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New comment by jononor in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"

jononor — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:20:06 +0000

Super info, thanks!

New comment by jononor in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"

jononor — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:20:58 +0000

Where/how did you buy your DDR4 from SZ? Interested in doing the same, but want reputable source/supplier.

New comment by jononor in "Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%?)"

jononor — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:58:19 +0000

That is not at all the intention of the ARC team. By ARC teams definition, passing any single ARC-AGI benchmark does not mean that AGI has been achieved. Instead, AGI would be considered achieved when we are no longer able to come up with new benchmarks that the AI systems do not immediately do well on.

New comment by jononor in "Does Postgres Scale?"

jononor — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:38:52 +0000

Partitioning is not all that expensive. It is definitely worth testing for your specific workload. We use TimescaleDB, which relies heavily on postgres partitions, have a bit under 100 million rows in our active set (last 90 days), across 120 partitions (device*time), and it works nicely. Over 100 partitions is probably a bit many for this workload, but since it works OK we have not changed it.

New comment by jononor in "AI's biggest critic has lost the plot"

jononor — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:45:29 +0000

Network effect means it will be a huge and risky undertaking, and one needs to solve the bootstrap problem. But the costs of video delivery means that one would have to burn serious cash in the meantime. So it works in tandem.

TikTok kinda did manage to make a dent though - I suspect it substitutes for YouTube in some cases (though not all).

New comment by jononor in "AI's biggest critic has lost the plot"

jononor — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:19:40 +0000

YouTubes biggest moat the last 10 years is probably more that all the viewers and creators are already there. Any competitor has a huge disadvantage - creators are not interested in a place without viewers, and viewers not in a place without creators/content.

New comment by jononor in "Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports"

jononor — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:40:05 +0000

With enough tokens, all bugs are shallow? :D

New comment by jononor in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

jononor — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:18:58 +0000

Yep that is annoying. There are USB-C magnetic charge adapters. It will prevent shit from getting into the slot, and easy to charge magsafe style. And of course you can easily take it out temporarily to use a standard USBC charging cable.

New comment by jononor in "Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI"

jononor — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:11:27 +0000

Time to migrate off Atlassian, and ban it for any use in the company. You cannot just help yourself to customer data like that. The data is not yours, never was, and never will be. Pay for a service that blatantly rips of our company IP? Nope.

Thanks for showing your colors so clearly Atlassian. Good riddance.

New comment by jononor in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

jononor — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:23:12 +0000

A decent amount of software developers and gamers do spend 3000 USD on a PC. That kind of hardware is going go get more and more capable over time wrt genAI models.

Of course there will always be a gap to frontier closed hosted models. It is not an either or proposition.

New comment by jononor in "Aegis – open-source FPGA silicon"

jononor — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:59:34 +0000

You are the one that claimed the prices of those shuttle services were lower than that of WaferSpace. 7k USD for 1k chips of 20mm2 at 180nm. Is it not the case?

New comment by jononor in "Aegis – open-source FPGA silicon"

jononor — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:20:18 +0000

I went though the list of prices at Europractice. Waferspace is 7000 USD for 1k of 20mm2. That is a per mm2 price of 350 USD. I could not find any offering at Europrice that matches that?

New comment by jononor in "Aegis – open-source FPGA silicon"

jononor — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:11:32 +0000

Interesting! Which EDA tool must I use for those, and what is the price of that? Will these services accept a single run of 1k?

New comment by jononor in "Aegis – open-source FPGA silicon"

jononor — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:28:51 +0000

What are your thoughts on including a RISC-V hardcore along with the gates? Because for almost all projects I can imagine using FPGA for, I would want a microcontroller also. This might however be slightly colored by me being a software/firmware first type of electronics engineer. Thinking especially for the smaller gate counts, like under 10k - because there a soft CPU takes up very precious resources.

New comment by jononor in "Aegis – open-source FPGA silicon"

jononor — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:56:55 +0000

X-ray would be the traditional approach, though quite expensive. IRIS by bunnie is another approach that aims to bring cost way down. Ref https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/iris-infra-red-in-si...

New comment by jononor in "Aegis – open-source FPGA silicon"

jononor — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:54:46 +0000

Nice specs! Looking forward to seeing how this and the other projects on Waferspace goes. Being able to produce 1k chips at a reasonable price will hopefully do wonders for open hardware / open silicon.

New comment by jononor in "Mistral secures $830M in debt financing to fund AI data center"

jononor — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:51:23 +0000

Glad to see this. At least there is one player in Europe which does a full vertical integration around LLM/AI - from datacenter to LLM models and applications (Mistral Vibe). On the data center part Europe seems to be doing OK, and also ok on applications. It would be nice to see more players focusing on the LLM model building - though it legitimately seems like a very tough (maybe even bad) business to be in.

New comment by jononor in "Vitalik Buterin – "My self-sovereign / local / private / secure LLM setup""

jononor — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:02:18 +0000

Have been playing with Qwen3.5 35B. Runs OK nicely on a RTX5060Ti, though I would have liked to have a bit higher thoughput (a 5080/5090 would do). It is seemingly close-but-not-quite-there for code generation / agentic coding. So I am actually quite hopeful that in a few years time, using local LLM models will be quite feasible.

New comment by jononor in "BIO: The Bao I/O Coprocessor"

jononor — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:21:51 +0000

Very much looking forward to play with the BIO functionality on the Baochips that I have ordered. Thanks for the nice write up! It is fascinating to see how widely applicable the "just throw a RISC-V core or 4 in there" design pattern is. The wide range of CPU designs that are standardized, the number oc mature open source implementations, and the lack of royalty fees, and the ready-to-run programming toolchains really drives this to a new level. And CPUs are small in die area anyway compared to SRAM! Was cool to see on the RPI2350 how they just threw in another two RISC-V cores next to the ARMs.

For these reasons specified above, I think that this trend will continue. For example, in my specialization of edge machine learning, we are seeing MEMS sensors that integrate user programmable DSP+ML+CPU right there on the sensor chip.

New comment by jononor in "Bayesian statistics for confused data scientists"

jononor — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:26:32 +0000

Highly recommend Statistical Rethinking for anyone looking for practical/applied/intuitive approach to Bayesian Statistics. For example the 2023 lecture series: https://youtu.be/FdnMWdICdRs?is=KycmwPL-cn8clOK5