<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: bilekas</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bilekas</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:37:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bilekas" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilekas in "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mail self hosting is not an easy process to maintain.. If you do manage to get whitelisted you need to ensure you're on top of maintaining it, let alone some larger provider like Google just deciding they don't like you. I do empathise with wanting to self host, I just always found the cost of effort to do so really didn't offer enough benefits versus a good provider like proton for example. It sucks but maybe a fight that's too far gone to win.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:31:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329798</link><dc:creator>bilekas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329798</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilekas in "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Efficiency and lazyness are two very distinct things. As is quality and quantity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:26:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329750</link><dc:creator>bilekas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329750</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilekas in "People are worried about America's solvency"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> but even most economists misunderstand how the monetary system works.<p>It seems to be more of a subjective topic to me. Otherwise we would all have a perfect plan and never any monetary concerns. Highlighting weak links in the system is I believe a perfectly healthy thing to do. A sanity check would go a long way these days.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:19:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329684</link><dc:creator>bilekas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329684</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilekas in "Qwen 3.8 27B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The path I described is all within HuggingFace.<p>It's just not. Where do I see the model download ?<p>The fact we're here is a loss.<p>It's not intuitive. Deal with it, or fix it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 04:45:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307713</link><dc:creator>bilekas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307713</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilekas in "Qwen 3.8 27B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I went to Huggingface, went to the Unsloth org, as they tend to be the best, went to the Model page, and went to the "Files and versions" tab.<p>"I went to youtube, gmail, ycombinator, deliveroo, then I went to another site I randomly chose, because they're the best, duh"<p>Okay.<p>> Unsloth AI is a very popular, highly reputable organization that takes upstream model files<p>And How am I supposed to know that arriving to huggingface as a new user? Enlighten me.<p>> Qwen also provides models in GGUF format on Huggingface<p>Cool.. Why don't they share em because I genuinely cant find em, I'm dumb.<p>> Your attitude and unwillingness to even try and learn on your own when people have tried helping have burned my good will<p>Well, I'm willing, but not from people who I might burn good will. Gracious. You do you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:28:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306691</link><dc:creator>bilekas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306691</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilekas in "Qwen 3.8 27B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Excuse me, but thats a direct link you've just sent. I asked where I can find the links. I like to believe in the source of truth.<p>They shared a lot of links, I'm struggling to find yours. Where did yours come from ?<p>Who is Unsloth AI? Have they modified the model ? Is this really the source of truth ?<p>Do you see how steep the barrier for entry is to do anything right ?<p>unslothai is not a name qwen has ever used. So you're sharing a link to a model that isn't from the owner, while saying it's the owner's. I'm not comfortable with that, and I want AI to be a better tool.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:52:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305591</link><dc:creator>bilekas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305591</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilekas in "Qwen 3.8 27B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, he did not. When it went wrong for v4 with the radio. I didn't see him take the blame.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:52:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305034</link><dc:creator>bilekas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305034</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilekas in "Qwen 3.8 27B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>this topic always goes into this level of ridiculousness. Your question can't even be answered. We should focus more on encouraging discussion, not asking unanswerable questions. It wont bring anything other than points of both sides with no objective correct answer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:51:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305023</link><dc:creator>bilekas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305023</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilekas in "Qwen 3.8 27B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hmm I'm still struggling with the downloading of all the models I want to try locally, so I might be out of the loop, but all of this, including tuning (to your local HW), feels like it could be automated. I'm old though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:48:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304987</link><dc:creator>bilekas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304987</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilekas in "Qwen 3.8 27B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Plain question for you, where can I find the gguf model of this to direct download ?</p>
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<p>But you're assuming I'm using the Olama studio. This model as far as I see doesn't have a gguf download.. Unless I'm missing something on the page.<p>If I want to download the model myself, it's not clear. I thought it was supposed to behave like a package manager. But even in nuGet I can download a zip of the package.</p>
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<p>Promise I'm not being flippant or rude, but why not ask it to write something like a parameterized script to do the same thing for you ?</p>
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<p>> It's becoming more rare, now.<p>I would love to see more data on that because I've seen it constantly. There is more isolation maybe where you can do whatever on 'open' network, but always some kind of proxy/vpn connection for hitting anything sensitive.<p>The operlap is there.. But I would be worried if it was just flat out taken away from secure managed connections just because of AI.. Again, would love to see the numbers of your assumptions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:04:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303897</link><dc:creator>bilekas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303897</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilekas in "Qwen 3.8 27B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'll actually defend you on this one, but not only the command, that's more of a fine tuning option. On the hugging face link for example, there's no flat 'download' area. It's completely unintuitive for people to know how to use it. Reminds me of my first time trying to make sense of torrents when they first arrived.<p>There are some clients that will index the models and allow you to do that but I'm no expert, I've used OLama studio but it always seems to go weird for me.<p>Even this command above, it's not clear where op got the model from. So I'm with yah.<p>For example, op uses : Qwen3.8-27B-IQ4_NL.gguf.. But I cant see where to download it. It's not tagged on hugging face at least..</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:58:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303844</link><dc:creator>bilekas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303844</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilekas in "Qwen 3.8 27B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've worked with a good few types of managers of the years, none would take ownership of my work. The end result? Sure, for shareholders/this managers that is fine.<p>But that's not the same as me being needed to be on a call with integration teams and having to run the call. It's just a layer of abstraction for management. I own the creation side of the product.<p>Who created it is still me.</p>
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<p>I haven't tried this either but I'm guessing if you could pool the GPU memory over whatever the kids are using these days, I think it was SLI back in my day. The GPU memory <i>should</i> still be faster than the RAM?</p>
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<p>You sound like your trying to reassure yourself of something.<p>I sure hope my boss doesn't think he built my work! He'd probably get fired pretty quickly during on call!</p>
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<p>How will the poor analytics companies pay their poor salaries? And how will people be able to know to advertise to me about a pair of shorts I looked up last month??</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:32:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301068</link><dc:creator>bilekas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301068</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilekas in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not from the U.S so I'll only say that the 1st amendment doesn't apply here, the government is not going to arrest people for sharing false information. The government has a responsibility to its citizens and so should act in the interests of their safety.<p>> Having the government lean on private platforms to pressure them into censorship, especially in a coordinated fashion, violates that right.<p>Even as a non US, this isn't true. A private company can decide to ban you for whatever reason they like. If they align with government health experts or not. It has nothing to do with your first amendment. It WOULD violate your rights if they arrested you for it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:55:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49282941</link><dc:creator>bilekas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49282941</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49282941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bilekas in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> because people really don’t like it when you attempt to police their individual political speech<p>I'm not sure that I buy that when people's health are at stake. When things are objectively false, and spreading that information will actively harm people, you have a responsibility and duty of care to point out falsities. But that's just me.</p>
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