<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: beltsazar</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=beltsazar</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:41:30 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=beltsazar" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beltsazar in "Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a comparison, Qwen3.6 27B scores 38, which was the highest in its small model category (4B–40B).<p>Qwen3.8 27B beats all medium models (40B–150B). It has the same score as DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731, which ranks #5 in large model category (> 150B).<p>Sources:<p>- <a href="https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/open-source/small" rel="nofollow">https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/open-source/small</a><p>- <a href="https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/open-source/medium" rel="nofollow">https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/open-source/medium</a><p>- <a href="https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/open-source/large" rel="nofollow">https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/open-source/large</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:24:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335434</link><dc:creator>beltsazar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335434</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beltsazar in "Qwen 3.8 27B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Using a better quant Q6_K (Unsloth's) compared to your quant Q4_K_M (LM Studio's) yields this: <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer#url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fdanieljl%2F0a942c0a6499d42be099117efe9a76cc" rel="nofollow">https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer#url=ht...</a><p>Chains exist. Red scarf is proactively added. ("Maybe a scarf blowing in the wind for charm!) No hands/wings, though.<p>Generated 30.2k tokens in total and took 52 mins on M5 Pro in low power mode (it will possibly take less than half of that in auto energy mode).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:53:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308368</link><dc:creator>beltsazar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308368</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beltsazar in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is this a new rule? I've seen some popular blog posts reposted here several times and still highly upvoted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:52:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49281606</link><dc:creator>beltsazar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49281606</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49281606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beltsazar in "FFmpeg 9.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> To me the severity has nothing to do with how popular is a code path, but whether that code path is accessible to an attacker.<p>That's true for targeted attacks. For untargeted attacks, attackers have little incentive to do the exploit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:18:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170208</link><dc:creator>beltsazar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170208</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beltsazar in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I’ve run 3.6-27B and 3.6-35B on 32GB locally for a lot of bulk non-code tasks.<p>Do you mind sharing your use cases?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:15:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156109</link><dc:creator>beltsazar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156109</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beltsazar in "NASA: Mystery of Life's Handedness Deepens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The anthropic principle is ridiculous. Suppose that, against all odds, you survive the worst plane crash in history. Then you ask NTSB what caused the crash and why you survived. They answer:<p>"Nonsense! You wouldn’t have asked the questions if you hadn't survived."<p>Questions stand alone, regardless of whether someone or something exists to ask them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2024 21:57:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42240583</link><dc:creator>beltsazar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42240583</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42240583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beltsazar in "NASA: Mystery of Life's Handedness Deepens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fine tuning for the earth might be able to be explained away most easily, like you said. Fine tuning for the universe, though...<p>Firstly, we have zero evidence for multiverse. Some scientists even argue that the idea is untestable and unfalsifiable.<p>When you said:<p>> there must be a graveyard of universes where the parameters just didn't work out for life<p>You just committed inverse gambler's fallacy. It's like:<p>> You wake up with amnesia, with no clue as to how you got where you are. In front of you is a monkey bashing away on a typewriter, writing perfect English. This clearly requires explanation. You might think: “Maybe I’m dreaming … maybe this is a trained monkey … maybe it’s a robot.” What you would not think is “There must be lots of other monkeys around here, mostly writing nonsense.” You wouldn’t think this because what needs explaining is why this monkey—the only one you’ve actually observed—is writing English, and postulating other monkeys doesn’t explain what this monkey is doing.<p>— <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-improbable-existence-is-no-evidence-for-a-multiverse/" rel="nofollow">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-improbable-ex...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2024 21:41:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42240463</link><dc:creator>beltsazar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42240463</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42240463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beltsazar in "Mitochondria Are Alive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a such common logical fallacy that we should have name for it.<p>> No matter how low the odds are, the counts of those potential interactions bring this outcome to a certainty.<p>"No matter how low", really? Are you suggesting that your multiplication result is infinite? Otherwise, no matter how big the result is—even if it's Graham's number or TREE(3)—but as long as it's finite, there are odds so low that bring the outcome extremely unlikely.<p>The thing is we don't know even a ballpark estimate of the odds, but you were saying like we have a lower bound of the odds. The universe is unfathomably huge, true, but we also don't know if abiogenesis is less unfathomably unlikely.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2024 07:04:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42092960</link><dc:creator>beltsazar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42092960</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42092960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beltsazar in "Trump wins presidency for second time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're asking as if the other candidate is a no-brainer choice. If the other candidate were Kennedy, then sure—but they were not. In this case, many would be undecided and would vote not the best candidate, but the least bad one.</p>
