Hacker News: vkaku

New comment by vkaku in "KDE Plasma 6.8 Set to Drop X11 Support Completely"

vkaku — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:23:25 +0000

I like 6.6 and I would mind dropping X11 support this quickly, this ideally should be in KDE 7.0/8.0 because, as I understand it, many apps and drivers are not ready for Wayland/XWayland.

Give it one more release then drop it?

New comment by vkaku in "CXMT unveils DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 chips"

vkaku — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 22:19:05 +0000

Also See: https://www.cxmt.com/en/product.html

CXMT unveils DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 chips

vkaku — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 22:11:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/chinas-banned-memory-maker-cxmt-unveils-surprising-new-chipmaking-capabilities-despite-crushing-us-export-restrictions-ddr5-8000-and-lpddr5x-10667-displayed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46073657

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by vkaku in "Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver"

vkaku — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 05:59:41 +0000

Excellent. This is the kind of W that needs more people to jump into.

New comment by vkaku in "Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio"

vkaku — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 14:41:37 +0000

This is excellent, detailed, and does the job. Many of these comments are myopic and miss the point. This is better than the way most people would present their portfolio and it shows some creativity and thoughtful design. Especially if they've visited the rest of your portfolio.

Good job, OP. Stay away from the haters.

New comment by vkaku in "Python: The Documentary [video]"

vkaku — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 16:14:56 +0000

I realize that given the current adoption, the language might turn out to be completely different in the next few years.

And right now, transformers literally can transform any source to any target, so languages are not as valuable as they once used to be and any idioms in one language will eventually become outmoded thanks to the rapidly evolving way we work today.

Python will still be a favorite language for me, just not as much as it used to be.

If someone makes a new modern, tiny, self contained runtime (Bun like) for Python deployments, hit me up. I'll be happy to try it. That's something I've been wanting for a while.

New comment by vkaku in "Dotfiles feel too personal to share"

vkaku — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 17:44:42 +0000

I keep my DotFiles on my GitHub not without its embarrassments, this will help me backup and restore my tools and workflows on systems anywhere I want it to.

https://github.com/guilt/DotFiles

There's no knowledge shared here, just my own setup which can be barebones git cloned. Planning to add a curlbash installer here to help me set it up with a oneliner.

New comment by vkaku in "When Software Engineers Think They Need More Focus Time"

vkaku — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 05:11:20 +0000

That is not conducive to getting anything complex done and will likely burn the team out and create slop over a period of time.

A better long term approach would be to onboard people and give their time to lean in, understand practice and do their best work.

When deadlines are short, there needs to be a well defined practice and things to quickly execute on, with everything well documented.

New comment by vkaku in "Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet"

vkaku — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 18:19:10 +0000

The tendency to increase complexity will be at odds with privacy and user control.

The problem is that the internet is a centralized system practically even though it is decentralized and some are fighting to keep it free.

Fight for decentralization instead, it will remove the need for unnecessary security and reduce the compute cost significantly.

New comment by vkaku in "Show HN: Single file transformers implementation for learning"

vkaku — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 09:47:15 +0000

This was entirely written by Grok 3.0.

The focus was on being able to demonstrate training, inference and attention, all in one file;

This can be run on a GPU thanks to cupy, a kernel needn't be written for this whole thing to run. I definitely think that more people can mess around with different attention mechanisms and models and try training models out on their computers. That is the post.

Show HN: Single file transformers implementation for learning

vkaku — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 09:41:16 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/guilt/7534274c972c6a44ea555c21e43917f7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44613982

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by vkaku in "FOKS: Federated Open Key Service"

vkaku — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 08:45:24 +0000

Good to know someone's thinking of decentralizing the whole thing :) Always been wondering where to lay these keys out, if people want to start recovering their data / keys. Something like this + IPFS would be radical, and allow folks to encrypt and circulate easily. Thank you for building this. So ... I wonder how you got here after building Keybase, what's the motivation this time, how do you envision this gets hosted?

P.S. I built this for Group Encryption a few years ago, to help circulate key hives offline https://github.com/guilt/groupenc

New comment by vkaku in "The American DeepSeek Project"

vkaku — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 06:47:53 +0000

There's a few things:

- Open weights

- Affordable compute and memory prices

- Open Datasets and Training Methods (actual masking / QnA)

None of these are being paid attention to

New comment by vkaku in "Huawei releases an open weight model trained on Huawei Ascend GPUs"

vkaku — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 03:20:36 +0000

The cards mentioned in the paper are also seemingly well priced for most developers: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Original-Huaweis-Atla...

New comment by vkaku in "Huawei releases an open weight model trained on Huawei Ascend GPUs"

vkaku — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 03:18:29 +0000

The next moment I'd like to see is a mass 15-20A fab and suddenly making all the controls obsolete.

New comment by vkaku in "Xeneva Operating System"

vkaku — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:20:08 +0000

Just saw this. I keep lists of links on my website. This is even before Github was a thing.... :)

New comment by vkaku in "Radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica"

vkaku — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 22:32:17 +0000

They moved the decepticons to the Antarctic ice shelves eh.

New comment by vkaku in "Embedded Configurable Operating System (ECos)"

vkaku — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 08:34:11 +0000

Apparently eCosCentric still maintaining it.

See: https://www.ecoscentric.com/ecos/ecospro.shtml

Embedded Configurable Operating System (ECos)

vkaku — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 08:29:59 +0000

Article URL: https://ecos.sourceware.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44266781

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by vkaku in "Why does my ripped CD have messed up track names? And why is one track missing?"

vkaku — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 08:21:39 +0000

Perhaps I should create an overlay for MusicBrainz with sub-minute lag called ZombieBrainz.

If you own a CD and send an edit with a $5 donation, it goes on volatile and nightly; It can go to beta instantly for $100 donations and if not it'll have to be flagged for violations. If it needs to happen instantly on stable, $10000 (generous patron tier, where I will write a blog post for this entry as well) else get to it in 3 months.