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Interesting story. I don't know anything about the Linux scheduler, but if one core out of 96 is busy chasing after those ghost allocations, why would a network thread not use one …

> Yes. Its "simplicity" is exactly why we pick and assemble piece by hand - we imagine the leanest way Professionally, assembly is the last thing I would let an LLM generate for me…

Neither the original 1987 story nor the blog post make any sense to me. I feel the authors are focused on a niche aspect: exchanging deep human thoughts with other humans. For that…

Use price per page (standard English text)? That would also help make the metric easier to visualize. If you think a page is too vague, use a famous known writer's work as a refere…

https://archive.ph/PCQQl

The European Union passed The Artificial Intelligence Act, which classifies: High-risk – AI applications that are expected to pose significant threats to health, safety, or the fun…

Neither coding nor internal prototypes were the slow part That is not my experience mentoring 100+ startup founders. Building a prototype, the gateway to serious customer engagemen…

Not my experience at all. One slow part was coding. AI takes care of that. But more importantly, the slow part was iterating through concepts, ideas, and prototypes. I thought peop…

That discussion triggered a memory from a comment I made a long time ago here (2020, found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24841235 ). There is a way to make the campfire …

the labour cost of having an intern/entry level engineer spend ~30-60s looking through these is likely close to $0.20 Did you do the math? Your estimate feels way off. First, I dou…

We all have had the client from hell: they don't know what they want, they change their requirements all the time. Whenever they have a new half-baked idea, I need to scramble and …

That matches my experience. At least on the solo front, there were so many topics I wasn't an expert on, that limited what I could build. Now with AI assistance, the sky is the lim…

This paragraph from September 2025 didn't age well: Like you, we have seen numerous reports that more and more firms are capping their total headcount in favor of leaning on more A…

Correct (well, maybe not half a century, maybe 30 years or so). I was just about to reply that I'd love a version of this that shows instructions going in and out of a re-order buf…

You're not wrong, but blocking assignments (and their equivalent in VHDL, variables), are useful as local variables to a process/always block. For instance to factor common sub-exp…

Good question. For a long time I think the justification was location: Microsoft is in Seattle, and it’s only the Bay Area that is getting inflated salaries.

It's not misleading for people in the industry. ARM so far was selling IP (Verilog source code) that other chip makers would include in a full chip design. Now ARM for the first ti…

Agreed, in my experience, rule 5 should be rule 1. I think I also heard it said (paraphrased) as "show we your code and I'll be forever confused, show me your database schema and e…

In 1993, you could refresh the home page of Netscape (Mosaic) every day and it would mention new sites that had been added. That became unmanageable quickly, which is when two dude…

We're in early February 2025 [edit:2026] and the article was written on Dec 23, 2025, which makes it less than two months old. I think it's ok not to include a year in the submissi…

When I was reviewing such papers, I didn't bother checking that 30+ citations were correctly indexed. I focused on the article itself, and maybe 1 or 2 citations that are important…

Would those filters be keyword-based only? One benefit of an LLM-based filter I can imagine is that it has a much better understanding of the meaning of text.

Really simple fix: social pressure and expectations should be that every company that uses open source pays a fixed amount of their revenue (is 0.1% low enough to be negligible for…

In my dream world, you take that book plus information about yourself (how good of a programmer you already are), feed that into AI and get a customized version that is much better…

This is interesting if quite incomplete (as noted in the end conclusion). CPU re-order buffers turn what you think as mostly sequential execution into a massively parallel engine. …