Hacker News: kcb

New comment by kcb in "IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology"

kcb — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:30:25 +0000

The product here is the research and licensing the tech.

New comment by kcb in "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"

kcb — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:22:59 +0000

That's not it. They will keep the assets closed and under license. There will be no free version of the full game.

Not sure why we should encourage using open source as a vehicle to market and get free work building your fundamentals. Just to reap the profits yourself later.

New comment by kcb in "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"

kcb — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:21:33 +0000

It was. Not anymore though.

New comment by kcb in "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"

kcb — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:20:48 +0000

I think their plan is to make assets closed licensed. It's all pretty lame. Now any open source code contribution is packaged up and sold with someone else getting the check.

New comment by kcb in "Apple Foundation Models"

kcb — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:24:46 +0000

It's Apple, so it's some revolutionary big brained play, and not just yet another llm sdk.

New comment by kcb in "RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8"

kcb — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:56:12 +0000

With 2 Blackwells, would make sense to run NVFP4 quants

New comment by kcb in "Elon Musk Becomes First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading"

kcb — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:09:18 +0000

> In 2014 Tesla cars were endemic, you could see them everywhere

Tesla sells like 8x the number of cars in Norway today than they did in 2014.

New comment by kcb in "Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding"

kcb — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:35:11 +0000

I think Vulkan Video is just another api to access those hardware decoders. It's not going to bring support for codecs to hardware without the support.

New comment by kcb in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

kcb — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:53:04 +0000

The same chip that's been available in the DGX Spark for like 8 months now...why are we pretending like its the next big thing.

New comment by kcb in "ESP32-S31"

kcb — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:18:18 +0000

A real example https://github.com/OHF-Voice/micro-wake-word

New comment by kcb in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

kcb — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:03:14 +0000

This will likely have worse single threaded performance than recent Qualcomm CPUs.

New comment by kcb in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

kcb — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:25:12 +0000

So in the end, the government still needs a department that assesses properties to determine if the owner has undervalued it.

New comment by kcb in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

kcb — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:40:35 +0000

https://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/NVIDIA-R...

New comment by kcb in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

kcb — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:19:27 +0000

SRAM is still high bandwidth memory...it's literally the most space inefficient and expensive type of memory.

New comment by kcb in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

kcb — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:16:44 +0000

Any system mandated by the government will have a backdoor to deanonymize users. Nothing would convince me otherwise.

New comment by kcb in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

kcb — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:13:16 +0000

The point is metric shit-tons of SRAM is still large amounts of expensive memory.

New comment by kcb in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

kcb — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:17:24 +0000

There's no magic bullet for inference on cheap accelerators. Any accelerator will still require large amounts of high bandwidth memory.

New comment by kcb in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

kcb — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:11:34 +0000

Elon Musk has been failing any minute now since like what? 2015

New comment by kcb in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

kcb — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:44:53 +0000

This reads a lot like "the way I choose to live is the best and everyone else is sad." Anyone in a dense suburb is getting all the fresh food they want from a choice of 6 different grocery stores. And it's silly to complain about suburbs being crowded in comparison to cities.

New comment by kcb in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

kcb — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:08:26 +0000

Nonsense, Apple has on package memory and the primary reason for that is overall packaging and layout not performance