Hacker News: guiriduro

New comment by guiriduro in "Postgres with QUIC"

guiriduro — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:27:57 +0000

AI slop.

New comment by guiriduro in "Carmakers Have a New Idea to Boost EV Range: Add a Gas Engine"

guiriduro — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:31:10 +0000

"New"? Like hybrids haven't been around forever?

New comment by guiriduro in "Mistral raises €3B"

guiriduro — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:45:35 +0000

Imagine the fund were distributing to several teams, but let's say Z.ai and Deepseek were european and among them. What percentage would be allocated to Mistral in that case? OK, the other two aren't, but in the same vein, should the EU fund be saving its powder until such a project shows up?

New comment by guiriduro in "How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language"

guiriduro — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:19:10 +0000

Julia also has some of the nicest GPU abstraction frameworks of any language, achieving pretty low friction portability over a decent subset of CUDA, Metal, ROCm and CPU. KernelAbstractions.jl, AcceleratedKernels.jl etc.

New comment by guiriduro in "Monzo Stand-In"

guiriduro — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:37:00 +0000

Really? None other than Airbus chose Scaleway (a personal favourite) for their migration of core services off AWS. There's also Hetzner, OVH, NetCUPs etc. I'd agree they're not AWS/GCP scale (yet) but as more big names move for reasons of EU sovereignty that multiplies available capital and soon they become hyperscale themselves. And sovereign.

New comment by guiriduro in "Monzo Stand-In"

guiriduro — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:48:32 +0000

Most european banking entities already have and use SEPA.

New comment by guiriduro in "Monzo Stand-In"

guiriduro — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:51:49 +0000

Exposed yes, but not fatally if you're working with alternative de-dollarised banking systems in the eurozone, for example.

New comment by guiriduro in "Monzo Stand-In"

guiriduro — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:07:46 +0000

By using another US hyperscaler for your backup platform you're still unhedged against US governance failure/breakdown.

New comment by guiriduro in "Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant for 4 days"

guiriduro — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:16:38 +0000

This point cannot be overstated - famously the Torygraph for its stance should always have been treated with a degree of scepticism under former editors but such journalistic standards it ever had are now long and completely defunct. A rubbish-laden agitprop comic.

New comment by guiriduro in "Postmortem of a British Startup: Tract"

guiriduro — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:50:50 +0000

Maybe that's not as unlikely a prospect (or as bad an idea) as you might think. Do people know if there are relatively small idea-exploration pots of money (VC, angels, subsidies, startup and govt programmes) available in Europe/UK whereby a sufficiently well-qualified initial idea/plan, well-advised small founding team, and initially tested model can go to be funded for PMF exploration without being defocussed into hawking, door knocking and/or being dependent on 'who you know'?

New comment by guiriduro in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

guiriduro — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:32:27 +0000

There's potentially a virtuous circle of increased EU tech investment and increased EU tech provider adoption but given the risk aversion sclerosis that affects the european private investment community this does need to be government led. I'd agree the US private debt fuelled $1Tn build out is mostly unsustainable but when you look at what China was able to achieve with govt support on a ˜120bn AI sector investment it behoves the EU to take a stand, the first 100bn is probably the least risky.

New comment by guiriduro in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

guiriduro — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:49:48 +0000

Pretty sure there would be a number of EU states who'd happily pump some money in if the EU were to mandate the ECB to (incentivise intermediary banks to) buy their corresponding long dated sovereign debt cheaply to fund it.

New comment by guiriduro in "Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all"

guiriduro — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:13:31 +0000

Do they dupe VC into enormous datacentre and capacity build-out investment? Why yes, actual money going to the AI hypester pick-axe vendors (and early equity dumpers) in that sense, absolutely yes it does.

Is Big AI on track to pay that back with profit from any foreseeable and defensible business model? Different question. I sincerely doubt it.

New comment by guiriduro in "Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections"

guiriduro — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:00:05 +0000

For a critical thinking exam, you should be able to show that you can decipher political gobledegook, identify lies and platitiudes, strawman arguments etc(there would be much less of it anyway as in a restricted franchise very few with votes would be swayed by it, which is the point.)

Non-evilness would be shown by answering questions designed to test basic empathy, and also by the lack of recent recorded crimes or misdemenours.

New comment by guiriduro in "Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections"

guiriduro — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:48:52 +0000

The diagnosis I largely agree with. To the point I no longer identify as a (small-d) democrat, it is the tyrrany of the mob's choice of (usually reprehensible) representative, who will have lied and pacted with corrupt elites to obtain his/her position, and been nominally elected by the ignorant. Anyone who wants power should by that fact be excluded. The solution however (lottery-election) is absurd. We should instead restrict the franchise by exam to provably non-ignorant, non-evil critical thinkers so that we get representatives who are non-sociopaths that we can respect.

New comment by guiriduro in "Apriel-H1: Towards Efficient Enterprise Reasoning Models"

guiriduro — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 09:09:18 +0000

Apriel-H1-15b-Thinker-SFT uses incremental distillation from Apriel-Nemotron-15B-Thinker, selectively replacing less critical attention layers with linear Mamba blocks to reduce computational complexity while preserving reasoning quality.

Apriel-H1: Towards Efficient Enterprise Reasoning Models

guiriduro — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 09:09:18 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02651

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46299767

Points: 1

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New comment by guiriduro in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

guiriduro — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 07:00:56 +0000

That's exactly the point (ie just prior to distribution) where a simple sanity check should have been run and the config replacement/update pipeline stopped on failure. When they introduced the 200 entry limit memory optimised feature loader it should have been a no-brainer to insert that sanity check in the config production pipeline.

New comment by guiriduro in "Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure"

guiriduro — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:21:27 +0000

Come come now. Elon has built Tesla on something closer to $38bn of taxpayer largesse/avoidance according to the Washington Post.0 I doubt many people would fail to create public entities with healthy casino ponzi stock trading if they had umpteen billion $ of govt funny money propping them up. Hell they might even start a rocket business as a sideline...

0. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/e...

New comment by guiriduro in "ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk"

guiriduro — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 18:25:42 +0000

Don't need to. Would it be a big deal to hop on a plane to e.g. Switzerland once a year?