Hacker News: dingdingdang

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?

New comment by dingdingdang in "Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)"

dingdingdang — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:15:01 +0000

>> The new logo: basically identical to Claude's current one but blue. The new name: Spark. Conveys: absolutely nothing, the blank slate business, our executives don't actually know what we do.

This is my experience as well, people drawn to leadership in our present time often have absolutely no idea about anything except the -idea- of business. Which of course makes things vaguely "professional" seeming while they effectively destroy businesses/organisations.

New comment by dingdingdang in "Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?"

dingdingdang — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:27:12 +0000

Talking about bad design what on earth is going on with Amazon's new fav-icon, it's the same reddish-orange as Alibaba and Aliexpress and looks utterly unremarkable.

New comment by dingdingdang in "ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2"

dingdingdang — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:21:55 +0000

In a sense it's a clean reminder that all these, especially non-local, llm tools should NEVER run outside a container. I'm currently looking at z-jail specifically for these scenarios; VMs are too heavy & expose too many sec issues of their own for continual integrated use in my case.

New comment by dingdingdang in "Popping the GPU Bubble"

dingdingdang — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:02:50 +0000

Yeah, it works though, and the content is genuine enough which I guess trumps the issue with the title for me ;)

New comment by dingdingdang in "MaralGPT "Mythos" 9B just released, and this is why I'm proud of my project"

dingdingdang — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:06:40 +0000

OK, I appreciate your excitement and the work you've done here. Also; when presenting a benchmark it -needs- to be done as a comparative measure, i.e. how are those numbers on a vanilla 9b, let alone decent quant of 3.6-35b-a3b? What have you achieved here?

New comment by dingdingdang in "The cost YAGNI was never about"

dingdingdang — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:18:42 +0000

Honestly think a lot of this article is ai babble - check how it ends on several classic ai negative triples such as "you’ll pay both bills on it just the same — plus you’ll comprehend it less, because you didn’t write it." ... etc.

New comment by dingdingdang in "Big Tech is stoking unrest in the UK. Why?"

dingdingdang — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:02:30 +0000

Brexit promised a solution just like loads of solutions had been promised within the EU framework prior to it - all these "solutions" were akin in that they were all promised (from left and right within the political establishment) and all not delivered. This is also why people seek to go outside the regular voting pattern with Reform, it's not cause they suddenly love something completely different but because the former voting pattern did not deliver improvements as expected.

New comment by dingdingdang in "Organic foods are not healthier or pesticide free"

dingdingdang — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:12:41 +0000

I do find it fascinating how blatantly people lie about things, the article mentions "Organic farming uses 84% more land for the same yield, but yields are 55% lower by area than conventional." yes, and that is the exact signature indicating that organic produce receives less harsh chemicals and is less exploitive of the ecosystem than "regular" produce. Not worth the read, it's simply anti-organic propaganda. Note: I'm not personally religious about organic/not-organic but neither do I enjoy overt misinformation campaigns.

New comment by dingdingdang in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

dingdingdang — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:26:58 +0000

This is a a worthy legal gofundme if I ever saw one!

New comment by dingdingdang in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

dingdingdang — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:12:42 +0000

"... the city for $10, the city sold it, and when the family went to court their suit was dismissed."

New comment by dingdingdang in "Claude Opus 4.8"

dingdingdang — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:21:24 +0000

By pointing out the exact things that will likely happen you are oddly enough hedging against (at least some of them) happening!

A) I reckon it's true that smaller models will continue to improve massively through optimization and better and better harnesses, this tech is all still very young and A LOT of resources and (good-)will is being thrown at it.

B) The 1T+ models will be able to sideload and improve upon a lot of the fundamental improvements that happen to the smaller models to speed up incredibly while getting better at tools while (on a gradient) getting -more- things right.

C) More of an observation that I think is worth keeping in mind clearly; Karl Popper's black swan and all, truth in our temporal world IS a gradient!

New comment by dingdingdang in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"

dingdingdang — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:57:14 +0000

Yes, it worth aiming for common sense as a bare minimum, chaos and entropy only grows when things we don't understand are casually derided/attacked.

New comment by dingdingdang in "Ferrari Luce"

dingdingdang — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:21:53 +0000

Worse in my opinion since the look is simply Tesla (whether one likes that or not), no one would have blinked an eyelid if Tesla released this car whereas Ferrari doing so comes off incoherent.

New comment by dingdingdang in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 rav4 hybrid"

dingdingdang — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:41:50 +0000

Excellent practical guide and pictures, if OP is around on this thread: well done! Your future self is going to appreciative too when this needs repeating at some point!

New comment by dingdingdang in "Dav2d"

dingdingdang — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:56:01 +0000

Gotta admit this was the first thing I thought of as well. Hard to focus on the code implementation with that in mind!

New comment by dingdingdang in "Why isn't AMD's MI300X competitive?"

dingdingdang — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:42:54 +0000

These days it's for sure the dev environment that is lacking, hardware is okay (potentially great?!), software abysmal. To run a local llm in a stable manner implies using Vulkan.. any attempt at ROCm is totally hamstrung by haphazard support of hardware alongside with an online presence poisoned by people primarily discussing work-arounds rather than work when it comes to AMD as a platform. Argh.

New comment by dingdingdang in "EFF is leaving X"

dingdingdang — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:44:41 +0000

It's sad that they have gone political whereas their goal should, in my optics, be almost technocratically in favour of their own stated goals of "protecting user privacy from government/corporate surveillance, defending free speech online, enforcing net neutrality, promoting encryption, and combating abusive intellectual property laws".

New comment by dingdingdang in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

dingdingdang — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:29:09 +0000

I do find the down votes odd, comment seem to contribute to the discussion, is it a reflex move because of intense dislike of the sitting US president?

New comment by dingdingdang in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

dingdingdang — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:08:35 +0000

Having your stuff stored in another country is ultimately a voucher of confidence, I can't see Trump or anyone else willingly misusing that trust. I do think the Western leaders need to temper their tendencies for isolationism these days, what's the alternative guys? And why even think that other people/cultures will want you in their swimming-pool if you can't keep your own one clean/functional?

(this comment also covers France recently bringing home their gold)