Hacker News: brrrrrm

New comment by brrrrrm in "Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone"

brrrrrm — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:45:41 +0000

this is cool but like, are we just vibe coding NAND burners at this point? these decode times don't really tell the whole story, because prefill becomes the bottleneck.

half an hour to process 10k tokens on an M5 seems... not great

New comment by brrrrrm in "Long Range Wi-Fi – Pushing 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi to the limits (2019)"

brrrrrm — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:46:41 +0000

there's wifi ah, which runs on 900mhz band and has the same 30dbm limitation

I've used it with some raspberry pis to create hi-fidelity walkie talkies it's quite pleasant.

New comment by brrrrrm in "Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop"

brrrrrm — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:35:17 +0000

Models are increasingly showing their ability to extrapolate into the human unexplored (math proofs being the most apparent). What gives you confidence the absurdity of life is uniquely difficult for models to source?

New comment by brrrrrm in "DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs"

brrrrrm — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:56:35 +0000

> you are basically looking at a whole system prompt just describing the new language

whats wrong with this? You may be over-indexing on the need for large quantities of examples. These days self-play through RL is far more effective and data (not compute) efficient.

New comment by brrrrrm in "Popping the GPU Bubble"

brrrrrm — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:20:54 +0000

it's very much an in-domain term for folks in machine learning. heavily used when pipeline parallelism caught on in training https://alband.github.io/doc_view/pipeline.html

New comment by brrrrrm in "Ferrari Luce"

brrrrrm — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:26:55 +0000

it has paddle shifters - what are those for?

New comment by brrrrrm in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"

brrrrrm — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:20:31 +0000

what's MRT?

New comment by brrrrrm in "The best is over: The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

brrrrrm — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:56:59 +0000

same can be said for a lot of things tho. e.g. nature used to be fun but then we discovered it all :’( I miss when ships literally sailed into the unknown and found surprising and novel things like hot peppers and pineapples

New comment by brrrrrm in "1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'"

brrrrrm — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:23:39 +0000

I agree fully. Hyundai has a mockup that starts to get there (different era, but same concept) called the N vision 74[1], but I doubt we'll see it in market anytime soon. The unfortunate reality IIUC is that modern cars (electric vehicles) have certain aero restrictions (for mileage) that heavily limit design options.

[1] https://www.hyundai-n.com/en/models/rolling-lab/n-vision-74

New comment by brrrrrm in "All elementary functions from a single binary operator"

brrrrrm — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:24:17 +0000

meta.ai in instant mode gets it first try too (I think?)

``` 2x + y = \operatorname{eml}\Big(1,\; \operatorname{eml}\big(\operatorname{eml}(1,\; \operatorname{eml}(\operatorname{eml}(1,\; \operatorname{eml}(\operatorname{eml}(L_2 + L_x, 1), 1) \cdot \operatorname{eml}(y,1)),1)\big),1\big)\Big) ```

for me Gemini hallucinated EML to mean something else despite the paper link being provided: "elementary mathematical layers"

New comment by brrrrrm in "AI helps add 10k more photos to OldNYC"

brrrrrm — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:25:11 +0000

you're right, this is actually correctly placed! I was confusing the orientation. I live right around there and recognize the M&T bank in the photo on the left, so it can't be down by 9th

New comment by brrrrrm in "AI helps add 10k more photos to OldNYC"

brrrrrm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:49:07 +0000

I checked 3 spots I'm familiar with and 1 is wrong

https://www.oldnyc.org/#707133f-a this is supposed to be here https://www.oldnyc.org/#702487f-a

also, if folks are interested in these old depictions of NYC, check out https://1940s.nyc/ as well!

How to Fail as an Organization in 2026

brrrrrm — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:18:31 +0000

Article URL: https://jott.live/markdown/how_to_fail_2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784934

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Internal Combustion Engine Acoustic Synthesis

brrrrrm — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:56:51 +0000

Article URL: https://jott.live/html/eng_sound

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403679

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by brrrrrm in "Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal"

brrrrrm — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 07:15:55 +0000

looks cool! one bit of feedback: make your demo gif get to the point faster. either practice typing a bit quicker or speed it up 2x for the typing section

Show HN: Binfer, an experimental LLM inference engine in TypeScript and CUDA

brrrrrm — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:50:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/bwasti/binfer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219142

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by brrrrrm in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

brrrrrm — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:54:08 +0000

on Bun's website, the runtime section features HTTP, networking, storage -- all are very web-focused. any plans to start expanding into native ML support? (e.g. GPUs, RDMA-type networking, cluster management, NFS)

Five Times Faster

brrrrrm — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:59:19 +0000

Article URL: https://jott.live/markdown/five_times_faster

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46034164

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Bitwise Consistent On-Policy Reinforcement Learning with VLLM and TorchTitan

brrrrrm — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:58:01 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.vllm.ai/2025/11/10/bitwise-consistent-train-inference.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45902538

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by brrrrrm in "Spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontier"

brrrrrm — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 03:48:41 +0000

we've discovered some kind of differentiable computer[1] and as with all computers, people have their own interests and hobbies they use them for. but unlike computers, everyone pitches their interest or hobby as being the only one that matters.

[1] https://x.com/karpathy/status/1582807367988654081