Hacker News: aunty_helen

New comment by aunty_helen in "GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards"

aunty_helen — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 03:50:17 +0000

Here's the writeup from the experiments that claude did: https://claude.ai/artifact/X6WJVtKdL1LrhYuCMqdXvG#b9a4d3e2-8...

New comment by aunty_helen in "GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards"

aunty_helen — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:33:17 +0000

Thanks so much. 27b is a favourite model and last night my dev ran some benchmarks to achieve 133tks about 3.2x which changes the economics.

New comment by aunty_helen in "Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash"

aunty_helen — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 02:41:21 +0000

I once had to corner a guy trying to cut himself with a broken piece of mirror before he jumped off a second story balcony into the pool at a multi airbnb complex in Mexico. He'd taken some drugs and had a bad reaction and lost his mind. Cops picked him up running down the street.

I welcome this move to ban host rules that detract from the experience.

New comment by aunty_helen in "Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done"

aunty_helen — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:08:58 +0000

Search YouTube: opus 5.5 game

The future is now old man

New comment by aunty_helen in "AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares"

aunty_helen — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:15:59 +0000

I like geometry. These packings show there are ugly numbers, like 51.

New comment by aunty_helen in "Coding is not solved"

aunty_helen — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:33:45 +0000

Yes they can and tomorrow the models will be better. By the time code hits prod and is used in anger the frontier will have moved.

It’s really not an acceptable opinion to have, that one day we’re going to be developers drowning in ai generated code. That’s a problem for opus 6 in 4-5 weeks time.

Developers are still very much needed, business people just don’t have the chops to wire a deterministic system together. But acting like some poor class naming or 2k loc file is the disaster it once was is dated.

New comment by aunty_helen in "Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face"

aunty_helen — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:21:51 +0000

> Referred to server resources and credentials as “LOOT”

It brings a warm feeling to know they exhibit the same characteristics of degeneracy as their human counterparts.

New comment by aunty_helen in "Data collected by cars and sold to third parties"

aunty_helen — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 01:22:02 +0000

If you'd like to buy this data, go talk to the guys over at Inrx. They will happily give you a product demo showing point to point trips recorded by connected onstar or whatever corresponding manf connected car service.

New comment by aunty_helen in "EVE Online moves to Python 3"

aunty_helen — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 01:19:05 +0000

I’ve been doing this on a large system I’m building. Anything that takes longer than an hour to run, processes a high rate of events (maybe >5/s averaged over a day) or has downstream gpu waiting for it.

Python + tests cross compiled to rust has huge benefits for memory footprint and secondly cpu.

It’s allowing me to achieve wonders on a small amount of hardware.

New comment by aunty_helen in "New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it"

aunty_helen — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:57:42 +0000

Neil, Tim and Lorde need to get together, put on a gig at the basin, live aid style and save nz muso journalism!

New comment by aunty_helen in "New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it"

aunty_helen — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:50:34 +0000

Didn't you read? All the journalists got laid off. This is what we're left with

New comment by aunty_helen in "Framework Data Breach"

aunty_helen — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:05:05 +0000

I bought one of their first garbage laptops. The ones that flatten the battery overnight.

Now 5 years later I'm being told I've had my data breached for a dashboard.

I don't even have the laptop anymore, I gave it away. I still have my Pentium M laptop from high school...

New comment by aunty_helen in "After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted"

aunty_helen — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:40:38 +0000

I wish we had a word for this, where everyone’s getting rich, there’s a run on stocks, but prices of assets are all going up. Some people are missing out completely whereas a select few hoard wealth in other forms. And of course the government starting to notice and trying to intervene.

New comment by aunty_helen in "Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency"

aunty_helen — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:13:04 +0000

Love a gearbox those guys over at P&W. Can't get enough gearboxes.

New comment by aunty_helen in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

aunty_helen — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:08:38 +0000

No, they settled that yesterday, so all is forgotten. Press releases were queued for today so just in the nick of time.

New comment by aunty_helen in "SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence"

aunty_helen — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:36:34 +0000

High tps is good for deeper agent thinking loops and openclaw etc. I was running cerebus recently doing some data heavy tasks, it managed to crash the server I was submitting posts to. 6 hour task down to ~1hr

New comment by aunty_helen in "AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit"

aunty_helen — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:48:21 +0000

256gbs memory bandwidth is about 1/4 that of a 3090. It would be a better buy with half the memory at 4x the speed.

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

aunty_helen — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:39:39 +0000

Good to know. Might be worth updating the motherboard then, it’s limited in pcie speed.

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

aunty_helen — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:07:46 +0000

I was doing some benchmarking last night on 2 3090s. The systems but old but I’m seeing 11tks 27b, 15tks 35b MoE.

The limited context is problematic. I’m not exactly sure what it’s got available but hermes was hit and miss on a prospecting job.

It does seem to be doing useful work but it’s not API call level quality

New comment by aunty_helen in "The Boeing 747 begins its final descent"

aunty_helen — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:34:43 +0000

Or more likely, that’s exactly how you make incredibly safe systems.

Not by introducing clean sheet unproven designs but by taking what works and improving any deficiencies over and over again.