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Stories by Maro

Bento: Jupyter Notebooks at Meta (engineering.fb.com)
HN 218 pts 120 comments by Maro Sep 18, 2024 thread
A brief history of the absurdities of the Soviet Union (laurivahtre.ee)
HN 164 pts 421 comments by Maro Aug 9, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Breaking Bell's Inequality with Monte Carlo Simulations in Python (bytepawn.com)
HN 122 pts 59 comments by Maro Sep 8, 2024 thread
Randomness extractors: making fair coins out of biased coins (bytepawn.com)
HN 105 pts 52 comments by Maro Sep 15, 2024 thread
Five ways to reduce variance in A/B testing (bytepawn.com)
HN 83 pts 28 comments by Maro Sep 28, 2024 thread
Lamport's Byzantine Generals Algorithm in Python (bytepawn.com)
HN 28 pts 1 comments by Maro Aug 2, 2025 Science / Math / Physics thread
Ask HN: How does LLM serving infra work?
HN 26 pts 2 comments by Maro Aug 19, 2024 AI / Machine Learning thread
I&#x27;ve been wondering about this for a while. Although building a competitive production-grade LLM [like ChatGPT-4o] is very far from trivial and the devil is in the details, the basic ideas and architecture is fairly well understood.<p>For a while, I&#x27;ve been wondering how production serving...
The Saga of Elon Musk's Path of Exile Account (old.reddit.com)
HN 25 pts 6 comments by Maro Jan 13, 2025 thread
Efficient Deep Learning Book (efficientdlbook.com)
HN 21 pts 0 comments by Maro Aug 30, 2025 AI / Machine LearningCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Project Sid: 1000 AI agents simulate a civilization in Minecraft [video] (youtube.com)
HN 5 pts 0 comments by Maro Sep 27, 2024 AI / Machine Learning thread
Ask HN: Why is my Windows computer running 10,000 threads idling?
HN 4 pts 3 comments by Maro Sep 7, 2025 thread
I noticed today in my Windows 11 Task Manager that I have ~10,000 threads. If I kill all traces of Chrome it&#x27;s still at ~8,000. Sorting by thread count, System is ~500, Explorer is ~350, then it tails off. I do wonder why Dropbox.exe needs 250+ or Steamwebhelper.exe (Steam itself is not running...
I'm going to call it; A lot of stuff is going to break on this mission (twitter.com)
HN 4 pts 1 comments by Maro Apr 29, 2025 thread
Collection of best papers from top AI conferences (github.com)
HN 3 pts 0 comments by Maro Nov 30, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
How I Got a Job at OpenAI (molochinations.substack.com)
HN 2 pts 0 comments by Maro Aug 31, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
Two Generals' Problem (en.wikipedia.org)
HN 2 pts 2 comments by Maro Jul 2, 2025 thread
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Monte Carlo Simulations in A/B Testing (arxiv.org)
HN 1 pts 1 comments by Maro Nov 19, 2024 thread
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Monte Carlo Simulations in A/B Testing (bytepawn.com)
HN 1 pts 0 comments by Maro Oct 22, 2024 thread
ChatGPT's Critique of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's Vision of the AI Future (bytepawn.com)
HN 1 pts 0 comments by Maro Sep 27, 2024 AI / Machine Learning thread