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KolmogorovComp··on Scaling Git at OpenAI
At least for Anthropic, their article states they've vastly overgrown Meta's and Google's pace.

I think their article reads a bit differently, they haven't optimised git, they've ditched it in favour of a new ~~CVS~~ VCS.

KolmogorovComp··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
If the company behind USDT can block founds, they will be subject to the law and requested to comply.
KolmogorovComp··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
How is that a middle ground? It’s entirely centralized.
KolmogorovComp··on We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
Still waiting for Mistral to serve DS 4.1 with decent caching price.
KolmogorovComp··on I will no longer upload to NEW
OP does not understand where the bottleneck is. It is not in contributors pushing NEW packages, but in the reviewers' time.

They can stop, it does not matter, there will be others ready to contribute.

It is a ruthless reality but you have to preserve the most precious resource in FOSS which currently is maintainers.

KolmogorovComp··on Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking
I'm sympatic to open3dlab but I think the focus on adult-content is just trying to spark outcry for cheap.

It has been shown times and times against that removing adult content from the training source (at least for diffusion models), results in generally lower-quality output, even outside of adult-content, particularly in terms of representing human bodies.

KolmogorovComp··on France needs to read my paper
The paper seems stuck with the long debunked idea that all market actors are rational and centred on economic values, but that is utterly incorrect.

Similarly it states value comes from either work or land, but value can also be created out of thin air. It is called branding.

Especially for France and its luxury industry. You take two identical handbag, one is from LV, the other an unknown brand, one will cost 1,500$, the other 150$.

KolmogorovComp··on Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key
really cool! Thanks for sharing
KolmogorovComp··on Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool
Reminds me of CubeWorld, if my memory serves me. And that’s a compliment!
KolmogorovComp··on Quad9 to exit France
Yes but if you don’t have any assets in the country you could not liable, that was OP’s point.

But even being based in Switzerland I believe there’s some inter-countries agreements, so it would not be practical.

KolmogorovComp··on Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany
> In a free society we should be able to both purchase and publish e-books about Tiananmen Square

What? You can definitely publish about it in a free society, and cash anonymity has nothing to do with it.

KolmogorovComp··on Rust Style Guide
> I wouldn't waste my time fighting the burrow checker just so I can have a prettier program.

I understand your argument as "it's easier to botch an implementation in C++ than in Rust", which is true and that is actually an argument in favour of Rust.

I strongly believe it is harder to write a C++ implementation that is sound and does not rely on UB.

KolmogorovComp··on 2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)
> when malloc() is used in a loop

But nobody should do that, you allocate upfront.

KolmogorovComp··on 2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)
I not so versed into that debate so will gladly take input, but seeing how the “stop the world” issue seem to be for games for example, I’m cautious.
KolmogorovComp··on 2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)
Ocaml has a GC though, no? That makes it improper for system programming.
KolmogorovComp··on 2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)
I don't think rust is the future anymore, despite having contributed to its compiler few times and been quite involved for years. It has spread too much and that impact compiles time too much.

I think a newer language, having the boreness of go, the compile speed and maybe comp time of zig and safety of rust will emerge, maybe with lisp syntax.

KolmogorovComp··on 2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)
is it going to be useful in a LLM-driven code-world.
KolmogorovComp··on 2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)
I'm wondering about the future of clippy.
KolmogorovComp··on I built a drone with only one motor [video]
> but they are tremendously difficult to steer without computer control.

they are not humanly pilotable without computers. they are inherently unstable.

KolmogorovComp··on Linux 7.3
It’d be interesting to see if rust pickup is improving or not.
KolmogorovComp··on DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017
I haven't found that Mistral serve DS.
KolmogorovComp··on Waymo in Toronto
What does a 1-driver taxi compared to a 2-drivers taxi offer apart from fewer taxi-driver jobs? They can't inherently shorten journeys or avoid surface disruption, we already have taxi services in most cities. This just removes a human job and that's the progress.

Now what about a 3-drivers taxi?

The answer is always the same, people hope to lower the driver cost, which I believe is significant for a 1-driver taxi.

KolmogorovComp··on Muse Spark Open
If that was the case, it would be marketed as "the best, and made in the US", not "the best in the US".
KolmogorovComp··on I know why the mathematicians weep
> Are phones an "automation of existing jobs"?

You seem to be unaware of the existence switchboard operators (people redirecting calls to the correct person) were hundreds of thousands in the US alone at some point.

KolmogorovComp··on I know why the mathematicians weep
I think people vastly underestimate the ability of human to respect human performance despite being inferior to machines. Think about chess players vs stockfish, marathon runners vs a car, etc.

I think the crux is much more prosaic, as buried in the article. > I also don’t want to lose my job to a tangle of GPUs.

To put a GPTism, it’s not about the knowledge or status, it’s more about keeping their job and money.

And that can only be answered by policies, and imo by UBI. So votes if you can people, protest otherwise, discuss, debate, lobby with your friends, families acquitances.

KolmogorovComp··on Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome
You don’t use keyboard shortcut for reloading??
KolmogorovComp··on Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser
because open-source is mostly not a multiplicator anymore. The bottleneck in most cases is maintainer's review time, not contributions.
KolmogorovComp··on A Modern Web App in C
Are you comparing their one-person project to nginx? Linux is written in C and out-of-bounds bugs are still found.
KolmogorovComp··on Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser
This is one of the first actually enjoyable vibe-coded game I've seen so far, because it is not so buggy and for once performance is acceptable on Safari.
KolmogorovComp··on A Modern Web App in C
Sadly it doesn’t look like the server is source-avalaible, so we could count the number of security issues included. There is a reason why C is not used for web servers today.
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