Hacker News: klelatti

The Infinity Man: Demis Hassabis, Colleagues and Rivals

klelatti — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:05:11 +0000

Article URL: https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-infinity-man

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728884

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by klelatti in "Eniac, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80"

klelatti — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:59:44 +0000

The paper came out of work on ENIAC and was adapted to follow the approach in the paper but Baby was built from outset to use that approach and its design much more closely matches the architecture that has been used by almost all digital computers since. I don’t dispute that ENIAC is important but it’s role is more nuanced than this article implies.

New comment by klelatti in "Eniac, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80"

klelatti — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:35:35 +0000

ENIAC was very important but this article overstates its significance and ignores other (non US) machines to the point of historical inaccuracy. No mention of Z3 or Manchester Baby for example, the latter based on the von Neumann paper for example, was arguably a more accurate pointer towards how computer architecture would develop.

New comment by klelatti in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

klelatti — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:52:32 +0000

You don’t think it’s a strength that they have the courage to seek views from as wide a range of perspectives as possible, including from outside the UK?

New comment by klelatti in "Never Bet Against x86"

klelatti — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:44:15 +0000

The point about the difficulties with Arm may be fair comment but the positioning and outlook of this post is decidedly weird. It seems to pretend that competitive desktop Arm processors already exist and ignores the existence of Arm ACPI.

On the conclusion - x86 didn't eventually win in smartphones.

And of course having a choice of processor designs from precisely two firms is absolutely something that we should continue to be happy with (and the post ignores RISC-V).

New comment by klelatti in "Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case"

klelatti — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:53:02 +0000

The brand is built on Dyson being a super genius inventor. He might be ingenious but he's applied to devices where it's not really needed and with unpalatable trade-offs.

In the UK at least his actions (offshoring, Brexit and tax) have probably significantly devalued the brand with a key part of his core demographic.

New comment by klelatti in "Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case"

klelatti — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:54:21 +0000

Ha! Very good and unlike say Windows it doesn't suck.

New comment by klelatti in "Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case"

klelatti — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:00:27 +0000

We have a pre-schooler and am happy to confirm that our Henry is a favourite member of the family.

Just as important he's sufficiently strong to withstand our boy's curiosity :)

New comment by klelatti in "Implementing a Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code"

klelatti — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:51:36 +0000

Fascinating, but I'm not sure how these are consistent?

- Based on classic Z80 architecture by Zilog - Inspired by modern RISC designs (ARM, RISC-V, MIPS)

New comment by klelatti in "Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case"

klelatti — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:43:11 +0000

And to prove it is possible to have a profitable vacuum cleaner manufacturing business that makes its machines in the UK - long live Henry!

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jul/24/how-hen...

And unlike Dyson they are almost indestructible!

New comment by klelatti in "Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback"

klelatti — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:46:19 +0000

Web version with links, etc:

https://rlhfbook.com/

Intel's Larabee Legacy

klelatti — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:09:22 +0000

Article URL: https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/larabees-long-shadow

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46763781

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by klelatti in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

klelatti — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:24:21 +0000

> Pamantasan Cheese

What cheese? A misspelling?

Google's First TPU – Architecture (2024)

klelatti — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:53:16 +0000

Article URL: https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/googles-first-tpu-architecture

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630772

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Apple-TSMC: The Partnership That Built Modern Semiconductors

klelatti — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:01:49 +0000

Article URL: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/apple-tsmc-the-partnership-that-built

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544232

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

TPU Mania

klelatti — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:32:12 +0000

Article URL: https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/tpu-mania

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46443576

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

AI Labs Are Solving the Power Crisis: The Onsite Gas Deep Dive

klelatti — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:21:22 +0000

Article URL: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/how-ai-labs-are-solving-the-power

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438150

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Kirin 9030 Hints at SMIC's Possible Paths Toward >300 MTr/Mm2 Without EUV

klelatti — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 09:13:36 +0000

Article URL: https://chentfred.substack.com/p/kirin-9030-hints-at-smics-possible

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46418832

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by klelatti in "Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75%"

klelatti — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:28:51 +0000

> Then in maybe one of the best rug pulls of all time, in July they quietly changed their valuation to $500 million. A 75% cut in four months. I’ve never seen anything like that since the 2008 financial crisis.

Not sure where the author is getting their information from but there is seemingly little correlation between the investment rounds quoted in this post and other online sources. No mention for example of the Series E that valued Groq at $6.9bn.

New comment by klelatti in "The MP944 was the 'real' first microprocessor, but it was top secret"

klelatti — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 15:24:13 +0000

Discussed a few days ago:

First Microprocessor – 50th Anniversary 2020

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45932051