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New comment by zshn25 in "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"

zshn25 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:59:44 +0000

It would be interesting to benchmark a short training / inference run on the latest of TPU vs. NVIDIA GPU per cost basis

New comment by zshn25 in "The eighth-generation TPU: An architecture deep dive"

zshn25 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:30:26 +0000

Splitting TPUs into dedicated training vs inference chips feels like an admission that the bottleneck has shifted from FLOPs to memory bandwidth + latency. Are future gains to come more from memory/system design than raw compute scaling? What’s that saying about Scaling laws?

New comment by zshn25 in "Show HN: WordFor – a free, open, private reverse dictionary running on browser"

zshn25 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:20:46 +0000

Thank you for your kind words. Great catalog. I found WordFor already.

New comment by zshn25 in "Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th"

zshn25 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:30:01 +0000

Open-source, free version of this is Stirling PDF https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF where you can do very accurate OCR while keep the formatting.

New comment by zshn25 in "Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th"

zshn25 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:29:24 +0000

Stirling PDF https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF is a free self-hosted PDF tool that can do very accurate OCR while keeping the formatting.

New comment by zshn25 in "Show HN: WordFor – a free, open, private reverse dictionary running on browser"

zshn25 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:28:35 +0000

I first compute the embeddings to the dictionaries and store these. At query-time, when the user inputs the description, its embeddings are again computed by a lighter model. Then comparison happens between this and the stored ones

Show HN: WordFor – a free, open, private reverse dictionary running on browser

zshn25 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:07:36 +0000

We all know the feeling: can’t remember the word but we know what it means. That’s why I built:

WordFor - a reverse dictionary where you describe a concept and it suggests the word you’re looking for.

- Runs entirely in the browser (no server calls) - No ads, tracking, or accounts - Low latency (results show up immediately as you type)

Curious how well it works for other people, and happy to answer questions about the approach or tradeoffs.

Technical Blog explaining the workings: https://zshn25.github.io/wordfor-reverse-dictionary/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805014

Points: 4

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New comment by zshn25 in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

zshn25 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:59:53 +0000

The comparison to automobiles changing streets is thrown around a lot. But I feel AI is fundamentally different. It is not a technological change like the internet which brought us huge amounts of opportunities in so many different directions. AI’s goal is to automate (in other words, replace) us.

New comment by zshn25 in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

zshn25 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:47:10 +0000

Sorry, how did you calculate the 10.25B?

New comment by zshn25 in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All"

zshn25 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:42:16 +0000

Got it. Thanks

New comment by zshn25 in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All"

zshn25 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:42:06 +0000

~I see. What’s the 6?~

Nevermind, the other reply clears it

New comment by zshn25 in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

zshn25 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:37:16 +0000

What do all the numbers 6-35B-A3B mean?