Hacker News: echion

New comment by echion in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

echion — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:47:18 +0000

> Free Software types already do for all software

Free Software types also create software...they didn't just argue for a better license and try to regulate Sun/others to re-license their software; they wrote free (libre) versions of proprietary software and released it for free (cost), which is what counteracted the "[putting] what they make behind a wall". If you're saying "[some] LLMs should be free", I agree.

New comment by echion in "Local LLM App by Ente"

echion — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:15:05 +0000

Looks excellent -- thanks; shame older intel macs don't get it (a lot of those still around)

New comment by echion in "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"

echion — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:05:22 +0000

Any place we can look for you to release this?

New comment by echion in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

echion — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:22:02 +0000

Ad hominem much?

New comment by echion in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

echion — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:05:58 +0000

Those of us whose appreciation of da Vinci's mastery are not affected by him painting the Mona Lisa with a moustache are keeping you in our thoughts.

(non-snark: your reply is clever and got a smile but I still think the GP post is overriding: no need for the distraction (c.f.: these asides) of the "S(c)am" swipe)

New comment by echion in "Voxtral Transcribe 2"

echion — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 03:16:15 +0000

Same here

New comment by echion in "Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model"

echion — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:33:38 +0000

> Tiananmen square

The Tiananmen Square killings happened independent of one's "worldview".

What's an example of "the exact same thing" done to OpenAI models by western governments?

New comment by echion in "Dell's version of the DGX Spark fixes pain points"

echion — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:59:19 +0000

> you can combine Spark with M3U, the former streaming the compute, lowering TTFT, the latter doing the token generation part

Are you doing this with vLLM, or some other model-running library/setup?

New comment by echion in "Dell's version of the DGX Spark fixes pain points"

echion — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:58:11 +0000

> training smart LLMs like Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-NVFP4

Sounds interesting; can you suggest any good discussions of this (on the web)?

New comment by echion in "GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability"

echion — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:00:00 +0000

> with same success you can prove bias in western models.

What are some examples? (curious, as a westerner)

Are there "bias" benchmarks? (I ask, rather than just search, because: bias)

New comment by echion in "GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability"

echion — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:21:32 +0000

> when do we stop this kind of polarization?

When the tool isn't polarized. I wouldn't use a wrench with an objectionable symbol on it.

> You don't forecast weather with image detection model

What do you do with a large language model? I think most people put language in and get language out. Plenty of people are going to look askance at statements like "the devil is really good at coding, so let's use him for that only". Do you think it should be illegal/not allowed to not hire a person because they have political beliefs you don't like?

New comment by echion in "GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability"

echion — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:17:59 +0000

> I'm tired of this example everyone tests out, I think it undermines the researchers and engineers hard work.

It's completely valid, IMO. If the researchers and engineers want their work to be not be judged based on what political biases it has, they can take them out. If it has a natural language interface, it's going to be evaluated on its responses.

New comment by echion in "So you wanna build a local RAG?"

echion — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 02:17:22 +0000

Can you elaborate a bit on your setup if you have time?

New comment by echion in "Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH"

echion — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:15:54 +0000

It's not supported by dhcpcd yet: https://github.com/NetworkConfiguration/dhcpcd/issues/341

New comment by echion in "AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster study finds"

echion — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 16:51:07 +0000

Oh, itsdrewmiller pointed us in the right direction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44551579

New comment by echion in "AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster study finds"

echion — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 16:49:18 +0000

Ironically, this fell off the HN front page without enough upvotes...neither hackernews.coffee nor Claude suggested it to me...

New comment by echion in "Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B"

echion — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 21:22:11 +0000

Normally I would say you're right, but I read the context opposite to you; I read the "fine" as a straight/literal statement: the author of "this is fine" is disputing the author's parent's statement that "this can be considered [a bug]".

New comment by echion in "WSJ These Electric Motors Could Help Break the Dependence on China"

echion — Sat, 03 May 2025 18:57:41 +0000

"Axial motors" don't seem to have been discussed much here; In 2022 there was some discussion of the flaws ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30816149 ).

New comment by echion in "WSJ These Electric Motors Could Help Break the Dependence on China"

echion — Sat, 03 May 2025 15:39:43 +0000

Conifer motors is making a low-cost power plant for everything from scooters to factories

WSJ These Electric Motors Could Help Break the Dependence on China

echion — Sat, 03 May 2025 15:39:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/these-electric-motors-could-help-break-the-worlds-dependence-on-china-3fa07b0b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43879793

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