Hacker News: nravic

Icons as a Service

nravic — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:44:59 +0000

Article URL: https://nravic.com/blog/images/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570597

Points: 34

# Comments: 2

New comment by nravic in "Scamlexity: When agentic AI browsers get scammed"

nravic — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:00:01 +0000

I think even easier in fact - what's happening behind the scenes w/ an LLM is far more opaque

New comment by nravic in "Compiling LLMs into a MegaKernel: A path to low-latency inference"

nravic — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:30:26 +0000

This is super interesting! We do something similar I think by taking a checkpoint after model initialization. I'm curious what you think about our approach, here's some benchmarks: https://docs.cedana.ai/articles/performance-of-cedanas-gpu-i...

We do some on-the-fly optimizations as well (like compiling into CUDA graphs or fusing together calls) which ends up resulting (for some inference engines) faster token throughput too.

New comment by nravic in "CRIU, a project to implement checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux"

nravic — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 00:06:16 +0000

How were you handling GPU state w/ pytorch? We added some custom code around CRIU to enable GPU checkpointing fwiw: https://docs.cedana.ai/setup/gpu-checkpointing/

New comment by nravic in "CRIU, a project to implement checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux"

nravic — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 20:54:20 +0000

We do this using CRIU right now! https://github.com/cedana/cedana

In fact one of our customer's use cases is exactly what you describe, allowing users to "hibernate" container workspaces.

New comment by nravic in "CRIU, a project to implement checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux"

nravic — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 20:51:37 +0000

I'm probably the cofounder of the guy you spoke with! Here's our repo: https://github.com/cedana/cedana

New comment by nravic in "280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars"

nravic — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 16:37:53 +0000

what kind of pannier bags do you use to haul groceries? All the ones I've used have been too small for my purposes.

New comment by nravic in "Kullback–Leibler divergence"

nravic — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 18:26:17 +0000

IIRC (and in my experience) KL divergence doesn't account for double counting. Wrote a paper where I ended up having to use a custom metric instead: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4...

New comment by nravic in "Show HN: Rivet – Open-source game server management with Nomad and Rust"

nravic — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 15:30:10 +0000

This is so cool! Out of curiosity, could you walk through your decisionmaking around using Nix and how it fits in with Rivet?

New comment by nravic in "Show HN: Retake – Open-Source Hybrid Search for Postgres"

nravic — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:34:28 +0000

how often are these batch jobs run? I'm curious to know what the absolute maximum sync frequency can be.

New comment by nravic in "Guide to running Llama 2 locally"

nravic — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 23:56:42 +0000

Self plug: run llama.cpp as an inference server on a spot instance anywhere: https://cedana.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html#runnin...

New comment by nravic in "What are some interesting uses of WebUSB you have come across?"

nravic — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 01:06:11 +0000

GrapheneOS uses WebUSB to flash your phone.

Pretty wild first experience doing it for me - I'm used to the hassle of sideloading a bootloader and then flashing.

New comment by nravic in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)"

nravic — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 14:13:40 +0000

Hey! I'd love to learn more about the position - the hook @ jpl email on your website is bouncing though. Do you mind sending me contact details so we can chat?

Thanks :)

New comment by nravic in "This career feels like a few key hours with year-long cool-down periods"

nravic — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 11:48:23 +0000

Do people out of college even do Leetcode anymore? Surely there's a better use of time once you're in a paying job.

New comment by nravic in "The death of corporate research labs"

nravic — Thu, 21 May 2020 14:45:34 +0000

If you're looking at aerospace/defense startups, this is usually the case.

It's not unheard of for them to employ people who's primary role is grant writing to try and get (for example) SBIR funding

New comment by nravic in "Ask HN: What's your cross-platform PDF / ePub reading workflow?"

nravic — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 16:56:38 +0000

Zotero is my go-to

New comment by nravic in "Clojure – Fascinated, Disappointed, Astonished (2016)"

nravic — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 19:05:01 +0000

Julia's REPL is beautiful

New comment by nravic in "Computational Power Found in the Arms of Neurons"

nravic — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 16:08:52 +0000

Yeah, spiking neural networks are a tough nut to crack. Check out Nengo if you're interested in learning more

New comment by nravic in "Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email"

nravic — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 18:19:39 +0000

What are Protonmail's problems?

New comment by nravic in "China's growing threat to academic freedom"

nravic — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 17:24:18 +0000

very visceral reaction there