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

Neywiny — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:19:21 +0000

No but they like doing it, is what I said. One of those things I have to make sure is prompted correctly.

New comment by Neywiny in "Fast Blur with Animated Radius"

Neywiny — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 20:33:02 +0000

New comment by Neywiny in "We're working on a new RuneScape MMO"

Neywiny — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:18:58 +0000

I'd much rather just not need to grind instead of throwing compute and time at it?

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

Neywiny — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:15:55 +0000

I don't like that some configuration is fine via arguments and others by environment variable. I've noticed LLMs like doing this. And even more, like hallucinating such things. To me the advantage of AI coding is that the boilerplate of command line arguments and passing them around becomes trivial instead of tedious.

New comment by Neywiny in "There are only 5,000 elite software engineers in the world (2025)"

Neywiny — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 01:52:14 +0000

Did you switch jobs within that time or stay where you were forever?

New comment by Neywiny in "Agents don't need memory, they need documentation"

Neywiny — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:57:47 +0000

No I'm saying this entire problem approach, including memory system of agents, is incorrect. Like the author argues. With the same solution of moving the ground truths outside of the model/context.

New comment by Neywiny in "Agents don't need memory, they need documentation"

Neywiny — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:07:12 +0000

This is what I've been saying for years. I attended a tech demo of an AI assistant for a car's owners' manual. But they trained the manual into the model. Which means not only does it need retraining every edition, but it's imperfect. The models need to be trained to fetch and use documentation not vaguely recall infinitely many concepts. I would much rather have 27B parameters on how to code than 26B on stuff like numpy function listings. It's like they approached the problem from a closed notes hand written coding exam. Everyone hates those.

New comment by Neywiny in "IANA's email about why example.com changed"

Neywiny — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:28:37 +0000

I like to use logon.com which for some reason occasionally routes to the login page of a captive portal. Why a method to get back to it hasn't been unified is beyond me. (Cue xkcd on standards)

New comment by Neywiny in "Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests"

Neywiny — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:00:36 +0000

This is what I brought up about the Giants game fiasco. When a quick quip generates tens of thousands of fake internet points, who cares if it's true? And not one of the ones I saw had an apology edit or were deleted. People don't care about the content, they care about the fake internet points

New comment by Neywiny in "Context Language Models"

Neywiny — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:24:53 +0000

True facts. Cline does this with auto compact and it's so dumb. At the start of the session it reads the plan.md. during compaction, it forgets it. Same with its own output. It'll tell me the list of steps to take. By step 4 it needs to compact. So I prompt to do step 4. It spends 15 minutes searching the codebase and comes back that it couldn't find such a step. So dumb. So so dumb

New comment by Neywiny in "Show HN: Rank every HN "Who is hiring?" post against your resume, locally"

Neywiny — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:11:46 +0000

We're getting close to completely automatic job searching and applications. Can't wait

New comment by Neywiny in "LinkedIn Larpmaxxing"

Neywiny — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:22:00 +0000

But how many of those are real recruiters for real jobs that are relevant to you?

New comment by Neywiny in "What makes Lisp difficult to read?"

Neywiny — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:00:46 +0000

.... Veritasium and a ton of other YouTubers made entire careers off of that. Steve Mould, the action lab... I mean there are so many

New comment by Neywiny in "What makes Lisp difficult to read?"

Neywiny — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:30:52 +0000

My guy, most people are unfamiliar with Lisp

New comment by Neywiny in "What makes Lisp difficult to read?"

Neywiny — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:06:49 +0000

That went to Nazism real fast. But the thing is, most people don't think the Holocaust is a hoax (I think), whereas most people do think Lisp is difficult to read.

New comment by Neywiny in "C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake"

Neywiny — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 02:23:10 +0000

Yeah but that's a compile time constant. Wouldn't get executed at all.

New comment by Neywiny in "The accidental history of 3000, 8080, and other port numbers"

Neywiny — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 22:36:20 +0000

Funny you mention 1234, which is the gdb server default port I brought

New comment by Neywiny in "C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake"

Neywiny — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 22:33:25 +0000

I'm pretty sure shifting right by more than the width just makes 0? Maybe it's one of those UB that's always done the same way

New comment by Neywiny in "I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband"

Neywiny — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:25:54 +0000

I think it's also important to remember that these people are karma farming. When you can get 5k points for "man bad", who wouldn't?

Doubly reminded of that as I'm watching a DEFCON talk where he cites fake Internet points as a driving motivator. Which is my feeling too but yeah idk the whole thing is missing that "we're real people" thing.

New comment by Neywiny in "LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators on Earth"

Neywiny — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:57:39 +0000

The longest escalators in the Eastern hemisphere, at Wheaton Metro, which I've ridden many times, are apparently the same speed according to Wikipedia. So my gut feeling of maybe they did that because maybe they're short doesn't hold