Hacker News: yu3zhou4

New comment by yu3zhou4 in "The vi family"

yu3zhou4 — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:24:51 +0000

There was onivim that was a bit hyped a few years ago but unfortunately it died

New comment by yu3zhou4 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

yu3zhou4 — Mon, 11 May 2026 05:13:09 +0000

Just learning math and trying myself in ml research

New comment by yu3zhou4 in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

yu3zhou4 — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:29:36 +0000

Laughed hard about Collegium Tumanum

New comment by yu3zhou4 in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

yu3zhou4 — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:57:48 +0000

Poland was sort of occupied until 1989

New comment by yu3zhou4 in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

yu3zhou4 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:08:25 +0000

Good idea, too! Why do you see my explanation as cynical, though?

New comment by yu3zhou4 in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

yu3zhou4 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:57:13 +0000

Maybe it’s in order to have an external provider to blame for failures and shift the blame/responsibility?

New comment by yu3zhou4 in "TorchTPU: Running PyTorch Natively on TPUs at Google Scale"

yu3zhou4 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:32:47 +0000

Adding a support for new hardware to PyTorch is actually quite convenient. I did that with WebGPU using the same PrivateUse1 mechanism TorchTPU used. Every hardware has its own slot and identifier, and when you want to add a support for a new one without merging it into PyTorch, PrivateUse1 works essentially like plug-in slot

https://github.com/jmaczan/torch-webgpu

New comment by yu3zhou4 in "TorchTPU: Running PyTorch Natively on TPUs at Google Scale"

yu3zhou4 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:28:31 +0000

They write that they use PrivateUse1, so it’s a custom out-of-tree backend

TorchWebGPU: Running PyTorch Natively on WebGPU

yu3zhou4 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:26:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jmaczan/torch-webgpu

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47887321

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by yu3zhou4 in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

yu3zhou4 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:29:57 +0000

The system like iOS is still closed. Once Apple ends support for a device, being able to swap a battery won’t help much

Ask HN: Did Claude lowered its usage limits?

yu3zhou4 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:39:38 +0000

For a last few days, I keep hitting chat limits on Sonnet 4.6 and I perceive it to be like 5-10x faster to hit the limit than it used to a week ago. What happened? Do you also experience it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832448

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by yu3zhou4 in "Guide.world: A compendium of travel guides"

yu3zhou4 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:05:51 +0000

Thx, great read about Yemen from Maciej Cegłowski https://idlewords.com/2014/07/sana_a.htm

Benchmark LLM Inference on WebGPU

yu3zhou4 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:43:03 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02344

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47749417

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by yu3zhou4 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

yu3zhou4 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:56:35 +0000

An open course on building high performance LLM inference engine! Hope to finish by the end of April

https://github.com/jmaczan/tiny-vllm

New comment by yu3zhou4 in "Floating point from scratch: Hard Mode"

yu3zhou4 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:23:49 +0000

I love this article, the edge cases are where the seeming “simplicity” of floating-point numbers breaks down

Recently wrote a chapter in tiny-vllm course about floats in context of LLM inference, much shorter and not that deep as this one, for anyone interested in topic you might like it too https://github.com/jmaczan/tiny-vllm?tab=readme-ov-file#how-...

New comment by yu3zhou4 in "Show HN: WebGPU LLM inference comprehensive benchmark"

yu3zhou4 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:26:06 +0000

Honestly there is a lot for room of improvement in torch-webgpu for performance. Needs involvement of community but the opportunities are definitely there

Show HN: WebGPU LLM inference comprehensive benchmark

yu3zhou4 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:39:05 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02344

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657983

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by yu3zhou4 in "Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself (2024)"

yu3zhou4 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:48:22 +0000

Overall I think it’s a good perspective and worth reading to learn your perspective and experience. Just for anyone who doesn’t come from a good place, please be kind to yourself. You probably really need to work exceptionally hard and need to have top 1% resume. And articles like this can be quite depressing. Don’t let it you down

The author tries to be mindful about it and I appreciate it, but from a perspective of someone from a shithole it still might feel bad

Referring to:

> I've never gotten a job by applying to it. It's always been referrals or someone reaching out to me. So honestly, my resume is shit compared to my peers. I'm terrible at interviewing, and I've never done LeetCode. This is not a brag; it's just not my style. Am I a nepo baby? I don't know. Was I a morale hire? I'm pretty disagreeable. Was it merit? Also not sure

> I recognize that not everyone has access to the same networking opportunities, and the traditional job application process can be a valid and necessary path for many. But social media, when used correctly, is a great way to get an opportunity

New comment by yu3zhou4 in "Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived"

yu3zhou4 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:11:11 +0000

Good for the maintainer, hope they find peace and do things just for their fun, without needing to deal with comments like that anymore

New comment by yu3zhou4 in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

yu3zhou4 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:16:36 +0000

So in some sense we start recreating an operating system, or at least the userspace, within the Claude code. There was some name for this pattern but I can’t recall