Does anyone use libtcc for a scripting language backend? Smaller and faster than llvm. You'd have to transpile to a C ast I imagine.
Readit Newskristianp commented on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
"JPMorgan calculated last fall that the tech industry must collect an extra $650 billion in revenue every year — three times the annual revenue of AI chip giant Nvidia — to earn a reasonable investment return. That marker is probably even higher now because AI spending has increased."
That pretty much tells you how this will end, right there.
If 1 or 2 of the 5 big spenders starts having big losses, things will be interesting. Their market caps will be a fraction of the current overinflated values.
Meanwhile Apple is only spending 1 billion a year to use Google's models.
What a blast from the past TCC!
Sad but not surprised to see it's no longer maintained (8 years ago!).
Even in the era of terabyte NVMe drives my eyes water when I install MSVC (and that's usually just for the linker!)
There's still activity on the mailing list. It may still be maintained.
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2026-02/t...
kristianp commented on Speed up responses with fast mode code.claude.com/docs/en/f... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
This is gold for Anthropic's profitability. The Claude Code addicts can double their spend to plow through tokens because they need to finish something by a deadline. OpenAI will have a similar product within a week but will only charge 3x the normal rate.
This angle might also be NVidias reason for buying Groq. People will pay a premium for faster tokens.
kristianp commented on Hackers (1995) Animated Experience hackers-1995.vercel.app/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
There's another two soundtracks!
https://www.discogs.com/release/1423591-Various-Hackers%C2%B...
https://www.discogs.com/release/131024-Various-Hackers%C2%B3
Thanks, what a great resource discogs is. Here's the 1st one for completeness:
https://www.discogs.com/release/29127-Various-Hackers-Origin...
It's frustrating that often tracks from soundtracks like this aren't available on Spotify, such as Phoebus Apollo.
kristianp commented on Bitcoin gets a zero price target in wake of Burry warning seekingalpha.com/news/454... · Posted by u/hn_acker
"As of early 2026, Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) holds approximately $2.3 billion in cash and cash equivalents, including a $2.25 billion USD reserve specifically for covering preferred stock dividends."
Everything is documented on their website...
If you subtract those 2 numbers you're left with $50 million. Does that mean they only have enough cash to pay 6 months of dividends? They still need to come up with more cash to maintain the dividends after that.
kristianp commented on C isn't a programming language anymore (2022) faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt... · Posted by u/stickynotememo
> C just minimally reflects how computers work. The rest is just convention.
This hasn't been true for decades. x86 assembly is now itself an abstraction over what the CPU is actually doing.
Microcode, speculative execution, etc.
It seems to be a meme on HN that C doesn't reflect hardware, now you're extending that to assembly. It seems silly to me. It was always an approximation of what happens under the hood, but I think the concepts of pointers, variable sizes and memory layout of structs all represent the machine at some level.
kristianp commented on Bitcoin gets a zero price target in wake of Burry warning seekingalpha.com/news/454... · Posted by u/hn_acker
I suspect the issue is they still need cash for 1. dividends 2. Further dilution, er acquisition. They have some put away for the near term dividends. But you can see the negative feedback loop if they cant make those payments/acquisitions. Having a huge hole in the books wont help for raising cash through lending, or asset sales realizing the loss.
Re: 10% specifically, i havent checked but Im guessing thats a floor on their cost basis for a bunch of holdings going negative.
Yes their pattern is to issue bonds/equity to buy more btc and fund debt repayments. If people are no longer buying it causes problems. Not an unexpected outcome at all!
kristianp commented on Bitcoin gets a zero price target in wake of Burry warning seekingalpha.com/news/454... · Posted by u/hn_acker
https://archive.is/eS2Q3
> [Burry] warned that if prices fall another 10%, Strategy (MSTR) would be billions in the red and could “find capital markets essentially closed".
According to bloomberg [1] mstr is still trading at a 9% premium to the btc it owns. Why would bitcoin falling another 10% make a difference?
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GAX-447.jpg#globalus...
Edit: actually it doesn't appear on some of the pages cited there.