<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: RandyOrion</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RandyOrion</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:59:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=RandyOrion" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RandyOrion in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you Gemma team for releasing small dense VLM(s).<p>The elo ranking [1] is too good to be true. I don't know why gemma-4-26b-a4b performs better than gemma-4-31b.<p>Also waiting for more bugfixes in llama.cpp, sglang and vllm to do proper evaluations.<p>[1] <a href="https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text/expert?license=open-source" rel="nofollow">https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text/expert?license=open-source</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:53:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624204</link><dc:creator>RandyOrion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624204</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RandyOrion in "Android Developer Verification"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Please no.<p>If you want to install APKs directly on Android phones selling in China, you'll face even more draconian restrictions imposed by both Chinese OEMs and Chinese government, e.g., cannot install telegram [1], cannot install VPNs [2], called by local police station after installing VPNs [3], and so on. And you do not have the freedom to even talk about these restrictions freely without getting sued or censored.<p>[1] <a href="https://xcancel.com/whyyoutouzhele/status/1689152388412616704" rel="nofollow">https://xcancel.com/whyyoutouzhele/status/168915238841261670...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://xcancel.com/whyyoutouzhele/status/1978430665562689716" rel="nofollow">https://xcancel.com/whyyoutouzhele/status/197843066556268971...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://xcancel.com/whyyoutouzhele/status/1702992057596276760" rel="nofollow">https://xcancel.com/whyyoutouzhele/status/170299205759627676...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:08:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47585613</link><dc:creator>RandyOrion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47585613</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47585613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RandyOrion in "Android Developer Verification"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, let's hold Google accountable. Is there a way to practice anti-trust laws?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:47:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47585404</link><dc:creator>RandyOrion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47585404</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47585404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RandyOrion in "Android Developer Verification"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you for standing against the Android Developer Verification enforced by Google. Now in addition to stopping using Youtube, replacing chrome with ungoogled chromium, I'm moving to de-googled AOSP builds, e.g., lineageOS, insted of stock OEM ROMs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:35:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47585293</link><dc:creator>RandyOrion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47585293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47585293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RandyOrion in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow, just wow.<p>1.5M records of PRs affected. Does Microsoft copilot ask users for the permission of adding ads inside their PRs before actually doing the thing? Do users show their consents on this matter?<p>Now EVERYONE can see ads disguised as PRs on GitHub. Does Microsoft asks everyone for the permission of showing ads before actually doing the thing? Do users show their consents on this matter?<p>Good taste Microslop.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:41:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582147</link><dc:creator>RandyOrion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582147</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RandyOrion in "Flash-MoE: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Laptop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This project shows an interesting automated search for engineering problems that I like to see more.<p>The experience of utilizing tiered storage (gpu vram, ram, and ssd) is generally poor for a lot of LLM inference engines out there, e.g., llama.cpp, sglang, vllm, etc..<p>My own experience shows that both weight and KV cache offload to ram on sglang and vllm is unavailable or unusable. Copying extra parameters from documents and adding them to already working commands results in errors. Llama.cpp does support weight offload, but the experience is not pleasant, low pcie (gpu <-> ram) utilization, low gpu utilization, and really low tokens per second.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:26:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484838</link><dc:creator>RandyOrion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484838</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RandyOrion in "Something is afoot in the land of Qwen"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>First, thank you Junyang and Qwen team for your incredible work. You deserve better.<p>This is sad for local LLM community. First we lost wizardLM, Yi and others, then we lost Llama and others, now we lost Qwen...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:12:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257471</link><dc:creator>RandyOrion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257471</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RandyOrion in "A CPU that runs entirely on GPU"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, I don't have enough knowledge on the boot process of RPi. However, I do expect that most modern hardware, e.g. x86, do not work like RPi, so your words do not hold in most realistic scenarios, at least for now. Besides, do current GPUs (not only GPUs on RPi) have the ability to self instruct in order to achieve what you said?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:19:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252443</link><dc:creator>RandyOrion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252443</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RandyOrion in "RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As far as I know, ESNI was pushed to a large number of websites in a very fast pace, and soon completely blocked by GFW. Then I didn't hear news about ESNI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:59:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252168</link><dc:creator>RandyOrion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252168</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RandyOrion in "A CPU that runs entirely on GPU"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cool. However, one still need CPU to send commands to GPU in order to let GPU do CPU things.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:41:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250098</link><dc:creator>RandyOrion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250098</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RandyOrion in "RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TLS Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) standard is another attempt on encrypting plaintext Server Name Indication (SNI). It is very useful for circumventing SNI-based censorship, which is adopted for years by state-backed systems like the Great Firewall (GFW).<p>The previous attempt of encrypting plaintext SNI is Encrypted Server Name Indication (ESNI), which didn't end well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:46:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249204</link><dc:creator>RandyOrion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249204</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RandyOrion in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Google's stance on MV2 and MV3 is definitely affecting every chromium-based projects.<p>> but the removal of MV2 from multiple parts of the codebase is imminent.<p>Is there any evidence showing that ungoogled chromium project is considering that?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:05:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234461</link><dc:creator>RandyOrion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234461</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RandyOrion in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Every single chrome-fork has shut down MV2 extensions<p>Ungoogled chromium still supports MV2, and uBlock origin extension works fine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:38:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47217256</link><dc:creator>RandyOrion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47217256</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47217256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RandyOrion in "Ex-Tech –> Homeless in SF"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is a term called low-trust society, and at least 1.4 billion people are struggling in that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:34:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025602</link><dc:creator>RandyOrion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025602</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RandyOrion in "Leaked chats expose the daily life of a scam compound's enslaved workforce"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A related paper interviewing victims of the pig-butchering scams.<p>“Hello, is this Anna?": Unpacking the Lifecycle of Pig-Butchering Scams [1]<p>[1] <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20821" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20821</a></p>
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<p>Sadly, this already happens in China.<p>After many years of heavy censorship on 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, there are a lot of accounts on Chinese BBS who say all the footage "AI generated".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:49:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767953</link><dc:creator>RandyOrion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767953</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RandyOrion in "Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>NO.<p>They can do unconditional blocking at any moment and suddenly you can experience Internet blackout. [1]<p>The censorship from GFW is ever evolving. See the endless cat-and-mouse games yourself. [2][3]<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/511" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/511</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues?q=is%3Aissue+state%3Aopen+label%3AChina" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues?q=is%3Aissue+state%...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://gfw.report/en/" rel="nofollow">https://gfw.report/en/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:35:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767769</link><dc:creator>RandyOrion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767769</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RandyOrion in "From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is a dedicated thread of record and anti-censorship resources of the Iran Network Shutdown [1]. Hope it helps.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/561" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/561</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:58:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46720033</link><dc:creator>RandyOrion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46720033</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46720033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RandyOrion in "Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Using Lawnchair for more than a year now. No major issues on my device with Android 13 and Lineage OS 22.2. Will not look at other alternatives for a long time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 02:54:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46700590</link><dc:creator>RandyOrion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46700590</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46700590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RandyOrion in "Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hi, there. Two questions about this repo [0].<p>Can you show us what you did after people failed to compile that project [1]?<p>There are also questions about the attribution of these commits [2]. Can you share some information?<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/wilsonzlin/fastrender" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/wilsonzlin/fastrender</a>
[1] <a href="https://github.com/wilsonzlin/fastrender/issues/98" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/wilsonzlin/fastrender/issues/98</a>
[2] <a href="https://gist.github.com/embedding-shapes/d09225180ea3236f18039ca7a24b7ecb" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/embedding-shapes/d09225180ea3236f180...</a></p>
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