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New comment by dust42 in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

dust42 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:20:16 +0000

The CPU is for mobile phones. An Nvidia H200 has 4.8TB/s. An RTX 5090 has 1.8TB/s. Both use ~700W - not comparable with a phone.

New comment by dust42 in "TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In"

dust42 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:18:12 +0000

SEO was yesterday, now it is AIO - you will have to wait longer for the results and likely you will need a lot more cash: pay TIME for the ads, wait until next model release and see what sticks, then rinse and repeat.

New comment by dust42 in "Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage"

dust42 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:14:29 +0000

As a user I still prefer .pi right there in my home directory.

New comment by dust42 in "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6"

dust42 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:40:41 +0000

In 2 years from now we will be at 400%. https://xkcd.com/605/ Also, it is called kernels (you have nitpick in your username)

New comment by dust42 in "Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory"

dust42 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:05:54 +0000

> As with many conflicts this one goes back a long way. Ukraine gave up its nukes to Russia in exchange for a non aggression pact that the invasion broke.

From the Guardian (12 days ago): "Kyiv’s decision to honour second world war fighters who killed about 100,000 Poles has revived simmering tensions". Bandera was a Nazi collaborator and today's Ukraine politics worships Bandera. Lots of streets are renamed to honor him. Eastern Ukrainians are considered second class - or as some politicians said: "There are 2 million people too many".

The US (look up Nuland and her quote about 'fuck the EU') fueled with $5B the nationalism in Ukraine. Now imagine, the US would fuel with $50B the nationalism in Belgium and the the flemish would attack wallonie. You know what would happen? France would support the wallonie. Nothing to see here.

New comment by dust42 in "Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM"

dust42 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:57:19 +0000

With a M5 16c 48GB and Qwen 3.6 35B Q4 I get up to 1900 PP/s and 80 TG/s. With an Nvidia 5090 I get 7800 PP/s and 280 TG/s.

Together with pi mono I wouldn't want to go back to Claude & Co. Speed, quality of the answers, short answer times at any time of day - once you have eaten from the fruit your definition of SOTA will change...

For reference, I do software development since 30 years, I am not vibe coding the umpteenth todo list.

New comment by dust42 in "Several injured in Boeing 787 nose-gear collapse in Frankfurt"

dust42 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:16:52 +0000

This and we don't know yet what happened. It could have structurally collapsed - very unlikely, it could have uncommanded retracted, or maintenance has overridden the protections. I'd place my bets on #3, handling error in maintenance mode.

New comment by dust42 in "Several Injured in Boeing 787 Nose-Gear Collapse in Frankfurt"

dust42 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:13:08 +0000

From the picture and the text this aircraft was parked at the gate. During a hard landing the nose gear may collapse but not while being parked. And while parked there are protections to prevent retraction. However, these can be overridden by maintenance.

New comment by dust42 in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

dust42 — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:30:33 +0000

I just spent the last two weeks digging into workflow state engines and temporal was one of the candidates. It is a VC backed fork of Cadence. The got 0.3B funding and whatever positive I read about them on the net I take with a big spoon of salt. Just my 2 cents.

New comment by dust42 in "DeepSeek V4—almost on the frontier"

dust42 — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:53:55 +0000

For many models the performance of llama.cpp on Mac is 20-40% lower than MLX. Did you try MLX? At least on HF there are MLX 2-bit quants. Unfortunately I have only 64GB, so I can't test it.

New comment by dust42 in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"

dust42 — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:45:45 +0000

The output of any LLM is always 100% hallucination by principle. On top of that, most benchmarks are at best an approximation of LLM quality. Your use case decides which one to use. That said, I haven't tested v4 yet but the old 3.2 is still a decent model. And concerning use cases, I had coding problems that Opus couldn't solve but a local 35B model did.

All the talk about frontier and SOTA is do dig deeper and deeper into the pockets of VCs and finally do an IPO.

New comment by dust42 in "A Periodic Map of Cheese"

dust42 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:20:14 +0000

That website is so low effort that 2s is actually long to figure it out. Very sure that it is robot upvoted.

Edit: I live in the cheese triangle, France - Switzerland - Italy.

New comment by dust42 in "Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days"

dust42 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:48:32 +0000

Tinder for indie (hardware) devs and their customers. I.e. a webshop for indie devs who sell small series of niche hardware.

New comment by dust42 in "Recommended GPU Repairshop in Europe (Germany)"

dust42 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:30:30 +0000

Ask on mikrocontroller.net. There will definitely be people who know who in Germany is doing it or maybe even offer to do it for you. One of the last old fashioned forums on the net. German speaking but nowadays that shouldn't be a problem.

New comment by dust42 in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

dust42 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:57:55 +0000

I am using it with pi agent and I have stopped renting tokens. Much better for me than Claude Code, on M1 Max 64GB. This model with oMLX is at 16k context PP 919.9 tok/s and TG 54.7 tok/s. You have to manage the context but the better you manage context the more focused the output is. I use it without thinking.

New comment by dust42 in "Everything we like is a psyop?"

dust42 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:41:58 +0000

I once worked for a company that bought a spot in the evening news (french TF1). It worked that way: a french minister was visiting a fair and coming to stop in front of the booth and getting a product demo. And that ended up in the evening news. Since that time I kind of watch the news with different eyes.

New comment by dust42 in "Germany suspends military approval for long stays abroad for men under 45"

dust42 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:58:10 +0000

The law is still there though and thus its application can be resumed at any time without need of parliament approval.

New comment by dust42 in "Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference"

dust42 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:24:34 +0000

There is a project on github named ANEMLL. Was discussed here a month ago, running LLMs on iPhone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490070

New comment by dust42 in "Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code"

dust42 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:59:01 +0000

Well, at least we know by now that Mythos is a mythos.

New comment by dust42 in "Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter"

dust42 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:24:27 +0000

I really love it. The simplicity is key. The first play project I made with it was a public transport map with GTFS data - click on a stop and get the routes and the timetables for the stop and the surrounding ones. I used Qwen3.5-35B on Mac M1 Max with oMLX. It wrote 98% of the code with very little interaction from me. And very useful is the /tree feature to go back in history when the model is on a wrong track or my instructions where not good enough. I usually work in a two path approach: first let the model explore what it needs to fulfill the task and write it into CONTEXT.md (or any other name to your liking). Then restart the session with the CONTEXT.md. That way you are always nicely operating in 5-15k context, i.e. all is very fast. Create an account for pi (or docker) and make sure it can't walk into other directories - it has bash access. Add the browser-tools to the skills and load them when useful: https://github.com/badlogic/pi-skills

No need for database MCP, I use postgres and tell it to use psql.

Occasionally I use prettier to remove indentation - the LLM makes a lot less edit errors that way. Just add the indent back before you commit. Or tell pi to do it.