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antonmks | 1 month ago | on: Anna's Archive is sued for $13T

Spotify and the three main major record labels sue Anna’s Archive for $13trillion for “brazen theft of millions of files containing nearly all of the world’s commercial sound recordings”.

antonmks | 1 month ago | on: Nvidia contacted Anna's Archive to access books

NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training. In an expanded class-action lawsuit that cites internal NVIDIA documents, several book authors claim that the trillion-dollar company directly reached out to Anna's Archive, seeking high-speed access to the shadow library data.

antonmks | 2 months ago | on: Spotify says 'anti-copyright extremists' scraped its library

Laughing.

antonmks | 2 months ago | on: Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?

A plumber. Very resistant to AI.

antonmks | 6 months ago | on: The new geography of stolen goods

It is pretty strange that a country doesn't control what is going in and what is going out. In a small European country I'm most familiar with, everything is checked by customs officers. Dogs, x-rays, customs declarations, import taxes.

antonmks | 8 months ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025)

I'm experienced in building high-performance data pipelines using Python and JAX, specializing in low-level optimizations like JIT compilation, vectorization, parallelization, and operator fusion. My solutions run seamlessly on CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs, consistently outperforming traditional tools like pandas and polars in both speed and scalability. If you need blazing-fast, scalable data processing leveraging modern hardware and cutting-edge compiler tech, let’s connect!

https://github.com/antonmks https://substack.com/@antonmks

[email protected]

antonmks | 8 months ago | on: Sirius: A GPU-native SQL engine

Very interesting ! I looked at the repo and it seems that Sirius uses cudf as an engine. So it is not like relational operations were written from scratch. Also, TPCH SF=100 would fit nicely into GPU memory. Would be interesting to see comparisons of something like SF=1000.

antonmks | 8 months ago

How we can use tensor operations—typically used in deep learning—for fast, parallel data processing tasks.

antonmks | 8 months ago | on: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

I'm writing a series of tutorials on solving algorithmic leetcode-like problems in a modern, scalable way. I use JAX library for python, so the solutions work on cpus, gpus and tpus. Everything must be vectorized, parallel, just-in-time compiled and differentiable !

https://substack.com/@antonmks

antonmks | 1 year ago | on: Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analytics

It is not really Postgres, the queries are run on DuckDB. Yeah, DuckDB is really fast for analytical queries.

antonmks | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2024)

SEEKING WORK | Worldwide | Remote

Location: Israel

Remote: OK

Willing to relocate: Yes if necessary

Technologies:

- Python/Polars/JAX/CUDA/C++/SQL

- ClickHouse, DuckDB

- Other (AWS, GCP)

- Whisper, STT, TTS

Email: [email protected]

Database engineer(Python, SQL, High Performance apps) experienced in building voice recognition apps with Whisper on gpu and tpu.

antonmks | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2023)

SEEKING WORK

Location: Berlin, Germany

Remote: Yes, any timezone.

Willing to relocate: Depends on location.

Technologies: Python Flutter, Dart, SQL, relational databases, AI, LLM, speech-to-text, text-to_speech

GitHub: https://github.com/antonmks Google Play : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.berlin.bir... - app that helps you learn foreign languages.

Email: See my HN profile.

I'm a developer with 20+ years of professional experience. I develop AI, speech-to-text and text to speech solutions for startups and established companies.

Rate : $10/hour

antonmks | 2 years ago | on: Falcon LLM – A 40B Model

When it comes to writing stories, this model is way behind ChatGpt 3.5

antonmks | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2023)

SEEKING WORK

Location: Berlin, Germany

Remote: Yes, any timezone.

Willing to relocate: Depends on location.

Technologies: Flutter, Dart, Python, SQL, AI, LLM, speech-to-text, text-to_speech

GH: https://github.com/antonmks

Email: See my HN profile.

Hi there. I'm a developer with 20+ years of professional experience. I like developing AI, speech-to-text and text to speech solutions for startups and established companies. I can code MVP with advanced AI capabilities for your startup in a relatively short period of time.

antonmks | 6 years ago | on: Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction

It is already too late. The extinction already started. Right now it is insects, frogs and fishes that has got to go. Our time , together with the rest of vertebrates, will come in 60-70 years.

antonmks | 8 years ago | on: India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this year

I'm in Belarus now and I can confirm that a developer with fluent English and a few years of experience gets around $400 a month.

antonmks | 8 years ago | on: Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way (2013)

"significant reductions in diversity at 415, 322, 300, 145 and 33 Myr ago" - it seems that periods between extinctions events are so large that you can easily fit there hundreds and even thousands of civilizations like ours. So not much to worry about, we will have plenty of opportunities to kill ourselves before a comet does us in.

antonmks | 9 years ago | on: How quickly can you remove spaces from a string?

Ok, here it is : https://gist.github.com/antonmks/17e0c711d41fb07d1b6f3ada3f5...

0.25 cycles/byte using GTX 1080.

antonmks | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2015)

SEEKING WORK - Remote only(UTC+3)

I'm a software engineer who specializes in development of applications for gpus. I have experience working with clients in U.S., Europe and Israel.

Technologies: C++, CUDA, NVIDIA libraries (Thrust, ModernGPU), SQL

Github - https://github.com/antonmks/

You can reach me at [email protected]

antonmks | 10 years ago | on: The adblocking revolution is months away

Could be a good idea for Windows 10 - blocking all ads by default, including those delivered through browsers. It could seriously affect and even kill many current and potential Microsoft competitors like Google and Facebook.