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<p>Oct 7 happened and you're suggesting a different approach than a war, i.e. diplomatic solutions? That's too naive—not even the most pacifist country would do that.<p>And let's not pretend that no diplomatic solutions have been proposed, all of which were rejected. They will only accept it if they own every inch of the land and Israel is obliterated (their own word).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:00:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41582448</link><dc:creator>beltsazar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41582448</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41582448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beltsazar in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But if they hide amongst civilians and Israel is too weak, what do you suggest Israel should do instead?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:25:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41581955</link><dc:creator>beltsazar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41581955</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41581955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beltsazar in "The Webb Telescope further deepens the Hubble tension controversy in cosmology"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, cosmological principle is probably the most fundamental assumption in astronomy.<p>Most people don't realize that science—and even everything in life—has to start from some axioms/assumptions, just like math. I first realized this fact when I was reading the Relativity book written by Einstein himself, who challenges the assumptions in classical physics.<p>As time goes, some of the assumptions could be proved to be unnecessary or even wrong. There must be still some assumptions left, though—because without them, we can't talk about science, or anything, really.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 20:25:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41239419</link><dc:creator>beltsazar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41239419</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41239419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beltsazar in "Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I'd missed)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> There's a good argument for immutability by default, but many programmers dislike all the extra declarations required.<p>That's one little reason why Rust is loved by many: immutability by default. Meanwhile, it's not even possible in Go to declare immutable variables!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 06:42:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41221719</link><dc:creator>beltsazar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41221719</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41221719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beltsazar in "Show HN: 1-FPS encrypted screen sharing for introverts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> there are so many pitfalls when designing this<p>Agree. When people hear the adage "don't roll your own crypto", they often think it refers to crypto primitives only. In reality, it's also hard to design a secure crypto protocol, even if the underlying crypto primitives are secure.</p>
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<p>> The costs associated with implementing this requirement can be very small, if not trivial.<p>This is too naive. While it may be the case for single player games that use online connection only as a DRM mechanism (Hitman 3, Gran Turismo 7), for some games it's not trivial at all.<p>For example, The Division 2 servers do not only act as a "coordinator" between players like CS:GO servers, but also run logics for NPCs and environments. The server and the client are too tightly coupled.</p>
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<p>I think it aims mainly at games that use an online connection as a DRM mechanism, such as Hitman 3 and Gran Turismo 7. Both games are single player games that shouldn't necessitate online connection in the first place.</p>
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<p>But WAL is not for durability, but for atomicity and consistency. And yes, you need to use fsync to ensure durability.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 16:20:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40847289</link><dc:creator>beltsazar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40847289</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40847289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beltsazar in "The enduring mystery of how water freezes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If ice didn't float, life as we know it wouldn't be possible anywhere in the universe. (It doesn't exclude life that doesn't require water, though—if that's possible.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:08:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40727488</link><dc:creator>beltsazar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40727488</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40727488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beltsazar in "A 1.3B-light-year-across ring of galaxies has confounded astronomers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You can’t exclude non English languages being you would still be surprised if it was in Spanish etc.<p>I'm not saying that the only surprising result is an English esssay. But sure, let's add all languages in the world. Getting a proper one-page essay is still surprising, because the absurd number of ways to arrange characters in one page. It's much much <i>much</i> larger than even the number of particles in the universe.<p>> but is probably 10^1,000 or so times more likely than any specific sequence.<p>Obviously. Your point? If the probability of an event is so low, it doesn't really matter if it's 1 in 10^1000 or 1^1000000. If that event happens, it is surprising.<p>---<p>Anyway, I'm not arguing that the galaxy ring is a rare occurrence, hence surprising. I don't know even an approximate probability of it to happen.<p>I'm arguing against those who shrug and say "Well, it's random, so even a complex structure can form." Not necessarily. It all depends on the processes behind it.<p>Case in point: Darwin's evolution. The only reason that it's plausible that random processes can transform basic living organisms into complex ones like mammals is DNA replication.<p>Without DNA replication, random mutations between generations would be independent, just like random key presses by a monkey. You need to start over every time. This makes it essentially impossible to form complex organisms over time, considering how long DNA of complex organisms is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2024 16:17:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40513609</link><dc:creator>beltsazar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40513609</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40513609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beltsazar in "A 1.3B-light-year-across ring of galaxies has confounded astronomers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Similarly finding any shape in a random set of points is much more likely than the odds of any one shape.<p>Obviously. But that’s not the point (no pun intended). My point is that most of the "shapes" would be just an unstructured shape—if you can even call it a shape. "Familiar" shapes will be much much unlikely to form that "uncommon" shapes. (Hopefully this is obvious because the number of familiar shapes are much much fewer than uncommon shapes.)<p>Let me use another example to help you understand the point. Suppose a monkey is given a typewriter and a sheet.<p>Is the probability of getting The Declaration of Independence is as likely as the probability of getting one <i>particular</i> gibberish sequence of characters? Yes.<p>Should we surprise if the monkey types <i>any</i> proper one-page English essay? Yes.<p>In case it's not obvious, that's because the number of possible ways to write a proper one-page English essay, albeit humongous, is nothing compared to the number of possible ways to arrange characters in one page. In other words, it's very very <i>very</i> unlikely to happen.</p>
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