Hacker News: sakex

New comment by sakex in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

sakex — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:53:01 +0000

I worked at google for 3 years and can confirm what you've heard. Obviously, every org is somewhat different.

New comment by sakex in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

sakex — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:30:34 +0000

While I agree we need to keep our immigration under control, this is not the solution.

New comment by sakex in "Show HN: KVBoost – chunk-level KV cache reuse for HuggingFace, 5–48x faster TTFT"

sakex — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:16:46 +0000

Is this based on paged attention with hashing of the pages?

New comment by sakex in "2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email"

sakex — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:25:43 +0000

Incredible to see my high school mentioned here

New comment by sakex in "Every GPU That Mattered"

sakex — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:58:51 +0000

Gaming GPUs only which are those we are all nostalgic about, but hardly the ones that matter now for Nvidia.

New comment by sakex in "Decided to fly to the US to buy some hard drives"

sakex — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:12:57 +0000

I also bought a laptop with an RTX 5090 (mobile) in New York last month. I paid half what I would have paid in my country. Especially when you consider how low the USD is trading at.

New comment by sakex in "How I Left YouTube"

sakex — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 01:53:06 +0000

Levels in big tech are just a way to keep you motivated. You'll work harder to get a promo.

In the end it doesn't matter, you'll make more money by either leaving or getting a retention offer.

New comment by sakex in "US sanctions EU government officials behind the DSA"

sakex — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 01:29:04 +0000

Exactly like Trump is doing to you.

New comment by sakex in "Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'"

sakex — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:40:30 +0000

I'd be surprised if they didn't scale it up.

New comment by sakex in "There are no new ideas in AI, only new datasets"

sakex — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:58:29 +0000

There are new things being tested and yielding results monthly in modelling. We've deviated quite a bit from the original multi head attention.

New comment by sakex in "Link Time Optimizations: New Way to Do Compiler Optimizations"

sakex — Wed, 21 May 2025 16:21:13 +0000

Maybe add the date to the title, because it's hardly new at this point

New comment by sakex in "CT scans could cause 5% of cancers, study finds; experts note uncertainty"

sakex — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:53:37 +0000

What about MRI? Just had one. Sorry if it's a stupid question, I don't know much about this

New comment by sakex in "Knowing where your engineer salary comes from"

sakex — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 15:10:28 +0000

The anomaly here are AI researchers

New comment by sakex in "Users don't care about your tech stack"

sakex — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:25:42 +0000

> They won’t notice those extra 10 milliseconds you saved

Depends what you're doing. In my case I'm saving microseconds on the step time of an LLM used by hundreds of millions of people.

New comment by sakex in "The Generative AI Con"

sakex — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:19:56 +0000

The point you're missing is that people were making the same kind of comments about Amazon and Uber not too long ago

New comment by sakex in "A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work"

sakex — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 14:55:58 +0000

I was laid off from Google in January last year alongside 150 people in my extended team. I managed to find a different team in Gemini, so now I'm part of Deepmind. I have very conflicting feelings because on one hand I really enjoy the work, the team, and the absolute genius of people I get to talk to; but on the other hand, I have some resentment for being so inhumanely laid off, I am sad for the people in my team who were not as lucky as me, and I know it can happen again any time.

New comment by sakex in "Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith"

sakex — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:24:29 +0000

> I have some doubt about #2. Weren't Big Tech companies paying senior engineers $300K+ - in 2025-adjusted dollars - back in 2013?

Yes but big tech got bigger. Google had a 4th of its current workforce for instance, Meta a 10th, etc. It got much easier to get into those companies.

New comment by sakex in "Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?"

sakex — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:28:16 +0000

Such an accurate description of what I went through in Switzerland. Kids are mean, and I had to be mean to survive too. It stained my character in ways I am still trying to overcome more than a decade later.

New comment by sakex in "Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs"

sakex — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 23:37:58 +0000

Name and shame

New comment by sakex in "Einsum in Depth"

sakex — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:08:29 +0000

That's something I wish I had when I started looking at einsums. It gets interesting when you start thinking about optimum paths (like in the opt_einsum package), sharded/distributed einsums, and ML accelerators.