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New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:48:53 +0000

It takes a small effort up front to pick out some freeleech content and/or set up autobrr, then you pretty much never have to worry about ratio ever again.

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Unreal Agent"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:07:02 +0000

I think the biggest selling point of a codex sub vs a claude sub is that you can use codex subs in any harness you want.

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Cloudflare Quick Tunnels"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:57:14 +0000

> You can also use Tailscale serve to get a HTTPS url like Cloudflared but it's only visible to your tailnet

For public access, similar to these cloudflare tunnels, there's Tailscale Funnel.

https://tailscale.com/docs/features/tailscale-funnel

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:00:13 +0000

It's almost comical how annoying it is. I just want to try it.

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Shopify acquires Tailwind"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:56:41 +0000

I still think the only reason to use jQuery is if you need IE11 support.

Otherwise, it's really simple to do all the things you mentioned without the complexity/heaviness of jQuery. Something like this:

``` const $ = s => { const r = {}; const els = [...document.querySelectorAll(s)]; r.text = t => (els.forEach(e => e.textContent = t), r); r.on = (ev, fn) => (els.forEach(e => e.addEventListener(ev, fn)), r); // ... return r; }; ```

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Apple Unveils iPhone Duo"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:42:04 +0000

I'll watch Marques when I want to get caught up on stuff like this, because he usually has a minimal fluff video on the subject.

For foldable phones, this might be a good pick to get caught up (5 months old, but minimal crease): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFUB_jL_XcM

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 02:58:42 +0000

Closed source, solves a different problem, and just looks like generic agent sandboxes/VMs?

What am I missing.

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:56:15 +0000

Have you given Ornith-1.5-35B a shot?

It's been a pretty decent step up for me compared to Qwen3.6

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49362401

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:22:42 +0000

I run into this several times per week.

Sometimes the context where Fable drops to Opus 4.8 is enough for Opus 4.8 to do a first pass on everything, then I start a new session and Fable will happily refactor/improve it.

Super annoying.

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:22:41 +0000

If active weight bandwidth is everything, then wouldn't Qwen 35b a3b (FP8) be roughly half the cost of dsv4f (FP4)?

dsv4f appears bigger and more memory/computationally expensive to run any way I look at it.

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:19:31 +0000

Yeah, I would appreciate if someone could make sense of the pricing differences between these models. How can a provider run DSv4F at lower cost than a 27B dense or 35B A3B model?

Does it come down to utilization and/or specific model tricks and efficiencies (attention, kv cache, etc.)?

DeepInfra prices:

Qwen 3.6 27B: $0.32 in / $3.20 out

Gemma 3 27B: $0.08 in / $0.16 out

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: $0.08 in / $0.18 out

Qwen 3.6 35B A3B: $0.10 in / $0.95 out

https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3.6-27b

https://openrouter.ai/google/gemma-3-27b-it

https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:47:05 +0000

16 MHz is the chip's clock speed. Arduino PID is more like 100 Hz to 1 kHz.

Human deliberate movement runs around 2-10 Hz I think.

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:17:50 +0000

This source appears to have more images and info: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles...

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:17:03 +0000

Relevant: https://blog.comma.ai/011release/

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Fable 5 Is Back"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:49:32 +0000

If you use Claude Code, there are plenty of projects/tools that let you see what your usage would have cost at API rates, then you can cross-reference that to your "usage" in Claude. I run through enough token in a few days for the subscription to pay for itself.

But I agree that advertised visibility into this would be nice, so we could compare the different providers up-front.

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:31:34 +0000

I really like the DM Pro and have it deployed to an office of about 50 people. It's a pretty no-fuss solution and fairly simple to manage.

For my personal setup, I decided to go with OPNSense and I couldn't be happier. Much more control, at the cost of being a little more hands on.

I think the best (rough) comparison here is MacOS vs Linux (or more accurately in this case, FreeBSD).

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:55:07 +0000

Are you suggesting that Chrome is going to allow individual websites to override the browser DNS settings? And also skip bootstrapping?

I'm very confused by this comment.

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:03:46 +0000

Freedom of DNS choice has nothing to do with DoH.

And you can definitely mitm a non-configurable DoH resolver if you absolutely needed to do that, as long as you can add your own trusted CA on a device.

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:46:26 +0000

How does DoH remove any capabilities of what the resolver can respond to queries with? I block ads via a DoH resolver.

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:51:42 +0000

I don't think we get to blame these issues on "vibe coding", they've been around for too long.