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New comment by edflsafoiewq in "Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios)"

edflsafoiewq — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:14:59 +0000

What's the advantage of the separate streams? That presumably prevents a streaming encoder/decoder.

New comment by edflsafoiewq in "Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone"

edflsafoiewq — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:43:33 +0000

It appears they are using Q2_0 in llama.cpp, which is 2 bits per weight + 1 float16 scale per group of 64 weights. This is inefficient in two ways: one bit pattern is wasted on each weight, since ternary weights only use {-1,0,1} and Q2_0 allows {-1,0,1,2}; and their group size is 128 weights, so the scale will be stored twice in two groups of 64 instead of stored only once in one group of 128.

Their fork corrects the second inefficiency by using a group size of 128, but still uses 2-bit weights AFAICT.

It's possible to pack 5 trits into a byte, but the unpacking is not very efficient. Another recent idea is to add the constraint that exactly one weight in each group of four be zero, which gives exactly 32 possible states, so it fits in 5 bits.

JPEG for ASTC

edflsafoiewq — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:34:53 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal/wiki/JPEG-for-ASTC

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48904216

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New comment by edflsafoiewq in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

edflsafoiewq — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:37:44 +0000

I find it kind of interesting the whole output wasn't released. A common criticism of mathematical writing is results are "pulled out of a hat"; you only write up a polished, final proof, but hide everything that went into developing it. It's kind of ironic the practice is even carried on when an LLM writes the proof.

New comment by edflsafoiewq in "Do you hate XML? (2010)"

edflsafoiewq — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:53:29 +0000

In data structure terms, attributes do allow nodes to be decorated with additional information without forcing any change on existing parsers. In JSON, this would require swapping, eg. "str" -> {"value": "str", "attrib1": "..."}.

New comment by edflsafoiewq in "Hellishly Slow Level 13 Deflate Compression"

edflsafoiewq — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:01:30 +0000

I think those are CLI options, not negative signs. Ie. you call zstd -3 for compression level 3.

New comment by edflsafoiewq in "Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers"

edflsafoiewq — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:56:29 +0000

"Oh gee, we'd definitely contribute to the open source driver if the repo name didn't have wacom in it." Yeah, uh huh.

New comment by edflsafoiewq in "Ported my C game to WASM, here's every bug that I hit"

edflsafoiewq — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:17:41 +0000

It's typical to only append fields when you do this.

New comment by edflsafoiewq in "Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”"

edflsafoiewq — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:49:51 +0000

> I'm not going to name those countries outright

Why?

New comment by edflsafoiewq in "The Vatican's Website in Latin"

edflsafoiewq — Thu, 07 May 2026 01:55:53 +0000

That isn't because of a general opposition to all uses of Latin.

New comment by edflsafoiewq in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

edflsafoiewq — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:35:27 +0000

The regulation targets most portable electronics, not just phones.

New comment by edflsafoiewq in "Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game"

edflsafoiewq — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:39:07 +0000

I understand why coroutines are an issue for saving, but why are they an issue for pausing? Don't you just not resume the coroutines while paused?

New comment by edflsafoiewq in "Big-Endian Testing with QEMU"

edflsafoiewq — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:06:29 +0000

Oh brave new world, that has such arguments in it!

New comment by edflsafoiewq in "Big-Endian Testing with QEMU"

edflsafoiewq — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:01:43 +0000

Static-assert the machine is little endian.

New comment by edflsafoiewq in "Big-Endian Testing with QEMU"

edflsafoiewq — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:59:40 +0000

That's a serialization format.

New comment by edflsafoiewq in "The case for becoming a manager"

edflsafoiewq — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:30:19 +0000

Perhaps these two roles shouldn't be conflated into a single position?

New comment by edflsafoiewq in "The future of text layout is not CSS"

edflsafoiewq — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:18:38 +0000

Here is the article's text, extracted from the .js source: https://pastebin.com/5uguB0bs

New comment by edflsafoiewq in "The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon"

edflsafoiewq — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:21:06 +0000

Examples?

New comment by edflsafoiewq in "RISC-V Is Sloooow"

edflsafoiewq — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:18:52 +0000

What about page size?

New comment by edflsafoiewq in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"

edflsafoiewq — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:49:04 +0000

What makes you think this is going to stave off that world? More likely you'll get both, since I doubt this API is going to satisfy other states' age verification requirements.