<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: blobbers</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=blobbers</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:34:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=blobbers" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blobbers in "Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My experience is mostly around either ensembles of weak learners that are bootstrapped to create a strong learner, or around boosted learners where you're training on residuals. With CoT you're sort of adding entropy to your answer, but you're also possibly getting a more thorough answer?<p>I'm curious though if these training methods are convergent or are models actually different; just like how in the stock market people think they're "diversified" but the truth is their exposure is likely much more risk correlated than one might think.<p>In certain situations, one right answer is better than a committee discussing the problem, but in others its sometimes nice to have some alternative methods of solving something. Fun project nonetheless.<p>My approach to using multiple models has been less about CoT but more about time to first token, and how you can use a small model to start interacting with the user while in parallel the more complex model is building a larger more complex thought. My work on this was primarily for voice backed interfaces before the voice models became quite a lot faster.</p>
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<p>I'm curious if there is measurable value in diversity of thought, and if there's diminishing returns on a single models thought pattern.<p>For example, compute X tokens with model A, then feed those into model B, etc. to get chain of thought through a diverse set of mdoels rather than chain of thought through a heterogeneous chain.<p>Humans seem to strongly believe echo chambers are bad. Are LLMs the same?</p>
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<p>Okay, I skimmed the article.<p>Is creatine safe to supplement for children?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:30:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009418</link><dc:creator>blobbers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009418</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blobbers in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just pay your bill Elon.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:28:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48953424</link><dc:creator>blobbers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48953424</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48953424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blobbers in "Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you feel like lobste.rs is a better version of HackerNews?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:16:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48953312</link><dc:creator>blobbers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48953312</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48953312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blobbers in "Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm talking about the Watts used to power the GPUs, not the GPUs themselves.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:29:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928575</link><dc:creator>blobbers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928575</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blobbers in "Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, the public utilities aren't the ones taking the debt to fund the power generation for some direct data centers.<p>Companies like Bloom Energy are putting up power plants right next to DCs. If datacenter power demand then these companies will sell back to the grid creating an oversupply.<p>If the debt load is too high they're need to declare bankruptcy, at which point the bond holders will lose their capital, not the public.</p>
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<p>At least if the datacenters usage crashes, we'll have cheap power from all the infra that got built.</p>
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<p>I am have an old Pentium 4 with RDRAM, think I could sell it to them? I think it has like 256MB. Haven't turned it on in awhile. Hope the first 640KB still work.</p>
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<p>I never played this game! I didn't realize there was a RTS after Crescent Hawk's revenge. I'm looking at the MC2 source code now... it looks like there is a Linux port, meaning could probably get it working for Apple using Fable 5, AI haters, I will challenge you to a batchall.</p>
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<p>madwifi lives on...</p>
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<p>How does llama.cpp use the GPU efficiently as opposed to MLX?<p>Is there any way to use MLX and GPU at the same time? Or does memory become a big problem?<p>TBH, I never understood Apple hyping these neural cores because I didn't think anyone actually uses them except maybe certain photo/video editing software.<p>If I can generate voice at the same time as video, that would be useful.</p>
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<p>What happens when you find the models are terrible? The claimed results don't match? My dev cycle tends to be write a test for blah blah, add feature to satisfy test, make sure tests pass.</p>
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<p>Great, and here I thought my job was safe.</p>
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<p>As someone currently exploring grid searches of encodings + compressor combos, and currently looking at neural compressors that reduce size almost half that of a traditional compressor yet take order from ms -> minutes to operate in either direction, I appreciate a good compression post!</p>
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<p>If Apple knows it's been overpaying, you can be sure that they will leverage that in future negotiations.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:58:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48679108</link><dc:creator>blobbers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48679108</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48679108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blobbers in "Did my old job only exist because of fraud?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes it did, but you are not your job. Your current state may be based on a fraud, but the fraud is not you.</p>
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<p>What for... ?</p>
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<p>The Homer.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRBDLE06qNY&t=210" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRBDLE06qNY&t=210</a><p>"What does this monstrosity cost?"<p>...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 06:11:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606785</link><dc:creator>blobbers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606785</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blobbers in "Data Compression Explained (2012)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Matt is a great guy to explain this kind of stuff. He's very helpful.</p>
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