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Wes Felter, expert in datacenter/cloud networking and containers. Previously worked at IBM Research and a large investment bank.
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wmf··on Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding
Time to start Rickursive, the lab that will never give you up and never let you down.
wmf··on Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding
Maybe Palantir will use it or something. There probably is a market for US models but I don't know how large it will be.
wmf··on Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding
Congratulations I guess but it's a pretty bad look to not even mention those other open weight models.
wmf··on AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history
All hosting providers comply with local law enforcement.
wmf··on Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux
Taalas won't be cheap. Each chip will be at least $1,000 and large models require multiple chips (maybe hundreds).
wmf··on Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads
The US government owns the stock.
wmf··on The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public
Ah, you're right. I didn't notice they updated the prospectus today.
wmf··on Anthropic's growth just flattened
Amazon has to pay ~70% revenue share on models they host.
wmf··on Anthropic's growth just flattened
They said distillation was 5-7% of revenue. The slowdown is much larger than that.
wmf··on The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public
The only real argument here is that Anthropic has Q3 numbers but they aren't included in the prospectus because they may be bad. Delaying the IPO by a few weeks would solve that problem.
wmf··on Sub-microsecond SEC 15c3-5 risk checks on AWS F2 via FPGA MMIO
OS thread scheduling jitter and kernel context-switching latency

This goes away with isolcpus. Have you tried that?

wmf··on GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode
I don't think we do.
wmf··on GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode
I would assume it's pull-based so the agent takes a screenshot whenever it finishes a turn.
wmf··on Fair Use Benefits Everyone
Isn't that worse, because each work contributes more to my brain?
wmf··on Fair Use Benefits Everyone
What if I use the collective output of humanity to train my brain?
wmf··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
You're going to love the triple lock.
wmf··on French national assembly votes 0.055€/GB internet tax
AFAIK VLC is developed in France so they may hesitate to block their own country.
wmf··on France is getting download tax for content providers (€0.055/GB)
AFAIK the Internet in France is private infrastructure that has already been paid for by its customers.
wmf··on Network Infrastructure Hiding Protocol
Looks like port knocking with Noise authentication.
wmf··on Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code
Many customers will definitely stick with the pre-sloppified versions of IOS.
wmf··on French national assembly votes 0.055€/GB internet tax
Putting aside whether this is a good idea or not, this rate is like 1,000%. The tax is 10x more than bandwidth itself costs.
wmf··on AO3 Down for Maintenance
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293546
wmf··on Infinite Mac: BeOS
It was reported that Apple offered $75M for Be and almost $500M for NeXT and in retrospect those seem like entirely fair valuations. One was a mature OS and the other was a demo of an OS.
wmf··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
Nope. None of what you're saying is correct.
wmf··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
Not every chain split is a 51% attack.
wmf··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
Pensions and social security are indexed to inflation. 401ks should beat or match inflation.
wmf··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
In the US wages have outpaced inflation. Obviously that's an aggregate measure so it's not true for everyone.
wmf··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
Most people in crypto are noobs, not hardened veterans of previous hacks.
wmf··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
In this case it looks like the attacker managed to swap some stablecoins into ETH before they were frozen.
wmf··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
Fixing the DAO hack wasn't done via a 51% attack. In most/all blockchains protocol changes aren't done by simple majority vote.
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