My computers were connected to an UPS surge projector. Various kitchen machinery and extension sockets that was not doesn't work anymore. The neighbor's TV blew.
There was a bright white flash inside of my living room, just under an open window and directly above the my UPS surge protector and then all my devices turned off including the surge projector. The PSU in one of the computers is gone, but not the motherboard and rest.
I was sitting on the concrete floor in the middle of the room watching it happen.
I live in Thailand in the middle of a big flat coconut groove with only two houses. Except for the palm trees, my house is the tallest structure in a 200 x 200 meters (300 feet)+ area and we have frequent huge thunder storms, but this one was in a category on its own. It made my concrete walls tremble. It was so intense. Spectacular show by nature.
Only two months ago, I bought a socket outlet tester. It reported that my sockets was not grounded. I got an electricians out to fix that. I suspect this is the reason why the lightning chooses me. We have frequent big thunderstorms and haven't had this issue before, but now there is a ground connection.
I don't know if there is a proper grounding rod. There is a cable going from the house into the ground, but I don't know what it is attached too. The rest of the electric installation is amateur's business so could be connected to nothing. The house is a long-term rental and the electric installation came with it, but I can change it regardless of it's is a rental.
The electricity doesn't even come directly from the power company's cables. It goes in to the owners house, where the meter is. From there they have pulled a 200 meter cable into ours. There is a fuse box in my house.
Any suggestions on what to do next? A big metal stick somewhere in the garden?"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["compute"],"value":"Ask HN: My house just got hit by lightning and it fried the PSU in my computer"}},"_tags":["story","author_TowerTall","story_31270349","ask_hn"],"author":"TowerTall","children":[31270509,31270564,31270586,31270601,31270615,31270632,31270633,31270638,31270653,31270679,31270685,31270691,31270694,31270754,31270864,31270987,31271156,31271402,31271552,31271990,31272071,31274070,31274338,31279488,31280930],"created_at":"2022-05-05T06:47:29Z","created_at_i":1651733249,"num_comments":79,"objectID":"31270349","points":74,"story_id":31270349,"story_text":"If everything is wired correctly in my house, should all equipment attached to my UPS have survived this with no impact or is a direct lightning strike so powerful that even high-quality home-grade UPS must give up?
My computers were connected to an UPS surge projector. Various kitchen machinery and extension sockets that was not doesn't work anymore. The neighbor's TV blew.
There was a bright white flash inside of my living room, just under an open window and directly above the my UPS surge protector and then all my devices turned off including the surge projector. The PSU in one of the computers is gone, but not the motherboard and rest.
I was sitting on the concrete floor in the middle of the room watching it happen.
I live in Thailand in the middle of a big flat coconut groove with only two houses. Except for the palm trees, my house is the tallest structure in a 200 x 200 meters (300 feet)+ area and we have frequent huge thunder storms, but this one was in a category on its own. It made my concrete walls tremble. It was so intense. Spectacular show by nature.
Only two months ago, I bought a socket outlet tester. It reported that my sockets was not grounded. I got an electricians out to fix that. I suspect this is the reason why the lightning chooses me. We have frequent big thunderstorms and haven't had this issue before, but now there is a ground connection.
I don't know if there is a proper grounding rod. There is a cable going from the house into the ground, but I don't know what it is attached too. The rest of the electric installation is amateur's business so could be connected to nothing. The house is a long-term rental and the electric installation came with it, but I can change it regardless of it's is a rental.
The electricity doesn't even come directly from the power company's cables. It goes in to the owners house, where the meter is. From there they have pulled a 200 meter cable into ours. There is a fuse box in my house.
Any suggestions on what to do next? 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While reading the BlackBlaze Compute Story I came across, Packet's ARM Offering. (https://www.packet.net/bare-metal/servers/compute/)
Their c1.large.arm offers ARM Cavium ThunderX with 96 Physical Cores running at 2.0 Ghz.
Has anybody used such a configuration for Web Application Servers? Possibly something running Go?
Since many web applications need high concurrency and wait on DB queries, I think having these large number of cores might be beneficial.
Any thoughts and inputs on this will be well appreciated."},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["thunder"],"value":"Ask HN: ARM Cavium ThunderX (96 Physical Cores) for Web Application Servers?"}},"_tags":["story","author_pritambarhate","story_16752184","ask_hn"],"author":"pritambarhate","children":[16752453],"created_at":"2018-04-04T05:22:53Z","created_at_i":1522819373,"num_comments":1,"objectID":"16752184","points":2,"story_id":16752184,"story_text":"Hi,
While reading the BlackBlaze Compute Story I came across, Packet's ARM Offering. (https://www.packet.net/bare-metal/servers/compute/)
Their c1.large.arm offers ARM Cavium ThunderX with 96 Physical Cores running at 2.0 Ghz.
Has anybody used such a configuration for Web Application Servers? Possibly something running Go?
Since many web applications need high concurrency and wait on DB queries, I think having these large number of cores might be beneficial.
