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New comment by flockonus in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

flockonus — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:38:27 +0000

"cyberattack" is indeed exaggerated. AI breakout risk most definitely isn't, specially given how their swarm did in fact hack HuggingFace not long ago.

New comment by flockonus in "GPT-6 Astra"

flockonus — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:32:19 +0000

It is exhausting to keep up with model releases yes, much like it was for a while during the Cambrian explosion of FE frameworks, eventually tech seems to work out to consolidation.

But more so it seems there is Fear of missing out (FOMO) in our behaviours. The reality is, if whatever model you are using are good for your purpose, well, keep on it.

New comment by flockonus in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

flockonus — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:22:45 +0000

No idea what you're trying to say... he's been directionally wrong for years as the article illustrates clearly.

New comment by flockonus in "GLM-5.3-Flash"

flockonus — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:27:40 +0000

Not really, not leading at any criteria, altho top 5 in most - https://arena.ai/leaderboard

New comment by flockonus in "I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch"

flockonus — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:34:47 +0000

Agreed. During comp sci we got to re-implement various algos of networks, OS, database, firmware.. and it all gave complimentary intuitions that were useful when tackling practical implementations and bottlenecks.

New comment by flockonus in "Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe"

flockonus — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:17:33 +0000

I knew the universe was nothing but a brick wall, now we have proof!

https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=80.3728&dec=-69.4497&lay...

/jk

New comment by flockonus in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

flockonus — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:02:02 +0000

Depends who you work with, what's the intention, budget, etc. I'd agree this is a really good one.

I'm used to incremental Figma wireframe -> final product and working together with a designer.

New comment by flockonus in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

flockonus — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:51:13 +0000

There is some irony being a developer and reading along the lines of: "oh look at the comparison between these models executing a task for a few cents on a job i'd be charging 1k minimum"

New comment by flockonus in "Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution"

flockonus — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:45:41 +0000

To the models you say for coding, can you give an example of what you code?

I find them insufficient for my projects (mid sized), but curious what people see working.

New comment by flockonus in "Underwater oxygen loss threatens earth's stability, researchers warn"

flockonus — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:37:54 +0000

Oxigen is ALSO, and perhaps in vast quantities produced at the bottom of the ocean, by lumps of metal that react with sea water (aka Dark Oxygen). Interestingly, there are now massive marine harvesting operations targeting that very ore.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-discove...

New comment by flockonus in "Canceling "Hey""

flockonus — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:48:42 +0000

To establish oneself in a country (for the majority if not all the western world) without an appropriate visa is already breaking the law.

Not saying this is the only way, or what should be - but it's what it is, selectively breaking the law is ok - "as long as they behave". It implies that immigrants must live in the limbo and under undue psychological pressure, knowing one day their whole life may be uprooted for any transgression (or even none). This to me is some medieval mindset.

New comment by flockonus in "Canceling "Hey""

flockonus — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:23:26 +0000

I do find the author position to be incoherent in the following regard:

1. believe a statement can be true or false, and false should be called out.

2. believe deportation is morally wrong in certain cases, that is, the law can be selectively broken.

I personally believe laws should always be enforced and followed. That eliminates margin for corruption and lenience. A strong law also creates incentive for the population to care about the letter of the law and reforms, since it becomes a known fact that such law will be followed through.

The worst of both worlds is a situation like in US or EU where immigrants "more or less" can settle, but live under constant pressure knowing there is no legal framework to support them, and deportation may come at any moment.

New comment by flockonus in "Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace"

flockonus — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:36:11 +0000

As you already went through the thought exercise of laying all this RAM over various slots, then match against the right CPU (which also you'll need multiple) - it becomes clear quite fast that it's trying to mimic the architecture of a GPU except in extremely low fidelity and bandwidth @ a higher energy cost.

New comment by flockonus in "GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization"

flockonus — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:08:44 +0000

Same here, as we're sitting in the middle between requests and what budget constraints are allowed given a particular token allowance there can be 10 ~ 100 milliseconds improvement in the UX (TTFT) given such massive tokenization speed up.

New comment by flockonus in "Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work"

flockonus — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:08:54 +0000

Ah yes, i missed it because i cmd+F for "pric" & "cost" - but now i read more carefully, it makes sense. It also speaks about the biz model.

Personally i wouldn't change a thing, other than perhaps add one of those words (if at all).

New comment by flockonus in "Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work"

flockonus — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:26:43 +0000

At first i found odd that pricing is nowhere in the website, but then i found it burried under FAQ (free!) - is it to weed out people who are focusing on free rather than going deeper into the experience?

> How much does attending the Recurse Center cost? > RC is free for everyone. You will never receive a bill from RC.

> How can you afford to make RC free? > RC has a built in recruiting agency. Companies pay to hire RC alumni. This payment never comes out of your salary.

New comment by flockonus in "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"

flockonus — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:01:32 +0000

There is also the 1bit version @ 3.9 GB that retains 90% of the intelligence - quite a feat!

https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Bonsai-27B-mlx-1bit

New comment by flockonus in "The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed"

flockonus — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:51:34 +0000

Excited to read if you ever get to publish! In particular 1. made me even more curious.

I do get most of my AI value on prototyping [small codebase] & summarizing.

New comment by flockonus in "The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally"

flockonus — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:14:36 +0000

Cool! I also remember from decades ago a friend in high school taught me "SOS" and still stuck with me: 3 short, 3 long 3 short, i suppose ... - - - ...

New comment by flockonus in "The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed"

flockonus — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:02:27 +0000

> That was a departure from how I normally work since I did not write a single line of code. I will likely write something about my A.I framework (and opensource it) next month.

If the author is around, super curious how they got to enjoy their workflow here in a side project, working with AI. This kind of situation, to me, is often where the joy is gone.