Stories by alex-yo

Show HN: Communication Without Networks – Just Light and Sound (Spectra)

Ask HN: Could a passive underwater device shift naval strategy?

Underwater anomaly-response probe: cheap, autonomous, disruptive?

Show HN: Hybrid Language Translator

Llama 4 performs worse than Llama 3 at translation

Openrouter – Quasar Alpha

Whatever Quasar Alpha is, it's excellent at translation

Trade Wars Are Strategic Sector Wars, review of Trade Wars Are Class Wars (2020)

Estimating the difficulty of a sentence in mere microseconds

Gemma 3's reasoning improvements don't translate to translations

MLFlow Tracking Server OIDC Auth Plugin and Permission Management

Ask HN: Scaling a project that only HN likes?

Design of the Ouroboros packet network (2019)

Does the moon look "upside down" in the southern hemisphere?

America's National Security Wonderland

All about thread-local storage (2021, updated 02-2025)

LLMs for low-latency language translation

A memory allocator with only 0,006% fixed overhead written from scratch [video]

Terence Tao on the Ongoing Process of "Enshittification"

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