Any thoughts and inputs on this will be well appreciated.","title":"Ask HN: ARM Cavium ThunderX (96 Physical Cores) for Web Application Servers?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T02:15:22Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"flatroze"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["compute"],"value":"ARM Desktop Tower Computer"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["thunder"],"value":"https://www.avantek.co.uk/store/avantek-32-core-cavium-thunderx-arm-desktop.html"}},"_tags":["story","author_flatroze","story_16069989"],"author":"flatroze","created_at":"2018-01-04T13:00:01Z","created_at_i":1515070801,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"16069989","points":2,"story_id":16069989,"title":"ARM Desktop Tower Computer","updated_at":"2024-09-20T01:54:49Z","url":"https://www.avantek.co.uk/store/avantek-32-core-cavium-thunderx-arm-desktop.html"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"rbanffy"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"ThunderX2 Arms Hyperscale and HPC Compute"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/07/thunderx2-arms-hyperscale-and-hpc-compute/"}},"_tags":["story","author_rbanffy","story_17030046"],"author":"rbanffy","created_at":"2018-05-09T14:23:21Z","created_at_i":1525875801,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"17030046","points":3,"story_id":17030046,"title":"ThunderX2 Arms Hyperscale and HPC Compute","updated_at":"2024-09-20T02:23:42Z","url":"https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/07/thunderx2-arms-hyperscale-and-hpc-compute/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"timthorn"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"ThunderX2 Arms Hyperscale and HPC Compute"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/07/thunderx2-arms-hyperscale-and-hpc-compute/"}},"_tags":["story","author_timthorn","story_17020265"],"author":"timthorn","created_at":"2018-05-08T11:45:20Z","created_at_i":1525779920,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"17020265","points":2,"story_id":17020265,"title":"ThunderX2 Arms Hyperscale and HPC Compute","updated_at":"2024-09-20T02:22:45Z","url":"https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/07/thunderx2-arms-hyperscale-and-hpc-compute/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"MediaSquirrel"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["compute"],"value":"About six months ago, I started working on a project to fine-tune Whisper locally on my M2 Ultra Mac Studio with a limited compute budget. I got into it. The problem I had at the time was I had 15,000 hours of audio data in Google Cloud Storage, and there was no way I could fit all the audio onto my local machine, so I built a system to stream data from my GCS to my machine during training.
Gemma 3n came out, so I added that. Kinda went nuts, tbh.
Then I put it on the shelf.
When Gemma 4 came out a few days ago, I dusted it off, cleaned it up, broke out the Gemma part from the Whisper fine-tuning and added support for Gemma 4.
I'm presenting it for you here today to play with, fork and improve upon.
One thing I have learned so far: It's very easy to OOM when you fine-tune on longer sequences! My local Mac Studio has 64GB RAM, so I run out of memory constantly.
Anywho, given how much interest there is in Gemma 4, and frankly, the fact that you can't really do audio fine-tuning with MLX, that's really the reason this exists (in addition to my personal interest). I would have preferred to use MLX and not have had to make this, but here we are. Welcome to my little side quest.
And so I made this. I hope you have as much fun using it as I had fun making it.
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Gemma 3n came out, so I added that. Kinda went nuts, tbh.
Then I put it on the shelf.
When Gemma 4 came out a few days ago, I dusted it off, cleaned it up, broke out the Gemma part from the Whisper fine-tuning and added support for Gemma 4.
I'm presenting it for you here today to play with, fork and improve upon.
One thing I have learned so far: It's very easy to OOM when you fine-tune on longer sequences! My local Mac Studio has 64GB RAM, so I run out of memory constantly.
Anywho, given how much interest there is in Gemma 4, and frankly, the fact that you can't really do audio fine-tuning with MLX, that's really the reason this exists (in addition to my personal interest). I would have preferred to use MLX and not have had to make this, but here we are. Welcome to my little side quest.
And so I made this. I hope you have as much fun using it as I had fun making it.
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How could I sell or promote this ability?"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["compute"],"value":"I'm 50, can I find a computer job? Some Elixir for getting Agile or Lean?"}},"_tags":["story","author_nottoday88","story_12031205","ask_hn"],"author":"nottoday88","children":[12031392,12032241,12032346,12032670,12034026,12035692,12036181],"created_at":"2016-07-04T15:13:06Z","created_at_i":1467645186,"num_comments":17,"objectID":"12031205","points":19,"story_id":12031205,"story_text":"One thing I can say in my favour is that I'm a deep thinker, I try to understand and grok what is needed. What kind of computer related job would benefit from a deep thinker?,
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This is not news to me. Since a young age I've found it incredibly difficult to reason about and form an argument for or against a topic. I first encountered this in my high school design and technology exam when I was asked to articulate why I would choose a particular material over another. No matter how much I tried, I simply could not reason about the different materials and which one would be better.
12 years on and I now have a PhD in computer science. I find software development extremely straightforward and the accompanying decision making easy. But during design discussions before development takes place, I still find it very difficult to present a reasoned argument as to why I'd design a piece of software one way over another. I mostly rely on an internal feeling that either provides positive or negative emotions (intuition). Project level decisions are also affected by this.
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Is there anything I can do to improve my reasoning skills so I can participate coherently in oral discussions?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: How do I get better at creating well-reasoned arguments?"}},"_tags":["story","author_ill_thinker","story_24703551","ask_hn"],"author":"ill_thinker","children":[24703695,24703703,24705516,24709341,24710104,24710920,24712980,24713235,24714340,24728782],"created_at":"2020-10-06T23:14:28Z","created_at_i":1602026068,"num_comments":9,"objectID":"24703551","points":16,"story_id":24703551,"story_text":"Today I was told by my manager that my arguments come across jumbled and incoherent.
This is not news to me. Since a young age I've found it incredibly difficult to reason about and form an argument for or against a topic. I first encountered this in my high school design and technology exam when I was asked to articulate why I would choose a particular material over another. No matter how much I tried, I simply could not reason about the different materials and which one would be better.
12 years on and I now have a PhD in computer science. I find software development extremely straightforward and the accompanying decision making easy. But during design discussions before development takes place, I still find it very difficult to present a reasoned argument as to why I'd design a piece of software one way over another. I mostly rely on an internal feeling that either provides positive or negative emotions (intuition). Project level decisions are also affected by this.
The absence of reasoned argument is not due to a lack of trying. When I attempt to reason about a problem I struggle to think of the questions I should be asking. Thoughts about a topic do not come naturally, and often they are very cyclic and disjointed. It is only through writing down my thoughts that my argument gains clarity. You can imagine how problematic this thought process is for active oral discussions, my discourse appears sporadic and poorly thought-out.
