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New comment by adrianco in "Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone"

adrianco — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:42:25 +0000

This looks useful, you can increase the RAM cache so if you have a Mac with 24-32GB it should speed up a lot and still run models that wouldn’t normally fit. I’m going to run some tests…

New comment by adrianco in "Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs"

adrianco — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:54:31 +0000

Hi Andy, that’s very cool news. Will you be at the HPTS workshop in October?

New comment by adrianco in "Why I prefer Opus 5 to Fable 5"

adrianco — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:47:29 +0000

Without discussing the task itself, this isn’t useful. Coding small problems in Python works on low effort with older models. Less common languages on harder problems needs more… I’ve been running coding experiments, see https://github.com/adrianco/retort

New comment by adrianco in "Show HN: Optimize and serve models with Fable quality at half the cost"

adrianco — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:08:55 +0000

Local models need to be tuned to work well so this looks useful. Seems to be for general purpose model serving. I’ve been using https://github.com/adrianco/retort to run experiments for coding models across 13 different programming languages to see which frontier and local models work.

New comment by adrianco in "Fixed three bugs that made Qwen3.5-122B a daily driver on Mac Studio"

adrianco — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:05:58 +0000

I pointed my Claude/Retort evaluator at this blog post and it ran an experiment to test what it found. We got better cache hit refill but it didn’t improve the overall coding results on my M5Pro/64GB system. Results in experiment-24 at GitHub.com/adrianco/retort

New comment by adrianco in "Sirius DB"

adrianco — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:22:54 +0000

I’ve talked to the authors of this, it’s a very interesting project. GPU memory space used to be the limitation but the latest generations of GPUs have enormous shared memory capacity and need something like SiriusDB to manipulate and prepare data in-place before the AI algorithms get to work.

New comment by adrianco in "The Netflix Simian Army (2011)"

adrianco — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 16:37:47 +0000

I distilled these ideas over subsequent years into several talks on “Failing Over without Falling Over”. Investing anything in resilience without testing that it actually works is a waste of resources. Thats the underlying lesson. https://github.com/adrianco/slides/blob/master/FailingWithou...

New comment by adrianco in "Microservices should form a polytree"

adrianco — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:07:57 +0000

All sounds like a good plan, but there’s no easy way to enforce the lack of cycles. I’ve seen helper functions that call a service to look something up, called from a library that is running on the service itself. So a service calls itself. There was probably four or five different developers code abstractions stacked in that loop.

New comment by adrianco in "Peter Thiel sells off all Nvidia stock, stirring bubble fears"

adrianco — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 22:07:58 +0000

It’s a bubble. Buy low and sell high. Right now, holding cash is the safe option. You can predict that the bubble will burst, but not when. However with the US being run by someone who is poking everything with sharp implements I think it bursts sooner.

New comment by adrianco in "California homeowners to fund half of high-risk insurer's $1B 'bailout'"

adrianco — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 05:03:33 +0000

Its hard to understand why so many California houses are built of wood. After a fire all that’s left is a few chimneys. However I happen to live in California in a house made of concrete bricks and we don’t get a higher valuation per square foot or a discount for our fire insurance. There should be more incentives to build fireproof houses.

New comment by adrianco in "US regulator rejects bid to boost nuclear power to Amazon data center"

adrianco — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 19:36:31 +0000

I think there are two things that change. One is that Amazon would be controlling output scheduling of part of the the power station rather than the grid operator. The other is that this would be behind the meter for Amazon like rooftop solar, so would be accounted for differently in the annual report.

New comment by adrianco in "AI Flame Graphs"

adrianco — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 10:44:46 +0000

This is super interesting and useful. I tried reading the code to understand how GPU workloads worked last year and it was easy to get lost in all the options and pluggable layers.

New comment by adrianco in "Amazon employees: 'I'd rather go back to school than work in an office again'"

adrianco — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 20:44:54 +0000

Someone came up with the name for this: “Disagree and commute”.

New comment by adrianco in "Boar's Head plant posed an 'imminent threat' years before listeria outbreak"

adrianco — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 15:14:10 +0000

I wonder if the other Boars Head plants also have issues. Avoid the entire brand? What brands have better hygiene?

New comment by adrianco in "Elasticsearch is open source, again"

adrianco — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 06:57:03 +0000

AWS tends to optimize for whatever its customers want, rather than what its partner ecosystem wants. However we did spend some time trying to help open source partners figure out how best to work with AWS and to leverage the marketplace etc. to be successful by leveraging the platform rather than fighting with it. Mongo is a good example of how that can work.

New comment by adrianco in "Elasticsearch is open source, again"

adrianco — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 06:48:08 +0000

There were several proposals made to Elastic at the time, but their attitude was that they controlled the project and didn’t want AWS to make big contributions to the open source distribution that would reduce their differentiation. They were also mixing licenses in the code base and deliberately making it hard for AWS to use.

I was also assisting in the deal with Grafana, which I thought was a good deal on both sides, setting up a framework for AWS and Grafana to work together over a longer timeframe. Ash Manzani who negotiated the deal for AWS later joined Grafana to run Corp Dev for them.

New comment by adrianco in "Elasticsearch is open source, again"

adrianco — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 06:29:09 +0000

AWS at the time had AGPL on its list of licenses that couldn’t be used. There were other clouds in China especially ignoring the AGPL provisions and I think SSPL was used to try and be more explicit.

New comment by adrianco in "Elasticsearch is open source, again"

adrianco — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 07:26:39 +0000

Here’s the initial AWS response to the license change that they made in 2018, which I helped write. At the time we didn’t think a new license made sense, as AGPL is sufficient to block AWS from using the code, but the core of the issue was that AWS wanted to contribute security features to the open source project and Elastic wanted to keep security as an enterprise feature, so rejected all the approaches AWS made at the time. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/keeping-open-source-...

New comment by adrianco in "Show HN: A simple app for downloading YouTube transcripts in bulk"

adrianco — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 20:26:05 +0000

I tried to do this a few months ago (for videos not shorts) and found that YouTube will only let you download transcripts for your own uploads. You have to authenticate to the API. Also the transcripts aren’t that great. I ended up downloading the video and running whisper on it.

New comment by adrianco in "Jepsen: Datomic Pro 1.0.7075"

adrianco — Wed, 15 May 2024 20:26:34 +0000

I was a fly on the wall as this work was being done and it was super interesting to see the discussions. I was also surprised that Jepsen didn’t find critical bugs. Clarifying the docs and unusual (intentional) behaviors was a very useful outcome. It was a very worthwhile confidence building exercise given that we’re running a bank on Datomic…