-vectorizing. You know wassup when you see vaddsd instead of vaddpd. And ideally you'd use AVX-512 to saturate a modern cache line if you can afford to drop support for the older devices.

New comment by grg0 in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

grg0 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:51:29 +0000

The scams do leave voicemails now, and they use voice genAI per the parent comment.

If someone really wants to get a hold of you, they can knock on your door.

New comment by grg0 in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

grg0 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:49:31 +0000

With all the Nigerian princes out there, you'd think one of the bastards would have already made an official claim to the throne.

New comment by grg0 in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

grg0 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:45:59 +0000

"cringelord"

I cracked. Had never seen that used before, yet so obvious now in retrospect. Pure poetry.

New comment by grg0 in "Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines"

grg0 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:41:22 +0000

Not sure what's worse, if the AI slop content, or the AI code slop that makes the site consume 100% of a single CPU core (and if you enable GPU rendering on the browser, CPU usage is still significantly above zero.)

New comment by grg0 in "Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours"

grg0 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:06:41 +0000

Sorry, but you simply prompted an LLM and didn't even bother reviewing the output per our other discussion about pthreads. I'm not sure you can claim to be an expert, let alone put your opinion on the same level as mine.

New comment by grg0 in "Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours"

grg0 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:05:04 +0000

It wasn't me flagging, by the way.

The burden of proof also falls on the person making the claim.

New comment by grg0 in "Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours"

grg0 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 02:20:09 +0000

> I'm provably doing the minimum amount of work possible.

That is a very bold claim to make for the amount of render code generated by the LLM. It's not obvious what the critical path even is, which is what would bound the latency. And I mean actual code, not just some informal description of what happens.

New comment by grg0 in "Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours"

grg0 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 01:30:13 +0000

I see, I wasn't aware of that one. Typically I'd assign an ID, but yeah, names make things easier.

New comment by grg0 in "Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours"

grg0 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 01:28:53 +0000

What do you mean you didn't notice? I saw another comment about Claude below, are you not even reviewing the output?

I just browsed the project for two minutes and it's one of the first things I noticed. std::thread is more portable (Windows, if anyone cares) and allows you to pass in a lambda, which keeps the code local and also has the compiler generate the closure for you instead of having to pass function pointers and void* captures around. I don't see any advantage to using pthread directly.

New comment by grg0 in "Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours"

grg0 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 01:11:39 +0000

Why are you using pthread instead of std::thread?

New comment by grg0 in "German carmakers flood jobs market with managers after wielding axe"

grg0 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:29:34 +0000

Going for the extra crit chance.

New comment by grg0 in "Bacteria and the Inverse Association Between Farm Exposure and Childhood Asthma"

grg0 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:24:28 +0000

I thought it was general knowledge that growing up with animals, not necessarily in a farm, boosts your immune system for life with all the (good) shit you get exposed to.

New comment by grg0 in "Metropolis 1998"

grg0 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:31:23 +0000

Interesting use of DoF, hadn't seen that in an isometric game. Art looks really good too.

New comment by grg0 in "Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%"

grg0 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:28:28 +0000

The best part is that the era isn't gone; you can buy those and the games, and it's not even an expensive hobby. And people also know how to / can repair them.

New comment by grg0 in "German carmakers flood jobs market with managers after wielding axe"

grg0 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:27:06 +0000

But do they dual-wield?

New comment by grg0 in "AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions"

grg0 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:46:27 +0000

No offense, but: you need to get out of the house more. It'll answer your question very quickly.

New comment by grg0 in "AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions"

grg0 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:47:13 +0000

Right, that's the 'what', but not the 'how'.

> Prompt: but I don't have enough money to save, I can barely make ends meet.

> AI: I see the problem now---If you don't have enough money to save, and reducing your expenses is not an option, then the answer is clear: make more money.

New comment by grg0 in "BMW Is Showing Commercials on Their Car's Dash Screens as a Treat"

grg0 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:18:53 +0000

With or without the trunk loaded with gas cans?