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He doesn't actually know any code, but I feel like he would be able to accomplish so many things with it. I've talked to him about it, and he's really interested, but he doesn't know where to start. Due to financial issues, he occasionally does not have Internet, but he does have a decent and functional computer to work with. What books/tutorials/resources should I give him so that he can put his mathematical and problem-solving talent to good use?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN:Friend is math/algorithmic genius, wants to learn programming. Resources?"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_krrishd","story_6854663","ask_hn"],"author":"krrishd","children":[6854848,6856927,6856941],"created_at":"2013-12-05T15:00:25Z","created_at_i":1386255625,"num_comments":4,"objectID":"6854663","points":8,"story_id":6854663,"story_text":"I have a friend, who has an uncanny talent for anything mathematical. He can write formulas and functions to solve the most obscure math problems, and he has the mind of an algorithmic thinker that I and probably many wish they had. Think project Euler, he's really good at those types of problems.
He doesn't actually know any code, but I feel like he would be able to accomplish so many things with it. I've talked to him about it, and he's really interested, but he doesn't know where to start. Due to financial issues, he occasionally does not have Internet, but he does have a decent and functional computer to work with. What books/tutorials/resources should I give him so that he can put his mathematical and problem-solving talent to good use?","title":"Ask HN:Friend is math/algorithmic genius, wants to learn programming. Resources?","updated_at":"2024-09-19T20:13:55Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"BobbyLLM"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"As a handsome local AI enjoyer\u2122 you\u2019ve probably noticed one of the big flaws with LLMs:
It lies. Confidently. ALL THE TIME.
I\u2019m autistic and extremely allergic to vibes-based tooling, so \u2026 I built a thing. Maybe it\u2019s useful to you too.
The thing: llama-conductor
llama-conductor is a router that sits between your frontend (eg: OWUI) & backend (llama.cpp + llama-swap). Local-first but it should talk to anything OpenAI-compatible if you point it there (note: experimental so YMMV).
LC is a glass-box that makes the stack behave like a deterministic system, instead of a drunk telling a story about the fish that got away.
TL;DR: \u201cIn God we trust. All others must bring data.\u201d
Three examples:
1. KB mechanics (markdown, JSON, checksums)
You keep \u201cknowledge\u201d as dumb folders on disk. Drop docs (.txt, .md, .pdf`) in them. Then:
>>attach <kb> - attaches a KB folder
>>summ new - generates SUMM_.md files with SHA-256 provenance baked in + moves the original to a sub-folder
Now, when you ask something like:
> \u201cyo, what did the Commodore C64 retail for in 1982?\u201d
..it answers from the attached KBs only.
If the fact isn\u2019t there, it tells you - explicitly - instead of winging it. Eg:
"The provided facts state the Commodore 64 launched at $595 and was reduced to $250, but do not specify a 1982 retail price. The Amiga\u2019s pricing and timeline are also not detailed in the given facts.
Missing information includes the exact 1982 retail price for Commodore\u2019s product line and which specific model(s) were sold then."
[Confidence: medium | Source: Mixed]
No vibes. Just: here\u2019s what\u2019s in your docs, here\u2019s what\u2019s missing, don't GIGO yourself into stupid.
Then, if you're happy with the summary, you can:
>>move to vault
2. Mentats: proof-or-refusal mode (Vault-only)
Mentats is the \u201cdeep think\u201d pipeline against your curated sources.
* no chat history
* no filesystem KBs
* no Vodka
* Vault-only grounding (Qdrant)
It runs a triple-pass (thinker \u2192 critic \u2192 thinker). It\u2019s slow on purpose. You can audit it. And if the Vault has nothing relevant? It refuses and tells you to go pound sand:
FINAL_ANSWER:
The provided facts do not contain information about the Acorn computer or its 1995 sale price.
Sources: Vault
FACTS_USED: NONE
[ZARDOZ HATH SPOKEN]
Also yes, it writes a mentats_debug.log. Go look at it any time you want.
The flow is basically:
Attach KBs \u2192 SUMM \u2192 Move to Vault \u2192 Mentats.
No mystery meat. No \u201ctrust me bro, embeddings.\u201d
3. Vodka: deterministic memory on a potato budget
Potato PCs have two classic problems: goldfish memory + context bloat that murders your VRAM.
Vodka fixes both without extra model compute.
* !! stores facts verbatim (JSON on disk)
* ?? recalls them verbatim (TTL + touch limits so memory doesn\u2019t become landfill)
* CTC (Cut The Crap)* hard-caps context (last N messages + char cap) and creates a concatenated summary (not LLM) so you don\u2019t get VRAM spikes after 400 messages
So instead of:
\u201cRemember my server is 203.0.113.42\u201d \u2192 \u201cGot it!\u201d \u2192 [100 msgs later] \u2192 \u201c127.0.0.1\u201d
you get:
!! my server is 203.0.113.42`\n?? server ip \u2192 203.0.113.42 (with TTL/touch metadata)
And because context stays bounded: stable KV cache, stable speed, your potato PC stops crying.
There\u2019s more (a lot more) in the README, but I\u2019ve already over-autism\u2019ed this post.
TL;DR:
If you want your local LLM to shut up when it doesn\u2019t know and show receipts when it does, come poke it:
Primary (Codeberg)\nhttps://codeberg.org/BobbyLLM/llama-conductor
Mirror (GitHub):\nhttps://github.com/BobbyLLM/llama-conductor
PS: Sorry about the AI slop image. I can't draw for shit.
PPS: A human with ASD wrote this using Notepad++. If it the formatting or language are weird, now you know why."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: I'm tired of my LLM bullshitting. So I fixed it"}},"_tags":["story","author_BobbyLLM","story_46721773","show_hn"],"author":"BobbyLLM","children":[46722917,46723460,46726285,46730841,46730929],"created_at":"2026-01-22T16:50:09Z","created_at_i":1769100609,"num_comments":9,"objectID":"46721773","points":5,"story_id":46721773,"story_text":"As a handsome local AI enjoyer\u2122 you\u2019ve probably noticed one of the big flaws with LLMs:
It lies. Confidently. ALL THE TIME.
