Hacker News: Gracana

New comment by Gracana in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

Gracana — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:04:37 +0000

I hate this too. You can turn it off. In Settings, go to System->Multitasking and change "Show tabs from apps when snapping or pressing Alt+Tab" to "Don't show tabs."

New comment by Gracana in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

Gracana — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:03:22 +0000

Parent isn't saying that bespoke scripts are bad, just that it's not worth their time to write them. The value of the bot is that it can do that for you.

New comment by Gracana in "Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents"

Gracana — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:02:58 +0000

My explanation is simpler and does not rely on assuming that anyone is an idiot. Or an edgy contrarian.

New comment by Gracana in "Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents"

Gracana — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:05:22 +0000

I don't think there's so much naivety. People can be aware of the the plan and still be frustrated and disappointed when it happens.

New comment by Gracana in "Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most"

Gracana — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:24:30 +0000

Was it Wirtual? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C98AjMOklB4

New comment by Gracana in "Run a 1T parameter model on a 32gb Mac by streaming tensors from NVMe"

Gracana — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:18:11 +0000

ktransformers can do dynamic placement of experts and could presumably produce such a histogram, though currently its activation statistics are just a ".pt" file. https://github.com/kvcache-ai/ktransformers/blob/main/doc/en...

FWIW I never got it to work and did not dig into it much.

New comment by Gracana in "Building an FPGA 3dfx Voodoo with Modern RTL Tools"

Gracana — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:17:03 +0000

Funny, I saw the news about the new game just before I saw this article. I didn't know it was a reboot at all, I'd never heard of the originals. It looks cool.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2814990/Screamer/

New comment by Gracana in "Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe"

Gracana — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:01:56 +0000

SOCAMM2 could work. Nvidia's using it on the Vera Rubin boards, as seen here: https://www.pchardwarepro.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/que...

New comment by Gracana in "Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe"

Gracana — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:40:44 +0000

It is much faster, yeah. llama.cpp supports swapping between system memory and GPU, but it’s recommended that you don’t use that feature because it’s rarely the right call vs using the CPU to do inference on the model parts in system CPU memory.

Edit: the settings is "GGML_CUDA_ENABLE_UNIFIED_MEMORY=1"... useful if you have unified memory, very slow if you do not.

New comment by Gracana in "FrameBook"

Gracana — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:41:15 +0000

Ha. I frequently visit this site to check out the latest little gadgets: https://liliputing.com/

New comment by Gracana in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

Gracana — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:18:01 +0000

That's hilarious, I didn't realize you couldn't turn it off. I just tried disabling all the recommendation options and it still shows the category, except now instead of recommended items, it says "to show your recent files and apps, turn them on in Settings."

This sort of thing used to bother me back when I took Windows seriously.

New comment by Gracana in "Banned in California"

Gracana — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:15:12 +0000

Yeah, it’s the solvents used for cleaning the chambers and parts. Very nasty stuff, and it’s probably the biggest concern for this type of facility anywhere, not just in California.

New comment by Gracana in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

Gracana — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:54:11 +0000

Awesome, thanks for the link.

New comment by Gracana in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

Gracana — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:20:53 +0000

If the skill floor is high and therefore "effectiveness" is the same for a wide range of skill levels, isn't that the same as having a high barrier to entry? It seems that any activity or game where it takes a lot of skill before you can differentiate yourself from other players would be described that way.

New comment by Gracana in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

Gracana — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:34:48 +0000

Huh, interesting. Do you know if the government sees the identity of the company and the person being verified?

[edit] I did a little reading and it sounds like the company does not query the government with your ID. You get the cryptographic ID from the government, and present it to a company who is able to verify its validity directly. My source is mostly this: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/age-verification-europ...

New comment by Gracana in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

Gracana — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:58:35 +0000

Where is it implemented that way?

New comment by Gracana in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

Gracana — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:26:26 +0000

Are you sure about skill floor? I've only ever heard it used to describe the skill required to get into something, and skill ceiling describes the highest level of mastery. I've never heard your interpretation, and it doesn't make sense to me.

New comment by Gracana in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

Gracana — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:40:12 +0000

They're talking about output consuming from the pool of tokens allowed by the subscription plan.

New comment by Gracana in "PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf]"

Gracana — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:34:12 +0000

If you enjoy that sort of thing, check out this guy's videos. Lots of trace repairs (including below the surface), pad replacements, etc. Quite impressive to see it done.

https://www.youtube.com/@northwestrepair

New comment by Gracana in "Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse"

Gracana — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:10:30 +0000

That's what I was expecting, too. Quite an interesting story regardless.