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O5vYtytbon Scaling Git at OpenAI

At some point I imagine they will be writing their own software for the entire training and inference stack. Kernels, libraries, why not? With compute so constrained it must be beneficial to optimize everything as much as possible

O5vYtytbon Python's experimental JIT to be removed

CinderX isn't generally faster unless you use "Static Python" which is a major change in how programs are written compared to typical python code.

O5vYtytbon Python's experimental JIT to be removed

This is fine for your own application code, but it doesn't do anything for the libraries you pull in for your project. I don't think that sprinkling Cython code in all library code is going to be a popular solution, especially for those not performance focused. The idea behind a JIT is to be a general performance solution not requiring changes in existing code.

O5vYtytbon Python's experimental JIT to be removed

What a shame. The alternative is CinderX? It's slower unless you stick to "Static Python" which is not most python code in the wild.

O5vYtytbon Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive

that's a thing that "gooners" do.

O5vYtytbon Show HN: Galaxium, an experimental WebGPU space explorer

Very awesome. FYI Voyager(1,2) should be oriented with the big antenna dish pointed towards Earth.

O5vYtytbon GPT-5.6

The announcement says they're rolling it out over the next 24 hours or so. I think it's reasonable to do a slow-roll-out release for one of the most used products on the internet.

O5vYtytbon What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?

Maybe you should ask Andy Jassy, the current CEO?

O5vYtytbon Ending respiratory infections

My wife has LAM. Was your girlfriend on medication hence the weakened immune system?

O5vYtytbon GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2

I've been sent code from vendors that didn't even compile, long before llms were a thing. Most shops that aren't primarily software have really really terrible software.

O5vYtytbon Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

https://epicgames.github.io/lore/roadmap/#desktop-client

> Open-source the desktop client so the community can build on its full graphical experience, not just download it. An early desktop client already exists as a binary download, but it isn't open source yet — it depends on some proprietary components, including Epic's internal design system. We're working to make all of it available in the open so that the client can ship as source alongside the rest of Lore. Lore is an open project, so it is important that the desktop client — which will be one of the main ways many people will interact with Lore — is also fully open so that the community is free to review, extend, and shape it.

O5vYtytbon Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers

Really though it all started with the federalist papers.

O5vYtytbon System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]

If you're smart enough you just use the laws as written to get what you want, or change them.

O5vYtytbon An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon

> Power Supply: 12 V DC (≈1.5 kW peak)

That's a lot of juice for 12VDC

O5vYtytbon DARPA's new X-76 Experimental Plane

It's a quote from someone...?

O5vYtytbon US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February

This is misleading between Trump and Biden, 2020 saw huge employment cuts and Biden gets all of the positive growth of the recovery. Jobs #s actually grew quite considerably 2016-2019.

O5vYtytbon Global warming has accelerated significantly

Ideally us rich countries would help pay for overhauling of infrastructure in developing nations since each $ goes way further to reduce emissions there compared to at home.

O5vYtytbon Global warming has accelerated significantly

Fair? Maybe not, but IMO it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is gross emissions. The effects of a warming planet will not be fair. We should be looking to reduce/eliminate emissions wherever they are happening.

O5vYtytbon Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon

Sure looks like a lot of glue holding that CPU together :)

O5vYtytbon Microgpt

At least python can do this exercise without pulling 3rd party dependencies :)

O5vYtytbon Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you

Buy me a coffee? Jokes on you I just practiced avoiding this.

O5vYtytbon What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025

That's not really apples-to-apples comparison. The Tesla batteries are AC coupled so they work with an (AC coupled) microinverter array. For a DC coupled battery you have to have a hybrid inverter and DC couple the batteries.

Your point that they are overpriced still stands though.

O5vYtytbon Apple picks Gemini to power Siri

Well DRAM prices aren't going down soon so I see this as quite the push away from local inference.

O5vYtytbon CES 2026: Taking the Lids Off AMD's Venice and MI400 SoCs

Each core is multiples faster than a 90's CPU for various reasons as well. I think if you look at an entire rack it's easily a multiple of a 90's datacenter.

O5vYtytbon Web development is fun again

That's not a funny joke.

O5vYtytbon How AI labs are solving the power problem

How many batteries is that? If we're talking solar and you have say a 300MW datacenter and you need it to operate for 12 hours without sun you need at least two of the largest battery install in the world[1] at 1700MWh. That doesn't factor cloudy days.

[1] https://www.heise.de/en/news/850-MW-World-s-largest-battery-...

O5vYtytbon JEDEC developing reduced pin count HBM4 standard to enable higher capacity

Don't forget fury x!

O5vYtytbon New reactor produces clean energy and carbon nanotubes from natural gas

Yes, did you read it? Hydrogen and solid carbon, so the result is no greenhouse gas emissions.

O5vYtytbon NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut

That doesn't quite match what the wikipedia page says:

> The official abbreviation for Coordinated Universal Time is UTC. This abbreviation comes as a result of the International Telecommunication Union and the International Astronomical Union wanting to use the same abbreviation in all languages. The compromise that emerged was UTC, which conforms to the pattern for the abbreviations of the variants of Universal Time (UT0, UT1, UT2, UT1R, etc.).

O5vYtytbon Purple Earth hypothesis

Fun fact, early hand written lyrics were "purple haze, Jesus saves...". It was a recollection of a dream where he was walking under water. The connection to acid is more so by interpretation of the audience.