Hacker News: jamesblonde

Reaching 100M key lookups per second with REST API and Python clients

jamesblonde — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:46:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rondb.com/post/the-process-to-reach-100m-key-lookups-per-second-with-rest-api-and-python-clients

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49710003

Points: 1

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New comment by jamesblonde in "118M Queries per Second on Neki"

jamesblonde — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:04:27 +0000

In 2015, MySQL Cluster (NDB Cluster engine) benchmarked 200m transactions/second on commodity hardware [ref]. It was read-committed transactions, not snapshot isolation, but still impressive. NDB has now become RonDB, but is still based on a non-blocking 2-phase commit protocol and is GPL-v2.

RonDB now has support for infiniband, so ought to blow through the 1B ops/sec. For reference, that is 1 GHz of transactions/sec.

[ref] https://www.slideshare.net/frazerClement/200-million-qps-on-...

New comment by jamesblonde in "A Preview of DuckDB v2.0"

jamesblonde — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:47:57 +0000

DuckDB's sweet spot is for 'smallish' lakehouses. So, ingestion should not be via duckdb, but rather something like Python/DLTHub for small scale or Spark for large scale or Kafka/Debezium/Flink for streaming data.

New comment by jamesblonde in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

jamesblonde — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:46:40 +0000

For the full weights, unoptimized on vLLM with 2 Nvidia 6000 RTX 48GBs connected by NVLink, i only get 14 tokens/sec with open-code. For batched operations, it climbs to 55 tokens/sec.

For FP8, on a single Nvidia 6000 RTX 48GB, i get 13 tokens/sec on a single GPU and 46 tokens/sec batched.

The Clanker Constitution

jamesblonde — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:53:32 +0000

Article URL: https://wesmckinney.com/blog/clanker-constitution/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244512

Points: 4

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New comment by jamesblonde in "CATL Secures 2GWh Sodium-Ion Storage Deal with Solarpro for Eastern Europe"

jamesblonde — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:48:55 +0000

Sodium-ion batteries are only starting, their price floor in a few years will make solar energy unmatched in price for energy production.

This is the first proof point that the technology is viable - a customer is stumping up big cash.

CATL Secures 2GWh Sodium-Ion Storage Deal with Solarpro for Eastern Europe

jamesblonde — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:43:02 +0000

Article URL: https://fuelcellsworks.com/2026/07/21/battery/catl-secures-2gwh-sodium-ion-storage-deal-with-solarpro-for-eastern-europe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219960

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Europe Wants to Break Free from American and Chinese Technology. But How?

jamesblonde — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:53:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/europe/digital-autonomy-ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165557

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Do Context Files Help Coding Agents? A Two-Agent Ablation Study on Real Repos

jamesblonde — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:23:08 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27250

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164341

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

The next 50 years: humanity, AI, power – Yuval Noah Harari [video]

jamesblonde — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:35:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V_ed5fuexA[Video]

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49148064

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by jamesblonde in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

jamesblonde — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:07:18 +0000

Fifa is a reflection of the world. All members (nations) get a vote. Most countries are corrupt. Thank go there is still a bastion of democracy/fairness left in Uefa.

Uefa to boycott FIFA competitions if Infantino's proposal goes through

jamesblonde — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:05:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c5y67zrrdddo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49114264

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

The State of the Open Frontier

jamesblonde — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:41:02 +0000

Article URL: https://maximelabonne.substack.com/p/the-state-of-the-open-frontier

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49082938

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The bitter lesson for skills and coding agents

jamesblonde — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:05:37 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/jim_dowling/status/2081455720336179313

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49061291

Points: 1

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Earth-Like LHS 1140B May Feature the First Atmosphere Found on Exoplanet

jamesblonde — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:31:10 +0000

Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/earth-like-lhs-1140b-may-feature-the-first-atmosphere-found-on-exoplanet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017638

Points: 2

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AWS Sagemaker discontinue support for model/data quality monitoring

jamesblonde — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:29:15 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/model-monitor.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48992838

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jamesblonde in "Netflix Simplified Batch Compute with Kueue"

jamesblonde — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:15:32 +0000

Yes, coding agents have reduced the skills/knowledge required to operate workloads on virtualized hardware. K8S and its ecosystem has changed so that it now provides 90% of what you need from the public cloud providers. Big changes that make 8-15X savings by running your own workloads. I think it will be the big players who move first, as they have most to save and have the resources to make it happen.

We used coding agents to add RonSQL support to RonDB

jamesblonde — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:51:04 +0000

Article URL: http://mikaelronstrom.blogspot.com/2026/06/experiences-from-new-wave-of-ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738304

Points: 2

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New comment by jamesblonde in "Netflix Simplified Batch Compute with Kueue"

jamesblonde — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:35:18 +0000

It certainly feels like Netflix is now a k8s shop. And it probably only a matter of time until they start repatriating workloads to optimize for costs. Then the world will sit up and notice.

New comment by jamesblonde in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

jamesblonde — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:23:46 +0000

It took me 5 years to get the boat - a 22ft daycruiser with toilet. That was 15 years ago, haven't looked back. Got a daycruiser from the UK. Drove there, bought a trailer there, drove it home. Arbitrage during the financial crisis - half the price of the same boat in Sweden at the time.