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Agree in general, though with Libreboot the pedantry is more or less the point of the project. You fork a project and put 'libre' in the name, I personally see that as a statement of dedication and expect you to stick to those guns. The experiment isnt much of an experiment otherwise.

Coreboot still exists.

Re:But can your calculator run Linux? on Sunday August 02, 2026 @12:21AM (#49141071)
Yes, in fact it can.

[1] https://calculinux.org/

If your storage devices are native PCIe and your network is actually fast enough and your nics and switches have the proper hardware and driver support and your switches are properly configured and your nfs client and server configurations are tweaked just so, and you hold your face in just the right position

The perf is amazing

This is a ConnextX4 on a thunderbolt bridge. This is well trodden territory. Unless some hero of open source has come to bat recently, MacOS doesn't support RDMA with this card or over Ethernet at all for that matter. It's only supported over Thunderbolt.

His iperf3 results show that it's able to go full beans on a single 25g port. A cross platform SMB file copy is kind of a meaningless benchmark in this context.

IMO a pretty cool product would be a network switch providing native thunderbolt interfaces to multiple upstream hosts. That wouldn't magically fix this RDMA issue, though. This is just a separate thought. Seems like the kind of thing Mikrotik should make.

Re:HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router on Monday July 20, 2026 @03:11AM (#48975252)
CRS are L3 switches; they are supposed to route and run dynamic routing protocols and do ECMP and all the good stuff so long as you dont configure features like nat and firewall that require the cpu and cant be offloaded.

The one thing that it frustratingly does not support that I wish it did is stateless bgp with ipv4 prefixes. It cant offload an ipv4 packet with an ipv6 next hop.

I think you are right and most people here are overthinking it.

If you make a bunch of identical API calls quickly, before the initial request completes its cache write, you will have cache misses.

If you make a single API call to warm the cache, then make a bunch of subsequent identical requests, you will have cache hits.

The optimization for this sort of thing is to deduplicate in-flight requests, but i've seen no evidence that is being done; the better design pattern would be an api or tool call that explicitly launches multiple agents after a shared prompt processing stage

There's no single call that can launch multiple event loops at the same time, so there really isn't a notion of serial or parallel; it's always going to be a simple question of how the first model calls made by each hit the backend. I highly doubt that a bunch of agents created within milliseconds of each other are going to get cache hits. It's more likely they will spin up in parallel. I strongly suspect if Anthropic were trying to deduplicate their inflight requests for cache efficiency, they'd at least want to tell you about it.
I'm gonna jump in here and say that the way Anthropic's KV cache works (prefix matching) doesnt guarantee this at all if the subagents are all put into flight at close to the same time. There's nothing in the agent SDK that allows you to instance more than one agent simultaneously, and the docs don't say anything special about KV cache use by agents in this scenario.

You could probably engineer your own harness or workflow to warm the cache by running a single warmup agent, but this is not at all how the tools behave out of the box. It's mostly a cost optimizaiton, so Anthropic really don't have any incentive to do it proactively, and if they did, surely they would want to tell their customers how much they were saving?

Re:DARPA's new X-76 on Monday March 09, 2026 @04:34PM (#47315098)
I'm betting the person who created the "artist rendering" isnt an aeronautical engineer.
Re:People who know the formula for WD-40 on Monday January 26, 2026 @06:28PM (#46773205)
There is essentially zero chemical difference whatsoever in sugar vs corn syrup coke. sucrose disassociates in the presence of an acid into glucose+fructose simple sugars. Just being carbonated will disassociate the sucrose.
Re:JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back on Monday January 26, 2026 @06:21PM (#46773135)
Just a cynical observation here, but its funny how the author still hangs onto the notion that it is "the best" despite that it de facto cannot be "the best."

Also, maybe dont rely on a poorly maintained app for making secure connections to your systems? Just me?

It is kinda weird how all the chat type tools all spit out such cheeseball language despite that the raw models almost never generate stuff like that. It honestly just makes me feel like the people making this shit are so caught up in their own hype bubble that it doesn't even register to them as abhorrent.
Re:NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power on Saturday December 20, 2025 @01:52PM (#46338524)
woah hold on a sec. that's not how these clocks are actually used though.

It's a huge huge huge misconception that you can just plunk down an "atomic clock", discipline an NTP server with it and get perfect wallclock time out of it forever. That is just not how it works. Two hydrogen masers sitting next to each other will drift. Two globally distributed networks of hydrogen masers will drift. They cannot NOT drift. The universe just be that way.

UTC is by definition a consensus; there is no clock in the entire world that one could say is exactly tracking it.

Google probably has the gear and the global distribution that they could probably keep pretty close over 30-60 days, but they are assuredly not trying to keep their own independent time standard. Their goal is to keep events correlated on their own network, and for that they just need good internal distribution and consensus, and they are at the point where doing that internally makes sense. But this is the same problem on any size network.

Honestly for just NTP, I've never really seen evidence that anything better than a good GPS disciplined TCXO even matters. The reason they offer these oscillators in such devices is because they usually do additional duties like running PtP or distributing a local 10mhz reference where their specific performance characteristics are more useful. Rubidium, for instance, is very stable at short timescales but has awful long term stability.

