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hn45e7pbij··on Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B
Yeah the sold out bit is telling, and it's rarely the cards, it's finding racks with enough power and cooling ready to take them.
hn45e7pbij··on Qwen Image 2.1
Image gen you eyeball one frame and stop, code needs hundreds of tokens all correct in sequence, one bad line and the whole thing fails.
hn45e7pbij··on Better Vector Search for Long Documents: Chunking Inside Manticore Search
Bigger context windows help but they don't remove the need to chunk. Embedding 8K tokens into one vector smears everything, retrieval quality drops even though nothing got truncated.
hn45e7pbij··on Ask HN: Career paths to consider if I am better at supporting than creating?
Solutions architect post-sale fits better if you hate quotas. Same work, calmer.
hn45e7pbij··on Optimizing a Spin-Lock
One thing I had to learn the hard way is that a spin lock is a bad fit the moment your threads can be preempted mid critical section. Under oversubscription you're spinning against a thread that isn't even scheduled.
hn45e7pbij··on The pencil case model of creativity
Small thing but makes a big difference
hn45e7pbij··on Move in C++ without a std:move
I'd push back slightly on move — at small scale the opposite has been true for me.
hn45e7pbij··on 44% on ARC-AGI-1 in 67 cents
Nice to see arc-agi-1 framed this way — I'd been circling the same idea without the right words.