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New comment by kristianp in "Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]"

kristianp — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 07:05:04 +0000

It would have been in the 2nd chance pool. https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

Here's the announcement post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308

New comment by kristianp in "The 8-mile hole in a Hawaii national park that no one can explain"

kristianp — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 02:56:03 +0000

I found the photos uninspiring, perhaps a drone could have helped. There wasn't much to give me a sense of the scale of the "crack", I think a skilled photographer could have done a better job here.

New comment by kristianp in "Microsoft says Windows 11 is now 'more responsive' and runs better on 8GB of RAM"

kristianp — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:39:33 +0000

I agree, my other box is Linux. I keep it on Win 10 for compatibility reasons, but am thinking of reinstalling without enabling onedrive, as performance is dog slow. I'll probably try uninstalling Onedrive first.

New comment by kristianp in "Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran"

kristianp — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:20:13 +0000

Removing Hollerith refers to the way strings were originally written in Fortran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollerith_constant

New comment by kristianp in "Muse Spark Open"

kristianp — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:24:04 +0000

Given the size of Macs (2 or 4 of them) required to run it, they're just paying lip service to that option. Other models, e.g. deepseek flash, are much more practical size. Even that takes a 96 or 128GB ram Mac.

New comment by kristianp in "Flux 3 Image Klein"

kristianp — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:32:29 +0000

That pink and white flower just looks wrong.

New comment by kristianp in "Microsoft says Windows 11 is now 'more responsive' and runs better on 8GB of RAM"

kristianp — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:29:57 +0000

Sounds like just tinkering at the edges. Still not upgrading my older X1 carbon with 16GB from windows 10.

New comment by kristianp in "Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?"

kristianp — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:01:26 +0000

mftch?

Asia chip stocks fall, AI funding worries

kristianp — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 02:29:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/15/sk-hynix-samsung-softbank-stocks-asia-tech-rout-ai-funding-worries.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50098423

Points: 15

# Comments: 0

Nvidia reportedly halts GeForce RTX 5090 production

kristianp — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:44:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-reportedly-halts-geforce-rtx-5090-production-in-favor-of-ai-data-center-and-professional-gpus-impending-supply-drought-expected-to-drive-up-prices-rtx-5080-24gb-rumored-as-new-gaming-flagship

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50097227

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by kristianp in "PC Techniques and Visual Developer Magazines Archive (2002)"

kristianp — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:09:30 +0000

I'm not sure I ever bought one of these magazines back in the day, I was a dedicated DDJ reader in the 90s.

PC Techniques and Visual Developer Magazines Archive (2002)

kristianp — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 02:28:17 +0000

Article URL: http://www.duntemann.com/vdmarchive.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50081627

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by kristianp in "Nvidia Reportedly Ending the RTX 5090, Reserves GB202 for Workstation GPUs"

kristianp — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 02:03:17 +0000

Interesting that they may replace it with a 5080 using 3GB chips, for 24GB of RAM.

Nvidia Reportedly Ending the RTX 5090, Reserves GB202 for Workstation GPUs

kristianp — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:52:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.techpowerup.com/353578/nvidia-reportedly-ending-the-rtx-5090-reserves-gb202-silicon-for-workstation-gpus

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50081435

Points: 18

# Comments: 2

New comment by kristianp in "Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster"

kristianp — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:17:54 +0000

True, and it's pretty unreadable.

New comment by kristianp in "Shredding JSON columns gave Logfire up to 1000x faster queries"

kristianp — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:32:09 +0000

DuckDB recently announced faster JSON in its variant: https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights#2-variant...

New comment by kristianp in "C for Rust programmers"

kristianp — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:53:20 +0000

Raymond Chen has an article about enter / leave: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190130-00/?p=10...

He says Leave is often used by compilers, but not Enter.

Yandex: Ukraine strikes data centre in third attack on Russian tech giant

kristianp — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:46:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw0k0g57mk3zo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047088

Points: 15

# Comments: 1

New comment by kristianp in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

kristianp — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:46:06 +0000

BBC News story on this topic https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw0k0g57mk3zo

New comment by kristianp in "Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster"

kristianp — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 06:11:19 +0000

This article says there have been 10000 commits since the 1.5 release. That number stands out as extremely high for humans to achieve.

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights