Hacker News: deflator

New comment by deflator in "Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution"

deflator — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:23:17 +0000

I second this. Anyone considering running their own hardware would also consider quantization since they would have full control over what quant to run.

The value proposition changes a lot if you can get 90% of the quality for 50% the price with a quant due to halving your hardware requirement.

Thank you for the article, though! Very informative.

New comment by deflator in "Earth's Greatest Catastrophes Seem to Follow a Mysterious 27M-Year Pulse"

deflator — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:38:55 +0000

Hmm. Pennywise operated on a 27 year cycle. Maybe Cthulhu does the same, but at 1MM the scale.

New comment by deflator in "At the altar of AI capex, Google is sacrificing the golden goose"

deflator — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:10:11 +0000

Eggs don't lay eggs

New comment by deflator in "When is NVLink worth it?"

deflator — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:47:16 +0000

Very informative article. I was hazy on where NVLink sat in the local inference stack. This makes it very clear: to adapt consumer hardware that lacks multiple full x16 PCIe lanes.

New comment by deflator in "We Need a Neural Network (2006)"

deflator — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:44:38 +0000

Those were the days

New comment by deflator in "Ask HN: Claude Code or Codex?"

deflator — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:21:13 +0000

I switched to Codex in November 2025 because I couldn't stand the smarmy, "You're absolutely right" anymore. Codex at the time offered less sycophancy and more pushback when I was actually wrong. I also feel it writes cleaner code since it follows my instructions better to not write unrequested code, not create unnecessary abstractions, and not reinvent any wheels. I use LLMs on a tight-leash in HITL for web development, monitoring traces as it goes. I rarely use it for more than just writing code that I specify and I rarely let it "have it's head" and work unmonitored. I use it on the API plan since I need it to be reliable. No outage issues that I can recall.

New comment by deflator in "GSAP – A robust JavaScript animation library built for professionals"

deflator — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:09:55 +0000

I used this a decade ago, and it was a joy to use for someone who grew up with Macromedia/Adobe Flash scripting. In 2026, I would have thought that regular HTML/CSS would have caught up with this. Maybe it has, I don't do any animations anymore.

New comment by deflator in "Drake Anthony Recreates the Mechanical Bulb First Seen in 1675"

deflator — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:59:51 +0000

Crummy blog crashed my browser tab with all the nonsense it loaded

New comment by deflator in "Neocities: Create your own free website"

deflator — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:04:49 +0000

Love it! My first website was on Angelfire, and I am still at it 30 years later. It made an impression on me.

But I can't think of a good play on words for Angelfire either

New comment by deflator in "Reform UK leader 'in real trouble' against Count Binface"

deflator — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:05:02 +0000

Gosh, why does this sound familiar to me?

New comment by deflator in "Is One Layer Enough? A Single Transformer Layer Matches Full-Parameter RL Train"

deflator — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:06:37 +0000

His articles blow me away. Like the one where he plumbed a pair of Grace-Hopper superchips with liquid cooling for a home rig.

New comment by deflator in "Is One Layer Enough? A Single Transformer Layer Matches Full-Parameter RL Train"

deflator — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:40:40 +0000

Was it this guy? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47322887

New comment by deflator in "Meta Is Building a Cloud Business to Sell Excess AI Compute"

deflator — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:48:41 +0000

Very true. I would think you could say the same about xAI too, with their pivot. They don't have experience in this sphere directly.

New comment by deflator in "Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors”"

deflator — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:53:27 +0000

I think boffin is a Britishism. I have heard it other places, not just on El Reg. Specifically: a lot on Top Gear when it was hosted by Clarkson.

New comment by deflator in "The AI Hate Progression"

deflator — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:44:38 +0000

First taste is always free! But when the 10 billionth taste continues to be free, you have to start to wonder about your dealer.

New comment by deflator in "The AI Hate Progression"

deflator — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:31:55 +0000

More or less our approach here too. They offered to help with our work at a loss for themselves, why not take them up on it? Not necessarily to hurt the AI labs, but just because we'd be foolish not to take something offered at such a discount.

New comment by deflator in "Rio 3.5 Open 397B – from Rio de Janeiro's city government"

deflator — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:20:23 +0000

Correct. They theoretically updated the open weight version to the capabilities of the latest closed weight one.

New comment by deflator in "Russia building large scale military infrastructure on European border"

deflator — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:40:27 +0000

Makes sense if they are planning to concede in Ukraine. The Russian economy is dependent on continued military buildup, so they will try to continue with that but go back to their cold war-era posturing with the forces and matériel produced.

New comment by deflator in "Ask HN: Are orbital data centers possible / a good idea?"

deflator — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:00:52 +0000

The problem of the hype-train starting to cool is the only real problem it solved or will ever solve

New comment by deflator in "MAI-Thinking-1"

deflator — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:38:21 +0000

Does this mean that work created with it can be copyrighted? Since the courts ruled that the inclusion of pilfered IP was the reason other model's work cannot be copyrighted, I would think so! In that case, this is a completely different beast. It can maybe be used for things that need a durable copyright.