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New comment by mciancia in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

mciancia — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:05:27 +0000

Depends what you want to do and which cards you have, but usually going with any older (3rd gen+) threadripper pro setup will give you a lot of pcie lanes.

I myself run with gigabyte trx40 aorus xtreme, but since it's regular threadripper (not pro) with 4 GPUs 2 of them will run at x16 and two of them at x8 speeds

New comment by mciancia in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

mciancia — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:01:06 +0000

I wonder why using 2 PSUs resulted in having slower interconnect.

There is no specs in this blogpost regarding cpu/motherboard choice, but if you go with threadripper pro they have 128 pci-e lanes for some time now, so using all GPUs at full speed shouldn't be a problem

New comment by mciancia in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

mciancia — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:54:43 +0000

Nope, they don't support it. And afair even if they did, you would be limited to connecting only in pairs, not all 6 together

New comment by mciancia in "Flipper One – we need your help"

mciancia — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:52:40 +0000

Getting rid of SDR, nfc and RFID hardware is a big mistake IMO.

Doesn't look like this is gonna be cheap, so getting rid of 20USD worth of hardware that previous generation was known for doesn't make sense

New comment by mciancia in "Apple removes iPhone vibe coding app from app store"

mciancia — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:23:55 +0000

Wechat works on iPhone

New comment by mciancia in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

mciancia — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:23:47 +0000

It is unified memory on this one

New comment by mciancia in "Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning"

mciancia — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:51:46 +0000

Not sure why they stopped using 6 GPUs in thei builds - with 4 GPUs, both 9070 and rtx6000 come in 2 slot designs, so it easy to build it yourself using a bit more expensive, but still fairly regular motherboard.

With 6 GPUs you have to deal with risers, pcie retimers, dual PSUs and custom case for so value proposition there was much better IMO

New comment by mciancia in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

mciancia — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:17:21 +0000

Not when you want to win and compete with someone who does 996

New comment by mciancia in "Jolla Phone Pre-Order"

mciancia — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:19:18 +0000

I hope not. Projects like that to have any chance at surviving have to be good phones first. Adding modularity will make it worse in terms of specs, more expensive and in the result dead on arrival. Once they launch a few successful (or at least sustainable) products, they can maybe try doing some modularity

New comment by mciancia in "The MiniPC Revolution"

mciancia — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:55:35 +0000

Minisforum ms-a2 afaik can hit a lot of those requirements unless you need to fit a big GPU or a lot of spinning rust

New comment by mciancia in "GPU Price Tracker"

mciancia — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 14:13:20 +0000

3090 is like 600-800 USD used and basically no new stock.

They have shit data since Amazon doesn't really sell most of those cards and they do no validation

Raspberry Pi Pico code editing and firmware flashing from a web browser

mciancia — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 21:10:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/10/flashmypico-raspberry-pi-pico-pico-2-code-editing-and-firmware-flashing-from-a-web-browser/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43005192

Points: 6

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New comment by mciancia in "Demystifying Debuggers, Part 2: The Anatomy of a Running Program"

mciancia — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 23:11:01 +0000

For those looking: https://www.rfleury.com/p/demystifying-debuggers-part-1-a-bu... :)

New comment by mciancia in "Build a Low-Cost Drone Using ESP32"

mciancia — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 23:06:28 +0000

Well, given how well game streaming can work (local, not cloud), I think low latency for drones should be possible :)

New comment by mciancia in "Raspberry Pi 500 Review: The keyboard is the computer, again"

mciancia — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 12:19:24 +0000

Yes

N100 with 8gb ram and 256gb ssd is around 130eur on AliExpress

New comment by mciancia in "Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted"

mciancia — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 11:09:03 +0000

> people are thirsty for War, looks like

Russians, yes

New comment by mciancia in "Using an 8K TV as a Monitor"

mciancia — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 20:14:03 +0000

Seems pretty wide. no problem there?

New comment by mciancia in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"

mciancia — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 20:10:50 +0000

Why?

New comment by mciancia in "Panasonic Toughbook 40"

mciancia — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 20:15:58 +0000

Not no one. There is also getac, durabook, rugged series of some dell laptops, there is (was?) itrinix and probably a bit more that I don't really know of :)

New comment by mciancia in "Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?"

mciancia — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 18:36:50 +0000

With that logic, most (every?) SWE working at faang is a business owner since they all get stock options/rsu