Hacker News: ThomasBb

New comment by ThomasBb in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"

ThomasBb — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:36:43 +0000

Sorry, autocorrect got me there: MTP is what I meant.

New comment by ThomasBb in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"

ThomasBb — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:19:21 +0000

Beyond the models getting better; there are still huge gains available in the inference engine side with new tricks like Dflash, MRT, turboquant - for some usecases these can multiply the speeds. There are even some model specific optimized kernels like for DeepSeek 4 flash that seem wild.

Makes me feel we are nowhere near the optimum yet.

Examples: https://dasroot.net/posts/2026/05/gemma-4-speed-hacks-mtp-df...

https://x.com/bindureddy/status/2052982206344409242?s=46

New comment by ThomasBb in "Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty"

ThomasBb — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:30:02 +0000

Is there a way to connect to non-standard SSH port that i’m missing?

New comment by ThomasBb in "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish (2005)"

ThomasBb — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 07:48:59 +0000

There might be a selection bias - off all the people who take that roundabout route; few achieve Jobs’ level of success. We never hear about them.

New comment by ThomasBb in "macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt"

ThomasBb — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 05:09:34 +0000

With MDM solutions you can not only get software update management, but even full LOM for models that support this. There are free and open source MDM out there.

New comment by ThomasBb in "Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025"

ThomasBb — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:20:40 +0000

There are even already some local AFM to Open AI API bridge project on GitHub - that lets you point basically any Open AI compatible client at the local models. Super nice for basic summarisation and completions.

New comment by ThomasBb in "Save the world, write more efficient code [pdf]"

ThomasBb — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 06:38:29 +0000

Sometimes you have to marvel at what early desktop computers achieved with their kb’s of memory and mhz of cpu - less power than even a dishwasher might have today.

New comment by ThomasBb in "Ask HN: Conversational AI to Learn a Language"

ThomasBb — Wed, 21 May 2025 09:36:37 +0000

NotebookLM now supports Dutch - So you could load up some content of interest and 'join the studio' to talk with the hosts - I imagine that might be useful and fun.

New comment by ThomasBb in "How Obama’s BlackBerry got secured (2013)"

ThomasBb — Fri, 09 May 2025 06:24:58 +0000

iMessage is actually post-quantum prepared - see https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/

New comment by ThomasBb in "Restoring Old Software for Child Learning Safety"

ThomasBb — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:15:44 +0000

I have an old iMac G3 from circa 2001 with classic Mac OS 9 on it for this purpose; there are great library websites out there with all educational games from the 90’s - no internet requirement in sight and loads of fun!

New comment by ThomasBb in "Triforce – a beamformer for Apple Silicon laptops"

ThomasBb — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 21:20:59 +0000

On current iPhone Pro (16) you can even select the audio mix you want for recorded video after recording.

New comment by ThomasBb in "Fermat's Last Theorem – how it’s going"

ThomasBb — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 20:15:58 +0000

Someone had to post this video of a song about Fermat - even if it’s in Dutch - legend: https://youtu.be/X2AVi6RCgN8?si=ZnN9lMb-XuirZ20_

New comment by ThomasBb in "Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods"

ThomasBb — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:12:19 +0000

Pretty sure you can do that natively; https://support.apple.com/guide/audio-midi-setup/set-up-audi...

New comment by ThomasBb in "Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a serial cable"

ThomasBb — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 05:22:14 +0000

Reminds me of the applesauce project for Apple ][ disks; https://overcast.fm/+BRm0EGSWs

New comment by ThomasBb in "I Started a Bike Bus (2023)"

ThomasBb — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 17:47:33 +0000

I can barely describe how foreign all of this is to a Dutch person. Pre-school and school drop-off is with a bike by default - Parents today use every type of cargo bike, but traditionally you’d see just a parent with two bike seats (on front, one rear) until the kids are 4 and able to bike themselves.

This youtube channel does a great job exploring what infrastructure exists to enable this lifestyle: https://youtube.com/@notjustbikes

New comment by ThomasBb in "Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?"

ThomasBb — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 20:38:03 +0000

Check this concept: https://www.inverse.com/tech/apple-vision-pro-f1-mixed-reali...

New comment by ThomasBb in "macOS Sequoia Preview"

ThomasBb — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 19:40:41 +0000

That might be a sign of excessive congestion on the channel used for Airplay. Esp with device to device direct link, latency should be minimal. If you can, try moving nearby AP’s off the AirPlay channels for your region. For the US: “If possible, avoid using Wi-Fi channels 149 and 153 in rooms where peer-to-peer AirPlay is frequently in use”

New comment by ThomasBb in "Show HN: I made a free app to calibrate your turntable by simply playing a song"

ThomasBb — Tue, 28 May 2024 20:08:19 +0000

Very nifty; thanks for building this. Great excuse to put a record on my player. Mine was 0.2% slow apparently…

New comment by ThomasBb in "Cyber Security: A pre-war reality check"

ThomasBb — Sat, 18 May 2024 11:58:51 +0000

Bert is a national treasure. We need more Bert in our lives!

New comment by ThomasBb in "A love letter to bicycle maintenance and repair"

ThomasBb — Sat, 04 May 2024 06:58:29 +0000

You’re on to something here - as a Dutch person, luke any of my friends, I have a ‘ daily driver’ bike with a in-hub set of gears, enclosed chain, drum brakes - and the thing is near indestructible. It spends its days in the street in front of my house chained to a bike rack ans still barely ever needs anything fixed. The typical ‘road bikes’ with derailleurs and rim brakes are fun when performance counts -but if you’re just getting around, who cares?