Hacker News: ENGNR

New comment by ENGNR in "Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s"

ENGNR — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:54:29 +0000

Exact same scenario here

I’ve heard a quantised version of flash next can fit in ~50 gb of vram (which needs a system level flag set to go over 48gb)

But the m1 cpu is itself a bottleneck on prefill compared to say an m5, there’s no real getting around it. And the 400mb/s bandwidth starts to hurt without MOE

Hoping these model optimisations can see us through to 2028 because for everything other than LLMs this hardware is still over specced and working incredibly well

New comment by ENGNR in "Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?"

ENGNR — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:39:14 +0000

There’s probably contractual guarantees in the enterprise plans. My understanding of the subscriptions is they can swap the models out if any of them is getting too heavily loaded for a period of time

New comment by ENGNR in "Altman tells staff OpenAI is open to slowing AI development"

ENGNR — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 13:10:17 +0000

Fable still better for planning, Astra faster overall but misses things. Maybe that’s behaviour not raw intelligence but it’s noticeable

New comment by ENGNR in "Claude has the worst pricing – but people want it"

ENGNR — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:58:33 +0000

Switching to Codex if their subscription includes 5.6 and Anthropic’s doesn’t include even some small quota of Fable. I’d be using local LLM’s if I didn’t want any access to frontier

New comment by ENGNR in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

ENGNR — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:42:08 +0000

House tax changes... strong yes

Share tax changes... ugh

My hope was cashed up bogans would start betting on shares instead of housing/crypto. At least it could be funnelled into something productive

New comment by ENGNR in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

ENGNR — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:45:32 +0000

Australia also has a 60 year productivity low and a government that is boosting taxes on capital gains on shares/business to basically a worldwide high. So take our experiments with a grain of salt!

New comment by ENGNR in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

ENGNR — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:31:11 +0000

It's frustrating that even brand new Unifi devices that claim to support IPv6 are actually pretty broken when you try to use it. So 10 years from right now even, unless they can software patch it upwards.

New comment by ENGNR in "IBM Plunges After Anthropic's Latest Update Takes on COBOL"

ENGNR — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:35:14 +0000

Banks remain with COBOL because it's unsexy and stable. And then they say... let's just YOLO some vibe code into the next release sight unseen! Logic checks out.

New comment by ENGNR in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

ENGNR — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:22:43 +0000

They also launched dummy satellites from the "pez dispenser", directly simulating the actual mission payload, about 4 months ago.

New comment by ENGNR in "Dilution vs. Risk taking: Capital gains taxes and entrepreneurs"

ENGNR — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 03:27:05 +0000

Lol thank you. Original as far as I know, most welcome to steal!

New comment by ENGNR in "Dilution vs. Risk taking: Capital gains taxes and entrepreneurs"

ENGNR — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 01:30:42 +0000

The trick is that the USA steps up the buy price of an asset when you pass away. So if you use cheap loans your whole life, you can defer capital tax until it goes away.

Instead of two certainties in life being death and taxes, it's now death or taxes.

New comment by ENGNR in "Dilution vs. Risk taking: Capital gains taxes and entrepreneurs"

ENGNR — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 01:17:52 +0000

How does that work in practice?

If you're bootstrapped, borrow a bunch of money to pay tax because your company got to $10M val. But then the market shifts and it goes back down to $0 in later years, do you get the money back?

Even if you do, it sounds weird taxing someone for the right to create something, especially when they're still in the middle of creating it.

New comment by ENGNR in "Steam Machine"

ENGNR — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 08:08:18 +0000

Yes! I rewound the video to double check

But honestly at this point I’m destined to buy a Steam Machine despite having a hefty Mac that could do gaming if only it were possible. Valve have been amazing about open computing and Apple are basically the enemy at this point.

It makes me wonder about what using steam machine for all computing might look like, as the new home of open computing and gaming.

New comment by ENGNR in "Ask HN: Is AWS down again?"

ENGNR — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:03:27 +0000

Had some very weird behaviour from cloudfront used purely to serve images from s3. Mostly huge slowdowns and outright failures on endpoints. Was about 15 hours ago that I noticed it by chance.

Was nothing on the aws status pages and no alerts/errors in my console. Eventually it sped up again.

New comment by ENGNR in "Satoshi-Era Bitcoin Wallet Awakens, Moves $16.5M in BTC After 14 Years"

ENGNR — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:01:37 +0000

Omfg you're right. I was half joking before, but yeah that's... quite a coincidence

New comment by ENGNR in "Satoshi-Era Bitcoin Wallet Awakens, Moves $16.5M in BTC After 14 Years"

ENGNR — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 07:31:27 +0000

Nakamoto = central origin

Origin = CIA?

New comment by ENGNR in "Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B"

ENGNR — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 07:06:58 +0000

Vision Pro is an excellent example

What Apple really needs to do is mimic their old policy of no fees except for games. Let everyone develop for it, and then rug pull by making the fees apply to everything

But they can’t do it twice. So the Vision Pro ends up with no ecosystem

New comment by ENGNR in "ChatGPT Pulse"

ENGNR — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 06:44:11 +0000

Ewwwwwww

New comment by ENGNR in "Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres"

ENGNR — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 05:37:45 +0000

There’s too many hackers on hacker news!

New comment by ENGNR in "Apple says it may stop shipping to the EU"

ENGNR — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:42:54 +0000

Pretty scary for Apple shareholders. They're basically saying that the extremely expensive hardware alone isn't enough to make a profit anymore? They're that reliant on the app store monopoly now?