Hacker News: tardyp

New comment by tardyp in "Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite"

tardyp — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:02:48 +0000

LLM Model versioning really makes me perplex those days...

New comment by tardyp in "Num2words PyPI Package Compromised"

tardyp — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 12:09:47 +0000

New maintainers never bothered to change the range.. History num2words is based on an old library, pynum2word, created by Taro Ogawa in 2003. Unfortunately, the library stopped being maintained and the author can't be reached. There was another developer, Marius Grigaitis, who in 2011 added Lithuanian support, but didn't take over maintenance of the project.

I am thus basing myself on Marius Grigaitis' improvements and re-publishing pynum2word as num2words.

Virgil Dupras, Savoir-faire Linux

New comment by tardyp in "Show HN: MCP Server SDK in Bash"

tardyp — Fri, 30 May 2025 09:30:20 +0000

Interesting to see ppl caring about marshalling overhead when working with LLMs

New comment by tardyp in "Pyobd - a free and open source program for car diagnostics"

tardyp — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 06:01:52 +0000

A shame it doesn't use udsoncan as a backend. Udsoncan is pretty well done and indirectly support doip which is going to be ubiquitous in those new software defined vehicles..

New comment by tardyp in "Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot"

tardyp — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:18:46 +0000

MIT is not a gift. It still requires attribution, notice and license term.

This lawsuit is even not about copy left.

New comment by tardyp in "The open source paradox (2020)"

tardyp — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 12:30:11 +0000

Another key reason to me that open source can be very good quality is when the developer is the key user.

If the developer has strong knowledge of the business while designing a product, it always ends up with better qa as they are writing the right product on first draft.

You hardly get that when you hire someone to do something for you. That is valid in other domain than programming.

New comment by tardyp in "Show HN: Google Cloud Compute Engine Comparison"

tardyp — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 08:59:19 +0000

cool. It was hard to find. :)

looks like only a100 accelerator is documented.

cannot find any info about P4, T4 or P100

New comment by tardyp in "Show HN: Google Cloud Compute Engine Comparison"

tardyp — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 16:58:01 +0000

Very helpful! Thanks!

What could be missing is the GPU aspect. Not sure if the data is available, but it is very unclear to me which GPU is available on which machine type. and also how many, so that I have some chance to get one.

New comment by tardyp in "Show HN: A simple Wordle clone in 60 lines, using Hyperscript"

tardyp — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 18:22:36 +0000

Wordle will become the new todolist

New comment by tardyp in "MIT Scheme on Apple Silicon"

tardyp — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 16:19:05 +0000

Looks like QuickTransit was a jit engine which was the base of Rosetta 1. Rosetta 2 is AOT translation.

New comment by tardyp in "Build an Elixir Redis Server that’s faster than HTTP"

tardyp — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 08:52:09 +0000

It looks like websocket+msgpack would have similar overhead once the initial initial overheard is passed.

But you won't miss all the http reverse proxy ecosystem.

New comment by tardyp in "A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 (2019)"

tardyp — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 11:15:42 +0000

Good ol times when front page videos were 40k views max...

New comment by tardyp in "Element raises $30M to boost Matrix"

tardyp — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 06:45:47 +0000

Can you elaborate? This does not make sense to me

New comment by tardyp in "“Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”"

tardyp — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 17:55:56 +0000

Python ambee is a simple client library for a proprietary sass iot service. I guess they want to control exactly how their users are using their service.

New comment by tardyp in "Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (2018)"

tardyp — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 07:24:45 +0000

I wonder why they didn't just make two separate routines without any branch except for loop. Then you would just make another safety offset to assume for the last loop iteration prediction.

New comment by tardyp in "M1racles: An Apple M1 covert channel vulnerability"

tardyp — Wed, 26 May 2021 18:00:50 +0000

Ah! I'm not sure he would really like the comparison with geohot.

New comment by tardyp in "Avoid Git LFS if possible"

tardyp — Thu, 13 May 2021 08:11:24 +0000

You can easily mirror LFS objects by just using

git lfs fetch --all

every modern git hosting servers now have support for LFS directly inside the git server (gitlab, github, gerrit to my knowledge)

This solve the authentication issue nicely so make it easy for developers.

git lfs starts to be adopted by vendors and becomes usable. It solves real problem when you are tired of having to double your git server CPUs every 6 months as your git upload packs are taking huge time trying to recompress those big files over and over.

New comment by tardyp in "Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython"

tardyp — Wed, 05 May 2021 14:15:56 +0000

In my experience npm just works promise brakes as soon as the repo is 1 2 years old.

New comment by tardyp in "OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana"

tardyp — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 21:06:50 +0000

There is also https://www.opensearchserver.com/ which is the first result when your search "opensearch docker".

New comment by tardyp in "“username or password incorrect” is bullshit"

tardyp — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 18:58:16 +0000

Well.. Could be there right password but the account is misspelled...