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New comment by singhrac in "Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout"

singhrac — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:37:53 +0000

I think people underestimate how valuable these reports are, so I’m very glad that detailed investigation is done here. Every major grid operator around the world is going to study this and make improvements to make sure this doesn’t happen on their grid.

In a lot of ways it’s like investigations into airplane crashes.

New comment by singhrac in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

singhrac — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:35:21 +0000

It’s prompt processing so prefill - that’s compute bound not memory.

New comment by singhrac in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

singhrac — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:10:03 +0000

I want to like RustFS, but it feels like there's so much marketing attached to the software it turns me off a little. Even a little rocket emoji and benchmark in the Github about page. Sometimes less is more. Look at the ty Github home page - 1 benchmark on the main page, the description is just "An extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust.".

Agentic Development Basics

singhrac — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:54:14 +0000

Article URL: https://steveklabnik.com/writing/agentic-development-basics/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46722763

Points: 2

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New comment by singhrac in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

singhrac — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 02:57:09 +0000

I use VoiceInk (needed some patches to get it to compile but Claude figured it out) and the Parakeet V3 model. It’s really good!

New comment by singhrac in "It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)"

singhrac — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:31:47 +0000

To be frank this is a service to you. No company you want to work at has a recruiter that doesn't understand the difference (a fully AI recruiter would be better than this experience).

New comment by singhrac in "MinIO is now in maintenance-mode"

singhrac — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:44:46 +0000

Does anyone use this? I was setting it up a few months ago but it felt very complicated compared to MinIO (or alternatives). Is there a sort of minikube-like tool I could use here?

New comment by singhrac in "Gemini 3"

singhrac — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:44:34 +0000

They're a bit less bad than they used to be. I'm not exactly happy about what this means to incentives (and rewards) for doing research and writing good content, but sometimes I ask a dumb question out of curiosity and Google overview will give it to me (e.g. "what's in flower food?"). I don't need GPT 5.1 Thinking for that.

New comment by singhrac in "Free software scares normal people"

singhrac — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:08:14 +0000

One summer in middle school our family computer failed. We bought a new motherboard from Microcenter but it didn’t come with a Windows license, so I proposed we just try Ubuntu for a while.

My mom had no trouble adjusting to it. It was all just computer to her in some ways.

New comment by singhrac in "Memory access is O(N^[1/3])"

singhrac — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 19:21:02 +0000

Here you go: ∈ (so f ∈ (...))

New comment by singhrac in "Kitty – GPU based terminal emulator"

singhrac — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 17:16:23 +0000

Let it go. He made a frustrated remark in a support thread 14 years ago where the OP escalated into calling him deliberately rude. Even if he hadn't changed at all over the years he has been contributing to open source with a product used by nontechnical people for 2 decades and deserves some grace for that.

New comment by singhrac in "Always Invite Anna"

singhrac — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 03:36:14 +0000

Who cares if they feel like they are the more valuable person in the relationship? Do you decide your framework based on mental games other people might play? Decide if extending an invite that is declined will cost you something (food, space, etc.) and whether you want the person there.

New comment by singhrac in "Optimizing ClickHouse for Intel's ultra-high core count processors"

singhrac — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 01:24:20 +0000

The 288 core SKU (I believe 6900E) isn't very widely available, I think only to big clouds?

New comment by singhrac in "Tarsnap is cozy"

singhrac — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:24:01 +0000

Is it stable? I've been using restic for a while, and I'm interested in rustic, but I have no idea how stable it is overall. Obviously it's still in beta so I won't use it in prod but curious what others experiences have been like.

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

singhrac — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 03:42:21 +0000

I think we might just disagree about how much of the GPU spend is on small vs large model (inference or training). I think it’s something like 99.9% of spending interest is on models that don’t fit into 128 GB (remember KV cache matters too). Happy to be proven wrong!

New comment by singhrac in "The elegance of movement in Silksong"

singhrac — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 22:36:42 +0000

Surprisingly overlapping set with games I’ve played and enjoyed a lot! Dead Cells was another that has a lot in common.

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

singhrac — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 08:49:52 +0000

This is almost true but not quite - I don't think much of the (dollar) spend on enterprise GPUs (H100, B200, etc.) would transfer if there was a 128 GB consumer card. The problem is both memory bandwidth (HBM) and networking (NVLink), which NVIDIA definitely uses to segment consumer vs enterprise hardware.

I think your argument is still true overall, though, since there are a lot of "gpu poors" (i.e. grad students) who write/invent in the CUDA ecosystem, and they often work in single card settings.

Fwiw Intel did try this with Arctic Sound / Ponte Vecchio, but it was late out the door and did not really perform (see https://chipsandcheese.com/p/intels-ponte-vecchio-chiplets-g...). It seems like they took on a lot of technical risk; hopefully some of that transfers over to a future project though Falcon Shores was cancelled. They really should should have released some of those chips even at a loss, but I don't know the cost of a tape out.

New comment by singhrac in "Steve Ballmer Interview"

singhrac — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 22:56:08 +0000

Small startups will always excel in talent density because of the increase risk (and reward) and alignment along equity, but all of the large companies have enough technically brilliant people. Many in their 30s or 40s want to do excellent work and also have stability to provide for their families. Whether management gets out of their way is another question.

A few projects just in ML: DeepMind has plenty enough for Google alone but Jax and the TPU project are technically ambitious and very strategically important for Google; they hired Adam Paszke away from Meta. Besides Gemini they have Gemma and Veo and they have a reputation in the industry of having extremely high MFU averages. From Facebook there's PyTorch but that's a whole cluster of projects (compiler, abstractions for many accelerators, torchao, torchtitan). They're also famous for DINO and SAM models, as well as many others by FAIR (e.g. Mask R-CNN).

New comment by singhrac in "Blurry rendering of games on Mac"

singhrac — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:16:11 +0000

I've always thought that the reason they don't care about gaming is because gaming has always been a race-to-the-bottom in margins business. Gamers care a lot about hardware in ways that make selling gaming PCs always very low margin (compared to enterprise or creative) (very few other customers know about RAM or SSD prices, famously Apple's bread-and-butter margin increaser).

New comment by singhrac in "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation"

singhrac — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 20:06:55 +0000

I switched from a 2019 MBP to a new M4 Pro a few weeks ago and I didn’t even know Rosetta wasn’t installed (I assumed on and installed by default) until I had to run a Go binary that hadn’t been updated since 2020.

I use a lot of nonstandard software (not just a browser), not a single piece needed Rosetta.

I agree recent AMD chips are power efficient like the M series (though I don’t have one to compare with) but I thought everyone agreed the comparable chips in 2020 weren’t?