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New comment by hogu in "Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?"

hogu — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:21:18 +0000

My personal opinion is that outbound is dead, especially if developers are your audience. We are focused on social media -> inbound

New comment by hogu in "[dead]"

hogu — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:46:30 +0000

We (Saturn Cloud) published a write-up on the architecture and setup process for running our platform on Nebius. The goal was to make it straightforward for teams to use GPU-backed environments without having to spend much time dealing with Kubernetes operations.

The article walks through how resources are provisioned, how environments are created, how GPU jobs are scheduled, and what abstractions we use to keep the system flexible while hiding most of the complexity of the underlying cluster. It also includes some of the design decisions we made along the way and a few of the tradeoffs we ran into.

Since we built the system, I’m happy to answer questions about the architecture, decisions, limitations, or areas we are still iterating on.

New comment by hogu in "Should you ditch Spark for DuckDB or Polars?"

hogu — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 01:31:34 +0000

Clickhouse also has managed service (https://clickhouse.com/)

A dev's thoughts on developer productivity (2022)

hogu — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 20:16:58 +0000

Article URL: https://sourcegraph.com/blog/developer-productivity-thoughts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40814612

Points: 95

# Comments: 53

New comment by hogu in "System76 Thelio Major Powered by AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series Performance"

hogu — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 17:18:28 +0000

Their support is really good to. I've never had customer support help me sort out linux kernel issues before.

We get all developers at our company System 76 linux laptops as their primary dev machine (Lemur Pros with 40 GB of ram)

Cancer Is Striking More Young People, and Doctors Are Alarmed and Baffled

hogu — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 00:41:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/cancer-is-striking-more-young-people-and-doctors-are-alarmed-and-baffled/ar-AA1mOBuf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38976159

Points: 23

# Comments: 17

New comment by hogu in "The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit"

hogu — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 18:39:55 +0000

idea: search engine that only indexes pages that don't have advertisements

VC Firm OpenView Collapsed Because Two Senior Leaders Quit

hogu — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 04:25:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2023/12/06/openview-collapse-two-senior-leaders-mackey-craven-ricky-pelletier-quit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38705446

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by hogu in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

hogu — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 03:03:45 +0000

What if the mapping between your neck angle and screen angle wasn’t 1-1?

New comment by hogu in "Finetuning LLMs on a Single GPU Using Gradient Accumulation"

hogu — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:38:15 +0000

This won’t help if your model won’t fit on a single gpu right? So I’m this example your model has to be under 16gb if you memory?

New comment by hogu in "50% of new NPM packages are spam"

hogu — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:29:29 +0000

Why doesn’t this happen with GitHub? GitHub also has very good domain authority.

New comment by hogu in "Why is it so hard to give Google money?"

hogu — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 13:45:44 +0000

This has not been true for years. My google ads account was blocked, I had several google engineer friends create internal tickets for my case, and none of it worked out.

New comment by hogu in "Unboxing a $100 Chromebook"

hogu — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 04:29:08 +0000

Can anyone comment on external displays? The last time I tried this was about 5 years ago. I had a Samsung chromebook which was a great little device, but the font rendering connected to an external display was too terrible.

New comment by hogu in "Google has banned the training of deepfakes in Colab"

hogu — Mon, 30 May 2022 18:38:08 +0000

At saturncloud.io we focus on helping data science teams move to the cloud (either in your AWS account or ours). One component we provide is hosted jupyter lab (along with SSH access so you can use PyCharm/VSCode or anything else.

Hobbyists often use our free tier (30 hrs of GPU per month) or pay for more compute ($0.69/hour) to do a variety of GPU workloads.

We do prohibit things like DDOS attacks and cryptocurrency mining.

New comment by hogu in "Be in a field where tech is the limit"

hogu — Fri, 07 May 2021 23:47:43 +0000

Algorithmic trading and quant finance count as pure finance in my book

New comment by hogu in "Why Databricks Is Winning"

hogu — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 03:11:57 +0000

The area that we've seen Dask shine the most is ML. This is because the Python ecosystem has more advantages when it comes to ML and there is better GPU support.

https://towardsdatascience.com/supercharging-hyperparameter-...

https://towardsdatascience.com/random-forest-on-gpus-2000x-f...

Disclaimer: We produced those benchmark. I'm a founder of Saturn (https://www.saturncloud.io/) and we focus on providing Databricks-like capabilities with Jupyter + Dask + Prefect, so I definitely have strong feelings in this area.

Docker hub download rate limit

hogu — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:17:02 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/download-rate-limit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24934434

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

A wargame designer defines our four possible civil wars

hogu — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 20:42:17 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@mikeselinker/a-wargame-designer-describes-our-four-possible-civil-wars-cf5b2e980099

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24571759

Points: 13

# Comments: 6

New comment by hogu in "The Consortium for Python Data API Standards"

hogu — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 14:24:15 +0000

For some context on why this matters, if you're writing a library (like sklearn) and you want to support multiple array types, you might need to do stuff like

  if isinstance(x, ndarray):
      ...
  elif isinstance(x, other_array):
      ...

In the most ideal case having the standard means that scientific libraries can support all conforming implementations by default. Then sklearn would automatically support cupy/numpy/dask/jax/mxnet/pytorch/tensorflow arrays. Multiply that by all the scientific libraries and the effect is pretty profound.

New comment by hogu in "The Consortium for Python Data API Standards"

hogu — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 02:37:14 +0000

Just to set some context - this is being driven by Quansight which is led by Travis Oliphant, who united Numeric and Numarray to create NumPy many years ago which lead to the entire python data science ecosystem as we know it. Yes it's ambitious, and they may not succeed, but it's not their first barbecue. Unifying communities and APIs is something they're good at.