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Re:There Were BGP Anomalies During the Venezuela Blackout on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:34PM (#46506058)
Any osrs Venezuelan clans you’re looking to contact about this?
Re:Poker Tournament for LLMs on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @11:19AM (#45734012)
MIT’s IAP Pokerbts class https://github.com/mitpokerbots
You’re also interfacing with folks in a niche service industry here. If you’re a sales rep, you’re definitely being screened to represent what people want to be perceived with using the product.
Re:The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years on Friday September 05, 2025 @06:58PM (#45144675)
are you thinking about 100,000 stars? https://stars.chromeexperiments.com
Re:AI Market Clarity on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @02:37PM (#44651270)
I'm just waiting to see how they monetize their userbase. Last time I checked they made $1/user a year(~20m active users/ 20m revenue). It's predominately a whale market where traffic is driven by power users. You have mobile gacha games like Genshin Impact that make ~$10/user a MONTH (~5m active users/ 50m in monthly revenue)...
Re:AI CapEx Is Eating the Economy on Friday July 18, 2025 @06:07PM (#44610319)
I wouldn't wait. fpgas weren't design to serve this model architecture. yes they are very power efficient but the layout/p+r overhead, the memory requirement (very few on-the-market fpgas have hbm), slower clock speed, and just an unpleasant developer experience makes it a hard sell.
Re:Data Centers in Space on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @10:11PM (#43980011)
- radhard electronics require a different sdk to maintain good seu/tid, and also require a higher layout overhead to maintain these metrics.

- radhard sdks aren't offered at sota node sizes.

- they are much much more expensive

If they can partner with a chipmaker (AMD :^)) and use that as a way to collect some meaningful data, that would be useful at the very least.

As someone who's worked at Xilinx before and after the merger, it's a surprise they were even able to sell it for that much. Altera has been noncompetitive to Xilinx in performance and to Lattice in terms of low-end/low-power offerings for at least the last 2 generations.

I'm concerned about the future of FPGAs and wonder who will lead the way to fix these abhorrent toolchains these FPGA companies force upon developers.

Re:Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @05:08PM (#43561627)
Welcome! Just do your best.