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New comment by subset in "Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare"

subset — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:59:11 +0000

Possibly controversial, but I think short commands should be disallowed. This is the stance the AWS CLI takes, and it 1) vastly improves readability, especially for those learning the syntax 2) makes it less easy to shoot yourself in the foot with a typo.

GPU Memory for LLM Inference (Part 1)

subset — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:50:57 +0000

Article URL: https://darshanfofadiya.com/llm-inference/gpu-memory.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658063

Points: 3

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People and Blogs

subset — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:17:57 +0000

Article URL: https://peopleandblogs.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646602

Points: 2

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A Readable Specification of TLS 1.3

subset — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:42:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.davidwong.fr/tls13/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570774

Points: 3

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New comment by subset in "Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data"

subset — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:55:40 +0000

(Disclaimer: I am not a cryptographer and this is a heavily simplified explanation). Homomorphic encryption is built on the foundation of 'hard problems' (e.g. the Learning with Errors Problem) - loosely, computational problems that are thought to be impossible to reverse without being in the possession of a secret key.

The crux of HE is that it provides a _homomorphism_: you map from the space of plaintext to the space of cipher texts, but the mapping preserves arithmetic properties such as addition and multiplication. To be clear - this means that the server can add and multiply the cipher texts, but the plaintext result of that operation is still irreversible without the private key. To the server, it looks like random noise.

I don't think it's helpful to think about this as connected to deep learning or embedding spaces. An excellent resource I'd recommend is Jeremy Kun's guide: https://www.jeremykun.com/2024/05/04/fhe-overview/

The Third Hard Problem

subset — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:04:28 +0000

Article URL: https://mmapped.blog/posts/48-the-third-hard-problem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47308505

Points: 2

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New comment by subset in "Microgpt"

subset — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:08:34 +0000

Handwritten! (aka no LLM assistance :) It wasn't transpiled or anything like that. I've been meaning to post a little about it on my blog; just been caught up with other stuff atm.

One thing that was a _little_ frustrating coming from Python, though, was the need to rely on crates for basic things like random number generation and network requests. It pulls in a lot, even if you only need a little. I understand the Rust community prefers it that way as it's easier to evolve rather than be stuck with backwards-compatability requirements. But I still missed "batteries included" Python.

New comment by subset in "Microgpt"

subset — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:54:23 +0000

Gosh, tired brain moment apologies. I thought it'd linked to the original code gist.

New comment by subset in "Microgpt"

subset — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:40:09 +0000

Andrej Karpathy has a walkthrough blog post here: https://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/

New comment by subset in "Microgpt"

subset — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:25:55 +0000

I had good fun transliterating it to Rust as a learning experience (https://github.com/stochastical/microgpt-rs). The trickiest part was working out how to represent the autograd graph data structure with Rust types. I'm finalising some small tweaks to make it run in the browser via WebAssmebly and then compile it up for my blog :) Andrej's code is really quite poetic, I love how much it packs into such a concise program

Elliptic Curve Cryptography

subset — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:22:50 +0000

Article URL: https://growingswe.com/blog/elliptic-curve-cryptography

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47203688

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

What functional programmers get wrong about systems

subset — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:07:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-09-what-functional-programmers-get-wrong-about-systems/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46953491

Points: 195

# Comments: 162

Bash Is Not Enough: Why Large-Scale CI Needs an Orchestrator

subset — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:01:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-06-bash-is-not-enough/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919853

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by subset in "Voxtral Transcribe 2"

subset — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 03:50:32 +0000

I think that web browsers only allow up to 4GB of memory per tab.

Now's the Time to Start That Blog

subset — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 01:04:12 +0000

Article URL: https://endler.dev/2026/personal-blog/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760520

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by subset in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

subset — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:13:58 +0000

https://abstractnonsense.xyz/

My personal blog, I normally post about maths and computer science. But sometimes random design things, or bits about linguistics and words.

GitHub hijacks and breaks browser search

subset — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:49:59 +0000

Article URL: https://abstractnonsense.xyz/micro-blog/2026-01-14-github-hijacks-and-breaks-browser-search/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46614528

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Pointer Latency

subset — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 09:57:19 +0000

Article URL: https://rsms.me/projects/pointer-latency/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46564325

Points: 1

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New comment by subset in "What happened to WebAssembly"

subset — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:30:42 +0000

I recently wrote an eigenvalue solver for an interactive component on my blog with Rust compiled to WebAssembly. Being able to write-once and compile for the web and desktop felt like the future. But then, I'm no fan of JavaScript and wouldn't have attempted it if WASM didn't exist.

A Meticulous Guide to Advances in Deep Learning Efficiency over the Years

subset — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 05:49:18 +0000

Article URL: https://alexzhang13.github.io/blog/2024/efficient-dl/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46550472

Points: 2

# Comments: 0