Hacker News: random__duck

New comment by random__duck in "The AI revolution in math has arrived"

random__duck — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:04:20 +0000

Thankyou for stating the obvious, for some reason we need to repeat this. ^^;

New comment by random__duck in "Free Remote Access to FPGAs"

random__duck — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:59:17 +0000

On this page anyone can remotely access and control one of a series of FPGA development board (with a live camera feed pointing at the boards to see the LEDs to sweeten the deal).

Free Remote Access to FPGAs

random__duck — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:59:17 +0000

Article URL: https://ps1.fpgas.online/fpgas/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713447

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Building Custom ASICs – Podcast

random__duck — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:11:10 +0000

Article URL: https://theamphour.com/721-chip-design-for-fun-and-waffles-with-julia-desmazes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705489

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by random__duck in "Floating point from scratch: Hard Mode"

random__duck — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:08:19 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib1srtnBFOQ

New comment by random__duck in "Floating point from scratch: Hard Mode"

random__duck — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:48:33 +0000

Yup, that is a typo.

New comment by random__duck in "Floating point from scratch: Hard Mode"

random__duck — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:02:51 +0000

This is legitimately a great explanation.

Bfloat16 from Scratch

random__duck — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:42:31 +0000

Article URL: https://essenceia.github.io/projects/floating_dragon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663308

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by random__duck in "I rebuilt the same project after 15 years: What changed in web development"

random__duck — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:18:20 +0000

Thanks ^^

New comment by random__duck in "I rebuilt the same project after 15 years: What changed in web development"

random__duck — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:29:22 +0000

If you don't mind, I would like to link to your article and site in a small blog post I am writing on the subject of deliberately ugly webdesign (you are not the ugly website ).

New comment by random__duck in "I rebuilt the same project after 15 years: What changed in web development"

random__duck — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:50:10 +0000

Personally really liked your maximalist design form 2011: it was original, it looked fun.

The posts rationalization of getting out of the way of the content makes sense and if there is the primary motivation it is perfectly rational.

But as a human user: I would like to explore the web again.

Floating point from scratch: Hard Mode

random__duck — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:53:40 +0000

Article URL: https://essenceia.github.io/projects/floating_dragon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641472

Points: 101

# Comments: 29

I am fish and this is my little monkey terrarium

random__duck — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:26:53 +0000

Article URL: https://fish2fish.neocities.org/mainpage/main

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47635732

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by random__duck in "The Subprime AI Crisis Is Here"

random__duck — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:05:21 +0000

Define "value", because is seems pretty negative value at the moment.

Floating Point from Scratch

random__duck — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:11:59 +0000

Article URL: https://essenceia.github.io/projects/floating_dragon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633012

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by random__duck in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

random__duck — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:40:12 +0000

How to tell you we are running out of money because of AI without spooking the investors ?

Sam, the 'Other' SED from the 80s

random__duck — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:25:32 +0000

Article URL: https://julienlargetpiet.tech/articles/sam-the-other-sed-from-the-80s.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47567500

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by random__duck in "Uselessly fast bfloat16 multiplier ASIC"

random__duck — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:48:02 +0000

This fmul was produced for a fmax competition with another floating point multiplier in this tapeout. It reached a max frequence of 454MHz, which makes it uselessly fast given the chip IO probably only reach 100/75MHz.

Uselessly fast bfloat16 multiplier ASIC

random__duck — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:41:21 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Essenceia/uselessly_fast_bfloat16_multiplier/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566485

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by random__duck in "The AI Industry Is Lying to You"

random__duck — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:38:18 +0000

Wait, who should I be routing for ?