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Helsinki HN Helsinki HN is an an unofficial bimonthly Hacker News meetup in Helsinki, Finland. It is open only to active HN participants with a registered account and at least 64 karma points. If you'd like to be...

There is an (unofficial) coffee morning for hacker news posters here in Helsinki this Sunday (16th).

It's relaxed, not very startupy, just coffee and pastries.

Fill out bit.ly/helsinkihn if you want to come

14.03.2025 19:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

yes it's roughly contemporary with the article. a couple of buildings are missing now

11.03.2025 07:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It does look interesting. Apparently "Final Five" voting is apparently already in use in Alaska - I'd never heard of it

09.12.2024 12:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Most welcome; glad you liked it

09.12.2024 11:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There are lots of other customers for NVIDIA GPUs including computer gaming, crypto miners, 3D rendering, etc. I have not checked but I would strongly suspect that LLMs are just one of a few lines of business for NVIDIA. Though maybe the >3tn USD market cap requires LLMs

03.12.2024 19:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You're most welcome!

About the photo: the houses are where I lived at the time and the buildings in the distance are where I worked (I changed places a couple of times, so worked in a few)

02.12.2024 18:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

they don't even know what a sandwich is. "voileipΓ€" literally means butter on bread, which explains why they don't put another slice of bread on top

02.12.2024 06:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

thanks - i'm improving but there still lots of work that goes into writing these, so it's great that people enjoy it :)

02.12.2024 06:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You know, I reflect fairly positively on Bank Python as a whole. It was actually one of the better aspects of working at those places. I miss a lot of the pieces today

01.12.2024 12:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Threat modelling case study: bicycles How to avoid buying your bike again every 6-12 months and tips for how to apply the same reasoning to other things, like computers

In 2020 I wrote about security from the point of view of someone trying to park their bike

calpaterson.com/bicycle-thre...

01.12.2024 11:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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An oral history of Bank Python The strange world of Python, as used by big investment banks

In 2021 I wrote about Bank Python

calpaterson.com/bank-python....

01.12.2024 11:30 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Building LLMs is probably not going be a brilliant business The Netscapes of AI

Being the Next Big Thing isn't always that profitable

calpaterson.com/porter.html

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