Hacker News: Wheen

New comment by Wheen in "OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents"

Wheen — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:30:34 +0000

They literally don't even mention gaming revenue in earnings calls anymore. It's lumped in an "edge computing" category.

New comment by Wheen in "Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust"

Wheen — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:19:52 +0000

It's just slop. Tried to install it via flatpak. It has flatpak instructions in the readme. It does not ship the flatpak files it references in the readme.

New comment by Wheen in "Pi 1.0"

Wheen — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:46:23 +0000

It's a dependency of OpenClaw. Everything else aside, that's ~390k likely users minimum due to the auto-starring.

Though, I realize now the "hundreds of thousands" claim I was responding to is per week, while my guess is all time.

New comment by Wheen in "Pi 1.0"

Wheen — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:05:51 +0000

I think you're right, but in the wrong direction. I'd imagine it's closer to a million.

- It has 3.6 million weekly NPM downloads.

- 110k GH stars.

- It's 5th (and its fork is 6th and a dependent is 8th) in monthly Openrouter tokens. Add them all together and they get close to Claude Code numbers.

New comment by Wheen in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

Wheen — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:02:36 +0000

Not the person you're replying to, but judging by the emphasis on the cost of cached input tokens in the OP article, I'd guess it has to do with DeepSeek v4.1's KV cache efficiency. It uses <1000 bytes per token, so they're able to get 1M token context in under a GB.

Edit: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash/blob/...

New comment by Wheen in "Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2"

Wheen — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:47:22 +0000

> but where's the outcome dataset justifying this? how did they get that probability? what was the specific methodology of the tests? what variables did they account for?

It's just high school statistics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_interval

It's not a probability. It's essentially an assertion that if the test were run 100 times, the result would be within the interval 95 times.

New comment by Wheen in "GPT-6 Astra"

Wheen — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:24:48 +0000

Between all the posts fabricating scenarios to justify the AA score and the others trying to undermine AA, I'm getting strong astroturf vibes.

Either that, or the average poster on HN isn't nearly as critical as I had thought.

New comment by Wheen in "Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model"

Wheen — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:35:28 +0000

Have you posted the code to this proxy somewhere? I'm dabbling in custom harnesses and would love to learn from it.

New comment by Wheen in "Qwen3.8-Flash-Next"

Wheen — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:29:33 +0000

Just a hunch, but it might be because of the 51B parameter n-gram embedding. At 125B, you'd expect ~16gigs for a 1-bit quant. Add 51gigs for the n-grams and you're not far off the actual size.

If that's true, it'd scale linearly with number of bits in the quant with an offset of about 51gigs. So Q4 should be a bit bigger than 82gigs, I'd guess in the 90s (as opposed to a ~280gig q4 if the whole 70gigs of the 1-bit quant scaled linearly).

New comment by Wheen in "GLM-5.3-Flash"

Wheen — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:32:14 +0000

Sorta, but you're off by one layer. You can store the 18B in VRAM and stream the rest from RAM. There's still a performance hit relative to storing it all in VRAM, but it's tolerable.

Generally, for local consumer use, these large MOE models are best for unified RAM systems like DGX Spark or Mac Studio.

New comment by Wheen in "Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs"

Wheen — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:36:42 +0000

> will rely heavily on public chargers

Public chargers =/= DC fast chargers (like Tesla superchargers).

I've already seen level 2 chargers that drop down from light posts in my city. Roll those out to every light post near apartment buildings and throw in some curb-side stalls if you need more capacity. Most people won't need to charge every night with 200/300mi+ range, so you won't need a 1:1 mapping of chargers to cars. This way, people charge passively overnight at stations that are cheaper to build than DC fast chargers.

New comment by Wheen in "HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users"

Wheen — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 01:20:10 +0000

As a former HBO dev, can confirm that the majority of test cases or random debugging messages are Game of Thrones quotes.

New comment by Wheen in "Never judge a programmer by their commit history"

Wheen — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 06:04:34 +0000

Sorry for the late reply.

Recently, mostly Python and Javascript

New comment by Wheen in "Show HN: Google Music for Mac"

Wheen — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 19:33:59 +0000

For me personally, just scrobbling.

At this point, that's the only thing stopping me from using it. Looks great, but I'm a stat freak and I need my scrobbling.

New comment by Wheen in "Never judge a programmer by their commit history"

Wheen — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:25:28 +0000

As someone who is (Probably a bit more than) a junior dev with no formal education or experience in a team, do you have any suggestions to write better code?

I feel like my code would be considered bad, but I have no idea what good or bad code looks like. Does anyone have some examples and comparisons between good and bad code?

New comment by Wheen in "Life of Brian (Krebs)"

Wheen — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:56:20 +0000

>Technically adept attacker

It was a 15 year old kid http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/02/the-new-normal-200-400-gb...

New comment by Wheen in "Microsoft's cheapest Surface tablet won't cost $1K after all"

Wheen — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:46:52 +0000

I have a friend who claims his aunt (Who works of MS) said that it would cost $1k (This was literally the day of the announcement, too). He has been rather reliable in the past, but it should still be taken with a grain of salt, since I was given no context.

New comment by Wheen in "MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge"

Wheen — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:36:22 +0000

Airs shouldn't be that bad. IIRC, Linus runs one.