Hacker News: Zetaphor

New comment by Zetaphor in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

Zetaphor — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:03:04 +0000

While the laptop option is nice, for an inference server you're probably going to want the desktop form factor as it has significantly more thermal overhead and thus better performance. In the desktop models most of the internal volume is a gigantic heatsink

New comment by Zetaphor in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

Zetaphor — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:53:54 +0000

Strix Halo is the unified memory platform from AMD. Similar to the DGX Spark from NVIDIA or the M series Macs.

I personally have the Framework Desktop, but there's also systems from other brands like Bosgame

New comment by Zetaphor in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update"

Zetaphor — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:27:48 +0000

I'm sure there's plenty, but if you put on your rational hat and think about the motivations of the Chinese government you'll realize this claim makes no sense, and there's plenty of evidence and good reason saying the opposite

New comment by Zetaphor in "State of multi-player Wayland"

Zetaphor — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:43:30 +0000

Same on Android, insane that people aren't validating for mobile in current year

New comment by Zetaphor in "Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid"

Zetaphor — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:42:22 +0000

There's so many more things my taxes are being used to fund that I think the majority would agree are a symptoms of waste and corruption, that focusing on people getting a degree in the arts is laughable. The current cost of this war could have paid for decades of healthcare or education.

New comment by Zetaphor in "Show HN: Skillscript – A declarative, sandboxed language for tool orchestration"

Zetaphor — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:32:08 +0000

Brave is Chromium, presumably this means the site is broken on mobile chrome

New comment by Zetaphor in "Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom"

Zetaphor — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:53:40 +0000

If we're all out of work then who buys the things AI makes?

New comment by Zetaphor in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

Zetaphor — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:25:02 +0000

It's far less obvious how choosing Bun results in more revenue for Anthropic. Unlike Claude Code, Bun doesn't require you to pay for tokens to use it

New comment by Zetaphor in "The AI Compass Quiz"

Zetaphor — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 05:16:30 +0000

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

New comment by Zetaphor in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

Zetaphor — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:22:17 +0000

Alternatively you could run it on Strix Halo for $1,000 less, and while it may be slightly slower you won't have to deal with NVIDIA's shit on Linux and worrying about having to use their custom kernels or Ubuntu.

New comment by Zetaphor in "The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs"

Zetaphor — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:45:18 +0000

Hello from the US! I'll never not be amazed by the fact that we live in a point in human history where language and distance are no longer barriers to the exchange of ideas, despite the efforts of our governments.

New comment by Zetaphor in "Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models"

Zetaphor — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:32:55 +0000

Please use the upvote button instead of doing this.

New comment by Zetaphor in "The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs"

Zetaphor — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 03:37:37 +0000

Because that has worked so well for:

* Drugs

* Media piracy

* Alcohol

* Sex work

* Unlicensed gambling

The government is not an all powerful entity with absolute control over its people. Even in countries under past and present dictatorship there are examples of people getting access to what the government deemed as illegal.

New comment by Zetaphor in "Steam Machine launches today"

Zetaphor — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:03:59 +0000

There's no game worth installing a rootkit for. The market is far more diverse and interesting than the handful of popular AAA titles , most of which are just shooters

New comment by Zetaphor in "Steam Machine launches today"

Zetaphor — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:01:42 +0000

On Linux I can play games going back multiple generations as well as emulating other consoles

New comment by Zetaphor in "Steam Machine launches today"

Zetaphor — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:59:37 +0000

Piracy and alternative storefronts don't exist on PS5. I could buy a steam machine and then exclusively buy my games from EA. They're also not charging you for the multiplayer access

New comment by Zetaphor in "Steam Machine launches today"

Zetaphor — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:50:39 +0000

Exactly, no game is worth installing a rootkit for

New comment by Zetaphor in "Deno Desktop"

Zetaphor — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:17:11 +0000

Good news!

https://9to5linux.com/kdes-new-css-based-style-engine-union-...

New comment by Zetaphor in "No, everyone is not using AI for everything"

Zetaphor — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:52:56 +0000

I'm someone who uses tens of millions of tokens each month, almost exclusively with open weight models that I run on my own hardware. That said you are taking the wrong approach here, this type of mentality is only going to further radicalize those who have decided they're against this technology.

Additionally when the finally bubble bursts and the executives wake up from psychosis and look to distance themselves from this because it's become a dirty word, you'll be one of the first to go. The nail that sticks out gets hammered down and all that.

I do think there are real benefits and productivity gains with this technology, but it does not benefit everyone equally. It's great for the programming parts of my job, but useless in the other 40% of the work. I have coworkers for whom generative AI has no obvious practical application, and yet management is trying to find a way to shoehorn it in anyway. No doubt because they've also drank the kool-aid and are eager to reduce headcount.

This attitude of it making everything more productive and anyone who doesn't follow will be left behind is not just false, it's cruel and myopic. You're talking about people's livelihood being taken away because a handful of executives decided this is how things should work despite the MASSIVE number of shortcomings and poor product market fit.

Edit: I also almost missed where you're seemingly celebrating the devaluation of human labor as a result of this. Please stop and reflect on how your position may read to someone who is just trying to put food on the table.

New comment by Zetaphor in "Open source AI must win"

Zetaphor — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:38:10 +0000

That's not really how the experts in an MoE work. They activate on token probabilities and are activated on every token. You don't necessarily have a discrete math expert and a discrete physics expert. And if it were you would still need a router that is trained on all of those domains.