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New comment by busfahrer in "PlayStation Architecture"

busfahrer — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:01:05 +0000

The PS1 architecture is fascinating - it will also reveal why PS1 games have such a unique, recognizable style that games are trying to recreate nowadays.

New comment by busfahrer in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

busfahrer — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:57:55 +0000

To add some context, the author of this article is a science fiction writer, one of his stories was adapted into the movie "Arrival".

New comment by busfahrer in "Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us"

busfahrer — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:54:45 +0000

Not a one-liner, but I was impressed by this simple rogue-like written in 10 lines of BASIC:

https://bunsen.itch.io/the-snake-temple-by-rax

New comment by busfahrer in "Lisp in Vim (2019)"

busfahrer — Sun, 24 May 2026 10:50:28 +0000

Having only dabbled in Lisp and knowing nothing about the plugins TFA mentions, there's also this FWIW:

https://github.com/jpalardy/vim-slime

New comment by busfahrer in "Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)"

busfahrer — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:59:43 +0000

Thank you, good sir!

New comment by busfahrer in "Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)"

busfahrer — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:43:16 +0000

Great, thanks! :-) and to mirror another poster: what kind of prompt parsing (prefill) speed do you get for that model? Also how is the speed for the 27B model?

New comment by busfahrer in "Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)"

busfahrer — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:30:54 +0000

I have been contemplating a M5 Pro MBP, but for the life for me I wasn't able to find benchmarks for real-world models, do you happen to know how many tokens per second roughly you get with MoE models like Qwen 3.6 35B/A3B or Gemma 4 26B?

New comment by busfahrer in "Map of Metal"

busfahrer — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:05:36 +0000

Seeing as this is HN, I was expecting something on chemical properties of iron etc, but was pleasantly surprised

New comment by busfahrer in "S-100 Virtual Workbench"

busfahrer — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:21:40 +0000

OTOH, with the IMSAI-8080 you'd have the satisfaction of using the same machine as David Lightman of Wargames fame

New comment by busfahrer in "UnDUNE II"

busfahrer — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:59:25 +0000

To add some context, this was made for the PICO-8 fantasy console, which (by design) is very limited, so it's immensely impressive to see something like this working on it. Honestly, even just the 3D logo from the intro is impressive, and the rest of the game even moreso.

https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

New comment by busfahrer in "Show HN: Rust but Lisp"

busfahrer — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:58:50 +0000

So I'm guessing it's sort of like Fennel, which consciously doesn't completely hide its underlying Lua runtime?

https://fennel-lang.org/

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

busfahrer — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:00:21 +0000

I am considering a M5 Pro (18/20C) Macbook with 64GB of RAM, but I'm having a really hard time finding benchmarks of real world models:

Could somebody please provide some tokens-per-second numbers for example for Qwen 3.6 35B/A3B, specifically for Q4 and Q6 quants?

New comment by busfahrer in "Train Your Own LLM from Scratch"

busfahrer — Tue, 05 May 2026 11:58:06 +0000

This is the whole point of Karpathy's nanochat which OP refers to, to train a GPT-2 level LLM for under $100, renting an 8xH100 VM.

New comment by busfahrer in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

busfahrer — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:01:48 +0000

This kind of is Postel's law, in a way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

New comment by busfahrer in "LLM pricing has never made sense"

busfahrer — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:23:01 +0000

Out of curiosity, what size Qwen did you use, at what quantization?

New comment by busfahrer in "Laws of Software Engineering"

busfahrer — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:39:02 +0000

I think I remember a Carmack tweet where he mentioned in most cases he only considers it once he reaches three duplicates

New comment by busfahrer in "Average is all you need"

busfahrer — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:27:02 +0000

This seems like a nice context to mention Sturgeon's law:

> ninety percent of everything is crud

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

New comment by busfahrer in "The beginning of scarcity in AI"

busfahrer — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:16:27 +0000

> Low cost specialized models

Can you elaborate on this? Is this something that companies would train themselves?

New comment by busfahrer in "I made a terminal pager"

busfahrer — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:24:40 +0000

I've noticed that subconsciously, I've started to use `bat` for interactive paging, even though that's not its main use case

New comment by busfahrer in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

busfahrer — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:49:05 +0000

Once you get your head around it a bit, doing a new in this circumstance will be second nature, since you will have realized that a `new XYZ` in jj leads to the same underlying git state as a `git checkout XYZ` in git