Hacker News: kevmo314

New comment by kevmo314 in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

kevmo314 — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:39:07 +0000

That makes no sense. If that were really true then they could’ve saved a bundle and did that same thing years ago before AI.

New comment by kevmo314 in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

kevmo314 — Thu, 07 May 2026 04:11:36 +0000

Yes many people do say the same about AWS RDS.

New comment by kevmo314 in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

kevmo314 — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:13:50 +0000

People don’t post about their daily 9-5 on instagram either.

New comment by kevmo314 in "Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files"

kevmo314 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:30:59 +0000

Wild that apps used to be completely local, no accounts, no uploads, and we're back to that as a value prop.

New comment by kevmo314 in "4-bit floating point FP4"

kevmo314 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:23:01 +0000

Multiplication at this resolution is already implemented via lookup tables.

New comment by kevmo314 in "Rust Threads on the GPU"

kevmo314 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:53:34 +0000

Are you writing this from the future? The latest gen nvidia gpus sit at around 2-2.5 GHz and the latest gen amd cpus sit 4-5 GHz.

That matches my personal experience too, writing naive cuda code that doesn’t take advantage of parallelism is roughly half the speed of running it on cpu.

New comment by kevmo314 in "The secrets of the Shinkansen"

kevmo314 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:20:24 +0000

Ahh interesting. I wonder why they (non-Apple) did that?

New comment by kevmo314 in "Rust Threads on the GPU"

kevmo314 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:44:08 +0000

> a block of Rust threads that are properly programmed to take advantage of the vector processing by avoiding divergence

Sure, if you have that then of course it would be fast. But that’s not what this library is proposing.

New comment by kevmo314 in "The secrets of the Shinkansen"

kevmo314 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:48:05 +0000

Is this an Android thing? My US iOS works fine with digital Suica.

New comment by kevmo314 in "Rust Threads on the GPU"

kevmo314 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:34:18 +0000

Isn't this turning a GPU into a slower CPU? It's not like CPUs are slow, in fact they're quite a bit faster than any single GPU thread. If code is written in a GPU unaware way it's not going to take advantage of the reasons for being on the GPU in the first place.

United's Unique Hub in the Pacific

kevmo314 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:42:27 +0000

Article URL: http://www.flightsinasia.com/update/article/Uniteds-Unique-Hub-in-the-Pacific/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730532

Points: 1

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New comment by kevmo314 in "USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers"

kevmo314 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:46:02 +0000

If you are interested in doing this in golang I wrote a library to avoid needing cgo: https://github.com/kevmo314/go-usb

I use this to access UVC devices correspondingly without cgo: https://github.com/kevmo314/go-uvc

New comment by kevmo314 in "Salomi, a research repo on extreme low-bit transformer quantization"

kevmo314 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:54:05 +0000

Was this shoveled out with Claude/Codex to try to ride off the Bonsai release?

New comment by kevmo314 in "Safeguarding cryptocurrency by disclosing quantum vulnerabilities responsibly"

kevmo314 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:24:34 +0000

If someone else finds a cryptocurrency vulnerability, they too will reallocate as much of your allocation as they can and cash it out.

New comment by kevmo314 in "CERN uses tiny AI models burned into silicon for real-time LHC data filtering"

kevmo314 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:37:05 +0000

This might be some journalistic confusion. If you go to the CERN documentation at https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMSPublic/AXOL1TL2025 it states

> The AXOL1TL V5 architecture comprises a VICReg-trained feature extractor stacked on top of a VAE.

New comment by kevmo314 in "90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars"

kevmo314 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:37:49 +0000

Both of those statements are true.

New comment by kevmo314 in "90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars"

kevmo314 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 03:55:34 +0000

What is git if not a database for source code?

New comment by kevmo314 in "Show HN: AI Roundtable – Let 200 models debate your question"

kevmo314 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:15:22 +0000

It is funny that the AI's counterarguments amount to "you're hallucinating"

New comment by kevmo314 in "Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026"

kevmo314 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:40:39 +0000

Someone with the ability to register .gov domains is trying to make a sneaky buck.

The whole economy pays the Amazon tax

kevmo314 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:48:51 +0000

Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/25/most-favored-nation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188415

Points: 9

# Comments: 1