Hacker News: bertili

New comment by bertili in "DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal"

bertili — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:58:42 +0000

equals 2 or 3 human brains in power usage. Amazing work!

New comment by bertili in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

bertili — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:53:58 +0000

It's fascinating that a $999 Mac Mini (M4 32GB) with almost similar wattage as a human brain gets us this far.

New comment by bertili in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

bertili — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:34:45 +0000

Is there any source for these claims?

New comment by bertili in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

bertili — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:59:10 +0000

A relief to see the Qwen team still publishing open weights, after the kneecapping [1] and departures of Junyang Lin and others [2]!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246746 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249343

New comment by bertili in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

bertili — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:40:11 +0000

The timing is interesting as Apple supposedly will distill google models in the upcoming Siri update [1]. So maybe Gemma is a lower bound on what we can expect baked into iPhones.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520438

New comment by bertili in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

bertili — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:49:20 +0000

Qwen: Hold my beer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615002

New comment by bertili in "Flash-MoE: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Laptop"

bertili — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:31:46 +0000

Very impressive! I wonder if there is a similar path for Linux using system memory instead of SSD? Hell, maybe even a case for the return of some kind of ROMs of weights?

New comment by bertili in "Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents"

bertili — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:21:04 +0000

Better than frontier pelicans as of 2025

New comment by bertili in "Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents"

bertili — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:05:16 +0000

Most certainly not, but the Unsloth MLX fits 256GB.

New comment by bertili in "Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents"

bertili — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:36:27 +0000

Last Chinese new year we would not have predicted a Sonnet 4.5 level model that runs local and fast on a 2026 M5 Max MacBook Pro, but it's now a real possibility.

New comment by bertili in "GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks"

bertili — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:08:43 +0000

Exactly. The emperor has no clothes. The largest investments in US tech in history and yet there less than a year of moat. OpenAI or Anthropic will not be able to compete with Chinese server farms and so the US strategy is misplaced investments that will come home to roast.

And we will have Deepseek 4 in a few days...

New comment by bertili in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

bertili — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:27:35 +0000

Surely this is the elephant in the room, but the point here is that Apple as control over its ecosystem, so it may be able to sandbox and make entitlements and transparency good enough, in the apps that the bot can access.

New comment by bertili in "Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model"

bertili — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:26:07 +0000

People are running the previous Kimi K2 on 2 Mac Studios at 21tokens/s or 4 Macs at 30tokens/s. Its still premature, but not a completely crazy proposition for the near future, giving the rate of progress.

New comment by bertili in "Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model"

bertili — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:04:59 +0000

The other realistic setup is $20k, for a small company that needs a private AI for coding or other internal agentic use with two Mac Studios connected over thunderbolt 5 RMDA.

New comment by bertili in "Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model"

bertili — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:02:02 +0000

The "Deepseek moment" is just one year ago today!

Coincidence or not, let's just marvel for a second over this amount of magic/technology that's being given away for free... and how liberating and different this is than OpenAI and others that were closed to "protect us all".

New comment by bertili in "Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland"

bertili — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:24:34 +0000

What a time to be (still) alive.

When we look back in a few years and ask the question: who actually got to pay for the Epstein crimes and coverups, we come to the surprising answer it is the Greenlandes and other innocent societies that got ripped apart by this maniac and his supporters.

New comment by bertili in "IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world"

bertili — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 13:54:43 +0000

It's not a failure of IP6 but a failure of society.

We all thought the internet would become decentralized and that everyone should have an IP and a funky website. But instead social media took over, big tech and a few big discussion sites where we all must fit in a digital life and watch ads and share our data to become a good product for all the others to consume.

New comment by bertili in "No, it's not a battleship"

bertili — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 20:47:25 +0000

"The missile is too round at the top, it needs to be pointy. Round missiles are not scary"

- The Dictator

New comment by bertili in "Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views"

bertili — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 14:25:16 +0000

HN discussion 11 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284658

New comment by bertili in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

bertili — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:25:50 +0000

Unfortunately, this will not happen. Even if they have it all working:

Above all, Apple wants to show that their hardware is awesome, especially because it really is. Running x86 games or compatibility layers even with great emulation will make that $3000 Mac look half decent at best, against a $1500 gaming laptop. Simply not the story Apple want to tell.