Hacker News: kcb

New comment by kcb in "CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York"

kcb — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:04:17 +0000

Isn't the act of not offering something in NY = to not offering it nationwide?

New comment by kcb in "Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium"

kcb — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:37:22 +0000

Holistic...chooses one single state....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_regions_by_Huma... Guess France is a third world country too.

New comment by kcb in "Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2"

kcb — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:50:34 +0000

Open the weights.

New comment by kcb in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

kcb — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:20:41 +0000

If I recall most of the open weight models have provisions about large scale commercial hosting. So probably licensing issues.

New comment by kcb in "Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share"

kcb — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:10:26 +0000

> However, unlike Teslas, you can _also_ plug and charge them in other networks.

why?

New comment by kcb in "Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share"

kcb — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:52:29 +0000

Android Auto and Carplay are better than dealing with just crappy infotainment systems but they still don't make the overall software experience good. You end up with disjointed interface with functionality split between the automakers UI.

FSD is unmatched. Auto lane-keeping and adaptive cruise control don't provide the reactivity that FSD does even for straight highway driving.

Most objective reviews comparing a Model Y and Chinese EVs are far less conclusive than you propose.

New comment by kcb in "Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]"

kcb — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:20:23 +0000

You also need a place to put it. With liquid cooling and extremely dense power capability. Your typical colo or closet server room isn't going to cut it.

New comment by kcb in "Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%"

kcb — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:33:07 +0000

Terrible performance on $20,000 worth of GPUs.

New comment by kcb in "Nvidia DGX Spark as a daily driver"

kcb — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:45:10 +0000

The igpu is a tiny RDNA2 GPU. Pretty certain the 9950x cpu will outperform it in compute tasks.

New comment by kcb in "Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model"

kcb — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:34:12 +0000

Gemma 4 wouldn't really be a competitor to this. Gemma has the dense 31b model, but this has like 25x the total number of params.

New comment by kcb in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

kcb — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:46:34 +0000

Why? What unsuccessful game does Blizzard have?

New comment by kcb in "AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit"

kcb — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:00:55 +0000

Ability to run any OS is a pretty nice benefit versus the spark.

New comment by kcb in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

kcb — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 03:08:13 +0000

LLMs are still easily replaceable. If the SOTA frontier model provides meaningful impact for your critical business function, then worse case you flip the switch to the next most capable model.

New comment by kcb in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

kcb — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:07:28 +0000

You really think China doesn't have massive amounts of capital expenditure related to AI? They're actively bootstrapping an entire chip industry.... https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-prepares-295-billi...

New comment by kcb in "AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide"

kcb — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 04:40:30 +0000

No reason to use fiber on short runs like that. DAC cables are cheap and better in pretty much every way over short distances. You're probably thinking of RJ-45 NICs and SFP modules which are known to run pretty hot.

New comment by kcb in "DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]"

kcb — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:08:19 +0000

Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Super also shipped with MTP.

New comment by kcb in "DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]"

kcb — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:06:12 +0000

Google and Nvidia...

New comment by kcb in "DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]"

kcb — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:05:19 +0000

Yes, all the closed providers are probably doing this already. As well as open models like Gemma and Nemotron.

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.