CalChris
Re:Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your ...
on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @07:24PM (#50267303)
Odd that it doesn’t run on phones. It isn’t that large, 212MB on a Mac. Phones are basically everyone’s EDC and most are quite powerful.
Re:OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few...
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @09:58PM (#50238162)
They just started competing against each other? No.
Anthropic is going public soon. Until September, OpenAI was going public. Neither are remotely profitable.
Re:Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA
on Thursday September 17, 2026 @02:19PM (#49744559)
I hoped it would be Alpha.
Re:Making Startups Powerful
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @01:18PM (#49686228)
Understanding the problem before attempting the solution is always a good idea.
Re:Political meddling at the Census Bureau damages the US statistical ...
on Sunday September 06, 2026 @08:20PM (#49592359)
Opinion.
Re:You could have invented PageRank
on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @12:07PM (#49451511)
> Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with this precise algorithm, i.e., PageRank, which was one of the key algorithms that helped catapult Google into a household name and made them tons of money. Both Sergey and Larry were grad students at Stanford, so their coming up with such an amazing algorithm doesn’t seem surprising.
No, Brin wasn’t a co-inventor of PageRank.
Re:Dolly Parton has died
on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @02:25PM (#49438418)
I saw Dolly at Hardly Strictly in 2005. She was great.
Re:SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64
on Monday August 24, 2026 @04:18PM (#49425344)
Side channel timing attacks are micro architectural.
The SeL4 security proofs are architectural.
Re:Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her t...
on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @02:42PM (#49262678)
Brookfield's police chief has defended his officer's, saying they responded appropriately given the information in front of them.
This meant there were no humans in the loop.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open ...
on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @01:28PM (#49261583)
Zuckerberg's boat needed to be monitoring 13 (bridge to bridge) as well. It was in US waters, power driven and greater than 20 meters.
Bow Windshield
Re:Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open ...
on Monday August 10, 2026 @04:52PM (#49249552)
Re:Register deprivation: spills and runtime under forced register scar...
on Saturday August 01, 2026 @04:44PM (#49138293)
How much effect the CPU's register remapping has? Probably a lot and the article doesn't discuss it at all.
However, the Intel Xeon E-2236 was released in 2019; so it's hardly ancient and the current E-2400 isn't so different.
As for hardware register renaming, Tomasulo dates to 1967 and out-of-order ROBs were common in the 90s. I don't know that there's been any major new ideas microarchitectural ideas in register renaming since the 90s.
I still think it's a meaningful experiment but could be improved with consideration of microarchitectural features.
Re:Does creatine make you smarter?
on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @12:59PM (#49009860)
I was taking 5mg of Creatine and was in the ER for an unrelated reason. My metabolic panel measured creatinine at 1.34 mg/dL. A panel from last year without the supplement was a very normal 0.95. These were gummies and I wasn’t slamming water.
BTW, it tends to trash the eGFR test which relies on an unbiased creatinine reading.
Re:The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reas...
on Saturday July 11, 2026 @10:39AM (#48872452)
Why is this known bits optimization being done by the JIT rather than the Java compiler?
Re:Is The Economist Always Wrong?
on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @12:15AM (#48827431)
It started with Greenspan but ramped up under Bernanke.
https://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/econ_focus...
Re:Dostoyevsky Isn't Difficult
on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @10:32PM (#48668129)
I liked The Possessed by Elif Batuman. I had read The Idiot in high school, a death march for a term paper. But I liked Batuman's reading of it better than mine (but not enough to re-read it).
Re:1,700 free online courses from top universities
on Monday June 22, 2026 @11:45PM (#48639999)
Thanks. Stanford's archive seems to be one big 296.2G blob. But it's there at least.
Re:1,700 free online courses from top universities
on Monday June 22, 2026 @11:13PM (#48639765)
The Stanford iTunesU classes have been truncated to a few seconds. So Susanna Braund's Aeneid course (which was brilliant) is gone. Same thing with their Hannibal course. I don't know that they're available elsewhere. Apple dropped iTunesU (2021?) and Stanford didn't have a backup.
Re:DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pi...
on Saturday June 20, 2026 @07:57PM (#48614282)
I have a friend who flew F15s. I’ve sent him this.
Re:A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
on Monday June 15, 2026 @04:40PM (#48546765)
It’s odd that the operator of the scam knew full stack level details of its implementation. To me, it seems like they were targeting the author, perhaps as something like privilege escalation, identity escalation perhaps.
Re:A dumpster arrived behind my university's library
on Friday June 12, 2026 @01:20PM (#48506833)
Berkeley has the Northern Regional Library Facility in Richmond, CA for this very purpose. I’ve checked out books where they crackled as I opened them and it was clear I was the first to read them.
Re:Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (20...
on Friday June 12, 2026 @01:14AM (#48500181)
People don’t get credit for fixing problems that do happen. Maybe possibly in a sales scenario where your fix unblocked the sale. Otherwise nada.
Re:The Russian who invented semiconductors 25 years before the USA
on Sunday June 07, 2026 @12:24AM (#48431779)
His death at the Siege of Leningrad sounds a lot like Archimedes death at the hands of a centurion during the fall of Syracuse to the Romans. That death was told by the always reliable Livy.
Re:Show HN: Using Tailscale with an OrbStack VM on macOS
on Thursday May 28, 2026 @03:00PM (#48313792)
Interesting. Can you do this with Forgejo?
Re:Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality
on Saturday May 23, 2026 @04:15PM (#48251040)
The grand jury declined to prosecute and she's suing the town.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/trinidad-texas...
Re:Jank now has its own custom IR
on Monday May 18, 2026 @06:23PM (#48186619)
Your custom IR is above LLVM’s IR, correct? Is it like SwiftIR then? Maybe you could add a paragraph or two going through that design decision.
Re:Jank now has its own custom IR
on Sunday May 17, 2026 @10:30PM (#48175022)
The natural question is why doesn't Jank use MLIR?
Re:"Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny C...
on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @10:02PM (#48130279)
In fact, MA costs the government more per person than does TM. MA may have been lobbied for as a cost saving measure. It is, in fact, a profit center for insurance companies.
https://www.kff.org/medicare/higher-and-faster-growing-spend...