hank808's comments

On: The rise and fall of the English sentence (2017)

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There are three earlier submissions of this article: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fnautil.us%2Fthe-rise...

On: How corn syrup took over America

[hank808]

Wasn't there also an anticommunist angle? Much of the sugarcane was being grown in places that were at risk of communist revolution and the US didn't want to be sending them money, I thought...

On: Nvidia announces $3k personal AI supercomputer cal...

[hank808]

The NIC that has matters, in addition to the very large memory that supports much larger models than a consumer GPU. This thing has a proper ConnectX NIC.

On: Genesis Project Just Unleashed Legions of Robots f...

[hank808]

The URL points to a YouTube video describing the software. The github project page is at https://genesis-embodied-ai.github.io/

On: Quick takes on the recent OpenAI public incident w...

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We used to refer to this as a "cork file" back in the day.

On: People Still Don't Understand Visa

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This is a very well done mini-documentary about how Visa started, the unconventional thinker behind it all, the resulting struggles, and ultimately their success.

On: Michael Dell – Podcast – In Good Company – Norges ...

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Late in the interview, I liked the bit about, don't be the smartest person in the room. There were other nice bits also.

On: Video: How will the Workplace look in 2025?

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I hope you find this interesting. I liked it.

On: Free Qwen 2.5, Llama Nemotron, OpenBioLLM, Gemini ...

[hank808]

Giz. Really?

On: Ask HN: Where can I buy used AI compute?

[hank808]

I'd imagine that you could buy older Volta and Ampere generation servers, but not Hopper yet.