I\u2019m autistic and extremely allergic to vibes-based tooling, so \u2026 I built a thing. Maybe it\u2019s useful to you too.
The thing: llama-conductor
llama-conductor is a router that sits between your frontend (eg: OWUI) & backend (llama.cpp + llama-swap). Local-first but it should talk to anything OpenAI-compatible if you point it there (note: experimental so YMMV).
LC is a glass-box that makes the stack behave like a deterministic system, instead of a drunk telling a story about the fish that got away.
TL;DR: \u201cIn God we trust. All others must bring data.\u201d
Three examples:
1. KB mechanics (markdown, JSON, checksums)
You keep \u201cknowledge\u201d as dumb folders on disk. Drop docs (.txt, .md, .pdf`) in them. Then:
>>attach <kb> - attaches a KB folder
>>summ new - generates SUMM_.md files with SHA-256 provenance baked in + moves the original to a sub-folder
Now, when you ask something like:
> \u201cyo, what did the Commodore C64 retail for in 1982?\u201d
..it answers from the attached KBs only.
If the fact isn\u2019t there, it tells you - explicitly - instead of winging it. Eg:
"The provided facts state the Commodore 64 launched at $595 and was reduced to $250, but do not specify a 1982 retail price. The Amiga\u2019s pricing and timeline are also not detailed in the given facts.
Missing information includes the exact 1982 retail price for Commodore\u2019s product line and which specific model(s) were sold then."
[Confidence: medium | Source: Mixed]
No vibes. Just: here\u2019s what\u2019s in your docs, here\u2019s what\u2019s missing, don't GIGO yourself into stupid.
Then, if you're happy with the summary, you can:
>>move to vault
2. Mentats: proof-or-refusal mode (Vault-only)
Mentats is the \u201cdeep think\u201d pipeline against your curated sources.
* no chat history
* no filesystem KBs
* no Vodka
* Vault-only grounding (Qdrant)
It runs a triple-pass (thinker \u2192 critic \u2192 thinker). It\u2019s slow on purpose. You can audit it. And if the Vault has nothing relevant? It refuses and tells you to go pound sand:
FINAL_ANSWER:
The provided facts do not contain information about the Acorn computer or its 1995 sale price.
Sources: Vault
FACTS_USED: NONE
[ZARDOZ HATH SPOKEN]
Also yes, it writes a mentats_debug.log. Go look at it any time you want.
The flow is basically:
Attach KBs \u2192 SUMM \u2192 Move to Vault \u2192 Mentats.
No mystery meat. No \u201ctrust me bro, embeddings.\u201d
3. Vodka: deterministic memory on a potato budget
Potato PCs have two classic problems: goldfish memory + context bloat that murders your VRAM.
Vodka fixes both without extra model compute.
* !! stores facts verbatim (JSON on disk)
* ?? recalls them verbatim (TTL + touch limits so memory doesn\u2019t become landfill)
* CTC (Cut The Crap)* hard-caps context (last N messages + char cap) and creates a concatenated summary (not LLM) so you don\u2019t get VRAM spikes after 400 messages
So instead of:
\u201cRemember my server is 203.0.113.42\u201d \u2192 \u201cGot it!\u201d \u2192 [100 msgs later] \u2192 \u201c127.0.0.1\u201d
you get:
!! my server is 203.0.113.42`\n?? server ip \u2192 203.0.113.42 (with TTL/touch metadata)
And because context stays bounded: stable KV cache, stable speed, your potato PC stops crying.
There\u2019s more (a lot more) in the README, but I\u2019ve already over-autism\u2019ed this post.
TL;DR:
If you want your local LLM to shut up when it doesn\u2019t know and show receipts when it does, come poke it:
Primary (Codeberg)\nhttps://codeberg.org/BobbyLLM/llama-conductor
Mirror (GitHub):\nhttps://github.com/BobbyLLM/llama-conductor
PS: Sorry about the AI slop image. I can't draw for shit.
PPS: A human with ASD wrote this using Notepad++. If it the formatting or language are weird, now you know why.","title":"Show HN: I'm tired of my LLM bullshitting. So I fixed it","updated_at":"2026-04-29T08:12:32Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"palish"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"This was a post on Reddit that grew into a little essay. What do you think of it? I'm trying to find the correct answers, so if something is incorrect then please rub it in my face. :)
--
The second system effect is when a designer isn't new on the job anymore (he's made at least one system) and he has an overconfidence in his abilities. Because of that, the second system he designs is usually an overcomplicated mess. There are exceptions. Woz may not have designed an overcomplicated second system, for example. And if you understand how little you understand when you're first starting out, you're more likely to build small, stable systems instead of large, brittle systems. But history has pretty much proven that inexperience + overconfidence = mess, regardless of your profession.
The first system usually goes well because you're careful. You want your first system to go well since you will be judged by it. You keep your opinions to yourself and use proven methods that you fully understand to design your system. After you've designed this beautiful little gem (or not-so-beautiful but working, so the creator may think it is beautiful), you're left with a feeling of accomplishment. In fact, that first system wasn't really hard at all! You read the requirements and delivered a system that did exactly that. But look at how little that first system accomplished. In fact, it was even rigid; it did exactly what was needed without an eye towards extensibility. You know you can do better.
But.. It seems to take a lot of experience to correctly design a large, extensible system. I really hate to say the e-word since (being 19) I hate the idea that there's this magical quality, experience, that you'll only get after a certain amount of time has passed, regardless of anything you do to try to accelerate the process. But it seems true. It seems like to be good designers, we need to immerse ourselves in as many projects as possible; understand that we know very little; and most importantly, get things delivered, even if they are only at the 80% mark.
