Hacker News: speed_spread

New comment by speed_spread in "Linux 7.1"

speed_spread — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:18:46 +0000

It's ok, you can let go of Chesterton's ISDN phone pole now. Come, we have cable, we have fiber. Just for you, I'll even fire up a little hotspot from the palm of my hand as we walk away.

New comment by speed_spread in "Who's the smartest corvid?"

speed_spread — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:30:32 +0000

Parrots aren't evil, they're just assholes.

New comment by speed_spread in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

speed_spread — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:12:33 +0000

And before that, The Last Starfighter

New comment by speed_spread in "How much do amd64 microarchitecture levels help in Go?"

speed_spread — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:06:49 +0000

It's not the kind of performance expectations where processor-specific SIMD support really matters (although nice if it's there)

Go's performance goals are to have much faster runtime than any interpreted language and faster build times than most compiled languages. It's a reasonable stance.

New comment by speed_spread in "Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism"

speed_spread — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:17:10 +0000

Hahalberta

New comment by speed_spread in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

speed_spread — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:55:43 +0000

It doesn't matter if it's classic search or LLM. They can monetize tracking information as easily as they can sell ads. They'll have fast cheap custom-built assistant models that run on device by default, keeping things profitable. In time they'll likely double-dip again by injecting product placement in results.

New comment by speed_spread in "The Cypherpunk Library"

speed_spread — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:01:44 +0000

You have to make your own stories as you go along. Plug that fresh knowledge into hypothetical scenarios from stuff you've learned before.

New comment by speed_spread in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

speed_spread — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:11:59 +0000

However bad UEFI is, it's still better than the fragmented ARM boot wasteland.

New comment by speed_spread in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

speed_spread — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:48:00 +0000

Those 192GB aren't unified memory though. 128GB on Mac or 395 can be used by both CPU and GPU. It's the GPU + large memory that opens up fast local LLM inteference.

New comment by speed_spread in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

speed_spread — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:25:17 +0000

The Internet brought obvious benefits to everyone. New ways to communicate, associate and do business. It was a tool of collective empowerment. It promised a more equal, dynamic society. The promises of AI are much less constructive. I can see the power being immediately funneled to the top of the pyramid while everyone else sucks it up. It's not a future I want invest in or take part of.

New comment by speed_spread in "C++: The Documentary"

speed_spread — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:13:38 +0000

Kotlin is the future of maintenance nightmare and Jetbrains lock-in.

New comment by speed_spread in "Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe"

speed_spread — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:43:31 +0000

Nudge it long enough to deplete it's fuel reserves? Or just wrap the emitting antenna in tin foil...

New comment by speed_spread in "Meteor Explodes over Massachusetts"

speed_spread — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:00:23 +0000

I think "tons of TNT" make sense for an explosion? At least it works for A-Bomb equivalents, in this case it was like, huh, ~1/50th of Little Boy.

New comment by speed_spread in "Zig: Build System Reworked"

speed_spread — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:09:24 +0000

I'm not pjmlp, but the cached answer is Turbo Pascal.

New comment by speed_spread in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

speed_spread — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:32:46 +0000

By entertainment I assume you mean money laundering?

New comment by speed_spread in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

speed_spread — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:31:15 +0000

Like Slack history, LLM history can be used to build searchable knowledge base. Questions are often more valuable than answers.

New comment by speed_spread in "Alaska's oil revival sparks a new energy rush Into the Arctic"

speed_spread — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:09:44 +0000

Not sure that Canada has defunded it's military as much as it's been told "you don't need it". Canada couldn't buy proper nuclear subs from the USA but for Australia it was okay? And let's not talk about locally sourced defense tech programs... Ahem Avro

New comment by speed_spread in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"

speed_spread — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:32:59 +0000

The value is realized when you have both discriminated union types _and_ language pattern matching (not regex). Then it's not just a way to structure data but a way to think about how to process it.

New comment by speed_spread in "Slumber a TUI HTTP Client"

speed_spread — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:33:57 +0000

Because as long as you stay away from anchors and inline JSON, YAML is a perfectly workable, structured, human-readable format that supports comments.

New comment by speed_spread in "Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades"

speed_spread — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:26:10 +0000

They're manufactured once and then generate way more energy than was used to make them.