Hacker News: Reubend

New comment by Reubend in "Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model"

Reubend — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:39:04 +0000

Seems like this is particularly good at instruction following, but not as strong at coding as others. It's always great to get more diversity of open weight models though! I'll need to test this out to see what its "personality" is like.

New comment by Reubend in "Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel"

Reubend — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:58:20 +0000

Isn't the pursuit of knowledge alone good enough?

New comment by Reubend in "Stellantis to sell small Fiat Topolino EV for $13,995 in U.S."

Reubend — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:19:16 +0000

I think there's some hidden demand for a small cheap car, but 19 MPH is indeed too slow. It needs to be able to go at least to slow highway speeds.

New comment by Reubend in "Show HN: Shirei, cross-platform GUI framework in native Go"

Reubend — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:39:40 +0000

> What is it that matters for "immediate mode"? Is it that the UI renders everything every frame? No. It's that you build the UI by describing what it should look like everyframe, based only (or mostly) on the data. This is why React won...

I don't think that's why React got so popular. React popularized unidirectional data flow, which is different than immediate mode rendering. This readme file seems to conflate the two of those.

Now that I think of it, couldn't one argue that React itself is a retained mode UI, since it choses which components to re-render and which not to?

New comment by Reubend in "Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem"

Reubend — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:25:25 +0000

Can this engine be embedded into other programs?

New comment by Reubend in "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable"

Reubend — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 22:21:05 +0000

> rendering DirectX 8 → DXVK → Vulkan → MoltenVK → Metal

Am I reading that right? It makes API calls that go through 5 different layers before actually getting rendered? That's kind of crazy. I'm surprised it works, although I guess the underlying libraries are solid enough that it shouldn't be unexpected.

New comment by Reubend in "Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming"

Reubend — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 05:11:43 +0000

I'm sorry, but I agree with the wiki editors in this case. Odin is obscure. The author of this blog post seems to think it's well known, but I don't think that's substantiated.

New comment by Reubend in "DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]"

Reubend — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:10:28 +0000

That understates how difficult it is to get to the level of performance they attained. The fact that it surpasses DeepSeek v4 in most ways shows that they accomplished some great work in this space.

New comment by Reubend in "Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model"

Reubend — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:47:58 +0000

The example images look great. Always good to have more diverse OSS models.

New comment by Reubend in "NSA director: 'Mythos "broke into almost all of our classified systems in hours""

Reubend — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:59:09 +0000

I think you're missing the point. Everything you said is theoretically correct, but the parent comment was talking about the concrete circumstance of pentesting with the top models today.

Let's just take GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.8 as an example. Both are worse than Mythos 5, but they're capable of quite a bit when the guardrails are lifted and they're paired with a skilled human operator. They more than "good enough" to reach the same result with the addition of some human effort.

New comment by Reubend in "GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLM"

Reubend — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:43:11 +0000

It is strange, huh? But the hype cycles around these models often ignore good contenders. Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5 Pro was doing really well and didn't get much hype either.

New comment by Reubend in "Show HN: BlitzGraph – Supabase for graphs, built for LLM agents"

Reubend — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:31:18 +0000

> I opened 120+ issues in Dgraph, Typedb and surrealdb looking for the perfect graphDB

Can you share some examples? What was wrong with those?

New comment by Reubend in "Midjourney Medical"

Reubend — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:22:18 +0000

I don't really understand the connection; they went from image generation to medical scanning?

New comment by Reubend in "TorchCodec 0.14: HDR Video Decoding for CPU and CUDA, and Fast Wav Decoder"

Reubend — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:31:07 +0000

the WAV file decoding perf improvement is also very welcome!

New comment by Reubend in "Pac-Man, but you're the ghost"

Reubend — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:09:39 +0000

> It’s literally impossible to catch Pac-Man?

I caught him! So it's definitely possible. You move a little bit faster than he does so you need to anticipate where he's going.

New comment by Reubend in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

Reubend — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:30:29 +0000

Seems like there's no official blog post with benchmark results yet. But I'm once again thankful for the Chinese AI labs for being open with their work and contributing it to the world under permissive licenses like this. The Fable 5 fiasco is just another reminder of how valuable these things are to have.

New comment by Reubend in "Show HN: Verso – A $14.99 Mac word processor with no subscription"

Reubend — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:22:25 +0000

I've never understood the appeal of minimal writing apps. They've got beautiful UIs, but I could theoretically do everything here on a normal writing app, couldn't I?

New comment by Reubend in "What about OpenCL and CUDA C++ alternatives?"

Reubend — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:18:59 +0000

Thanks so much for explaining this. I was just about to comment "Isn't Vulkan the main OpenCL and CUDA alternative these days?" could you share a bit more on what Vulkan is missing relative to the other two?

New comment by Reubend in "Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute"

Reubend — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:36:04 +0000

Yeah I was wondering about this too. It seems like way too much per GPU considering the purchase price of a B200 was around $40k last time I checked. So if we naively ignore the price of electricity and maintanence, it would only take 5 months before renting is a worse deal than buying outright.

New comment by Reubend in "Different attitudes towards AI in California's university system"

Reubend — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:19:32 +0000

> A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart.

The NYT often has a bias against AI, but the article's contents are actually a pretty reasonable summary of the different attitudes towards AI in academia. Then they went and slapped a terribly sensationalist headline on it, which doesn't seem well supported by the actual article.