Hacker News: samspenc

Cal.com OSS project goes closed source due to AI

samspenc — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:42:39 +0000

Article URL: https://cal.com/de/blog/cal-com-goes-closed-source-why

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810926

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

What I learned from the book 'Software Engineering at Google'

samspenc — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:38:19 +0000

Article URL: https://newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com/p/what-i-learned-at-swe-at-google-book

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47169283

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Spotify says its best developers haven't written code since Dec, thanks to AI

samspenc — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:04:36 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/spotify-says-its-best-developers-havent-written-a-line-of-code-since-december-thanks-to-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009057

Points: 18

# Comments: 19

New comment by samspenc in "US Fed will start buying Treasury bills to manage market liquidity"

samspenc — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:51:23 +0000

There was a QA where they specifically called out this was NOT for QE (quantiative easing) or "money printing", but rather normal technical operations, I think build up more liquidity as needed.

Copilot Usage Report 2025

samspenc — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:31:32 +0000

Article URL: https://microsoft.ai/news/its-about-time-the-copilot-usage-report-2025/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46224170

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

OpenAI must hand over 20M ChatGPT logs in New York Times lawsuit

samspenc — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:03:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-chatgpt/judge-forces-openai-to-produce-20-million-chat-logs-in-copyright-lawsuit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46167266

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

GPT-OSS 120B Runs at 3000 tokens/sec on Cerebras

samspenc — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 03:24:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/openai-gpt-oss-120b-runs-fastest-on-cerebras

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45853849

Points: 48

# Comments: 29

React State Management in 2025: What You Need

samspenc — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 20:55:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.developerway.com/posts/react-state-management-2025

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45407917

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Speeding up Unreal Editor by not opening 5500 files

samspenc — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 02:31:22 +0000

Article URL: https://larstofus.com/2025/09/27/speeding-up-the-unreal-editor-launch-by-not-opening-5500-files/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45401272

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Processing Strings 109x Faster Than Nvidia on H100

samspenc — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 03:30:07 +0000

Article URL: https://ashvardanian.com/posts/stringwars-on-gpus/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45319791

Points: 34

# Comments: 3

New comment by samspenc in "Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations"

samspenc — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 23:09:32 +0000

Not bad with 16 GB VRAM, a bit disappointing on performance though, looking at the Blender 3D (open source) benchmarks: https://opendata.blender.org/benchmarks/query/?compute_type=...

It clocks in at 1503.4 samples per second, behind the NVidia RTX 2060 (1590.93 samples / sec, released Jan 2019), AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT (1539, May 2022), and Apple M3 Pro GPU 14 cores (1651.85, Oct 2023).

Note that this perf comparison is just ray-tracing rendering, useful for games, but might give some clarity on performance comparisons with its competition.

Laravel inventor: don't code 'cathedrals of complexity'

samspenc — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 01:31:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/01/laravel_inventor_clever_devs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45111301

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning unused tooltips

samspenc — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 01:28:08 +0000

Article URL: https://larstofus.com/2025/09/02/speeding-up-the-unreal-editor-launch-by-not-spawning-38000-tooltips/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45111273

Points: 206

# Comments: 86

Complete Guide to Self-Hosting Next.js at Scale

samspenc — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:58:37 +0000

Article URL: https://dlhck.com/thoughts/the-complete-guide-to-self-hosting-nextjs-at-scale

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45018277

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

PHP Is the Perfect Language for Beginners

samspenc — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 02:13:27 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@GilbertTallam/unpopular-opinion-php-is-the-perfect-language-for-beginners-heres-my-story-4c993bf9e153

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44741698

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Farewell OpenAI

samspenc — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 22:48:58 +0000

Article URL: https://substack.com/home/post/p-166993130

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44641257

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Anthropic Lands Victory in AI Case on Fair Use

samspenc — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 02:17:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-lands-partial-victory-in-ai-case-set-to-shape-future-rulings-e3560114

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44373104

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Netflix CEO: Not in China because no show or episode passed Censorship Board

samspenc — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 22:17:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.indiewire.com/news/business/ted-sarandos-china-censorship-board-1235117902/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43777269

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by samspenc in "Ask HN: If you had 100 hours to learn something new, what would you learn?"

samspenc — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:51:32 +0000

Somewhat on the similar track - Blender and Unreal Engine for games and cinematics, as a hobby.

New comment by samspenc in "Fine-tune Google's Gemma 3"

samspenc — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:55:09 +0000

It takes a significant amount of time (few hours) on a single consumer GPU, even 4090 / 5090, on personal machines. I think most people use online services like runpod, vast ai, etc to rent out high-powered H100 and similar GPUs for a few cents per hour, run the fine-tuning / training there, and just use local GPUs for inference on those fine-tuned models generated on cloud-rented instances.