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undefuser··on Claude Opus 5.5
Why did it need to generate its own driver when there is a Playwright MCP available and works right out of the box? Am I missing something?
undefuser··on Was my $48K GPU server worth it?
With that amount of memory can you run 4-bit DeepSeek 4 Flash? It is way more efficient in the KV cache department so may be worth a try
undefuser··on One Server. Small Business
How do you reach your server without SSH in the event Tailscale is down or your Tailscale account has a problem?
undefuser··on QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop
I would like to hear more about your experiences. What makes QNX better than others?
undefuser··on PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
Can you share the Pepperidge Farm story?
undefuser··on VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong
Did you switch from VMWare to Microsoft?
undefuser··on Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI
IBM 3380 Model K introduced in 1987, has 7.5 GB of storage and costed about $160000 to $170000, or adjusted for inflation it is $455000 in 2025 US dollars, that's $60666/GB. A Solidigm D5-P5336 drive that can store 128 TB costs about $16500 in 2025 US dollars, that is $0.129/GB. That's a 470279x price reduction in slightly less than 40 years. So what is likely going to happen to LLM pricing? No one knows and both your example as well as mine doesn't mean anything.
undefuser··on Open models by OpenAI
Does it mean that renting a Bare metal server with H100s is also out of question for your org?
undefuser··on For algorithms, a little memory outweighs a lot of time
I think it really depends on the task at hand, and not that intuitive. At some point accessing the memory might be slower than repeating the computation, especially when the storage is slow.
undefuser··on GPU-Driven Clustered Forward Renderer
have you considered using meshlets technique like Unreal Engine Nanite or Assassin's Creed? It could potentially open the door for better culling and more effective depth prepass.
undefuser··on IPinfo started offering free unlimited country-level geolocation and ASN details
How often does a given IP address changes to another country?
undefuser··on ArkFlow: High-performance Rust stream processing engine
I would like to understand more. What are the potential use cases for this tool?
undefuser··on Zoho halts $700M semiconductor plan
It is important to not leave out the context that Google needed TPUs for their AI development. Now the question is what does Zoho email and office software gain from fabricating custom chips?
undefuser··on Bloom Filters
So, in the end did quad tree help you solve the problem, or you needed something else?
undefuser··on Bloom Filters
Have you tried using Quad Tree?
undefuser··on Zhaoxin's KX-7000
If the goal is to make a CPU that is "fast enough to host H100 competitor AI hardware", then why bother with x64? Huawei could have just produced a powerful ARM chip to go with their new AI processor. After all, Nvidia GB200 also uses Arm-based CPUs (the Grace in GB).
undefuser··on Visiting Us
Why is it sad, are their products not good?
undefuser··on Visiting Us
Is MUMPS still being used in any significant capacity at the company?
undefuser··on We Chose Tauri over Electron for Our Performance-Critical Desktop App
Is wxwidget not a viable choice in 2025 anymore?
undefuser··on What Happens When You Put a Database in the Browser?
DuckDB has certain optimizations which allows it to read only parts of a parquet file. It can also read remote file in streaming fashion so it does not have to wait for the entire file to be downloaded or to store a large amount of data in memory. Relevant documentation: https://duckdb.org/2021/06/25/querying-parquet.html
undefuser··on Self-published Ansible book – 87k copies, 300k revenue, 41 revisions
What would be a better alternative to Ansible?
undefuser··on Show HN: FlingUp, a Reddit-like platform Ive been building for the last 2 years
I wonder how you plan to deal with certain types of content, like piracy, porn, gore etc.
undefuser··on One line of code that did cost $8k
None. But I also have never costed any of the companies I worked for 8k due to 1 line of code. It was a constructive feedback, but hey take it however you will.
undefuser··on One line of code that did cost $8k
It is understandable that you need to iterate quickly, but that should not be an excuse to not spend just 5 minutes to think through the potential scenarios. Also, you can have a function to query an end point to find latest version available as a string, compare that to a const string inside the build, if they are different then invoke the auto-updater. Simple and light weight.
undefuser··on Spinning Diagrams with CSS
Does it work with more than 4 faces while keeping 90 degree turns?
undefuser··on Babylon.js 6.0
Not very relevant to the main topic here, but the site www.havok.com seems to have a SSL cert problem.
undefuser··on Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022?
Yes maybe, however the guy said he wants to run once per hour. On top of that he will certainly need some form of persistence in order to do diff. Not to mention that some of the serverless solution suggested in other comments have short execution time limit, which if he happen to scan a large site, that would be insufficient. Yes maybe not everyone is willing to pay $5 per month, but in this case I think it strike a reasonable point between cost, speed, reliability and ease of use.
undefuser··on Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022?
Can someone please enlighten me on what is the purpose of using an external Cron runner here? If I need to run the same job(s) for a long time, wouldn't it be simpler and cheaper to run a basic $5 VM on something like Linode?
undefuser··on Ask HN: How does ChatGPT work?
I applied the same prompts and the results get better:

Me: Which number is bigger, 873593742593454623 or 873593742593554623

ChatGPT: These two numbers are equal. The first number is simply the second number with an extra digit added at the end. Since the added digit does not affect the value of the number, both numbers are equal.

Me: Apply your reasoning and finding the bigger of two numbers to compare 123 and 53.

ChatGPT: In this case, the number 123 is larger than the number 53. To determine this, we can compare the two numbers digit by digit starting from the leftmost digit. Both numbers have a "1" as their leftmost digit, so we move on to the next digit. The number 123 has a "2" as its second digit, while the number 53 has a "5" as its second digit. Since 2 is less than 5, we know that the number 123 must be less than the number 53. Therefore, the number 53 is larger than the number 123.

undefuser··on Const vs. constexpr vs. consteval vs. constinit in C++20
Perhaps you can write a small subset of your program in unsafe Rust, like performance critical inner loop, and then the rest of the program in safe Rust.
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