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Standard relu should have been defined as passing the value at zero (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
3 points by tosh 10 days ago | past | discuss
QUIC has a lot going for it, but it is a large library (six figure LoC) (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
28 points by tosh 17 days ago | past | 8 comments
Carmack on starting a video game company today (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
5 points by tosh 24 days ago | past
Space: Large difference in efficiency between what was possible & what was done (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
1 point by tosh 28 days ago | past
A Canticle for Leibowitz (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
15 points by tosh 52 days ago | past | 2 comments
Paper Review: LeWorldModel (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
3 points by tosh 65 days ago | past
When you stream Spotify to Bluetooth speakers (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
2 points by tosh 79 days ago | past
John Carmack on corporate advisory boards (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
2 points by tosh 80 days ago | past
John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
376 points by tzury 84 days ago | past | 488 comments
John Carmack on GPU Scheduling (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
2 points by tosh 3 months ago | past
256 TB/s data rates over 200 km distance on single mode fiber optic (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
2 points by tosh 3 months ago | past
John Carmack on mutable variables (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
515 points by azhenley 7 months ago | past | 627 comments
John Carmack on Updating Variables (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
5 points by birdculture 7 months ago | past | 2 comments
"DGX Spark has only half the advertised performance" (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
70 points by behnamoh 7 months ago | past | 24 comments
John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
527 points by OlympicMarmoto 9 months ago | past | 646 comments
Starlink announced a $5/month plan that gives unlimited usage at 500kbits/s (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
63 points by tosh 9 months ago | past | 47 comments
An average human breathes out roughly 1kg of carbon dioxide a day (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
36 points by tosh 10 months ago | past | 55 comments
John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025 (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
557 points by tosh on May 23, 2025 | past | 360 comments
The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
848 points by turrini on May 13, 2025 | past | 814 comments
John Carmack on AI in game programming (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
71 points by jjordan on April 7, 2025 | past | 106 comments
[flagged] John Carmack discusses SpaceX strategy and Mars (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
25 points by ViktorRay on Feb 18, 2025 | past | 22 comments
I had a game engine debugging dream last night (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
2 points by tosh on Nov 16, 2024 | past
Peak-efficiency block move and fill operations (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
2 points by tosh on Nov 1, 2024 | past
An alternate history tech timeline where TVs used a spiral scan (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
3 points by bpierre on Oct 21, 2024 | past
Efficiency vs. Accessibility: John Carmack's take on the potential of web games (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
15 points by astlouis44 on Aug 31, 2024 | past | 3 comments
John Carmack on the potential of web games instead of Steam releases (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
18 points by astlouis44 on Aug 30, 2024 | past | 2 comments
Carmack on Oculus, Minecraft, Meta and Microsoft (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
85 points by tosh on Aug 24, 2024 | past | 84 comments
John Carmack: make it easy to connect with people in VR: Global named rooms (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
1 point by tosh on Aug 13, 2024 | past
20 years ago in the space access circles (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
2 points by tosh on July 3, 2024 | past
Bullshit Jobs: Book Review (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)
4 points by tosh on June 2, 2024 | past

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