The Mythical Man Month is a good read. Honestly, it's extremely.. well.. boring. The advice was penned for a very different time, so a lot of it doesn't apply today (a programmer needs a personal secretary? That would be nice, but probably not required). But if you read it through the shades of, \"Wow, he is a really creative thinker!\" then you'll enjoy it a lot. He talks about why the best designers have usually created at least two systems. The first gives them experience, and the second gives them humility.
Choose two: beautiful, meets all requirements, stable.
\"Beautiful, and meets all requirements\" is the second system effect. It's okay to choose this if you're designing a small system.
\"Meets all requirements, and stable\" seems to be how most systems are designed. These types of systems are the moneymakers, so if you're doing a startup, it's probably best to choose this option. As Trevor says, it's more like a model train set instead of an elegant mathematical proof. There can be bumps on the tracks, but they won't stop the train from going 'round. Windows is a good example of this. You might think, \"Windows? Stable? What an idiot.\" But look at its size. It's humongous. It's impressive how much it has accomplished, even if it's far from perfect.
\"Beautiful, and stable\" seems to be the best choice to strive for, once you have the experience. It'll turn out that some of the features you desperately need aren't so critical after all. The Apple II is a great example of this. When it was released, everyone else thought that you needed to sell a monitor with a computer, and that a TV was inadequate. By cutting the need to design a whole monitor, Woz was able to produce something much cheaper and fabulously stable. Also, choosing \"beautiful and stable\" results in a system that \"is beautiful, is stable, and meets all requirements\", since you've just trimmed half of your requirements.
From my very limited two years of experience, this seems to be a decent design process for complicated systems:
1. Accept that you don't know as much as you need to know. Look for battle-tested components that other people have already designed, and use those. Copying is not cheating in the world of design. (Give credit where credit is due, though. If you created all your components, fabulous. That's incredibly impressive. But don't claim to have designed everything even if you've made them all work together.)
2. Cut as much from the requirements as possible, and even a little bit beyond what's comfortable. Think to yourself, \"How can I avoid designing a new monitor?\"
3. Focus on simplicity. Keep the adage \"form follows function\" in mind. If the implementation is small and simple, it will be far more stable than a big, extensible system that does a lot more. And people will probably like the smaller system better anyway.
4. These are only guidelines. Just focus on doing what makes the most sense, regardless of any rules. (For C++ programmers, this includes rules against using Boost or STL because \"it's not fast enough\". Take the time to learn your containers, then choose to not use them once you understand them.)
5. Deliver a system when it's 80% complete. (That's 80% complete, not 20% buggy.) Software is powerful because it can be improved later. Draw a sketch, don't paint a painting. The result can always be transformed into a painting later.
What do you think? It's always great to find new things that help designers, so please share your wisdom on all of this."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"How to Design a System"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_palish","story_74725","ask_hn"],"author":"palish","children":[74732,74809,74868,76781],"created_at":"2007-10-31T17:27:45Z","created_at_i":1193851665,"num_comments":5,"objectID":"74725","points":5,"story_id":74725,"story_text":"This was a post on Reddit that grew into a little essay. What do you think of it? I'm trying to find the correct answers, so if something is incorrect then please rub it in my face. :)
--
The second system effect is when a designer isn't new on the job anymore (he's made at least one system) and he has an overconfidence in his abilities. Because of that, the second system he designs is usually an overcomplicated mess. There are exceptions. Woz may not have designed an overcomplicated second system, for example. And if you understand how little you understand when you're first starting out, you're more likely to build small, stable systems instead of large, brittle systems. But history has pretty much proven that inexperience + overconfidence = mess, regardless of your profession.
The first system usually goes well because you're careful. You want your first system to go well since you will be judged by it. You keep your opinions to yourself and use proven methods that you fully understand to design your system. After you've designed this beautiful little gem (or not-so-beautiful but working, so the creator may think it is beautiful), you're left with a feeling of accomplishment. In fact, that first system wasn't really hard at all! You read the requirements and delivered a system that did exactly that. But look at how little that first system accomplished. In fact, it was even rigid; it did exactly what was needed without an eye towards extensibility. You know you can do better.
But.. It seems to take a lot of experience to correctly design a large, extensible system. I really hate to say the e-word since (being 19) I hate the idea that there's this magical quality, experience, that you'll only get after a certain amount of time has passed, regardless of anything you do to try to accelerate the process. But it seems true. It seems like to be good designers, we need to immerse ourselves in as many projects as possible; understand that we know very little; and most importantly, get things delivered, even if they are only at the 80% mark.
The Mythical Man Month is a good read. Honestly, it's extremely.. well.. boring. The advice was penned for a very different time, so a lot of it doesn't apply today (a programmer needs a personal secretary? That would be nice, but probably not required). But if you read it through the shades of, \"Wow, he is a really creative thinker!\" then you'll enjoy it a lot. He talks about why the best designers have usually created at least two systems. The first gives them experience, and the second gives them humility.
Choose two: beautiful, meets all requirements, stable.
\"Beautiful, and meets all requirements\" is the second system effect. It's okay to choose this if you're designing a small system.
\"Meets all requirements, and stable\" seems to be how most systems are designed. These types of systems are the moneymakers, so if you're doing a startup, it's probably best to choose this option. As Trevor says, it's more like a model train set instead of an elegant mathematical proof. There can be bumps on the tracks, but they won't stop the train from going 'round. Windows is a good example of this. You might think, \"Windows? Stable? What an idiot.\" But look at its size. It's humongous. It's impressive how much it has accomplished, even if it's far from perfect.
