Hacker News: broabprobe

New comment by broabprobe in "Mistral Large 4"

broabprobe — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:37:17 +0000

At some point though _the purpose of a system is what it does_, regardless of their intent.

New comment by broabprobe in "Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page"

broabprobe — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:49:39 +0000

definitely first read this as 'PaperMario e-ink fridge magnet shopping list...'

New comment by broabprobe in "Show HN: I mapped every US golf course"

broabprobe — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:07:01 +0000

this is a great resource we can use when we Make the Golf Course a Public Sex Forest!

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-make-the-g...

New comment by broabprobe in "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"

broabprobe — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:07:51 +0000

oh very exciting! Thanks for sharing these sjs382! A bummer the models can't be run on both the GPUs and CPU so you could run much larger models. A year ago I was running gpt120b as it easily fit in 128gb ram. But now I'm only running gemma 26b and wishing I had stuck with 64gb ram since 128gb gets throttled. Not regretting buying 128gb 1.5 years ago though!

New comment by broabprobe in "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"

broabprobe — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:51:13 +0000

I run the same setup Gemma 4 26B on a 2013 Mac Pro (dual graphics cards but they're useless for this). I also get about 5 t/s. It's perfectly serviceable for some tasks!

New comment by broabprobe in "The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader"

broabprobe — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:42:04 +0000

I love the X3, light enough I can carry it around without noticing it. Battery lasts forever. I don't feel the need for a backlight at all, I love how simple this is.

I know people favor the X4 for the usb-c, and I'm all for universal charging cables. But in my experience the usb port is often the first component to fail in something like this. And that seems super annoying to replace. The pogo pins on the other hand are unlikely to fail. And the cable is not proprietary, you can get compatible cables on Amazon/etc.

New comment by broabprobe in "The tiniest e-reader in the world, and you can build one yourself"

broabprobe — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:23:40 +0000

Agreed, the x3 is incredible. You'll pay 2x what this costs but the ux is phenomenal with Crosspoint

New comment by broabprobe in "Linux, Finally for Everyone"

broabprobe — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:51:43 +0000

it's such a subtle joke as _parts_ of this sound genuinely helpful. But of course not having any terminal access and a read-only fallback are the haha parts I guess.

Bitmoji Anthropology [video]

broabprobe — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:06:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2I0tqgaEVo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47551818

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by broabprobe in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

broabprobe — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:04:43 +0000

for people who prefer a video intro to the mess of the American healthcare system, Brian David Gilbert has an excellent video on the subject, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wpHszfnJns

he manages to make it a fun and enjoyable topic to learn about which is quite a feat imo

New comment by broabprobe in "Shall I implement it? No"

broabprobe — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:19:56 +0000

this just speaks to the importance of detailed prompting. When would you ever just say "no"? You need to say what to do instead. A human intern might also misinterpret a txt that just reads 'no'.

New comment by broabprobe in "Welcome (back) to Macintosh"

broabprobe — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:23:59 +0000

it's the year of the Linux desktop, again ;)

Yahoo Scout Beta

broabprobe — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:17:39 +0000

Article URL: https://scout.yahoo.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47224971

Points: 24

# Comments: 3

New comment by broabprobe in "1000 Blank White Cards"

broabprobe — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:08:42 +0000

around here we call it Pangea

New comment by broabprobe in "Some Epstein file redactions are being undone"

broabprobe — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 18:55:02 +0000

thank you for using the old.reddit link, it’s a small miracle they keep that running…

New comment by broabprobe in "Show HN: A subtly obvious e-paper room air monitor"

broabprobe — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 23:52:00 +0000

were you able to repurpose your Awair device? Mine has sat bricked since they discontinued supporting it. I'd love to use it for anything if you're able to point to any docs on how to make it useful again?

Jai: The AI vanitas in my home

broabprobe — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:57:00 +0000

Article URL: https://z.bindle.institute/jai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45891302

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Rules for politely scheduling a meeting over email

broabprobe — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:43:47 +0000

Article URL: https://z.bindle.institute/rules-for-politely-scheduling-a-meeting/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45880015

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by broabprobe in "Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020)"

broabprobe — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 13:24:45 +0000

sad the compression on the video is so high

New comment by broabprobe in "When it comes to MCPs, everything we know about API design is wrong"

broabprobe — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 12:47:39 +0000

I really appreciate the approachable writing!