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New comment by randomgermanguy in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

randomgermanguy — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:20:39 +0000

I think the general question is if they'll release it at all, haven't yet read anything stating that they would

New comment by randomgermanguy in "The Cloud: The dystopian book that changed Germany (2022)"

randomgermanguy — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:42:57 +0000

One can see the impact of this cultural-wave on people above ~40 pretty heavily.

Hand-in-hand with the whole "Atomkraft ? Nein Danke" campaign. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Power%3F_No_Thanks)

New comment by randomgermanguy in "Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning"

randomgermanguy — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:17:56 +0000

The major selling point of the tinyboxes is that you're able to run them in your office without any hassle.

I used to own a Dell Poweredge for my home-office, but those fans even on minimal setting kept me up at night

New comment by randomgermanguy in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

randomgermanguy — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:05:51 +0000

Yes, but in practice land-ownership is only zero sum in places like Europe where every square-kilometer has 300 years of documented ownership etc, or other high-density areas.

The Asia, Africa & the Americas have so much unused space that isn't as inhospitable as central Australia

New comment by randomgermanguy in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

randomgermanguy — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:02:58 +0000

I think the author might argue, that simply becoming more efficient at creating a rent-seeking mechanism is not beneficial. No matter how well motivated you are to improve your zero-sum game skills, it's still zero-sum.

Or something like that.

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

randomgermanguy — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:18:10 +0000

You can already buy A100/H100s on eBay. While it might not ever be economical to run these at home (cost of electricity), but it's plenty fun.

Optimizing a Rust Thread-Pool (Part 1/?)

randomgermanguy — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:43:34 +0000

Article URL: https://jakobsachs.blog/threadpoolpt1/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47129343

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by randomgermanguy in "Show HN: Diffuji – a diffusion-powered instant camera"

randomgermanguy — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:46:58 +0000

Cool idea, but kinda sad that it has to go through a cloud-provider. I feel like there's a possibility with an accelerator-board (Coral TPU or something), to make this into a totally local thing maybe? The longer-waiting time is surely not an issue when considering how many people still use Polaroids.

InferenceX v2: Nvidia Blackwell vs AMD vs. Hopper – SemiAnalysis

randomgermanguy — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:44:59 +0000

Article URL: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/inferencex-v2-nvidia-blackwell-vs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038589

Points: 4

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The tiny corp – Nvidia is a Software Company

randomgermanguy — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:42:44 +0000

Article URL: https://consensus-hongkong.coindesk.com/agenda/event/-open-source-ai-in-your-pocket-a-case-study-77

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034828

Points: 1

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New comment by randomgermanguy in "Claude Sonnet 5 drops next week"

randomgermanguy — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:30:02 +0000

why would I believe a random account with 1k followers ?

New comment by randomgermanguy in "Vsora Jotunn-8 5nm European inference chip"

randomgermanguy — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:20:53 +0000

The fact that I have to give them an email for details just feels immediately like a B2B-scam.

Hope they can figure out software, but what im seeing isn't super-promising

New comment by randomgermanguy in "Winamp clone in Swift for macOS"

randomgermanguy — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:40:38 +0000

I started using https://github.com/kushalpandya/Petrichor a while ago.

Though design is more akin to the default Apple Music app than WinAmp.

New comment by randomgermanguy in "Bryan Cantrill – The Complexity of Simplicity [video]"

randomgermanguy — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:41:39 +0000

Always love seeing a new BMC talk

New comment by randomgermanguy in "The Infinite Conversation"

randomgermanguy — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:37:20 +0000

Made my eyes glaze over only slightly faster than trying to listen to the real Zizek.

Well done!

New comment by randomgermanguy in "Ask HN: Anyone else disillusioned with "AI experts" in their team?"

randomgermanguy — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:28:39 +0000

I guess the question is if it's like the crypto-bubble, where theres no real value left in the end (haven't heard of a good use for those ASICs). Or more like the dot-com bubble where fiber-cable installed is still valuable without pets.com around.

But since I wasn't really around for either of those ... ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

New comment by randomgermanguy in "Ask HN: Anyone else disillusioned with "AI experts" in their team?"

randomgermanguy — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:21:11 +0000

Alright fair enough.

I dont think this is relevant to the main-point, but it's definitely something I wasn't aware of. I would've thought it might have an impact on like O(100)th token in some negligible way, but glad to learn.

New comment by randomgermanguy in "Ask HN: Anyone else disillusioned with "AI experts" in their team?"

randomgermanguy — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:48:26 +0000

Okay yes, but would you really say that the main part of non-determinism in LLM-usage stems from this ? No its obviously the topk sampling.

I don't think my tech-lead was trying to suggest the floating-point error/non-associativity was the real source.

New comment by randomgermanguy in "Ask HN: Anyone else disillusioned with "AI experts" in their team?"

randomgermanguy — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:24:41 +0000

Topk sampling with temp = 0 should be pretty much deterministic (ignoring floating-point errors)

New comment by randomgermanguy in "Ask HN: Anyone else disillusioned with "AI experts" in their team?"

randomgermanguy — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:12:18 +0000

Oh actually yeah that's true. You have correctly out-nitpicked my nitpick lol.

But at that point i feel like we are getting close to "everything that isn't a perfect Turing-machine is somewhat-stochastic" ;)

Edit: someone corrected me above, it does seem to matter more then I thought