Hacker News: c16

New comment by c16 in "RPKI now protects 70% of internet routes"

c16 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 07:20:38 +0000

> The Netherlands won't do it. Personally I think it shouldn't, as it'd set a sort of precedent that would be easy to abuse in the future

Would you stand by this statement if we did s/Netherlands/United States/g ?

It's not about the governments of today, but those of the future.

New comment by c16 in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

c16 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 07:17:32 +0000

Some countries are good with military hardware, and some are good with military software. e.g: Stuxnet.

New comment by c16 in "New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing"

c16 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 07:15:08 +0000

Can't wait for the following HN post:

> Withering, an open source Withings app written in Rust.

New comment by c16 in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

c16 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:34:17 +0000

On web, likely. If it's in app mobile then no. Run a DNS ad blocker.

New comment by c16 in "Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s"

c16 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:24:27 +0000

I was firmly wanting to move towards local llm, and since the Sonnet 5.5 and recent Opus speed increases, I'm putting that on hold until local inference speeds can be improved. Not sure how much juice there is to squeeze there, but I'm hopeful.

New comment by c16 in "500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive"

c16 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:06:31 +0000

No, because think of the children. /s

New comment by c16 in "Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity"

c16 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:40:03 +0000

> My main problem with Mullvad right now is that its servers are blocked almost everywhere or generate an excessive number of Captchas

Why not buy a Low End Box and run one of the WG Setup scripts to get you going? You'll lose the anonymity, but its your box, a clean IP, significantly cheaper than a commercial vpn.

New comment by c16 in "Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'"

c16 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:26:34 +0000

Sometimes the winning move is to not play at all. He's finding out what happens when people stop playing his game.

New comment by c16 in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

c16 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:39:33 +0000

Why is this not criminal?

New comment by c16 in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

c16 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:57:33 +0000

As other have mentioned, the code isn't the valuable part. But also there are alternatives now to these LLM providers.

New comment by c16 in "Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence"

c16 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:39:02 +0000

They should have voted on if pineapple deserves to be on pizza while they were at it. The guy had to go.

New comment by c16 in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

c16 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:16:04 +0000

It's been fun to see people re-writing and flashing their own smartwatch software with LLMs. Looking forward to the first TV OS rewrite video.

New comment by c16 in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

c16 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:56:32 +0000

WiFi / 5G faraday cages exist, but they have been downrated for affecting the signal quality somewhat...

New comment by c16 in "My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini"

c16 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:02:35 +0000

True. This then boils down to a quality vs speed decision. the 3.8 27b is far better than 3.6 A3B from my experience. I'm happy taking the speed hit, given local models aren't as intelligent as frontier models. Anything that can get me closer to my CC experience both in reasonable speed and intelligence is worth it. With that said CC can also be slow at times, so it's locally the difference in experience is not always noticeable.

New comment by c16 in "My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini"

c16 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:48:42 +0000

> Running a large model locally comes down to one thing: how much RAM it actually needs in memory.

Not completely true. It's memory AND memory bandwidth. You can have 1tb of memory but if you have awful memory-bandwidth you'll also have slow tok/s. A3B helps with this, but so does MTP.

From my experience, you'd be better off running the dense 27b-mlx with MTP than the 3.6 version with A3B. You say your model is ~20GB of ram, but the 3.8:27b-mlx is 18GB and gets me very reasonable tok/s, and greater speed if you disable thinking when not required.

New comment by c16 in "My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini"

c16 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:41:12 +0000

Qwen3.8:27b-mlx on 64GB MBP M4, I can get up to 42tok/s, more often than not in the ~30 range.

New comment by c16 in "Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal"

c16 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:55:07 +0000

I like to think Stripe put $50B in a paypal account, and they got locked out with no way to get it back.

New comment by c16 in "Qwen3.8-Flash-Next"

c16 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:30:08 +0000

There are many topics, personalities and politicians we hear about daily who have no merit.

Qwen's advances do (currently) have merit.

New comment by c16 in "Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month"

c16 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:13:44 +0000

Finding a vps from https://LowEndBox.com is the way. DigitalOcean is a rip off these days.

New comment by c16 in "Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)"

c16 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:19:04 +0000

+1 to the long list of people hoping for Qwen3.8-27b A3B.