Hacker News: Saris

New comment by Saris in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

Saris — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:38:56 +0000

Qwen3.6-35b-a3b at 64k context runs quite well on my 12GB VRAM GPU with MoE partially offloaded to CPU. It does use a good chunk of system RAM too, but I get about 40-50 tok/s.

New comment by Saris in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

Saris — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:10:49 +0000

Yeah that's why I have so many ESP32-S3's around, no project I've done actually needs Linux and the boot times and SD card problems that come with using a Pi.

New comment by Saris in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

Saris — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:52:12 +0000

Yeah they do keep selling, I wonder though if hobbyist sales have dropped.

New comment by Saris in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

Saris — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:41:25 +0000

I really struggle to see where this fits in to most use cases. The appeal of the Pi back in the first iterations was being a relatively cheap linux computer with GPIO.

New comment by Saris in "Donut Lab's 'solid-state' battery exposed as regular li-ion in investigation"

Saris — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:13:56 +0000

Oh I don't doubt they exist in a lab, but the idea that Donut had production ready ones was very far fetched from the beginning of this.

New comment by Saris in "Donut Lab's 'solid-state' battery exposed as regular li-ion in investigation"

Saris — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:59:03 +0000

I've been waiting for more people to realize that their battery wasn't real, its specs were so outlandishly good they sounded completely impossible.

New comment by Saris in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"

Saris — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:03:42 +0000

Good to know.

I've always wondered why HTML editors tend to work this way (Wordpress is the same), instead of having a single enter key be a line break and a double enter key be a paragraph.

New comment by Saris in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"

Saris — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:40:24 +0000

Ah that would make sense I suppose as it's sending HTML by default.

It does have a plain text mode!

New comment by Saris in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"

Saris — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:53:04 +0000

Shift+Enter for a normal new line. No idea why it's like this.

New comment by Saris in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

Saris — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:37:46 +0000

From playing with it a bit it doesn't seem as reliable as qwen 3.6 for tool calls, it almost immediately got stuck in some kind of loop.

New comment by Saris in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

Saris — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:16:36 +0000

Also recently discovered KeepassXC can't do auto-type on Wayland for some reason. It seems to have a massive amount of limitations.

New comment by Saris in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

Saris — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:42:05 +0000

Ungoogled Chromium is what I keep installed for that reason. There if I need it as a browser, but otherwise does absolutely nothing else.

New comment by Saris in "Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux"

Saris — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:40:08 +0000

It's useful on lower RAM systems as the least frequently used memory can be moved to swap, freeing up more RAM for stuff that needs it. Even when using zram it works out pretty well on my laptop with 8GB of RAM, it'll often have 4GB+ in zram swap space compressed down to only 1GB or so of physical RAM usage.

New comment by Saris in "Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux"

Saris — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:38:00 +0000

It's easy enough to 'offline' swap space on Linux normally so I suspect that would work fine, as long as you didn't instantly run out of RAM when doing so.

New comment by Saris in "OpenFOV – Webcam head tracking for iRacing"

Saris — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:21:30 +0000

Why? I'm supposed to avoid projects just because someone else did a similar thing unless I want to delve into their research or something?

I can do whatever you want with my own projects, if I want to make an app to do X thing I can.

New comment by Saris in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

Saris — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:12:37 +0000

I have a couple PCs running with CPUs from 15 years ago with tons of power on time. Never heard of a CPU dying from age before.

New comment by Saris in "OpenFOV – Webcam head tracking for iRacing"

Saris — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:50 +0000

Why not? Such as?

Sometimes it's just fun to make something, avoiding it just because said thing already exists in some form is silly.

New comment by Saris in "OpenFOV – Webcam head tracking for iRacing"

Saris — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:05 +0000

VR headsets that are any good are quite expensive so price is definitely a factor I think. Plus they introduce a lot of eye fatigue and you have to wear something on your head which gets tiring.

New comment by Saris in "OpenFOV – Webcam head tracking for iRacing"

Saris — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:18:39 +0000

It's not a 1:1 link with these, turning your head only slightly is enough to look behind in game.

New comment by Saris in "OpenFOV – Webcam head tracking for iRacing"

Saris — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:01:09 +0000

If it behaved like a window you wouldn't be able to look beside or behind yourself in game, this type of setup is used a lot for sim games.