Hacker News: hamilyon2

New comment by hamilyon2 in "JIT Compiling Code in 5μs"

hamilyon2 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:21:58 +0000

It uses copy-and-patch compilation to archive that

New comment by hamilyon2 in "Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code"

hamilyon2 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:33:52 +0000

For Pixel drivers, is there something that prevents Google from relicensing them to proprietary and not share any source at all?

New comment by hamilyon2 in "Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice"

hamilyon2 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:22:05 +0000

Many essential metabolic enzymes require metal ions for catalysis, structure, or substrate binding. So in some sense the dependence is still there, we just learned to take bits of substrate with us while travelling.

New comment by hamilyon2 in "Zitron: "Everyone Has Been Sold a Lie" on AI [video]"

hamilyon2 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:47:00 +0000

There is a famously counterintuitive conjecture about demand and supply named "Jevon's paradox". For compute it held so far.

New comment by hamilyon2 in "Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone"

hamilyon2 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:03:30 +0000

Incredible. Thank you for posting that. What software do you use for phone calls?

New comment by hamilyon2 in "ECC and DDR5"

hamilyon2 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:28:33 +0000

Does encrypted memory give ECC-like detection benefit, along with rowhammer protection, for cheaper cost (only additional computation), and 100% reliable?

New comment by hamilyon2 in "A graph that should be front-page news"

hamilyon2 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:52:23 +0000

Nobody tried planet-scale geo engineering before, as far as I understand the opinions on it's effectiveness vary.

New comment by hamilyon2 in "98% isn't much"

hamilyon2 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:27:41 +0000

2% of country's people working together is a successful revolution

PGM-index:range searches, deletes, updates using orders of magnitude less space

hamilyon2 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:51:50 +0000

Article URL: https://pgm.di.unipi.it/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48472942

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New plans to stop children taking, sharing or viewing nude images

hamilyon2 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:52:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-plans-to-stop-children-taking-sharing-or-viewing-nude-images

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462736

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by hamilyon2 in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

hamilyon2 — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:13:06 +0000

The latest moves from google are the damning smoking gun evidence that anti monopoly court ever needs. "Do this or else". Recaptcha, gmail, google suite, android, chrome, colab and even google play must be viable businesses on their own, separate from google ads machine. Gmail must start competing for users with other email providers. And, yes, recaptcha must pay its infrastructure cost in full only from recaptcha revenue. This is the good way to level playing field, silence all the critics and let air into the room.

New comment by hamilyon2 in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

hamilyon2 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:41:25 +0000

>Dolphin held a pleasant surprise: it could detect my iPhone when it was plugged in. This made it a snap to transfer files to and from my phone as the file manager granted full file access to the iPhone

Wait, what? Is this true? Since when?

New comment by hamilyon2 in "Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs"

hamilyon2 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:38:26 +0000

When NPU will become available in most systems, we will see learned indexes like in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.01208v1 on client side.

If file search indexes and such will be replaced by neural networks, this will be small but measurable improvement in battery life, speed and memory usage.

New comment by hamilyon2 in "Webb observes exoplanet that may have an exotic helium and carbon atmosphere"

hamilyon2 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:01:11 +0000

There are chemiseries and metabolisms out there beyond our wildest imaginations

New comment by hamilyon2 in "How much revenue is needed to justify the current AI spend?"

hamilyon2 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:00:32 +0000

1) 24/7 available super-competent personal assistant has tremendous value for any person who does something interesting or difficult and values personal time

2) llm-provided tax/legal advice alone was worth hundreds of euros for me

3) there is no easy way to capture all this value. I still think edge intelligence/autonomy has a way to pay for the rest of the party, because those will be physical things. People eagerly part with money for things. Governments and enterprises will maybe pay for cloud services, if the price will be right

New comment by hamilyon2 in "The email they shouldn't have read"

hamilyon2 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:50:10 +0000

>a horror story based on real events

So is it fiction? Details matter. If any of the details are not true, this makes story is waaay less interesting.

New comment by hamilyon2 in "'Block Everything' protests sweep across France, scores arrested"

hamilyon2 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:16:28 +0000

Chaos agents promote cooperation

PGM-index learned data structure with lookup, range, updates with OOM less space

hamilyon2 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:03:34 +0000

Article URL: https://pgm.di.unipi.it/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44646370

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by hamilyon2 in "LLM Inevitabilism"

hamilyon2 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 22:13:03 +0000

The optimistic scenario for current ai bubble: long careful deflation, one flop at a time.

The cautious scenario of llm usage in daily life: in 36 years, it is invisible and everywhere. Every device has a neural chip. It replaced untold trillions of years of work, reshaped knowledge and artistic work, robotics, became something as boring as email, TV, SAP, or power cable today. Barely anyone is excited. Society is poor, but not hopelessly so.

Humanity forgotten LLMs and is hyping gene engineering.

New comment by hamilyon2 in "You Are in a Box"

hamilyon2 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 05:41:41 +0000

Yes, interoperability, extensibility, composability and the tyranny of program author is a problem. JVM with runtime-loading of classes and it's once popular beans standard is one of closest approximations, known to me, of the most general "local" solution.

Yes, it's cumbersome and hacky and still limited. The beans idea lost popularity and mindshare.