Hacker News: egeres

New comment by egeres in "Making RAM at Home [video]"

egeres — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:26:57 +0000

Makes me wonder if in the far future it will be ever possible to do something crazy like 7nm processes at home

New comment by egeres in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

egeres — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:31:20 +0000

I wasn't able to pull some images and I lost 1h trying to diagnose network problems in my setup, but it didn't occur to me that "la liga" was the root cause . My workaround was to add "registry-mirrors": ["https://mirror.gcr.io"] in my /etc/docker/daemon.json

New comment by egeres in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

egeres — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:14:59 +0000

Thank you and your brother for all the amazing work, it's really inspiring to others <3

New comment by egeres in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

egeres — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:26:25 +0000

Maybe this is far fetched, but you could get an LLM-based auto-research system to extract these potential relationships

New comment by egeres in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

egeres — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:07:13 +0000

It also give you the possibility of filtering out which ones are worth cracking and which ones not

New comment by egeres in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

egeres — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:35:30 +0000

They have terrible support for banking apps and any app that needs play integrity

New comment by egeres in "I put my whole life into a single database"

egeres — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:33:08 +0000

Related to this, I highly recommend anyone to install github.com/ActivityWatch/activitywatch, it's an amazing tool to keep track of your computer use completely locally. I think there are lots of possibilities with data analysis/AI aimed to improved one self's life

New comment by egeres in "Show HN: Better Hub – A better GitHub experience"

egeres — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:18:47 +0000

If it's an open source project the landing page should have a direct link to it so that developers can get a broader sense of what this product is

New comment by egeres in "Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11"

egeres — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:09:47 +0000

This Christmas I bought my mom a new computer because her old one (W10) was falling apart. It took some time but I managed to convince her to give ubuntu a try instead of moving to W11. After a week of complaints and stubbornness, she got really surprised about the lack of annoying prompts asking for updates, dark patterns to switch to edge, promotions etc. Now she has fully adapted and for her basic needs (browsing, reading pdfs, editing spreadsheets) she's basically set for life

It's shocking to read the headlines about the latest direction windows is taking and how user unfriendly is becoming

New comment by egeres in "[dead]"

egeres — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:03:55 +0000

To me it's very clear that the icons have that "stable diffusion trying to make pixel art" style. I think this needs an extra layer of code that gets the generated image and turns it into actual pixel art

New comment by egeres in "Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters"

egeres — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 11:08:30 +0000

It stays around 26Gb at 512x512. I still haven't profiled the execution or looked much into the details of the architecture but I would assume it trades off memory for speed by creating caches for each inference step

New comment by egeres in "Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters"

egeres — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 22:43:04 +0000

Incredibly fast, on my 5090 with CUDA 13 (& the latest diffusers, xformers, transformers, etc...), 9 samplig steps and the "Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo" model I get:

- 1.5s to generate an image at 512x512

- 3.5s to generate an image at 1024x1024

- 26.s to generate an image at 2048x2048

It uses almost all the 32Gb Gb of VRAM and GPU usage. I'm using the script from the HF post: https://huggingface.co/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo

New comment by egeres in "Show HN: Boing"

egeres — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 09:52:54 +0000

Amazing to see software like this without sign-in requirements or paid subscriptions!

New comment by egeres in "Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras"

egeres — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:30:25 +0000

Super interesting project, at first I thought it would be a naive implementation of YOLO but I wasn't aware about retro-reflections. The papers he linked in the GH discuss very interesting ideas

New comment by egeres in "HyperRogue – A non-Euclidean roguelike"

egeres — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 17:28:30 +0000

Imagine this inside miegakure (https://miegakure.com/)

New comment by egeres in "YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs"

egeres — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:40:22 +0000

Unfortunately, that last 10% of games are AAA competitive multiplayer that account for a massive user base who are still dependent on windows to play them (battlefield 6, fortnite, any of the call of duty games from the last 8 years, league of legends, GTA online, apex legends, rainbow six siege...)

New comment by egeres in "Optical diffraction patterns made with a MOPA laser engraving machine [video]"

egeres — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 22:27:59 +0000

It's a completely different level, he has my favorite combo, incredibly detailed videos with fresh and complex engineering ideas

New comment by egeres in "NVIDIA DGX Spark In-Depth Review: A New Standard for Local AI Inference"

egeres — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 21:47:21 +0000

All three (GB10, GB200 and GB300) are part of the Blackwell family, which means they have Compute Capability >= 10.X. You could potentially develop kernels to optimize MoE inference (given the large available unified memory, 128Gb, it makes the most sense to me) with CUDA >= 12.9 then ship the fatbins to the "big boys". As many people have pointed out across the thread, the spark doesn't really has the best perf/$, it's rather a small portable platform for experimentation and development

New comment by egeres in "NVIDIA DGX Spark In-Depth Review: A New Standard for Local AI Inference"

egeres — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 21:27:55 +0000

I'm pretty sure they just want to be coherent with the which has that "steel scrubber finish" on the hardware

(photo for reference: https://www.wwt.com/api-new/attachments/5f033e355091b0008017...)

New comment by egeres in "Sora 2"

egeres — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:20:58 +0000

I wonder how this will affect the large cinema production companies (Disney, WB, Universal, Sony, Paramount, 20th century...). The global film market share was estimated to be 100B in 2023. If the production cost of high FX movies like Avengers Infinity War goes down from 300M$ to just 10K$ in a couple of years, will companies like Disney restrain themselves to just release a few epic movies per year? Or will we be flooded with tons of slop? If this kind of AI content keeps getting better, how will movies sustain our attention and feel 'special'? Will people not care if an actor is AI or real?