Hacker News: zzzoom

New comment by zzzoom in "OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room"

zzzoom — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:39:39 +0000

Similar technique around the same time presented at SIGGRAPH:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKXOucXB4a8

https://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/VisualMic/

New comment by zzzoom in "Muse Wonder"

zzzoom — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:10:38 +0000

Is anthropic trying to overthrow any governments this month like Meta is?

New comment by zzzoom in "Python 3.15"

zzzoom — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:11:35 +0000

Even 3.12 will be EOL half a year before RHEL 8's.

And "support" doesn't mean you get the same package selection as the original:

  $ yum search 'python3' 2>&1 | grep '^python3-' | wc -l
  1551
  $ yum search 'python3' 2>&1 | egrep '^python3(8|9|\.)' | wc -l
  279

New comment by zzzoom in "Python 3.15"

zzzoom — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:35:54 +0000

Enterprise distros support their python for 10 years anyway. The lack of Python LTS releases results in most versions having longer lifetimes in practice than intended:

  - 3.14: Ubuntu 26.04
  - 3.12: RHEL 10, Ubuntu 24.04
  - 3.10: Ubuntu 22.04
  - 3.9: RHEL 9
  - 3.8: Ubuntu 20.04
  - 3.6: RHEL 8 (EOL in 2029)

New comment by zzzoom in "Hot Flashing Guide Rev. 2.0 (2004)"

zzzoom — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:54:59 +0000

I had to do this once, after a blackout during a BIOS flash bricked my motherboard. Fun stuff. I don't think the working motherboard donor knew what he was signing up for.

New comment by zzzoom in "What Meta got right with Muse"

zzzoom — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:17:39 +0000

Meta will always do whatever it takes to get more users.

New comment by zzzoom in "OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell"

zzzoom — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:32:40 +0000

No way to avoid the memory cartel, even if CXMT catches up.

New comment by zzzoom in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

zzzoom — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:06:08 +0000

Each minute that a GPU isn't running is money evaporating

New comment by zzzoom in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

zzzoom — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:03:28 +0000

Wow, if only the Chinese knew that! So easy!

New comment by zzzoom in "85.3 GFlops: Optimizing FP32 Matrix Multiplication on a Single AMD Zen 3 Core"

zzzoom — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:28:56 +0000

Matrix multiplication is one of the few operations that isn't regularly limited by memory bandwidth. BLAS implementations come with several heavily optimized, architecture-specific versions of sgemm.

New comment by zzzoom in "Speculative KV coding: losslessly compressing KV cache by up to ~4×"

zzzoom — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:13:09 +0000

Isn't the delta fed to an arithmetic coder?

New comment by zzzoom in "Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo"

zzzoom — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:41:52 +0000

Not as many as the ones that the US snatched in operation paperclip

New comment by zzzoom in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

zzzoom — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:26:22 +0000

I'd bet on the inverse: China scaling DRAM production until the price crashes, and the whole US stock market that is propped on top of that scarcity going down with it.

New comment by zzzoom in "Making deep learning go brrrr from first principles (2022)"

zzzoom — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:03:41 +0000

Prefill (GEMM) is compute bound, decode (GEMV) is memory bound.

New comment by zzzoom in "Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles (2022)"

zzzoom — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:13:27 +0000

EPYC 9965: 614GBps of 12-channel DDR5-6400

A100: 1935GBps of HBM2e

Most of those FLOPS are constrained by memory bandwidth.

New comment by zzzoom in "Americans Are Smashing Flock Cameras"

zzzoom — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:49:58 +0000

A social safety net

New comment by zzzoom in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

zzzoom — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:24:15 +0000

And definitely not more evil than the workers at current Meta.

New comment by zzzoom in "Mojo 1.0 Beta"

zzzoom — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:57:45 +0000

Is it? Spack has only one package that depends on chapel.

New comment by zzzoom in "Mythos is the best cybersecurity news in a decade"

zzzoom — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:25:04 +0000

And state actor LLMs probably don't need convincing

New comment by zzzoom in "Mythos is the best cybersecurity news in a decade"

zzzoom — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:19:44 +0000

Copy Fail was found using AI and made our last week miserable (thanks RedHat). Anyone with access to a SOTA model can point it at any package in your stack and go fish. You're underreacting.