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New comment by ramshanker in "Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" in Bahrain and Dubai"

ramshanker — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:43:31 +0000

Building blast resistant is a common practices for Refinery control rooms. The same methodologies can be employed for data centers as well.

1 blast can be expensively guarded againt. However designing anything above ground for sustained barges is practically/commercially prohibitive. Underground is only option.

PS: Civil Engineer. Designed few of those Gas explosion resistant control rooms.

New comment by ramshanker in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

ramshanker — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:49:27 +0000

Anther perspective, AI is fast turning [0.1x to 0.5x] low cost X-world Sofwate Engineers into >1x engineers.

Contrary to pre AI era, one of my close relative he has become very good "understand / write the requirement" guy. HN may be dominated by >1x engineers, another revolution is happening at lower /bulk end of spectrum as well.

New comment by ramshanker in "Some things just take time"

ramshanker — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:58:25 +0000

Same approach as mine. :)

One more thing I try is give same prompt once in a while to ChatGPT/Gemini/Grok. Than take the 2 out of 3 ideas forward.

All leading AI seems to have some blind spot. Like some kind of intricsic character. 1 will completely overlook some particular bug while finding other excellent bugs and edge cases.

Getting the code through all 3 before commiting has shown excellent results to me.

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

ramshanker — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:21:18 +0000

Currently working on C++ DirectX12 graphics engine of my Engineering / CAD software. Part of my Mission Vishwakarma 2035.

https://mv.ramshanker.in/

Github: https://github.com/ramshankerji/Vishwakarma

New comment by ramshanker in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

ramshanker — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 05:32:37 +0000

>>>>Hey, I'm nearly 80 years old.

You are an inspiration. I will remember this when I grow older. Just wanted to say this, I am 1/2 your age, and I am sure there are 1/3 or even 1/4 people here. ;)

New comment by ramshanker in "How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?"

ramshanker — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:37:26 +0000

I can imagine, where this becomes a mainstream PCIe extension card. Like back in days we had separate graphics card, audio card etc. Now AI card. So to upgrade the PC to latest model, we could buy a new card, load up the drivers and boom, intelligence upgrade of the PC. This would be so cool.

New comment by ramshanker in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

ramshanker — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:18:06 +0000

I was all praise for Cerberus, and now this ! $30 M for PCIe card in hand, really makes it approachable for many startups.

New comment by ramshanker in "FreeCAD"

ramshanker — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:50:28 +0000

As I said, all these are optimized for Mechanical engineering, to the best of my knowledge. In civil, there are lots of standardization in 3D part and a lot more focus on 2D side. Major part of building design is using standard steel section. Mechanical side, apart from nut bolts, everything seems to be custom. Software interfaces prioritize these use cases.

Think of I beams, all major countries have national standards of shapes and sizes. There are many "devil in detail" nuances.

So, giving it a go myself. If not for others, at least for my own itch. This is one aspect of open source.

New comment by ramshanker in "AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet"

ramshanker — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:24:17 +0000

3 days late clarification: It is for personal projects! Not for sumbitting pull requests to established projects.

New comment by ramshanker in "FreeCAD"

ramshanker — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:08:02 +0000

I will try the newer version again. Last I tried 2 years or so back, it was crashing for me.

Personal Context: I am a civil enginer, and our requirement from CAD softwares are a lot simpler than Mechanical Engineering. Here on HN, whenever I see people discussing CAD, its the mechanical version of parts and 3d printing.

Shameless Plug: I have decided to try building my own! Over a long enough timeline, it is doable, including the UI/UX part.

https://mv.ramshanker.in/

New comment by ramshanker in "AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet"

ramshanker — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:32:41 +0000

At least for me personal open source project[1], it has been >5x boost. In speed, motivation. Operating knowledge level etc. At some places, I even put inline comment, "this generated function is not understood completely" ! Or may be a question on specific syntex (c++20).

[1] https://github.com/ramshankerji/Vishwakarma/

New comment by ramshanker in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

ramshanker — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:35:44 +0000

At least xAI now has a revenue generation backer. SpaceX.

Others must pull up their revenue number.

New comment by ramshanker in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"

ramshanker — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:03:08 +0000

Do we get any model architecture details like parameter size etc.? Few months back, we used to talk more on this, now it's mostly about model capabilities.

New comment by ramshanker in "Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery"

ramshanker — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:18:53 +0000

Not just that, previously many orgs outsourced to consultancy, now when the consultancies also start outsourcing to AI, sooner all business may cut the middleman and have inhouse it teams outsourcing work to AI instead of consultancies !

New comment by ramshanker in "Doing the thing is doing the thing"

ramshanker — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:28:38 +0000

Thank you for shaking me once more .....

New comment by ramshanker in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

ramshanker — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 10:23:34 +0000

This year: DirectX12 documentation. Lots of them. Harry Potter part 7 (again). Read Part 1 and 2 to kid.

New comment by ramshanker in "Google works to erode Nvidia's software advantage with Meta's help"

ramshanker — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:33:15 +0000

Is there anything preventing incumbents from developing their own ASIC equivalent of a google TPU?

Or maybe the GPUs are not really that different from TPU.

To me, one of the secret sauce of AI chips is Memory amd Interconnect bandwidth. Memory everyone is using the same HBM series. No difgerentiation. Multi chasis Interconnect is already not bottlenecked vs compute. So GPUs aren,t any worse.

Ammuter Guesswork!

New comment by ramshanker in "Analysis finds anytime electricity from solar available as battery costs plummet"

ramshanker — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 17:58:48 +0000

Has any production battery become cheaper than LEAC ACID for computer UPS ? I have not seen new cheaper UPS getting launched.

New comment by ramshanker in "After the Bubble"

ramshanker — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:02:17 +0000

I am not effected by this version of bubble, except for I want RAM prices to come down for my new PC build.

New comment by ramshanker in "Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening"

ramshanker — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:33:44 +0000

Somebody do the math on when we will reliably start running out of Grid Power. Than only this "AI builout" will slow down. Manufactiring generators is boring, and very less invested than manufacturing AI servers.