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New comment by acchow in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

acchow — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:11:44 +0000

I had a similar issue with the Nikon Z5 full frame camera. It can be charged via the built-in USB-C socket only if the battery still has some charge.

If the battery is fully dead, you have to remove it and charge it using the separate battery charger.

That means you can't travel with only a USB-C cable.

New comment by acchow in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

acchow — Tue, 05 May 2026 11:21:19 +0000

Wikipedia say 3.6 billion Chrome users.

New comment by acchow in "Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels"

acchow — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:34:25 +0000

I get that there is undesirable real estate in Japan that gets sold "for a song".

But then how does it quickly get resold at 40x?

New comment by acchow in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"

acchow — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:00:35 +0000

Most people are convinced LLMs can do this.

Cal AI, which claims to generate a nutritional breakdown based off a photo, has $30 million in annual recurring revenue.

New comment by acchow in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

acchow — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:15:05 +0000

> senate and congress

Senate and congress are both elected. Their re-election is effectively jury nullification.

The people do not care about the crimes.

New comment by acchow in "Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model"

acchow — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:40:07 +0000

That post doesn't say anything about training for SVG generation

New comment by acchow in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

acchow — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:25:32 +0000

> I think something like 96GB RTX PRO 6000 Blackwells would be the minimum to run a model of this size with performance in the range of subscription models.

GLM 5.1 has 754B parameters tho. And you still need RAM for context too. You'll want much more than 96GB ram.

New comment by acchow in "Qwen-3.6-Plus is the first model to break 1T tokens processed in a day"

acchow — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:13:27 +0000

Which in the series specifically?

New comment by acchow in "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs"

acchow — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:27:01 +0000

H1b is tied to employment, not to the employer. You can change employers on the same H1.

It’s not great. But this is similar to how health insurance is tied to employment, not to the employer. Both citizens and H1 employees experience the same abuse here

New comment by acchow in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

acchow — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:23:40 +0000

> asserting that LLMs will never generate 'truly novel' ideas or problem solutions

I don't think I've had one of these my entire life. Truly novel ideas are exceptionally rare:

- Darwin's origin of the species - Godel's Incompleteness - Buddhist detachment

Can't think of many.

New comment by acchow in "Show HN: Mcp2cli – One CLI for every API, 96-99% fewer tokens than native MCP"

acchow — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:50:24 +0000

> Every MCP server injects its full tool schemas into context on every turn

I consider this a bug. I'm sure the chat clients will fix this soon enough.

Something like: on each turn, a subagent searches available MCP tools for anything relevant. Usually, nothing helpful will be found and the regular chat continues without any MCP context added.

New comment by acchow in "Show HN: Mcp2cli – One CLI for every API, 96-99% fewer tokens than native MCP"

acchow — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:47:38 +0000

But MCP uses Oauth. That is not a "worse version" of API keys. It is better.

The classic "API key" flow requires you to go to the resource site, generate a key, copy it, then paste it where you want it to go.

Oauth automates this. It's like "give me an API key" on demand.

New comment by acchow in "MacBook Neo"

acchow — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:30:11 +0000

Interesting pricing differential. Seems in your country, that IdeaPad is significantly cheaper than the price in the US. But for your Macbook Neo, it's the other way around.

Wonder why that is.

New comment by acchow in "MacBook Air with M5"

acchow — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:44:58 +0000

I had the opposite issue. Trackpoints stated hurting my hand because it requires significantly more force than the Mac's touchpad.

New comment by acchow in "Closure of the Weatheradio service in Canada"

acchow — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 01:33:05 +0000

We probably shouldn't deprecate AM for emergency broadcasts given you can listen to AM radio with grass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9UO9tn4MpI

New comment by acchow in "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"

acchow — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 09:45:32 +0000

> Claude code always give me rate limits

> 50+ tps with qwen3.5 35b a4b on a 4090

But qwen3.5 35b is worse than even Claude Haiku 4.5. You could switch your Claude Code to use Haiku and never hit rate limits. Also gets similar 50tps.

New comment by acchow in "Layoffs at Block"

acchow — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:41:58 +0000

But in your country (Spain), Telefónica de España laid off 3649 workers in Dec 2023 (about 40% of that unit) despite growing net income by 17% that year.

New comment by acchow in "Layoffs at Block"

acchow — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:36:41 +0000

Can you point to the laws in your country that would make this illegal? I’m skeptical

New comment by acchow in "We installed a single turnstile to feel secure"

acchow — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:02:59 +0000

> But with CCTV and computer vision it's getting increasingly cheap.

The barrier in the US isn't cost. It's a right to privacy and a culture of distrust of government.

New comment by acchow in "GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics"

acchow — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:11:20 +0000

> In my experience LLM’s can make new things when they are some linear combination of existing things

It seems to me that all “new ideas” are basically linear combinations of existing things with exceeding rare exceptions…

Maybe Godel’s Incompleteness?

Darwinian evolution?

General Relativity?

Buddhist non-duality?