Hacker News: dingdingdang

New comment by dingdingdang in "The Hackintosh Reborn"

dingdingdang — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 13:15:42 +0000

Thinking the exact same, would have bought Mac hardware long ago if Linux was supported (or even running!) on the latest gen. It's all down to the need for local llm capability!

New comment by dingdingdang in "Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra – 150W AI Accelerator Card with 128GB at 548GB/s"

dingdingdang — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 21:28:33 +0000

Honestly, let me buy one, it's many times faster than the minipc I run local ai on so if the price is right I'm in.

New comment by dingdingdang in "Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow to find devices on local networks?""

dingdingdang — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 22:43:16 +0000

This is the sort of classic MacOS situation that has mandated the use of Hammerspoon scripts and the like for more than a decade by now (this is not a sectarian point btw, Windows requires winutil just the same according to my optics)

New comment by dingdingdang in "PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says"

dingdingdang — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:31:16 +0000

Come on Facebook/Zuckerberg, set them up with a structured fund that is invested in s&p500 or something equivalent/better and allows them to pay a handful of devs and a person to admin them (all surplus can be earmarked to go to charity to avoid the sinkhole of bureaucracy from a larger org). Would set the PHP Foundation up for life and the whole world would be better off as a result, smallish directed investment with huge payout from a value perspective.

New comment by dingdingdang in "Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest"

dingdingdang — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:26:57 +0000

I tend to agree, it's a flipping ridiculous situation; if a local bikers gang had done that on purpose through fire/malaise/whatever they would face severe personal repercussions whereas corporate malaise that is committed on purpose is basically met with the expected outcome: i.e. a fine which is turn was already in the spreadsheet as a calculated expense. Need upgraded law apparatus to deal with it for sure.

New comment by dingdingdang in "Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest"

dingdingdang — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:10:58 +0000

Well, at that point fine them properly and use the proceeds to establish new wildlife sanctuary.

Unless of course the judicial system has been corrupted but that's surely a bit of a stretch no?

New comment by dingdingdang in "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"

dingdingdang — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:57:53 +0000

This is why local LLMs is THE most interesting thing at this moment in time; the distribution of the tech is fundamental to it's long term viability. But now that this is happening in very solid fashion I would wager that LLMs are technically akin to most things a modern humans use during their daily life, utterly beyond their capability to understand, yet totally practically useful - this trend has been going on for hundreds of years at this point.

New comment by dingdingdang in "The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s"

dingdingdang — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:21:43 +0000

A lot of it could probably be brought back to consumption patterns or present day issues with war and outsourcing.. but.. https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ is worth a (re-)read since I gather this is more of a more macro-structural outcome as opposed to a sudden thing.

New comment by dingdingdang in "Making big downloads resumable in Firefox"

dingdingdang — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:01:55 +0000

Only 20 years late or so...? Maybe in 2080 we can get concurrent downloads?

New comment by dingdingdang in "What is Codemode"

dingdingdang — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:04:46 +0000

As a slight aside to this point...

Actually think this one-language-focus is the way forward, instead of training AIs for all languages under the sun it would be incredible to have models solving all issues via one very well understood/and-tooled-for language. I'm aware that the model training cross-benefits from different languages so obviously provisions would have to be made for the benefit of this to show.

New comment by dingdingdang in "Zig v0.17.0"

dingdingdang — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:37:14 +0000

Yep, it's true, but the reality of what it would take to actually fork and commence with healthy use of AI alongside with the elusive soft/hard stance needed to lead technically and socially is probably a bigger challenge than anyone is willing to take on! Soo.. slow and (rather?) well it goes for Zig.

New comment by dingdingdang in "MongoDB CEO resigns "effective immediately" to join Meta, stock drops 20%"

dingdingdang — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:42:50 +0000

> He's never going to be hired as CEO by anybody for the rest of his career.

Maybe he had enough.

New comment by dingdingdang in "I built the fastest PHP webserver in the world"

dingdingdang — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:25:30 +0000

Yeah, gotta say clangers are softer* than clankers clearly. It was a slip but might adopt due to the plush connotations.

As per one of the few, actually non-dangerous to children, children shows produced by the BBC in the 70s

New comment by dingdingdang in "I built the fastest PHP webserver in the world"

dingdingdang — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:28:47 +0000

I for one do not get the hate, nobody needs to use/or-waste-time-commenting on this project if they have no need/want. However, I do agree that it needs some more contributors on-board alongside with a couple months more support and bug squashing. And yes: better rewrite that website without the clanger involved in the wording! ;)

On a positive note: the performance is genuinely impressive.. what does it take to unlock this performance if I'm NOT running one of the big "usual" frameworks? The devil is always in the detail, best get some practical advice up on exactly what needs to happen with a medium piece of custom code to get it to said max performance.

New comment by dingdingdang in "Shapelearn Qwen 3.8 27B (13.1 GB VRAM)"

dingdingdang — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:13:14 +0000

Agree here, as it is ByteShape wins practicality wise if the goal is doing actual work with these quants!

New comment by dingdingdang in "A 386 PC for Your RP2350"

dingdingdang — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:30:33 +0000

Guess technically true absolutely; I gotta admit I assumed they wouldn't bother implementing the instruction sets unless there was functional, i.e. prospect of reasonable speed, aspect to it.

New comment by dingdingdang in "A 386 PC for Your RP2350"

dingdingdang — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:39:37 +0000

Should be on the fast end of the 386 spectrum since it tentatively supports 486 and 586 architectures too.

New comment by dingdingdang in "European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy"

dingdingdang — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 20:08:47 +0000

Given the almost religious attention the term limit of sitting presidents of the US has it is interesting that so very little attention is given to the fact that the EU structure has no effectual limit at all; if the current EU President were to be nominated by the European Council in a circular manner she will effectually serve for perpetuity (while the Parliament can in principle say no they are only ever given one candidate to vote for (...) and has thus far never said no to any nominee).

New comment by dingdingdang in "Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root"

dingdingdang — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:36:17 +0000

I for one hold out for them releasing an optimized XFCE variant - don't by any means dislike keyboard driven software but I like it as an extension of a regular functional UI experience not as a "argh the windows are stuck in xyz pattern until I re-remember xyz combo"-experience: the UI surface is not the speed limit in my optics, rather it is the apps I use or (increasingly due to local AI) the computational hardware limits of my machine.

New comment by dingdingdang in "GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization"

dingdingdang — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:13:44 +0000

Have you done preliminary numbers on replacing tokenizer on, say, llama-server?