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New comment by rbanffy in "Ask HN: Science Fiction. Some AI as world leader. Would you vote it?"

rbanffy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:16:41 +0000

Only if they are named Stephen Byerley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_(short_story)

CachyOS Performance vs. Other Linux Operating Systems on a $46k USD Workstation

rbanffy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:12:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-hp-z4g6i

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346855

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Niagara: A 32-WAY MULTITHREADED SPARC PROCESSOR (2005) [pdf]

rbanffy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:51:15 +0000

Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20060901143530/http://ogun.stanford.edu/%7ekunle/publications/niagra_micro.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345634

Points: 1

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Why Aging May Be a Program, Not a Breakdown

rbanffy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:34:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-aging-may-be-a-program-not-a-breakdown-20260814/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345424

Points: 2

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Operation Earnest Voice

rbanffy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:32:13 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Voice

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345391

Points: 2

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New comment by rbanffy in "IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video]"

rbanffy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:25:20 +0000

> and awful capacitative touch.

I think until the iPhone most of the touchscreens were resistive and single-touch. It was multi-touch capacitive screens, alongside Jeff Han's multi-touch demo that captivated everybody's imagination.

New comment by rbanffy in "IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video]"

rbanffy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:23:04 +0000

> it wasn’t until the Treo series

This was because the acquisition of Handspring, right?

New comment by rbanffy in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

rbanffy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:19:42 +0000

I find it disappointing that people I once respected revealed themselves to be like him.

New comment by rbanffy in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

rbanffy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:01:38 +0000

Old books are the new low background steel.

New comment by rbanffy in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

rbanffy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:00:42 +0000

Their current reach is unprecedented though, and the reach of governments or political parties engaging in mass disinformation campaigns has proved almost an existential risk.

New comment by rbanffy in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

rbanffy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:53:18 +0000

There are no enemies - they are competing parts - competing for popularity, resources, power. This makes it possible to negotiate. Enemies don't, but competitors are a lot more pragmatic.

New comment by rbanffy in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

rbanffy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:51:29 +0000

I think the big difference is that before the internet you'd need to be a Murdoch to be able to do something like this. A good PR firm could fool a number of news outlets into thinking something is legit, but it was a lot harder to convince a professional journalist than it is to convince the average Faux News watcher.

Illiac IV and the Connection Machine – By Eric Gilliam

rbanffy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:47:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.freaktakes.com/p/illiac-iv-and-the-connection-machine

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344861

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New comment by rbanffy in "Pikuma: SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX"

rbanffy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:38:52 +0000

Thanks for writing it. I didn't get to program at a such low-level with the MMX, but those extensions of the time, both MMX and 3DNow were really interesting to read about.

New comment by rbanffy in "Linux 7.3 SMP Improvement to Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time Performance"

rbanffy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:36:56 +0000

> I'll need to keep this in mind for the next time I encounter someone complaining that TikTok didn't do anything novel!

All big hyperscalers do a ton of kernel development to scratch their itches. It's nice when their changes can be upstreamed to solve everyone else's problems, even if it's the very few problems we have in common with people who manage a million servers.

Intel Xeon 658X Review: Granite Rapids for Workstations – ServeTheHome

rbanffy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:22:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.servethehome.com/intel-xeon-658x-review-granite-rapids-for-workstations/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344636

Points: 1

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ARM64 BBML3 Feature Ready with Linux 7.3, Nvidia Olympus Workarounds

rbanffy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:57:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-7.3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343849

Points: 2

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New comment by rbanffy in "IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video]"

rbanffy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:05:36 +0000

It's interesting how many false starts we had before the smartphone became ubiquitous. We had the Simon, Palm, then Nokia and Sony-Ericsson both with Symbian and different UI layers, WAP, various Windows CE devices, Blackberry pager descendants, and I probably missed a lot of them.

KTransformers 0.7 Expands AVX-512 Support to Benefit AMD EPYC Servers

rbanffy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:55:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KTransformers-0.7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343464

Points: 2

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New comment by rbanffy in "Jellyfish force shutdown of three reactors at French nuclear plant"

rbanffy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:36:20 +0000

Sounds like a good argument for closed loop cooling. Or shredders at the pump intake. Depending on the amount, might even yield a side business in pet food.