5 trillion IPO of three companies this year! They still need real money to buy the offered stocks, I am wondering which markets will be sold in order for investors to get the cash.
I wish people'd report metrics like "transactions per second, 99.x% availability with N secs/mins p99 latency, ..." when describing how practically useful and how effective a real-world banking/transaction system is, which further proves the practicality of the programming language.
> We serve over 300,000 businesses. We processed $248 billion in transaction volume in 2025 on $650 million in annualized revenue
> The system we've built has worked well for years, through hypergrowth, through the SVB crisis that sent $2 billion in new deposits our way in five day.
This is a strange way to describe a transaction processing system with total amount of money it processed. The reliability or scalability is not measured as O(n) dollars. In theory, $248bln or $2bln can be done in one transaction although I know it is not the case in reality. It would be impressive to see the typical system design properties like transactions per second, latency distribution, etc.
It’s less about 'old vs. new' and more about the evolving trade-offs dictated by the constraints of the era. There have always been engineers trying to squeeze every last drop of performance out of the bits available to them.
The blog is new but the paper was submitted almost one year ago: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19874. Anyone has ideas if this is already implemented in many models (at least Gemini, I guess)? If that's the case, can I expect cheaper RAM for my computer :D
In SF bay area, there are always gas cars trying to show off their horsepower especially during rush hours, no matter how slow the traffic is. That noise is more annoying than tires.
> Palantir's secret weapon is the closeness and affinity to the DoD.
Is it a secret? I got an impression that it has been well known. How could you get any big number contracts without former secretaries or retired generals in your board or in your ‘consulting’ team?
Oh I am more than happy to tell people how I took down entire Google Cloud 11 years ago. I mean, of course to the level of details Google is comfortable with to share externally :)
No, sorry, I wouldn't buy EVs from any US company any more until they are matura enough that the model production surpasses at least Tesla Model S+X since released. Their reliability just suck. I don't want to waste my life again and again in those months-long waiting of service appointments, annoying issues every where and every day, hiring Lemon law lawyers and other BS.
Nice, now you can dd it to your boot sector and ... Wait, it is 2026, there are 1000 ways of booting and memory mapping on so-called unified ARM architecture @,@
These people are not going to take your job, the people who uses tools smartly while having the knowledge and experience in highly reliable distributed systems are. If human in the loop is not required any more, nobody is going to keep their job.
I feel there is a gap between MCU and modern CPU, and also between the software running on top of them. The missing piece is a mid-size computer with:
- A processor, single or multi-core, with computing power like 20 years ago, but modern fabrication process. Maybe without MMU for simplicity.
- RAM between 100MB~1GB and DDR2/3 bandwidth.
- An OS designed and implemented for this type of hardware rather than tailored Linux.
I don't think you can use it for working or your daily entertainment, so I guess not a good business to attract interests.
My experience: customers with $$$ will always believe they are very important, so important that losing a single bit is the end of world.
So you may not want to convince customers waving huge $$$ checks that their data are not that important. But instead, providing options to keep them once they realize that: their pockets are not that deep, and they are also totally ok losing some data.
This feels like the 80s/90s when people hacking assembly or finding undocumented instructions to squeeze CPU for performance. Until one day either the compiler will be highly optimized enough or the GPU will be so powerful that such tricks won’t make much difference anymore, like CPUs nowadays :D
I don’t understand why this is not obvious to many people: tech and stock trading are totally two different things, why on earth a tech expert is expected to know trading at all? Imagining how ridiculous it would be if a computer science graduate will also automatically get a financial degree from college even though no financial class has been taken.