\"Beautiful, and stable\" seems to be the best choice to strive for, once you have the experience. It'll turn out that some of the features you desperately need aren't so critical after all. The Apple II is a great example of this. When it was released, everyone else thought that you needed to sell a monitor with a computer, and that a TV was inadequate. By cutting the need to design a whole monitor, Woz was able to produce something much cheaper and fabulously stable. Also, choosing \"beautiful and stable\" results in a system that \"is beautiful, is stable, and meets all requirements\", since you've just trimmed half of your requirements.
From my very limited two years of experience, this seems to be a decent design process for complicated systems:
1. Accept that you don't know as much as you need to know. Look for battle-tested components that other people have already designed, and use those. Copying is not cheating in the world of design. (Give credit where credit is due, though. If you created all your components, fabulous. That's incredibly impressive. But don't claim to have designed everything even if you've made them all work together.)
2. Cut as much from the requirements as possible, and even a little bit beyond what's comfortable. Think to yourself, \"How can I avoid designing a new monitor?\"
3. Focus on simplicity. Keep the adage \"form follows function\" in mind. If the implementation is small and simple, it will be far more stable than a big, extensible system that does a lot more. And people will probably like the smaller system better anyway.
4. These are only guidelines. Just focus on doing what makes the most sense, regardless of any rules. (For C++ programmers, this includes rules against using Boost or STL because \"it's not fast enough\". Take the time to learn your containers, then choose to not use them once you understand them.)
5. Deliver a system when it's 80% complete. (That's 80% complete, not 20% buggy.) Software is powerful because it can be improved later. Draw a sketch, don't paint a painting. The result can always be transformed into a painting later.
What do you think? It's always great to find new things that help designers, so please share your wisdom on all of this.","title":"How to Design a System","updated_at":"2024-09-19T16:23:24Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"fullyHighlighted":true,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["thunder"],"value":"twunde"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["compute"],"value":"I left my last job because of burnout but now after 2 years here I'm picking up the same bad habits, checking email and doing extra work on weekends. I know one of the triggers was getting a work laptop, which I now use as my primary computer. How do you keep a balance between life and work?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"How do you keep a good work/life balance"}},"_tags":["story","author_twunde","story_11604325","ask_hn"],"author":"twunde","children":[11605423,11606238,11613692,11684464],"created_at":"2016-05-01T00:32:09Z","created_at_i":1462062729,"num_comments":4,"objectID":"11604325","points":3,"story_id":11604325,"story_text":"I left my last job because of burnout but now after 2 years here I'm picking up the same bad habits, checking email and doing extra work on weekends. I know one of the triggers was getting a work laptop, which I now use as my primary computer. How do you keep a balance between life and work?","title":"How do you keep a good work/life balance","updated_at":"2024-09-19T23:06:03Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"brian68"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"As a person with vision problems I sometimes struggle with certain documents that are difficult to read (my computer fonts are usually bold with sizes ~14). I needed to read some RFCs and discovered that the PDF versions use a font smaller and "thinner" (Courier 10?) than what I'm used to. I tried some options to modify the original plain text documents and discovered that modifying their fonts was not as easy as I thought. Finally I created a utility to convert RFCs to PDF allowing the user to change fonts and margins and I wanted to share it. There is also a utility to "bulk convert" a folder with RFCs in plain text.I have converted RFCs to PDFs with two free monospaced fonts: Liberation Mono and Ubuntu Mono, check the releases. Hope you find it useful!."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: Rfc2pdf"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://github.com/OscarMaestre/rfc2pdf"}},"_tags":["story","author_brian68","story_34700470","show_hn"],"author":"brian68","children":[34704356],"created_at":"2023-02-07T22:06:31Z","created_at_i":1675807591,"num_comments":2,"objectID":"34700470","points":3,"story_id":34700470,"story_text":"As a person with vision problems I sometimes struggle with certain documents that are difficult to read (my computer fonts are usually bold with sizes ~14). I needed to read some RFCs and discovered that the PDF versions use a font smaller and "thinner" (Courier 10?) than what I'm used to. I tried some options to modify the original plain text documents and discovered that modifying their fonts was not as easy as I thought. Finally I created a utility to convert RFCs to PDF allowing the user to change fonts and margins and I wanted to share it. There is also a utility to "bulk convert" a folder with RFCs in plain text.I have converted RFCs to PDFs with two free monospaced fonts: Liberation Mono and Ubuntu Mono, check the releases. Hope you find it useful!.","title":"Show HN: Rfc2pdf","updated_at":"2024-09-20T13:09:25Z","url":"https://github.com/OscarMaestre/rfc2pdf"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"wwwlouishinofun"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"1.safari
Frankly, I only care if the new system is faster chrome, and Safari currently has only two advantages for me:
A. Live Text is really easy to use, I think Apple's server cost is high for this OCR feature, which is not supported by Chrome on Windows or macOS (pausing to copy video text on YouTube is very useful)
B. Compact layout and UI design really increase the vertical space, it can integrate tabs, address bar, and extension icons on a single bar, which is great, I use trackpad gestures to switch and close tabs, so it doesn't increase the difficulty of operation, which I have reported to Google many times but their UI design is slow to improve, for the screen of the first resolution, I believe that Chrome's UI will take up a huge space
In addition to this, there are too many disadvantages of Safari:
The speed of switching between multiple tabs is not comparable to chrome at all,Safari will drop frames when youtube videos are played at twice the speed of 4k,Insufficient extension,I'm a senior browser enthusiast,I still chose chrome for speed,Chrome's current problem is that two-finger zoom is not sensitive
2.iphone
I've long since stopped using an iPhone, so I don't care about the phone mirroring feature that I've experienced for a long time, in essence, the wireless network they use to transmit data is always not the ultimate smooth experience
