Hacker News: irfn

New comment by irfn in "GitHut – Programming Languages and GitHub (2014)"

irfn — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 03:49:08 +0000

1995 was a busy year in new programming languages!

New comment by irfn in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

irfn — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 06:03:20 +0000

Indeed, I have seen Ransomware threats with 3 to 4 weeks timelines.

New comment by irfn in "Show HN: RelayBeam – A new way of messaging using Ports"

irfn — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 02:52:20 +0000

my thoughts exactly. too much focus on "Ports" while not being able to differentiate in any way

New comment by irfn in "Show HN: Bodhi App – Run Open Source/Weights HuggingFace LLMs Locally"

irfn — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 07:44:20 +0000

Is there a performance comparison with Ollama. Do both use llama.cpp for serving?

New comment by irfn in "Kagi search reached 20k paying members"

irfn — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 01:43:37 +0000

The question to about the obvious quality drop for Google is, Is this intentional? Perhaps some cost saving or ROI measures? Or the motive always was to just train their AI and we just helped with that?

New comment by irfn in "Man uses flowpilot on Redmi Note 9 pro to drive Alto K10 in India"

irfn — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 12:48:10 +0000

Feels sped up. the car music system seems to show faster speed of leds and the speedometer is also stuck in an odd angle.

Great effort nonetheless

New comment by irfn in "We Didn't Sell GitHub to Google"

irfn — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 15:18:30 +0000

Also Hanlon's razor

New comment by irfn in "We Didn't Sell GitHub to Google"

irfn — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 15:16:58 +0000

>Defunkt makes it sound like it was a choice and they were a steward ... bs. If Google had a better offer, it would have been done.

Exactly! Total BS!

There are however some things that would motivate many founders to turn down their(Google) offers.

- Biggest issue with Google Acquisitions. They want the business and not the tech. They want to rewrite the tech riding their high horse. - They often wont offer full time roles to employees of acquired companies and would keep them on contract positions pending "interview" for full time.

New comment by irfn in "Gren – an Elm fork"

irfn — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 02:32:26 +0000

100% Agree.

New comment by irfn in "Ask HN: My GPT project has become a local hit but I can't afford the bill"

irfn — Sun, 28 May 2023 15:32:32 +0000

Not sure what you run this on and why its $50/day but sounds like a lot.

Convert your server cost to a pay as you go model. You are currently paying even for time when your server is idle. Containerise your app and run on something like AWS Lambda which has a pay for what you use model.

- s3 is cheap for storing your model data and as long as you are just reading that should be fine.

- AWS Lambda has 1 million free invocations per month in free tier.

- Post that you pay $0.60 per 1 million requests

- AWS stack is just an example, you can easily use GCP Cloud run or any other equivalent service.

New comment by irfn in "The age of cargo cult Agile must end"

irfn — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 09:24:44 +0000

and dont forget that feedback means measuring data accurately without biases.

New comment by irfn in "Reviving proteins from billions of years ago to fight diseases in human cells"

irfn — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 06:36:59 +0000

Exactly!

New comment by irfn in "Can anyone recommend event-driven architecture book?"

irfn — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 01:30:33 +0000

This is indeed really a nice book. The accompanying website https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com is very useful as well.

New comment by irfn in "AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer breaks the exascale barrier"

irfn — Tue, 31 May 2022 17:53:56 +0000

In my experience it's very hard to write code for parallel compute workloads and I am guessing that half of the code written would be creating abstractions about that.

New comment by irfn in "AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer breaks the exascale barrier"

irfn — Tue, 31 May 2022 17:00:42 +0000

I am curious as to what class of problems are being solved on these super computers. Also whats the abstraction of computation here. Is it a container :-t :-t :-t

New comment by irfn in "FTC files new antitrust complaint against Facebook"

irfn — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 16:58:45 +0000

Who even has that much money to buy them?

New comment by irfn in "How I read books: a guide on how to learn"

irfn — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 13:57:53 +0000

He has really not completed a single book on that list. I can see a bunch which are "Currently reading" but none are complete. and we are getting advice based on that.Maybe I'll be look to read his blog after some reading has been done.

New comment by irfn in "Effects of Time-Restricted Eating on Weight Loss and Other Metabolic Parameters"

irfn — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 01:56:50 +0000

I am Confused about why Conflict of interest is not being mentioned if Lead Researcher is a Clinical Consultant(https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylan-lowe-phd/) at https://getkeyto.com I am sure Time restricted eating would compete with Keto Diets and may have an impact on the business for such companies.

New comment by irfn in "Porting LLVM, clang et al. to GNU/Hurd"

irfn — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:05:29 +0000

and now they tout it as a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_kernel

New comment by irfn in "Porting LLVM, clang et al. to GNU/Hurd"

irfn — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:49:51 +0000

Gentoo is also listed: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running/distrib.html