Hacker News: cmxch

New comment by cmxch in "Remove–AI–Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images"

cmxch — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:18:07 +0000

You don’t happen to know a certain Doc Brown?

New comment by cmxch in "Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona after praising AI"

cmxch — Mon, 18 May 2026 02:09:07 +0000

Not so much angry at the actual dotcom era but more of the fallout of offshoring that followed.

One of the notable figures in that, Carly Fiorina, made a point to “forget the engineers”.

New comment by cmxch in "Fuck You, Bambu Lab. Go Ahead, Sue Us"

cmxch — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:29:23 +0000

Looks like Bambu wants to speedrun to being the (modern) HP of 3D printing.

New comment by cmxch in "Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off"

cmxch — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:47:37 +0000

And they’ll probably just tow the recalled trucks outside the environment.

New comment by cmxch in "BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets"

cmxch — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:57:13 +0000

Just buy a Textron golf cart and you have 90% of the Chinese EV experience.

New comment by cmxch in "Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens"

cmxch — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:52:35 +0000

The US still has enough power to stop it though, thankfully.

We aren’t captured by environmental activists that force the poor to shoulder the compliance burden while the rich get to defer and delay.

New comment by cmxch in "Intel Arc Pro B70 Review"

cmxch — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:05:57 +0000

Until NVidia prices get better, I’ll build out with the Intel stack and keep the cache (and prompt processing speeds) happy.

As for software, anything that has a SYCL or Vulkan backend, and/or can be Intel optimized (especially to the same degree as llama.cpp) can run well.

New comment by cmxch in "Intel Arc Pro B70 Review"

cmxch — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:26:33 +0000

It’s 32gb for people who can’t go for scalped 5090s but have a 3090 budget.

I have a pair of them with a 9480 and the only thing I have to do is keep the cache happy.

New comment by cmxch in "SDL Now Supports DOS"

cmxch — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:29:59 +0000

Wait, it didn’t already or am I confusing it with the VESA support on Linux?

New comment by cmxch in "The zero-days are numbered"

cmxch — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:49:40 +0000

So by the time Mythos is widely and generally available, it’ll be generations behind.

No thanks, but I’d rather not have mysterymeat patches from effectively impossible to replicate models.

New comment by cmxch in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

cmxch — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:06:09 +0000

Interesting to see them do this when the original study in Singapore did not (initially) enact the ban.

Did they just follow on from New Zealand?

New comment by cmxch in "Remember? "Sideloading" is here to stay, and won't go away, they said?"

cmxch — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:23:47 +0000

Looks like Google is taking a page from Microsoft regarding embrace, extend, extinguish.

At this point, they’re at the Extinguish stage.

New comment by cmxch in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

cmxch — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:34:26 +0000

I see that Meta (if that’s still the case) is going for the gold here.

New comment by cmxch in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

cmxch — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:40:24 +0000

Hmm.

I had to rebuild llama.cpp from source with the SYCL and CPU specific backends.

Started with a barebones Ubuntu Server 24 LTS install, used the HWE kernel, pulled in the Intel dependencies for hardware support/oneapi/libze, then built llama.cpp with the Intel compiler (icx?) for the SYCL and NATIVE backends (CPU specific support).

In short, built it based mostly on the Intel instructions.

New comment by cmxch in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

cmxch — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:28:12 +0000

> Intel

For some workloads, the Arc Pro B70 actually does reasonably well when cached.

With some reasonable bring-up, it also seems to be more usable versus the 32gb R9700.

New comment by cmxch in "The Closing of the Frontier"

cmxch — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:58:22 +0000

Which helps none, since that gates behind established actors.

New comment by cmxch in "Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more"

cmxch — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:13:18 +0000

Or melange, if we’re talking about Herbert’s Dune series.

New comment by cmxch in "Nowhere is safe"

cmxch — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:29:51 +0000

> we only planned for the absolute best case scenario, why didn't that scenario happen?

IRGC sympathizers across the world that would rather have the current government than the more progressive predecessor.

New comment by cmxch in "New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK"

cmxch — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:34:17 +0000

s/bots/undesirables/

…at the end stage.

New comment by cmxch in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

cmxch — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:12:37 +0000

Then what prevents the US from just seizing or sinking any vessel presumed to have paid up?