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Being tied to the code editor is the entire point, otherwise I would have just used GTKwave. Integrating it into the code editor - specifically VScode allows me to support terminal…

I'm working on a digital waveform viewer for VScode. I started it back when I used to work for an FPGA company, and needed to debug soft CPUs. Now it's starting to rival the propri…

Another point about HFT - They're mostly using FPGAs (some use custom silicon) which means that they have much tighter control over how DRAM is accessed and how the memory controll…

Yeah, I was a bit surprised that the author didn't mention that facet of Open AI. It did mention infrastructure goals, but the reality is that Open AI's infrastructure spending com…

Crazy idea, but maybe change the rules of Show HN so that you are required to include in the headline how long you have been working on the project. As an example, something like: …

You have to understand the people in the article are execs from the chip EDA (Electronic Design Automation) industry. It's full of dinosaurs who have resisted innovation for the pa…

Kind of a wild idea, but have you considered using this as a markup language for logic diagrams? I'm thinking something like mermaid - https://mermaid.js.org/ While this might not …

> every mention in a package.json or requirements.txt OK, what about those of us who aren't writing libraries? As a personal anecdote, the amount of opportunities that have been op…

As much as I love Zed, I am of the belief that VScode (and its derivatives) will remain the dominant build-your-own IDE for a really long time unless something like Zed can support…

Dating apps are a Skinner Box by nature. They give randomized reward in the form of likes and matches. If you're attractive, you're the product because you don't need premium servi…

Another one is custom CSS (though it doesn't look like positron does that.) You can change styling properties like spacing and weighting as well. I have a love/hate relationship wi…

Unfortunately socketed processors only really work with DDRx type DRAM interfaces. GPUs use GDDR and HBM interfaces, which are not ideal for sockets. In the case of HBM, you have 1…

Love to see this at the top of HN! I haven't written anything with this language yet, but I have met some of the developers of this language. They're pretty great and they are doin…

Not exactly. The name of the game with GDDR memory is "speed on the cheap." To do this, it uses a parallel bus with data rates pushed to the max. Not much headroom for things that …

As of recent, I have had this pet theory that there's a brilliance / stupidity spectrum, but if you go too far in one direction it loops back on itself. Some things are just so stu…

Not malicious, but still selfish. It's important to remember that the copilot extensions are an extremely effective way of monetizing VScode. So it seems more like they're kind of …

Don't forget that the power rating of a laser pointer (unlike literally every other type of light you buy) is the output power, not the input power! More importantly, it's the outp…

> But owners sometimes complained that it was tricky to get their vehicles serviced or repaired, because there weren’t enough certified Fisker repairers and technicians I would bet…

Great! Yeah, I imagine you guys have a lot on your plates. Looking forward to hearing more from you guys!

As a hardware developer, I love seeing EDA tools getting YC's attention and resources. When hardware designers talk about how terrible EDA tools are though (myself included,) I fin…

> PAM3 sends 3 bits in 2 bit times whereas NRZ would require 3 bit times to send 3 bits Yes, but the transactions are still 16 WCK half cycles (beats) just like in GDDR6. The desig…

Oh, interesting! I remember hearing rumblings that PAM4 was kind of a pain in GDDR6X. This makes sense. I still stand by my claim about PAM3 though.

> with the same latency I highly doubt that. With on-die ECC and the ridiculously complicated PAM3 encoding/decoding, I would bet that latency is going to increase over GDDR6.

Just got my hands on the spec and read through it for a bit. A couple interesting things I noticed that were notable changes from GDDR6. Obviously, the big news is PAM3 signaling, …

Controllers kind of do that. At the end of the day, it's what makes designing a memory controller so difficult (and I'm not even talking about the Phy, those things are straight up…