<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: kd913</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kd913</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:01:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kd913" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kd913 in "OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Always wondered why making something like a rust memory safe Firefox, Linux, vlc, ffmpeg or curl isn’t a benchmark for these LLMs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:27:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556420</link><dc:creator>kd913</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556420</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kd913 in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It means financial companies have been illogically pumping semiconductor companies the last 5 months despite the profits, royalties and supply chain being entire worse than a year ago.<p>They pumped ai adjacent stocks to draw retail in, to provide liquidity now when they are in theory forced to purchase SpaceX.<p>Effectively getting people to buy semi-ai stocks at a premium to fund their forced purchase for SpaceX.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:01:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424690</link><dc:creator>kd913</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424690</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kd913 in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My theory is hedgies and investment banks using semi and ai hype as a liquidity bridge to drop into SpaceX which happens next week.<p>Arm and AMD pumped to insane levels on basically nothing.<p>What proof is there for your narrative versus mine?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:13:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423366</link><dc:creator>kd913</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423366</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kd913 in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How often do you have to do fast transfers from computer to computer?<p>Would argue for those purposes 40gig thunderbolt makes a lot more sense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:38:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903941</link><dc:creator>kd913</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903941</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kd913 in "Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If this is true, I feel teh wifi alliance have a tonne to answer for the ewaste they generate.<p>WPA3 moved from symmetric AES to ECDH which is vulnerable to Quantum. Gonna be a tonne of IOT inverters waste.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:12:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839135</link><dc:creator>kd913</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839135</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kd913 in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple is about to deprecate the iphone 11/SE 2020 version. Am gonna repurpose them as webcams given the 12MP camera put in there is arguably better than the brand new ones they put on new macs.<p>The phone now has a limited lifespan though because of this prior stupidity where eventually am gonna get into spicy pillow territory. At that point the phone prematurely dies.<p>We are going into a period where we are throwing away devices with 12mp+ cameras, and processors arguably faster than most desktops. It was arguable when the phones were old and legacy, but at this point the cameras on there are stupidly good.<p>We need these phones to be repurposed for a second life and actually capture their manufacture energy costs.<p>Frankly, if Apple allowed old iphones to be used for server usage, it is kind of crazy how efficient per dollar that would be.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:18:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837487</link><dc:creator>kd913</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837487</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kd913 in "Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ARM is a bloody financial hand grenade.<p>10% of the stock is floated.<p>90% of the stock is owned by Masa who used it for collateral for his 18 billion loan for Stargate. THat is against 33 banks who have a strong incentivise to dump in a margin call situation.<p>Their revenues are circular for the last 4 years, with 30% growth purely coming from Softbank shuffling their own money.<p>They are gonna be the canary in the coal mine for when the AI bubble implodes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:40:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034808</link><dc:creator>kd913</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034808</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kd913 in "U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The US job stats were revised down for 2025 to 181k, but somehow the Country gained 130k in January?<p>Is anyone looking at this and the CBO figures and not just realising the government is straight lying about the figures?<p>Gonna believe Powell and Waller on this one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:04:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978467</link><dc:creator>kd913</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978467</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kd913 in "xAI joins SpaceX"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is not a correct assumption. <a href="https://ig.ft.com/ai-power/" rel="nofollow">https://ig.ft.com/ai-power/</a><p>Reports in North Virginia and Texas are stating existing data centres are being capped 30% to prevent residential brownouts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:37:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872312</link><dc:creator>kd913</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872312</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kd913 in "xAI joins SpaceX"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Okay but even in that case the hardware suffers significant under utilisation which massively hits RoI. (I think I read they only achieve 30% utilisation in this scenario)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:36:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46871484</link><dc:creator>kd913</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46871484</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46871484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kd913 in "xAI joins SpaceX"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They worked out because there was an excess of energy and water to handle it.<p>We will see how the maths works out given there is 19 GW shortage of power. 7 year lead time for Siemens power turbines, 3-5 years for transformers.<p>Raw commodities are shooting up, not enough education to cover nuclear and SMEs and the RoI is already underwater.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:10:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46870537</link><dc:creator>kd913</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46870537</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46870537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kd913 in "Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Buy gold.<p>Current US debt to gdp is 124%, 38.6 trillion.
Japan too at 230-240%.<p>Bond markets in both are looking seriously unhealthy (Japan going via a Liz Truss moment at present).<p>If the AI bubble falls over, the US government is going to have to print 5 trillion to cover the bubble at least. The only option there is inflate away anyone holding cash.<p>If hte AI succeeds and people are replaced, the US government faces a massive fiscal cliff of a loss of tax receipts. They won't be able to service the debt and again will be forced to inflate away.<p>To service current debt projects, AI growth needs to return some 3.2-3.5%, it is currently 0.5%.<p>Bonds, equities, USD, and housing are all risk assets right now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:50:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46869808</link><dc:creator>kd913</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46869808</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46869808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kd913 in "Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think ARM is the one to watch. Softbank only has a 10% float of their stock.<p>90% of their stock is being used as collateral against 33 banks for 18 billion stargate loan to OpenAI.<p>Given Japanese bond markets right now, 30% circular financing, if the AI narrative falls, ARM is gonna blow up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:48:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46869784</link><dc:creator>kd913</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46869784</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46869784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kd913 in "Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A 5090 gaming card is a different beast to the 80gb ai cards. That one was 40k usd so for renting that to hit 1.50 dollar per hour is interesting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:47:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46140643</link><dc:creator>kd913</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46140643</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46140643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kd913 in "Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am still a little skeptical about utilisation rates. If demand is so extreme, wouldn't we see rental prices for H100/A100 prices go up or maintain? Wouldn't the cost for such a gpu still be high (you can get em 3k used).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:10:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46139415</link><dc:creator>kd913</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46139415</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46139415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kd913 in "GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The defacto install of github CLI on ubuntu systems appears to be snap which is owned by some random dude...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:39:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46081450</link><dc:creator>kd913</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46081450</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46081450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kd913 in "Fast UDP I/O for Firefox in Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is AMD's onload <a href="https://github.com/Xilinx-CNS/onload" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Xilinx-CNS/onload</a>. It works with Solarflare, Xilinx but also generic NIC support via AF_XDP.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2025 13:19:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45395497</link><dc:creator>kd913</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45395497</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45395497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kd913 in "I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The cpu is what a 9950x whilst paired with one of the cheapest asus motherboards with underpowered VRMs according to games nexus, hardware unboxed.<p>The cooler was under the rated tdp of the platform. That and it lasted 6 months and so far seemed the only case of it falling over like it did.<p>Yea am leaning on it being user error.</p>
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<p>General consensus on that case seems to be they picked a budget motherboard and skimped on the cooler.</p>
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<p>Am curious if the problem impacts m4 given it came out after this was released and disclosed.<p>That and it moved to Arm’s 9.2 instructions.</p>
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