I'm using a folding screen phone, believe me, a 220G, thinner than the iPhone folding machine is the ideal Internet terminal, watching the content is very comfortable, unless you like the phone to record videos, otherwise I can't think of a reason to continue using the iPhone in 2024
3.ai features and interactions
I'm very tired of making wheels repeatedly, I believe that Apple AI 10,000% is not as good as my GPT4 is a hundred times better, but Apple's advantage is that it can be linked to the hardware of the computer, which has the potential, but it is not enough for me to pay for it at present
4. So far, Apple has few advantages left
UI and other aesthetic design, I give this one full marks
The leader of the ARM chip PC, such as the MacBookM1, the peripheral power consumption is 5W (screen and the like), and the video SOC is only 1W, so that the power consumption of the whole machine is 7-8W, and the 49Wh battery can also play 7 hours of continuous video
Below is the original document, I am afraid that the machine translation is not accurate, I am currently also studying IELTS, but English is really difficult for me, I am now working in Viet Nam, I am very much looking forward to studying in English-speaking countries, no matter what, I expect Apple to continue to improve in software and hardware, do not squeeze toothpaste1.safari
Frankly, I only care if the new system is faster chrome, and Safari currently has only two advantages for me:
A. Live Text is really easy to use, I think Apple's server cost is high for this OCR feature, which is not supported by Chrome on Windows or macOS (pausing to copy video text on YouTube is very useful)
B. Compact layout and UI design really increase the vertical space, it can integrate tabs, address bar, and extension icons on a single bar, which is great, I use trackpad gestures to switch and close tabs, so it doesn't increase the difficulty of operation, which I have reported to Google many times but their UI design is slow to improve, for the screen of the first resolution, I believe that Chrome's UI will take up a huge space
In addition to this, there are too many disadvantages of Safari:
The speed of switching between multiple tabs is not comparable to chrome at all,Safari will drop frames when youtube videos are played at twice the speed of 4k,Insufficient extension,I'm a senior browser enthusiast,I still chose chrome for speed,Chrome's current problem is that two-finger zoom is not sensitive"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Let's talk in great detail about whether macOS 15 Sequoia is worth upgrading"}},"_tags":["story","author_wwwlouishinofun","story_41564250","ask_hn"],"author":"wwwlouishinofun","children":[41564270,41564561,41564568,41566889],"created_at":"2024-09-17T04:53:10Z","created_at_i":1726548790,"num_comments":7,"objectID":"41564250","points":1,"story_id":41564250,"story_text":"1.safari
Frankly, I only care if the new system is faster chrome, and Safari currently has only two advantages for me:
A. Live Text is really easy to use, I think Apple's server cost is high for this OCR feature, which is not supported by Chrome on Windows or macOS (pausing to copy video text on YouTube is very useful)
B. Compact layout and UI design really increase the vertical space, it can integrate tabs, address bar, and extension icons on a single bar, which is great, I use trackpad gestures to switch and close tabs, so it doesn't increase the difficulty of operation, which I have reported to Google many times but their UI design is slow to improve, for the screen of the first resolution, I believe that Chrome's UI will take up a huge space
In addition to this, there are too many disadvantages of Safari:
The speed of switching between multiple tabs is not comparable to chrome at all,Safari will drop frames when youtube videos are played at twice the speed of 4k,Insufficient extension,I'm a senior browser enthusiast,I still chose chrome for speed,Chrome's current problem is that two-finger zoom is not sensitive
2.iphone
I've long since stopped using an iPhone, so I don't care about the phone mirroring feature that I've experienced for a long time, in essence, the wireless network they use to transmit data is always not the ultimate smooth experience
I'm using a folding screen phone, believe me, a 220G, thinner than the iPhone folding machine is the ideal Internet terminal, watching the content is very comfortable, unless you like the phone to record videos, otherwise I can't think of a reason to continue using the iPhone in 2024
3.ai features and interactions
I'm very tired of making wheels repeatedly, I believe that Apple AI 10,000% is not as good as my GPT4 is a hundred times better, but Apple's advantage is that it can be linked to the hardware of the computer, which has the potential, but it is not enough for me to pay for it at present
4. So far, Apple has few advantages left
UI and other aesthetic design, I give this one full marks
The leader of the ARM chip PC, such as the MacBookM1, the peripheral power consumption is 5W (screen and the like), and the video SOC is only 1W, so that the power consumption of the whole machine is 7-8W, and the 49Wh battery can also play 7 hours of continuous video
Below is the original document, I am afraid that the machine translation is not accurate, I am currently also studying IELTS, but English is really difficult for me, I am now working in Viet Nam, I am very much looking forward to studying in English-speaking countries, no matter what, I expect Apple to continue to improve in software and hardware, do not squeeze toothpaste1.safari
Frankly, I only care if the new system is faster chrome, and Safari currently has only two advantages for me:
A. Live Text is really easy to use, I think Apple's server cost is high for this OCR feature, which is not supported by Chrome on Windows or macOS (pausing to copy video text on YouTube is very useful)
B. Compact layout and UI design really increase the vertical space, it can integrate tabs, address bar, and extension icons on a single bar, which is great, I use trackpad gestures to switch and close tabs, so it doesn't increase the difficulty of operation, which I have reported to Google many times but their UI design is slow to improve, for the screen of the first resolution, I believe that Chrome's UI will take up a huge space
In addition to this, there are too many disadvantages of Safari:
The speed of switching between multiple tabs is not comparable to chrome at all,Safari will drop frames when youtube videos are played at twice the speed of 4k,Insufficient extension,I'm a senior browser enthusiast,I still chose chrome for speed,Chrome's current problem is that two-finger zoom is not sensitive","title":"Let's talk in great detail about whether macOS 15 Sequoia is worth upgrading","updated_at":"2024-09-20T17:50:56Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"dennis_jeeves"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"Looking to freeload (in a manner speaking ). I'm seeking existing established businesses where the people at the helm of affairs are searching to augment their key members with level headed, non-political individuals. (Well, it's lonely up there isn't it?). \nCertainly I'm open to people who are wage slaves like me who would like to get off the wage slavery bandwagon for any future potential partnerships.
