Hacker News: HenryMulligan

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Alibaba plans to charge big users of its next open-source AI model"

HenryMulligan — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:44:26 +0000

> By contrast, U.S. developers OpenAI, Anthropic and ... Google have closed-source models.

> Chinese AI firms ... have shocked markets by releasing open-source models nearly as capable as those from OpenAI and Anthropic

Notice how they pit closed-source US companies against open-source Chinese companies (while neglecting to mention Google, and "Open"AI (once), released open models). Reuters seems to be playing along with the 'evil open-source' narrative. There was no mention of Inkling, Liquid, and other American open model companies either.

New comment by HenryMulligan in "A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return"

HenryMulligan — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:06:28 +0000

To preface this, I agree with the parent of your comment that doing water-intensive farming in California just doesn't make rational sense. However, you are seriously suggesting using guerilla tactics, against farmers of all people‽ You've got nothing on farmers. Many are hunters if you didn't know, and would start defending water pumps from hundreds of yards away (if you get my drift). Good luck ( ... not!).

New comment by HenryMulligan in "How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)"

HenryMulligan — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:40:50 +0000

Huh? I use Firefox on Android with uBlock Origin and it blocks ads just fine. I concur regarding Chrome though and try to avoid it.

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"

HenryMulligan — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:58:28 +0000

If both sides are willing to do that, why didn't they do that the first time instead of creating Minecraft PE?

New comment by HenryMulligan in "GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend"

HenryMulligan — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 03:25:25 +0000

I don't know about you, but most of us don't want to drop $10k+ on a GPU!

New comment by HenryMulligan in "GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend"

HenryMulligan — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 03:22:07 +0000

One RTX 3090 would allow you to run either Qwen 3.6 model with ~100k context at Q4_K_M quantization. Two would definitely allow full context and then some, or go for Q8 quantization. You can do quote a lot of LLM stuff with one or more 3090s. Or give them to me and I will happily put them to use!

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective"

HenryMulligan — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:28:57 +0000

Using that tool has gotta be a fireable offense, right?

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Asymmetric Quantization: Near-Lossless Retrieval with 97% Storage Reduction"

HenryMulligan — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:23:21 +0000

Not seeing a typo in your quote. Can you point it out?

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T"

HenryMulligan — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:29:43 +0000

Why does this not have (day-one) support for Ollama? The previous model is on there? Is it related to the ongoing refactor work or are people abandoning Ollama for other LLM engines?

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Eagle 3.1: Collaboration Between the EAGLE Team, vLLM Team, and TorchSpec Team"

HenryMulligan — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:15:56 +0000

Well, there are only so many nouns, and even fewer "cool-sounding" ones. For better project differentiation, do you think we should instead be naming things "ZurgGlurg327"? I'm sure you can find a completely-unique combo for each thing, but good luck remembering the name!

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Nvidia N1 laptop motherboard picture shows 128GB of LPDDR5x"

HenryMulligan — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:27:17 +0000

I wonder if they started work on this before RAM prices spiked. Not sure how most people expect to be able to afford 128GB of RAM in today's market. Also, one USB-C and one USB-A is pretty minimal connectivity for an otherwise high-powered, wildly-expensive laptop.

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Team from ETH Zurich make high quality quantum swap gate using a geometric phase"

HenryMulligan — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:41:17 +0000

For those of us who aren't familiar, what is the difference?

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

HenryMulligan — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:03:34 +0000

Well, good thing you aren't drinking it then, because the complete lack of electrolytes would kill you far faster than the microplastics. Surely if they can chemically purify the water to chip-making standards they can filter out the microplastics (when they are done with it)? At least one can hope.

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

HenryMulligan — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:54:08 +0000

I'm sure, like any metal at an industrial scale, it is profitably recyclable. But that is beside the point. This is akin to asking: "My car's engine just threw a rod and is seized. Is it recyclable?" Hopefully you see in this analogy that the car (engine) costs way, way more than the sum of its parts (the constituent metals).

New comment by HenryMulligan in "I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus"

HenryMulligan — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 03:56:03 +0000

Apps Only mode still has plenty of ads on the home screen though.

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months"

HenryMulligan — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:45:09 +0000

Sounds like OpenAI might be trying their hand at TPUs, like what Google has. They are one of Google's biggest advantages in AI right now. It would also give them insurance against Nvidia being everybody's hardware supplier.

New comment by HenryMulligan in "Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files"

HenryMulligan — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:23:51 +0000

Both of those write a single ISO to your USB stick, while Ventoy allows you to store numerous ISOs in a folder on the stick and choose which to use at runtime. Also, you can store other files like normal with the remaining space on your stick.

New comment by HenryMulligan in "I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster"

HenryMulligan — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:56:33 +0000

Data privacy and security don't matter? My secondhand RTX 3060 would buy a lot of cloud credits, but I don't want tons of highly personal data sent to the cloud. I can't imagine how it would be for healthcare and finance, at least if they properly shepherded their data.

New comment by HenryMulligan in "VaultGemma: The most capable differentially private LLM"

HenryMulligan — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:01:51 +0000

Ignoring what this model architecture could do and just considering what this model does do, why would I (or anyone) want to run this model (locally) to do ? Is it entirely a proof-of-concept for future training on medical data? Are they looking to use this to attempt to ethically justify training on (free-tier) user's personal data via the application of noise to the training data?

New comment by HenryMulligan in "FFmpeg 8.0"

HenryMulligan — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:15:29 +0000

Is it too big a leap for me to assume someone is going around using password spraying or whatever to compromise neglected accounts for use as spam bots?