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New comment by tos1 in "MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU"

tos1 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:09:27 +0000

That’s a pretty non-standard H200 configuration. In the regular HGX configurations, a node with 8xH200 has that much CPU DRAM. That makes the title of the paper somewhat arguable imo.

New comment by tos1 in "Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of the same mass"

tos1 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:50:42 +0000

This gives a whole new meaning to the term “stochastic parrots” for LLMs :)

New comment by tos1 in "Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt"

tos1 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:14:39 +0000

As with any good (and especially "currency"), it's only worth 1 USD as long as somebody (including the issuing company) is willing to give you 1 USD for it. Even if it is "linked", "pegged" or called something else.

New comment by tos1 in "Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML"

tos1 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 08:06:56 +0000

I generally share your skepticism, but didn‘t DeepSeek prove that one does not need a „competitive advantage“ in hardware? And if that does not hold for HW, it likely also doesn't hold for energy.

New comment by tos1 in "Show HN: C++ library for reading MacBook lid angle sensor data"

tos1 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 07:53:18 +0000

Cool! I'm wondering why is the lid-opening angle a 16 bit value without any scaling? Can MacBooks be opened > 255°? :)

(https://github.com/ufoym/mac-angle/blob/main/angle.cpp#L186)

New comment by tos1 in "Introduction to Ada: a project-based exploration with rosettas"

tos1 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:45:59 +0000

I’m interested. Do you have a link or can you elaborate?

New comment by tos1 in "Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?"

tos1 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 06:49:58 +0000

I'm curious: What's your reasons for not wanting to support Mozilla?

New comment by tos1 in "Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com)"

tos1 — Sun, 18 May 2025 19:22:44 +0000

Something like Dillo? (You can disable image rendering in Dillo).

New comment by tos1 in "Building my childhood dream PC"

tos1 — Sun, 18 May 2025 17:18:50 +0000

Love the image of the monitor showing Battle Chess! As a side note to all like-minded people that love old DOS games, check out the library of DOS games on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games

New comment by tos1 in "I built a build system for C/C++ where you add libraries with a single command"

tos1 — Sun, 11 May 2025 07:54:19 +0000

I‘m curious: How does Zyn integrate with non-Zyn-style projects? I.e. I have CMake/whatever project X that just tries to find dependencies and lists them in some readme to be manually installed by the user (I think that applies to most C/C++ projects out there). And now, I am listing X as a dependency in Zyn. How does it deal with this situation?

New comment by tos1 in "Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors (2013)"

tos1 — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 12:03:16 +0000

Update to the 2013 numbers: As of today, the Intel SDM (https://cdrdv2-public.intel.com/782158/325462-sdm-vol-1-2abc...) has 5066 pages.

New comment by tos1 in "Use Noexcept for Exception Handling in C++ Programs"

tos1 — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 10:52:30 +0000

Also, make_unique would not be UB: The post matches new[] with delete and does not even care about valgrind mentioning this.