Re:Client-side GPU load balancing with Redis and Lua on Monday December 08, 2025 @04:01PM (#46197607)
Yeah I really don't understand why they went this direction as it builds considerable additional complexity directly into the application to solve a problem with an external component

I would have probably approached this by implementing a fix for the misbehaving part of k8s, though since there isnt a default LoadBalancer in k8s, I can't really can't speculate further as to the root cause of the initial problem. But most CNI or cloud providers that implement LB do have a way to take feedback from an external metric. I'd be curious why doing it this way wasn't considered, at least.

Re:FEX-emu – run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices on Friday November 21, 2025 @04:29PM (#46009205)
RISC is dead; long live RISC
Re:NanoMi: Open-source transmission electron microscope on Friday October 10, 2025 @03:26PM (#45542763)
I had a look and this project is most definitely not open source. Nobody should be making that claim.

Changing the HN headline to soften the project's own bombastic claim isn't really the point of the argument. It would bhe better to highlight any project that is actually working on open source microscopy of which there are many. Flagged

Re:GPT-5 on Thursday August 07, 2025 @03:53PM (#44829529)
Web search often tanks the quality of MY output these days too. Context clogging seems a reasonable description of what I experience when I try to use the normal web.
No, unsafe-yt
So what if your adversary relays your encrypted message along another channel?
Set llm-auto-lobotomy to disabled in chrome:flags. I think this is only available in canary at the moment
Unfortunately being noble or self righteous or whatever emotion you choose has nothing to do with it. If there is a pool of grant money available only to “Focused Research Organizations,” and you want some of it for your work, then you open one and do your work under that umbrella. Academic institutions themselves do this all the time. It looks politically and morally sketchy, and maybe it often is, but it’s the way it works.
Re:“No tax on tips” is an industry plant on Friday August 01, 2025 @10:42AM (#44757514)
All this is just the result of playing a zero sum game with industry that is traditionally very low margin. The money always comes from somewhere.
Re:Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip on Thursday July 17, 2025 @01:54PM (#44596115)
> What's the use case for the 10GbE? Is ~200MB/sec not enough?

Yes; its far from close enough. My litmus test for consumers is, can they put their video files on network storage and work with them? And with modern cellphone video, the answer is no it is not convenient to do that. Consumer networking is in a tarpit. Business grade systems have networking that is three orders of magnitude faster; there is no other component between systems that are that dissimilar in performance, not even GPUs.

Re:Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip on Thursday July 17, 2025 @01:46PM (#44596033)
10GbaseT and SFP+ DAC are a world apart. The latter is now extremely power efficient. But even modern 10GbaseT parts are considerably improved
I'm not really sure why this is being characterized as an emerging threat. VPN-over-DNS and all kinds of DNS based exfiltration were quite popular a couple of decades ago. Still, most people don't really secure their DNS properly even still.

It seems someone is just trying to drum up business with this; it's not a new thing.

Re:Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip on Friday July 04, 2025 @04:37PM (#44467686)
The lack of highspeed networking on any small system is completely and totally insane. I have come to hate 2.5gbps for the hard stall it has caused on consumer networking with such a passion that it is difficult to convey. You ship a system with USB5 on the front and your networking offering is 3.5 orders of magnitude slower? What good is the cloud if you have to drink it through a straw?
Re:Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip on Friday July 04, 2025 @04:27PM (#44467625)
NVMe NAS is completely and totally pointless with such crap connectivity.

What in the WORLD is preventing these systems from getting at least 10gbps interfaces? I have been waiting for years and years and years and years and the only thing on the market for small systems with good networking is weird stuff that you have to email Qotom to order direct from China and _ONE_ system from Minisforum.

I'm beginning to think there is some sort of conspiracy to not allow anything smaller than a full size ATX desktop to have anything faster than 2.5gbps NICs. (10gbps nics that plug into NVMe slots are not the solution.)

Re:A New Kind of Computer (April 2025) on Monday June 30, 2025 @01:23PM (#44425779)
If you contextualize Star Trek's "isolinear chips" to be something like this, they start to seem considerably more sensible.

Has anyone built a physical ASIC that embeds a full model yet?

Re:Getting a Cease and Desist from Waffle House on Friday May 30, 2025 @06:23PM (#44140374)
In this case it was their logo mark. AFAIK that's the only claim that they actually made as well. Reading anything else into this story is ridiculous.
Re:Getting a Cease and Desist from Waffle House on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @03:39PM (#44119914)
To me this whole situation seems to be a pretty good example of what not to do if faced with a copyright claim. It's tempting to see outfits like The Onion or Cards Against Humanity doing this kind of thing and feel like you are bulletproof and can do it too. But it's pretty easy to tell when these 'open letter' responses have not received legal review.

Waffle House had a legitimate claim and acted on their obligation to their trademark.

There is a pretty good argument that Waffle House continues to have a claim.

They probably wont do anything because its, frankly, a waste of time.

This could probably have been avoided entirely if copyrights were correctly respected from the beginning.

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