Hacker News: stygiansonic

New comment by stygiansonic in "Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" in Bahrain and Dubai"

stygiansonic — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:46:03 +0000

(Perpetrators also not caught)

Family of Tumbler Ridge shooting victim suing OpenAI

stygiansonic — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:15:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/openai-sued-tumbler-ridge-victim-9.7121635

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47318006

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by stygiansonic in "Google Engineer Found Guilty of Sending AI Secrets to China"

stygiansonic — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:19:29 +0000

  The jury found that Ding stole trade secrets relating to the hardware infrastructure and software platforms that allow Google’s supercomputing data center to train and serve large AI models. The trade secrets contained detailed information about the architecture and functionality of Google’s custom Tensor Processing Unit chips and systems and Google’s Graphics Processing Unit systems, the software that allows the chips to communicate and execute tasks, and the software that orchestrates thousands of chips into a supercomputer capable of training and executing cutting-edge AI workloads. The trade secrets also pertained to Google’s custom-designed SmartNIC, a type of network interface card used to facilitate high speed communication within Google’s AI supercomputers and cloud networking products.

Apple picks Gemini to power Siri

stygiansonic — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:22:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/apple-google-ai-siri-gemini.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589675

Points: 1038

# Comments: 651

New comment by stygiansonic in "Sampling at negative temperature"

stygiansonic — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:06:02 +0000

Neat experiment that gives a mechanistic interpretation of temperature. I liked the reference to the "anomalous" tokens being near the centroid, and thus having very little "meaning" to the LLM.

US authorities shut down major China-linked GPU smuggling operation

stygiansonic — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:41:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr/us-authorities-shut-down-major-china-linked-ai-tech-smuggling-network

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46204829

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Anthropic to buy $30B in Azure capacity in deal with Microsoft, Nvidia

stygiansonic — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:05:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/anthropic-ai-azure-microsoft-nvidia.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967145

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by stygiansonic in "We bought the whole GPU, so we're damn well going to use the whole GPU"

stygiansonic — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:11:47 +0000

That paper doesn’t seem to be about security vulnerabilities in MiG but rather using it to improve workload efficiency

New comment by stygiansonic in "Pentagon Pizza Index"

stygiansonic — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 01:59:27 +0000

Wonder why they haven’t gotten an in house pizzeria yet to reduce the signal on this side channel leak

New comment by stygiansonic in "Gemma 3n preview: Mobile-first AI"

stygiansonic — Tue, 20 May 2025 19:33:57 +0000

From the article it appears to be something they invented:

> Gemma 3n leverages a Google DeepMind innovation called Per-Layer Embeddings (PLE) that delivers a significant reduction in RAM usage.

Like you I’m also interested in the architectural details. We can speculate but we’ll probably need to wait for some sort of paper to get the details.

New comment by stygiansonic in "Reservoir Sampling"

stygiansonic — Fri, 09 May 2025 01:15:52 +0000

Interesting! If Knuth is not the original author then they’ve been lost to the sands of time

New comment by stygiansonic in "Reservoir Sampling"

stygiansonic — Thu, 08 May 2025 17:43:44 +0000

Great article and nice explanation. I believe this describes “Algorithm R” in this paper from Vitter, who was probably the first to describe it: https://www.cs.umd.edu/~samir/498/vitter.pdf

New comment by stygiansonic in "The Burnout Machine"

stygiansonic — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 20:14:34 +0000

The article mentions this union, not sure if it meets your definition of success: https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/our-wins

New comment by stygiansonic in "Superintelligence Strategy"

stygiansonic — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:28:35 +0000

When subtlety proves too constraining, competitors may escalate to overt cyberattacks, targeting datacenter chip-cooling systems or nearby power plants in a way that directly—if visibly—disrupts development. Should these measures falter, some leaders may contemplate kinetic attacks on datacenters, arguing that allowing one actor to risk dominating or destroying the world are graver dangers, though kinetic attacks are likely unnecessary. Finally, under dire circumstances, states may resort to broader hostilities by climbing up existing escalation ladders or threatening non-AI assets. We refer to attacks against rival AI projects as "maiming attacks."

Superintelligence Strategy

stygiansonic — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:19:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nationalsecurity.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43272607

Points: 33

# Comments: 62

New comment by stygiansonic in "Gordon Mah Ung has died"

stygiansonic — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 03:39:19 +0000

Sorry to hear this

A lot of my teenage years were spent building and playing with PCs and a lot of the knowledge and interest came from reading each and every issue of boot and maximum pc

New comment by stygiansonic in "Please stop the coding challenges"

stygiansonic — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:01:38 +0000

Jumping into an unknown codebase (which may be a library you depend on) and being able to quickly investigate, debug, and root cause an issue is an extremely invaluable skill in my experience

Acting as if this isn’t useful in the real world won’t help. The real world is messy, documentation is often missing or unreliable, and the person/team who wrote the original code might not be around anymore.

New comment by stygiansonic in "Hash Ordering and Hyrum's Law"

stygiansonic — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 02:52:40 +0000

I wrote about something similar, which was motivated by an issue I saw caused by an (incorrect) expectation that a Java hashmap iteration order would be random: https://peterchng.com/blog/2022/06/17/what-iteration-order-c...

New comment by stygiansonic in "How Meta trains large language models at scale"

stygiansonic — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 01:54:30 +0000

Yeah, ops comment makes it seem like they are building racks of RTX 4090s, when this isn’t remotely true. Tensor Core performance is far different on the data center class devices vs consumer ones.

New comment by stygiansonic in "PHYS771 Lecture 17: Fun with the Anthropic Principle (2006)"

stygiansonic — Thu, 16 May 2024 16:03:50 +0000

Thanks for writing this.

Is this concept (dice room puzzle, doomsday argument) at all related to the st Petersburg paradox? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox