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New comment by npn in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

npn — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:21:55 +0000

the last time US wanted some country to reset back to Stone Age the same thing happened. turn out those aircrafts are not undefeatable at all.

New comment by npn in "US expected to send thousands more soldiers to Middle East, sources say"

npn — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:47:06 +0000

20 years.

New comment by npn in "Goodbye to Sora"

npn — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:34:33 +0000

turn out the schizos were right. most of OpenAI *real* investment money comes from Gulf countries. without that money flow they can't sustain the cash burn anymore.

New comment by npn in "Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)"

npn — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:18:46 +0000

Faster is not always the best thing. I still remember when vs code changed to ripgrep I had to change my habit using it, before then I can just open vs code to any folder and do something with it, even if the folder contains millions of small text files. It worked fine before, but then rg was picked, and it happily used all of my cpu cores scanning files, made me unable to do anything for awhile.

To be honest I hate all the new rust replacement tools, they introduce new behavior just for the sake of it, it's annoying.

New comment by npn in "Chuck Norris has died"

npn — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:38:19 +0000

A part of internet dies with him. RIP.

New comment by npn in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

npn — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:04:26 +0000

Now it is only age verification. Next they will try to impose digital ID.

That's when you know the new world has begun.

New comment by npn in "Oil hits $100 a barrel despite deal to release record amount of reserves"

npn — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:21:07 +0000

it's not like they found anyway to open the Hormuz strait, why should the price be lower.

one again the world suffers thank to US stupidity.

New comment by npn in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

npn — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:42:05 +0000

I wish him luck.

Recently all papers are about LLM, it brings up fatigue.

As GPT is almost reaching its limit, new architecture could bring out new discovery.

New comment by npn in "OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle"

npn — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:32:00 +0000

you think in FP16. nobody uses FP16 for inference anymore. 400% probably for FP4/INT4 computation.

New comment by npn in "Cloud VM benchmarks 2026"

npn — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:15:25 +0000

Don't use Vultr. I still have 60 dollars credit there that I can never spend, because they will limit your account if you do not use it for sometime.

And the pricing is laughable expensive comparr to OVH.

New comment by npn in "GPT-5.4"

npn — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:15:39 +0000

the problem the price point is increasing sharply every time.

gemini 2 flash lite was $0.3 per 1Mtok output, gemini 2.5 flash lite is $0.4 per 1Mtok output, guess the pricing for gemini 3 flash lite now.

yes you guess it right, it is $1.5 per 1Mtok output. you can easily guest that because google did the same thing before: gemini 2 flash was $0.4, then 2.5 flash it jumps to $2.5.

and that is only the base price, in reality newer models are al thinking models, so it costs even more tokens for the sample task.

at some point it is stopped being viable to use gemini api for anything.

and they don't even keep the old models for long.

New comment by npn in "Microgpt"

npn — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:13:20 +0000

Did you use them as-is, or had you fine tuned them for your particular use cases?

New comment by npn in "Microgpt"

npn — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 06:55:32 +0000

what gut? we are already doing that. there are a lot of "tiny" LLMs that are useful: M$ Phi-4, Gemma 3/3n, Qwen 7B... There are even smaller models like Gemma 270M that is fine tuned for function calls.

they are not flourish yet because of the simple reason: the frontier models are still improving. currently it is better to use frontier models than training/fine-tuning one by our own because by the time we complete the model the world is already moving forward.

heck even distillation is a waste of time and money because newer frontier models yield better outputs.

you can expect that the landscape will change drastically in the next few years when the proprietary frontier models stop having huge improvements every version upgrade.

New comment by npn in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

npn — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:44:23 +0000

My intuition is that they will convert to zig again when it stables. If it is possible to do it using LLM in 2 weeks for rust, then it would be the same for zig, too.

While rust is nice on paper, writting complex software in it is mentally consuming. You can not do it for a long time.

New comment by npn in "I’m joining OpenAI"

npn — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:28:25 +0000

OpenAI is speeding up the race to be the most evil company in the world. Impressing.

New comment by npn in "Slop Terrifies Me"

npn — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 04:07:26 +0000

Tools exists so we can spend our time focusing on more important matter. AI is not any exception of that.

Till this day even there exists IDEs with proper auto-complete suggestions (or editors with LSP support), there are still a lot of people prefer doing it in the old way (vim/emac/nano) and none of them get fired for that.

Z3 exists but we still like to solve algorithms by hand. High level languages exists but C/C++ codes are still written every day, even asm is still used.

On the brighter side of the issue, we now have ton of legacy projects written in obscure languages (COBOL, FORTRAN) that only some dozen people can maintain effectively, and those people are mostly at retirement age now. GenAI can solve that.

New comment by npn in "Dead Internet Theory"

npn — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 02:12:05 +0000

you can absolutely still use `--`, but you need to add spaces around them.

New comment by npn in "Show HN: HyTags – HTML as a Programming Language"

npn — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 02:47:51 +0000

Have you ever tried parsing html in s-expression languages before?

For example, in elixir parsing html is this syntax: `{html_tag, attributes, children}`.

You indeed can include attributes in s expression

New comment by npn in "90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet"

npn — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:45:59 +0000

Don't be antisemitic.

New comment by npn in "I/O is no longer the bottleneck? (2022)"

npn — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:23:35 +0000

He didn't say VRAM. GPU servers are just servers with GPUs.