Hacker News: smsx

New comment by smsx in "Claude Opus 4.8"

smsx — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:06:47 +0000

The 4.8 model costs the same as it's 4.7 predecessor.

New comment by smsx in "Keeping 20k GPUs healthy"

smsx — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:24:41 +0000

Are the numbers in the H100 PCIE vs SXM table swapped for rows 3 onwards? It looks to me like the PCI is showing higher GiB/s numbers, which is counter to expectations. Or am I misunderstanding those benchmarks?

New comment by smsx in "Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company"

smsx — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 13:55:25 +0000

I don't think first class Linear or Notion support will be high on their list given who acquired them.

New comment by smsx in "Deep Learning Is Applied Topology"

smsx — Tue, 20 May 2025 15:50:43 +0000

Chris Olah has never published a paper? ... https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6dskOSUAAAAJ&hl=en...

New comment by smsx in "Vim Roadmap 2025"

smsx — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:03:56 +0000

it's being actively worked on!

New comment by smsx in "Cerebras Inference: AI at Instant Speed"

smsx — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:23:25 +0000

The numbers are pretty incredible. Will the competition be able to match them?

New comment by smsx in "Cerebras Launches the Fastest AI Inference"

smsx — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:13:50 +0000

Wow, incredibly fast. Can easily replace my Groq usage if they can keep up with capacity demands.

New comment by smsx in "CriticGPT: Finding GPT-4's mistakes with GPT-4"

smsx — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 18:02:01 +0000

Yup, check out Rho-1 by microsoft research.

New comment by smsx in "Leaving LinkedIn"

smsx — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 21:40:48 +0000

Sounded like he he was talking about a public blog post right?

New comment by smsx in "Linear transformers are faster after all"

smsx — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:52:50 +0000

The point of this post isn’t the linear transformer algorithm. They’re surveying a variety of Linear transformers and showing a general form in order to talk at large about their performance characteristics.

New comment by smsx in "Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions"

smsx — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:43:34 +0000

They didn't say they joined 11 years ago, but that they were 11 years into their career.

New comment by smsx in "The Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing"

smsx — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 04:37:50 +0000

They're back actually - They recently raised a new round of funding and are working to release their next-gen chip.

Source: https://mythic.ai/whats-new/mythic-raises-13-million-to-brin...

EDIT: I see this was actually mentioned in the article. Well, the new CEO happens to be the former CTO and is quite talented.

New comment by smsx in "Does glass break faster than a bullet? [video]"

smsx — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 23:30:01 +0000

Why does this sound like ChatGPT?

New comment by smsx in "Emacs 29 is nigh"

smsx — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 01:04:12 +0000

Actually, in the last few months there has been an absolute ton of feature work. A very sophisticated generational profile system was introduced, and the entire framework is being split into separate packages to enable more stable versioning. This is all with the goal of reducing the bus-factor from being just Henrik.

New comment by smsx in "Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust"

smsx — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 16:12:42 +0000

I’m just learning helix, but I believe you can move to the end of the line with gl, and i’m sure there’s an equivalent for the beginning.

New comment by smsx in "Emacs-like editors written in Common Lisp"

smsx — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 16:36:49 +0000

This is referring to commits across all repos using those languages, not commits to the languages themselves.

New comment by smsx in "Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for Sudo (2020)"

smsx — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 15:23:12 +0000

I've just tested this, and it works fine. It asks for my password like normal from an ssh session, while still using touch id locally.

New comment by smsx in "Zas Editor"

smsx — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 03:33:17 +0000

I would certainly be very interested in it if there was Python support (and VIM keybindings!).

New comment by smsx in "Google is getting left behind due to horrible UI/UX"

smsx — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:12:37 +0000

Once you EOL a product, you no longer have to support it. Not the same case at all as making changes to a core product and then continuing to support it.

New comment by smsx in "Your Computer Isn't Yours"

smsx — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 14:47:23 +0000

Because Docker has a large financial incentive to get it working?