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What's in for you? Essentially you get a 'critical' thinker who upholds and enforces ( if I have the authority) some values that are not obvious to most people in a common workplace. For example:\n- Mindless pursuit of profits/sales figures at the expense of other important things, for example health and well being.\n- Way too many meetings.\n- promotion of talkers over thinkers. ( there are exceptions to this)\n- Frequently promoting short term fixes over long term ones.\n- Falling for hype and buzzwords( for example most of the "big data" topics/implementations are BS).\n- confusing overwork with productivity.
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It\u2019s is rust native, built for concurrency, and implements all the config quirks across models and providers (streaming formats, tool calls, model parameters, rate limits, and different error behavior).
The gateway adds under 1 ms for BYOK requests and under 2 ms when Experiential supplies the provider key. It has every major inference provider, and 1000+ models refreshed daily via a codex agent that opens a PR.
Compared to other similar projects we\u2019re open source, take no markup, allow you to mix local models with a marketplace, and use your traffic to (opt in) train you a model. Simple routing doesn\u2019t warrant a 10% token markup.
The way we do this is given standardized OTel traces, we mine representative real tasks, use text world models to simulate rollouts for various models, apply an LLM judge, and fit a nearest neighbor classifier on top of an embedding of a prompt to decide the optimal model for each request. Usually this can map out a better pareto curve on cost/quality than just calling single models but it\u2019s not perfect.
Using these simulations we can also do things like suggesting cache hit optimizations, new model suggestions, and training models.
It\u2019s open source, so you can deploy it on your own infrastructure, use our hosted version with 0 markup, or read how we design for maximum availability on our website.","title":"Show HN: We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model","updated_at":"2026-08-28T21:57:59Z","url":"https://github.com/experientiallabs/experiential"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"schultetwin1"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["thunder","compute"],"value":"Hi HN!
When I bought my first car, a 2019 Subaru Forester, I also bought an extended warranty. I wanted to stay informed about problems that might be covered, so I started checking NHTSA.gov\u2014the website of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a U.S. agency\u2014every month for new service bulletins.
Those bulletins pointed me to problems I might not otherwise have recognized as repairable. For example, my trunk would not open as far in cold weather. I probably would not have asked the dealer about it, but I found a service bulletin describing the problem and was able to get it fixed under warranty.
I wanted a simpler way to find information relevant to my car and to be notified when something new appeared, so I built Dipstick Alerts. This was also my first substantial project built with extensive help from AI coding tools.
You can use the site without signing up: select a year, make, and model to search for recalls and manufacturer service bulletins. Results include a plain-language summary, symptom notes, suggested next steps, and a link to the original manufacturer document when available. Email alerts are optional.
NHTSA is the underlying data source, so coverage is currently focused on vehicles sold in the United States. Some of the information may still be useful elsewhere because many vehicles and components are sold globally, but models and bulletin applicability can differ between markets.
A daily process scans for newly published recalls and bulletins, imports them through queues, matches them to applicable vehicles, tracks superseding bulletins, and prepares alerts for subscribers.
Some of the plain-language content is generated from the source documents using Gemini. The original manufacturer documents remain the authoritative source.
The application runs on Cloudflare Workers using D1, Queues, KV, and email sending. I\u2019d especially appreciate reports of incorrect vehicle matches and feedback on whether the summaries are genuinely useful, whether anything in the search or alert flow is confusing, and how the site performs under load.
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When I bought my first car, a 2019 Subaru Forester, I also bought an extended warranty. I wanted to stay informed about problems that might be covered, so I started checking NHTSA.gov\u2014the website of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a U.S. agency\u2014every month for new service bulletins.
Those bulletins pointed me to problems I might not otherwise have recognized as repairable. For example, my trunk would not open as far in cold weather. I probably would not have asked the dealer about it, but I found a service bulletin describing the problem and was able to get it fixed under warranty.
I wanted a simpler way to find information relevant to my car and to be notified when something new appeared, so I built Dipstick Alerts. This was also my first substantial project built with extensive help from AI coding tools.
You can use the site without signing up: select a year, make, and model to search for recalls and manufacturer service bulletins. Results include a plain-language summary, symptom notes, suggested next steps, and a link to the original manufacturer document when available. Email alerts are optional.
NHTSA is the underlying data source, so coverage is currently focused on vehicles sold in the United States. Some of the information may still be useful elsewhere because many vehicles and components are sold globally, but models and bulletin applicability can differ between markets.
A daily process scans for newly published recalls and bulletins, imports them through queues, matches them to applicable vehicles, tracks superseding bulletins, and prepares alerts for subscribers.
Some of the plain-language content is generated from the source documents using Gemini. The original manufacturer documents remain the authoritative source.
The application runs on Cloudflare Workers using D1, Queues, KV, and email sending. I\u2019d especially appreciate reports of incorrect vehicle matches and feedback on whether the summaries are genuinely useful, whether anything in the search or alert flow is confusing, and how the site performs under load.
I\u2019ll be around to answer questions and fix problems. Thanks for trying it!","title":"Show HN: Dipstick Alerts \u2013 Search recalls and service bulletins for your car","updated_at":"2026-08-28T21:44:29Z","url":"https://dipstickalerts.com"}],"hitsPerPage":50,"nbHits":28,"nbPages":1,"page":0,"params":"query=Thunder+Compute&tags=story&hitsPerPage=50&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":14,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"roundTrip":20},"afterFetch":{"format":{"highlighting":2,"total":2},"merge":{"mergeLoop":{"prepareNextHit":3,"total":3},"total":3},"total":3},"fetch":{"query":9,"scanning":1,"total":11},"total":15},"query":"Thunder Compute","serverTimeMS":18}