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New comment by herpderperator in "How fast is N tokens per second really?"

herpderperator — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:06:07 +0000

The visualiser seems to be quite naive with what it defines as a token. I don't think a token is an entire word as often as the demo shows, and when it gets to the `def estimate_tokens` method, the entire `# Rough heuristic: ~1 token per 4 chars of English` comment is printed all at once as one token, which is certainly not accurate.

This is not a realistic replay of what a common LLM might actually print out - it's entirely fabricated. But for the purpose of estimating the feel of tokens per second, I suppose it's good enough.

New comment by herpderperator in "When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing"

herpderperator — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:48:36 +0000

If you eliminate juniors over the next few years, there will be no seniors for the future when the current seniors retire.

Cerebras S-1

herpderperator — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:42:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2021728/000162828026025762/cerebras-sx1april2026.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810357

Points: 40

# Comments: 9

New comment by herpderperator in "Distributed DuckDB Instance"

herpderperator — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:31:25 +0000

Does this help with DuckDB concurrency? My main gripe with DuckDB is that you can't write to it from multiple processes at the same time. If you open the database in write mode with one process, you cannot modify it at all from another process without the first process completely releasing it. In fact, you cannot even read from it from another process in this scenario.

So if you typically use a file-backed DuckDB database in one process and want to quickly modify something in that database using the DuckDB CLI (like you might connect SequelPro or DBeaver to make changes to a DB while your main application is 'using' it), then it complains that it's locked by another process and doesn't let you connect to it at all.

This is unlike SQLite, which supports and handles this in a thread-safe manner out of the box. I know it's DuckDB's explicit design decision[0], but it would be amazing if DuckDB could behave more like SQLite when it comes to this sort of thing. DuckDB has incredible quality-of-life improvements with many extra types and functions supported, not to mention all the SQL dialect enhancements allowing you to type much more concise SQL (they call it "Friendly SQL"), which executes super efficiently too.

[0] https://duckdb.org/docs/current/connect/concurrency

New comment by herpderperator in "Show HN: I built a navigation app that displays weather along the route"

herpderperator — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:15:44 +0000

Nice app! I see that the page title says "client" and there's the Vite favicon still, which you might want to fix :)

I also think having a dropdown for the address search is somewhat expected these days, but is lacking here. That might be on purpose or due to a technical limitation, but just thought I'd mention.

Disney cancels $1B OpenAI partnership amid Sora shutdown plans

herpderperator — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:00:32 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/the-end-of-sora-also-means-the-end-of-disneys-1-billion-openai-investment/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47526503

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

Volume in stock and oil futures surged 15 min before Trump's market-turning post

herpderperator — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:13:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/23/volume-in-stock-and-oil-futures-surged-minutes-before-trumps-market-turning-post.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493857

Points: 30

# Comments: 11

New comment by herpderperator in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

herpderperator — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:17:16 +0000

This sounds like swap needing to be swapped in and then released. Check your memory usage.

New comment by herpderperator in "NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut"

herpderperator — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:39:03 +0000

If those other applications use their own local GPS clocks, what is the significance of NIST (and the 5μs inaccuracy) in their scenario?

New comment by herpderperator in "$1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux"

herpderperator — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 06:12:27 +0000

Can someone explain exactly what's happening here? https://github.com/nadimkobeissi/16iax10h-linux-sound-saga/i...

It seems like there's a lot of personal information being asked for / thrown around... including a debit/credit card number?

Is there no better way to handle the bounty payment?

New comment by herpderperator in "SpaceX disables 2,500 Starlink terminals allegedly used by Asian scam centers"

herpderperator — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:58:18 +0000

I'm aware that the public IP changes when a phone (on which one hardly has much control over how things run anyway), switches from cellular to a WiFI network.

Your comments are more practical (and maybe aimed at a layman's use of Starlink) but I am talking about the theory of Starlink supposedly interrupting a perfectly-working connection in order to change your IP, which interrupts everything, by design of TCP/conntrack. Whether that operation is fatal or not due to retries or whatever else is not my point at all.

Also, ISPs at home don't randomly disconnect you to give you a new IP. They may give you a new IP when you disconnect and reconnect for other reasons, but they should never dump your connection on purpose just to give you a new IP for no reason. That's not good design at all, hence the question about how Starlink handles wanting to give you a new IP.

New comment by herpderperator in "SpaceX disables 2,500 Starlink terminals allegedly used by Asian scam centers"

herpderperator — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:28:56 +0000

That would cause your active connections to break because the source IP changed entirely. Are you sure the IP changes abruptly, or they keep it for as long as the session is live? Though keeping the original IP would mean that, for example, if you are sailing around the world, you'd start getting worse and worse latency as all your data continues going to the original ground station which may be on the other side of the world at that point.

An interesting problem - I wonder what they truly do here. I suppose people expect interruptions with Starlink so doing an IP swap wouldn't be all that different to losing service due to obstruction for a few minutes.

New comment by herpderperator in "Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite"

herpderperator — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 22:36:43 +0000

Or, you know, just Gemini 2.6 Flash. I don't recall the 2.5 version having a date associated with it when it came out, though maybe they are using dates now. In marketing, at least, it's always known as Gemini 2.5 Flash/Pro.

New comment by herpderperator in "Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite"

herpderperator — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 22:22:17 +0000

Serious question: If it's an improved 2.5 model, why don't they call it version 2.6? Seems annoying to have to remember if you're using the old 2.5 or the new 2.5. Kind of like when Apple released the third-gen iPad many years ago and simply called it the "new iPad" without a number.

New comment by herpderperator in "Fuck up my site – Turn any website into beautiful chaos"

herpderperator — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 03:30:48 +0000

Reminds me of Dragon Drop... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCu1G2rxj5c

Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10B

herpderperator — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:34:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/21/google-scores-six-year-meta-cloud-deal-worth-over-10-billion.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44979855

Points: 111

# Comments: 34

New comment by herpderperator in "Pixel 10 Phones"

herpderperator — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 22:09:06 +0000

Have they fixed the ability to easily transfer your existing Android data to the new Android phone? I find that every time I upgrade, despite choosing the options to transfer apps/settings, that 90% of the apps I open just greet me with the login screen and I have to set everything up completely from scratch. I remember maybe a handful of apps, I think one was Uber, that were able to transfer everything including the login session. That was truly magic. That's how it should be for all apps. I understand banks might have special security requirements and I already know for Google Wallet, your cards need to be reactivated even if they transfer over, but most apps are not banks.

New comment by herpderperator in "AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong"

herpderperator — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:24:58 +0000

For the sake of understanding, can you explain why putting CloudFront in front of the buckets helps?

New comment by herpderperator in "GCP Outage"

herpderperator — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 23:15:57 +0000

When Google said GCP is "down", did it affect entire availability zones within a region? For people who designed redundant infrastructure, did your backup AZs/regions keep your systems online?

New comment by herpderperator in "How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes"

herpderperator — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:28:46 +0000

If the requirement is to check uniqueness, what assumptions could possibly cause a bug? In this case, why does it matter if the uniqueness is tested with a nested for loop or with a map? There are many identical ways to check uniqueness, some being faster than others.