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Oliver Wehrens
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Oliver Wehrens's personal blog at owehrens.com covers programming and ai. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Whisper: Nvidia RTX 4090 vs. M1 Pro with MLX”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts benchmark Apple M1 chips against Nvidia and AMD hardware, such as Whisper speech recognition with MLX on an M1 Pro versus an RTX 4090. Commenters cite them when comparing chip performance.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Oliver Wehrens — notes on software engineering, architecture, leadership and building things.
Most-linked posts?
- Whisper: Nvidia RTX 4090 vs. M1 Pro with MLX4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-12-10
What Hacker News says?
yeah, basically I think perspective is important to point out, when people are promoting the narrative "AMD has caught up to M1" but ignoring the fact it's not an Apples to Apples comparison. I'm sure 4090 can play cyberpunk with more FPS. And sure, I think the M series CPUs can eke out more single core performance if they devoted all 140 m2 of the die to CPU. But that's not what the M series chips are. Also, there'…
Comment linking /whisper-nvidia-rtx-4090-vs-m1pro-with-mlx/
on “AMD Zen 5 CPUs Reportedly Made on TSMC's 3nm Process, Mass Production in Q3”Submitted Whisper: Nvidia RTX 4090 vs. M1 Pro with MLX as a story · 4 points
HN discussionlol nice: https://owehrens.com/content/images/size/w1600/2023/12/PerfC...
Comment linking /content/images/size/w1600/2023/12/PerfChart.jpg
on “Whisper: Nvidia RTX 4090 vs. M1 Pro with MLX”Submitted Whisper: Nvidia RTX 4090 vs. M1Pro with MLX as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBut apple m1 chip has 1/6 the power budget of a 4090 and benchmarks show that they are similar. Will apple eat them? https://owehrens.com/whisper-nvidia-rtx-4090-vs-m1pro-with-m...
Comment linking /whisper-nvidia-rtx-4090-vs-m1pro-with-mlx/
on “AMD's Next GPU Is a 3D-Integrated Superchip”
