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ksec
56,011karma·17,291submissions·February 1, 2012
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Edksec @ protonmail . com
https://ksec.mataroa.blog
London, Hong Kong and somehow California*.
Often a Contrarian.
The unwritten rule of HN: You do not criticise The Rusted Holy Grail and the Riscy Silver Bullet.
Interest: JPEG-XL, AAC-LC, VVC / LCEVC, Patent Free AVC, FreeBSD, TigerBeetle, ZFS, DTrace, Vitess, Vespa, Objective-C, Java, Zig, Odin, Crystal, Ada, Ruby, Graal, Rails, 5G/6G, OpenPOWER, Apple/China, Supply Chain / Manufacturing, Retail.
@Google: Why No Pixel Phone in Hong Kong?
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Oh nice so this is really happening!
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PIX from Brazil which is extremely similar to UPI. Are there any reason why we can't have a global UPI system? Open Source with each Government running their own instances.
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>HackerNews is where I find informed commentary on tech stuff b Unfortunately that hasn't been the case for most subject in over 10 years. But I have yet to find a better place though.
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It has been really really long since I read anything on HN with someone that has some basic understanding of business. May be all is not lost. Yes. 3% margin is lower than inflation of US treasury rat…
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The author also replied elsewhere in the thread that was the initial version but everything has since been deleted and the current version is built from ground up.
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>same argument to migrate from Haskell applies to Ruby as well. I am not following. Why does it apply to Ruby? Ruby has likely 10 - 100x the size of open sources project and momentum behind it.
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Just 12 hours [1] before I wrote on HN how I hope Zig won't do a hostile reply to Jarred's blog post. I was half expecting it to be from Loris Cro, being VP of community for Zig. But was rea…
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I don't want to say I knew it but it did happen. Slightly disappointed.
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This could mean 40 years of negative earnings, near zero profits, low level profits, normal profits or high margin profits. In reality it is a mixture of everything.
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I hope Zig won't do a hostile reply to this blog post. But some thoughts on Zig's future where a lot of these problems could be fixed or migrated by better tooling and compiler checking. But…
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Not only that. I think most of us, including the author wouldn't have thought this was actually feasible. Not only is the time and dollar spent lower than a lot of people expected. We could now …
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Thanks I have somehow missed this. My mental model is that Go is still 1.5 to 2.5x speed of C hence I asked the question. This is likely wrong number now given so much has been happening without much …
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Very rare I see people supporting Nvidia in HN. Glad to see people appreciating hardware innovation and improvements. Welcome!
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I am surprised that Siri has only been mentioned 5 times here, out of the current 355 comments. I am wondering if this because Siri is so bad, people think of Siri now as a voice activation method rat…
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So we are at a stage where AGPL 3.0 is not enough and using AI assisted coding is considered evil?
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Agree and I think Server CPU segment desperately needs more competition. Pushing ahead with PCIe 6.0. They now have full stack from CPU, GPU and Networking. Working with partners that pushes Rack Impr…
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I know this is about Typescript. But I am wondering if anything happening in Go that will make this even faster?
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>At the core of Vera is Olympus, NVIDIA’s custom CPU core, which delivers 50% higher instructions per cycle than NVIDIA Grace It sounds exciting until you do the maths. NVIDIA Grace is based on Neo…
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Apple is already purchasing these Broadcom analog components that is made in the US. This isn't exactly new [1] ( Apple announces multibillion-dollar deal with Broadcom for components made in the…
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Some things are measured from 0, some are measured from 100. Depending on Expectation. When expectation is 100%, telling me 98% success rate isn't enough. An example where the argument happens on…
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>Java is usch garbage in every stack. May be true between late 90s to late mid 10s. Both Java and JVM has had enormous of work going into it. 2026 the JVM is pretty damn good pieces of engineering.…
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We ( including myself ) like to shit on Apple's regression of UX and software. Which is true, on all of their OS. But every time we look into alternatives, the others are so far off that even App…