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New comment by acd in "The AI Boom May Be Sowing Seeds of Another Financial Crisis"

acd — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 21:56:28 +0000

1. Hedge funds buy 2. Hedge funds exit 3. Pension funds buy 4. Early investors exit

New comment by acd in "Barcelona unrest: how to fabricate a protest in the age of TikTok"

acd — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 11:26:48 +0000

Digital markets act in EU Tiktok is a gatekeeper. Special rules apply

https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/gatekeepers-portal_...

New comment by acd in "A $300B 'Debt Wall' Is Looming over Private-Equity Backed Companies"

acd — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:40:13 +0000

I think ai leads to an accounting error in software assets. So if you book keept software at x amount of goodwill that must be written down. Reason ai can clone the software fast so the value is not what is book keeped.

New comment by acd in "The Curse of Soldered RAM"

acd — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:29:42 +0000

Ddr4 laptops are better There is also DDR5 CU-DIMM in some newer Dell laptops but that is rather rare.

Agree non user service parts is not good for consumers.

Use tools as d search Youtube videos memory upgrade device name before you buy a laptop to check if the memory is user upgradeable without soldering.

New comment by acd in "Root shell on Samsung TV"

acd — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:41:37 +0000

Please use full open source Linux distros instead. Then you could update with apt, dnf, pacman etc.

New comment by acd in "Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?"

acd — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:20:50 +0000

Because a) ai companies are already high valued. b) the showles are not digging gold at the rate claimed

Ie over hype see the Hype cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

New comment by acd in "Google Pushed AI into Schools–and Even Students Say It's Gone Too Far"

acd — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:29:12 +0000

I dont understand the EULA terms how that is compatible vs pushing it to schools?

New comment by acd in "Switzerland proposes banning profiling-based ads to minors"

acd — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:12:30 +0000

United nations human rights

"Article 12

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks."

Ad tech Data fusion violates that right

New comment by acd in "Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver"

acd — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:22:54 +0000

What is the radio quality like SNR?

New comment by acd in "Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses"

acd — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:44:22 +0000

Hope Sweden copies Norway and bans data fusion for ads data sharing glasses.

New comment by acd in "Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta"

acd — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:59:59 +0000

We should together stop calling devices which film in dressing / locker rooms smart.

These devices record video & sound track serve Ads and do Data fusion

What if you took a cam corder to a locker room? People would be upset, that is not allowed. That would not be nice. This is not nice either

New comment by acd in "Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month"

acd — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:50:14 +0000

I think to reduce ewaste part it should be mandatory with open firmware and open hardware specifications

New comment by acd in "Glq a port trellis quantization of large language models as a vLLM plugin"

acd — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:12:52 +0000

glq is a re implementation gpl port of QTIP Trellis encoding of large language models as vLLM plugin. glq is efficient between 2-4 bits per word where it has an edge over scalar quantization. Fit larger LLMs on consumer hardware GPUs. glq extents QTIP up to 8 bits per word by running the original algorithm two times with a residual.

1.Incoherence processing — two-sided randomized Hadamard transform (via FWHT) makes weights ~i.i.d. Gaussian 2. BlockLDLQ rounding — sequential sweep with Hessian error feedback 3. Viterbi encoding — bitshift trellis + computed Gaussian code 4. Decode — stateless bit-shift arithmetic, fused into matmul https://github.com/cnygaard/glq/blob/main/docs/trellis-3inst...

glq comes with a user friendly installer which installs glq, vLLM and gradio chat interface and optionally a local coding agent. If you choose glq-chat glq sizes which model fits in VRAM downloads the model and starts a chat, on a 24GB Nvidia card Gemma4 is choosen. glq also ships with picode and then Qwen 3.8 27B is used.

glq also works on pure CPU. Because the LLM weights are compressed and are decompressed on the fly less DRAM/VRAM bandwidth is used.

The target group of glq is PC gamers with Linux and a Nvidia gaming card. If you happen to have an AMD Epyc 9005 server CPU the cpu encoding/decoding should be usable.

Original QTIP paper not affiliated but grateful to the original authors, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.11235

Glq a port trellis quantization of large language models as a vLLM plugin

acd — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:12:52 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/cnygaard/glq

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49644045

Points: 2

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New comment by acd in "The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021"

acd — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:57:57 +0000

What is the alternative to subscribing to streaming services? Can you purchase your movies online and be guaranteed to have access to the movies in the future?

New comment by acd in "AirPods 5"

acd — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:48:36 +0000

You want a replaceable battery because once the battery wears out if the repair is expensive people will throw the used air buds. Used airbuds creates electronic waste ewaste on landfills.

Not all electronic recycling ä works well some non working electronics are shipped to Africa . The "recycler" takes the profit in the pocket. People have put airtags to track where such electronics to goods end up.

New comment by acd in "iPhone Duo"

acd — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:43:05 +0000

Explore Pixel Grapheneos Lineageos or Fairphone Unlocked boot loader in pixel to load third party operating system. PinePhone for Linux Ubuntu touch

New comment by acd in "AirPods 5"

acd — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:39:06 +0000

Sennheiser Momentum 5 has user replacable battery which is better for the environment

https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Sennheiser_Momentum_5

New comment by acd in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

acd — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:36:19 +0000

Can we please agree on calling devices with a cpu and os that spy on the owner smart? I personally think that closed operating systems with spyware is quite dumb for user privacy.

New comment by acd in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

acd — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:34:06 +0000

This is the same behaviour as the german secret police in east germany. The difference now its for ads and by tech. All collected data are probably ai transcribed from audio to text and is fused via data fusion to serve ads. Add collaborative filtering to find similar interests between users.