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New comment by nulltype in "I don't like passkeys"

nulltype — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 06:19:53 +0000

I think this is probably one of the reasons people have very different passkey experiences. Hardware passkeys are great and software ones appear to be less great.

New comment by nulltype in "I love LLMs, I hate hype"

nulltype — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:30:32 +0000

Maybe he meant to link to Colossus: The Forbin Project

New comment by nulltype in "Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg"

nulltype — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:39:39 +0000

For the implemented formats, wuffs is safer and also often faster: https://github.com/google/wuffs

New comment by nulltype in "Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste"

nulltype — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:36:13 +0000

It’s hard to say that one needs unused variables.

New comment by nulltype in "Bugs Apple loves"

nulltype — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:26:49 +0000

“The bugs are real. The math is not. All estimates are made up. Your frustration, however, is valid.”

I’m pretty sure it’s way less than 2%, but I definitely notice running into the same bugs many times.

New comment by nulltype in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

nulltype — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:42:37 +0000

I think the point was that people care about ppd, not ppi. 218 ppi would be too low if the screen is 1 inch from your eye or too high if it’s 100 inches from your eye.

Retina probably means 60 ppd.

New comment by nulltype in "Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English"

nulltype — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:19:09 +0000

Isn’t it somewhat common to say something like “slow this down by a factor of 2”?

New comment by nulltype in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"

nulltype — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 09:11:36 +0000

Looks like it's probably https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in...

New comment by nulltype in "Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?"

nulltype — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:05:59 +0000

> What do you mean 10 years?

Didn’t the DGX-1 come out 9 years ago?

New comment by nulltype in "Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds"

nulltype — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 18:05:20 +0000

Where do they use quotes for the official drivers?

New comment by nulltype in "Optimizing a WebGPU Matmul Kernel for 1 TFLOP"

nulltype — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 07:17:09 +0000

Which H100 and how much over 1500 TFLOP/s?

The datasheet for the H100 SXM seems to indicate that it can only do ~1000 TFLOP/s peak.

New comment by nulltype in "Go: What we got right, what we got wrong"

nulltype — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 06:15:05 +0000

Looking at https://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/ivyfile/... I don't see how this is the same as minimal version selection.

New comment by nulltype in "How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers"

nulltype — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 17:46:45 +0000

I suspect they mean it’s a secondary source not a primary one

New comment by nulltype in "So You've Decided to Move from Unity to Unreal Engine"

nulltype — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 07:00:12 +0000

ua6oxa! Is this like an unreal engine blueprint alternative you are working on?

New comment by nulltype in "A half-hour to learn Rust (2020)"

nulltype — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 14:55:11 +0000

I think this is one of the main things Rust users don’t promote enough (I don’t see this in the article for instance).

let lock = Arc::new(RwLock::new(1));

This plus a few unwrapping things is enough to get you almost std::shared_ptr and then you can fight the borrow checker some other day.

New comment by nulltype in "B.C. woman buried in Amazon packages she did not ask for and does not want"

nulltype — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 07:43:19 +0000

A similar thing actually happened to me. I was receiving a small package (probably a phone case) about once every few weeks while living in a rental house.

The seller had put my address as their address, so all undeliverable mail came to my house.

I brought a bag full of these packages to the post office, explained the situation and gave them the packages. The entire pile of packages ended up back at my house a few days later.

I found the seller on Amazon and messaged them:

———

Me: I haven't ordered anything from you. I have received 6 packages that you sent but ended up at my house because the return address that you used is my address, not your address. Could you use a different return address?

Seller: Dear nulltype, We're sorry about this, we can't change the address at the moment because of the cumbersome policies on Amazon, but we'll change it when we have a new production facility. Please forgive us. You are free to use the packages. Sincerely,

———-

The packages continued to arrive after this.

New comment by nulltype in "Many in the AI field think the bigger-is-better approach is running out of road"

nulltype — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 01:38:47 +0000

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[0] http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/

New comment by nulltype in "Apollo will close down on June 30th"

nulltype — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 01:57:59 +0000

Ah I see that he is claiming it’s Steve Huffman via all the use of “you” there.

New comment by nulltype in "Apollo will close down on June 30th"

nulltype — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 22:39:30 +0000

Yeah that part says it’s Steve but where does it say it’s Steve in the phone recording? It just says “Reddit” in the transcript.

New comment by nulltype in "Apollo will close down on June 30th"

nulltype — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 22:05:02 +0000

It seems a number of people believe that the recorded call has Steve Huffman talking, but I don’t see this claim anywhere in the original post.