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New comment by kristianp in "SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX"

kristianp — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:45:51 +0000

There are some posts on https://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=330329 , however the images are not visible. I tried registering, but it says "bot registration detected".

New comment by kristianp in "Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full"

kristianp — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:39:02 +0000

The "incredibly expensive Intel Pentium" image link 404s.

Nvidia backing $105B in financing for OpenAI data center in Ohio

kristianp — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:26:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/17/nvidia-financing-open-ai-data-center-ohio.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337125

Points: 3

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New comment by kristianp in "SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX"

kristianp — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 02:59:46 +0000

Enjoying the "DOS" font of the code examples.

The wikipedia page on the Pentium has multiple references to an Intel publication called "Solutions", May/June 1993. It would be interesting to see that, but can't find a copy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_(original)#cite_note-1...

New comment by kristianp in "Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning"

kristianp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:16:17 +0000

Does it get loud and hot with a smaller MOE model like this?

New comment by kristianp in "Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome"

kristianp — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:23:04 +0000

I assumed Chrome is memory hungry due to the JavaScript VM, but there's probably many optimisations that trade memory for speed. (Unlike this one).

New comment by kristianp in "Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering"

kristianp — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:09:25 +0000

Curious what kind of application you used wasm and Tinygo for? Obviously not the kind of app that an LLM would usually spit out a bunch of react for.

New comment by kristianp in "Curl: Nobody Wants to Work with Windows"

kristianp — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:06:27 +0000

The original post: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/117061983160992793

OpenAI wraps $7B share sale ahead of potential IPO

kristianp — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:40:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/10/openai-wraps-7-billion-share-sale-ahead-of-potential-ipo-.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253785

Points: 22

# Comments: 3

New comment by kristianp in "Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution"

kristianp — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:09:38 +0000

Why not both?

.NET on AWS Open Source Software Fund

kristianp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:39:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/aws/dotnet-foss

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237432

Points: 1

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New comment by kristianp in "You can build an AI agent's memory layer with only Go's standard library"

kristianp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:01:22 +0000

No embeddings, just a bag of words vectorisor.

New comment by kristianp in "New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S."

kristianp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:53:16 +0000

Great comment. China is still building Coal and Gas power too, I wonder how they compare.

New comment by kristianp in "Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country"

kristianp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:38:48 +0000

> you can run data centres on grid electricity

The reason they're not doing that is because grid providers can't grow their supply fast enough to support new AI data centres.

New comment by kristianp in "Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength"

kristianp — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:50:09 +0000

It's because it's a novel solution to "I lost my phone".

New comment by kristianp in "Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?"

kristianp — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:51:00 +0000

No headphone jack! Why Dell?

The processor is a Intel Core 5 320 Wildcat lake, with 4 "low power efficient cores" and 2 non-hyperthreaded Performance-cores.

It's variant of Panther Lake which has some models with Arc GPUs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panther_Lake_(microprocessor)

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/246018/...

New comment by kristianp in "Carl's Required Reading"

kristianp — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:57:37 +0000

Pleasant to hear about the Object-Relational Impedance Mismatch [1], haven't heard about that concept for a long time - maybe a decade!. The reason I like Dapper [2] is that it makes you use your own sql.

Edit "lets" -> "makes".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%E2%80%93relational_impe...

[2] https://github.com/DapperLib/Dapper

New comment by kristianp in "Meta enters the coding-agent race with Muse Code"

kristianp — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:13:38 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187575

1 day ago | 256 comments

Chinese memory maker CXMT enters mainstream with Corsair Vengeance DDR5 kit

kristianp — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:10:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/chinese-memory-maker-cxmt-enters-the-mainstream-consumer-memory-with-corsair-vengeance-ddr5-kit-chinese-made-dram-emerges-as-an-antidote-for-crushing-shortages

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206482

Points: 6

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$1B of iPhone 18 Pro chips 'awaiting packaging' due to DRAM shortages

kristianp — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:24:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/usd1-billion-of-iphone-18-pro-chips-on-the-shelves-awaiting-packaging-due-to-dram-shortages-memory-shortages-reportedly-put-a-wrinkle-in-apples-launch-plans

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206182

Points: 1

# Comments: 0