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AI inference is obviously profitable

medbar — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:29:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/ai-inference-is-obviously-profitable/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48686412

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by medbar in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

medbar — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:12:19 +0000

Looks like enemy movements are deterministic, wonder how feasible it is to script this. Was able to increase my score by 4 points trying alternate lines near the end

New comment by medbar in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

medbar — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:53:31 +0000

Location: Florida, USA Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Keyword bingo: C++, C, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, Docker, AWS, Terraform, nginx, QEMU, Modal, perf, BPF, React, Next.js, Node.js, FastAPI, Redis, NoSQL

Resume: https://medbar.dev/resume

Email: dsantamaria1245@gmail.com

Looking for founding engineer roles at a startup. I have experience with YC-backed startups, interned at Google, and I'm comfortable across the stack from applications to metal. I have a background in competitive programming and math and spend most of my free time reading technical topics and working on projects that interest me, which usually falls into systems engineering, distributed systems, or AI engineering. Recently been porting DOOM to my hobby OS and working on a personal cloud.

You can book a short call with me through here: https://calendly.com/dsanta01

New comment by medbar in "Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel"

medbar — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:41:34 +0000

I've made a couple of friends from similar positions in that thread talking about projects and have been the occasional good samaritan reaching out to those whose resume / site is down or locked for some reason. It's not all bots, but it certainly is annoying. Actually, HN has had the highest signal to noise ratio I've seen so far for employment.

NES Documentation [pdf]

medbar — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:56:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nesdev.org/NESDoc.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48229832

Points: 16

# Comments: 1

TinyStories-260K running locally on a stock Game Boy Color

medbar — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:04:04 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/maddiedreese/gbc-transformer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48170747

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Probe: AI Agent Context Engine

medbar — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:05:23 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/zeroentropy-ai/probe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111072

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by medbar in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

medbar — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:29:09 +0000

Porting doom to my hobby OS and fleshing out my personal cloud with terraform & AWS. Polishing up a project before I open source it.

The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme (2021)

medbar — Sat, 09 May 2026 04:24:36 +0000

Article URL: https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071815

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by medbar in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"

medbar — Sat, 02 May 2026 00:39:40 +0000

Location: Florida, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Keyword bingo: C++, C, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, Docker, AWS, Terraform, nginx, QEMU, Modal, perf, BPF, React, Next.js, Node.js, FastAPI, Redis, NoSQL

Resume: https://medbar.dev/resume

Email: dsantamaria1245@gmail.com

Looking for founding/systems engineer roles. I have experience with YC-backed startups, interned at Google, and I'm comfortable across the stack from applications to metal. I have a background in competitive programming and math and spend most of my free time reading technical topics and working on projects that interest me, which usually falls into systems engineering, distributed systems, or AI engineering.

You can book a short call with me through here: https://calendly.com/dsanta01

New comment by medbar in "What are skiplists good for?"

medbar — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:12:40 +0000

Skiplist operations are local for the most part, which makes it easier to write thread-safe code for than b-trees in practice. Anecdotally, they were a nice implementation problem for my Java class in uni. But I liked working with b-lists more.

Skip trees/graphs sound interesting, but I can't think of any use case for them off the top of my head.

New comment by medbar in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

medbar — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:58:51 +0000

OP is about a German learning class, so yes, there is a point. AI improving will not learn you a language faster than immersing in it until, I suppose, neural links become mainstream.

New comment by medbar in "Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013)"

medbar — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:41:18 +0000

Where are these ‘3-story high’ equations you speak of? The most work I see in the article is 3 lines long.

New comment by medbar in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

medbar — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:35:18 +0000

> The classroom should be about using AI better not ignoring it.

No, it shouldn’t. I’m not bearish on AI but it shouldn’t replace any part of a classroom where the objective is to learn and communicate in a new language (German). The typewriter argument is memorable and interesting - the article points out the lack of editing forces kids to slow down and think about their writing, as well as iterate through multiple drafts. It’s not a nostalgia thing, they’re not old enough to have ever used one before.

I could see an argument for adding on a new class for GenAI, agents, context engineering or what have you, but considering how behind current US curriculums already are and how quickly the AI field moves, I can only see this ending in wasted time and money: even an up to date class will be stale by the time it’s over. Kids will end up learning this anyway outside of the classroom, no use lecturing them on something they’ll already know.

New comment by medbar in "Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013)"

medbar — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:54:53 +0000

For anyone interested and with 30 minutes to spare, I would recommend the youtube video [1] by Reducible for an intuition on how FFT works.

[1]: https://youtu.be/h7apO7q16V0

New comment by medbar in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

medbar — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:15:24 +0000

Adding a scheduler to my hobby kernel with the goal of a full shell coming soon, and an inference engine from scratch in C++. It's been fun.

New comment by medbar in "Ask HN: Does Vibe Coding and Prompt Engineering make me an Software Engineer?"

medbar — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:20:59 +0000

No.

TAS Explained: Super Mario Bros. 3 in 0.2 seconds [video]

medbar — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:19:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQYX_AVxGq0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713601

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by medbar in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

medbar — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:18:33 +0000

I still use vanilla Claude Code without MCP or skills, am I in the minority? Not trying to be a luddite.

New comment by medbar in "Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming"

medbar — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:02:24 +0000

Bookmarked! Awesome, thanks.