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New comment by flockonus in "How fast is N tokens per second really?"

flockonus — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:12:35 +0000

Interesting point, i didn't consider the thought process as tokens.

New comment by flockonus in "Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier"

flockonus — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:11:23 +0000

For coding tasks 27B is reported to be much more effective, altho you can probably only run 4b or 5b quants @ this memory.

Recommend https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/ as a great source for this type of discussion.

New comment by flockonus in "How fast is N tokens per second really?"

flockonus — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:06:16 +0000

Curious about the other way around, how many tokens per second a productive developer codes in a day?

New comment by flockonus in "SpaceX rocket set for unintentional moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway"

flockonus — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:47:36 +0000

Curious to see if to what intensity the Moon will "ring like a bell" at this one.

ref: https://books.google.ie/books?id=6QAAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA56&lpg=PA...

New comment by flockonus in "To my students"

flockonus — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:50:11 +0000

How this will age:

>I do not and will not use the internet, in any form, for any purpose.

New comment by flockonus in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

flockonus — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:15:45 +0000

> How to check if your voice is being misused

I love that the answer here is basically.. - you don't -

But maybe mitigate at unreasonable personal costs.

How about services simply stop taking public information as proof of identity?

New comment by flockonus in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

flockonus — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:10:10 +0000

That may be true for OpenAI, less so for Antropic - which has much better margins. Both of these companies CEOs have come in public saying the same.

No doubt as of currently Google has a better business. But the same argument could have been said about Instagram or Whatsapp before Facebook (now Meta) acquired them.

New comment by flockonus in "Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model"

flockonus — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:29:12 +0000

The bigger the [dense] models the more inference tends to take, it seems pretty linear.

In that sense, how long you'd need to wait to get say ~20tk/s .. maybe never.

(save a significant firmware update / translation layer)

New comment by flockonus in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

flockonus — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:45:46 +0000

I know where my answer lies in that; but i don't claim to be an objective truth.

For example OpenAI has been caught sharing data with the gov. agencies.

New comment by flockonus in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

flockonus — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:03:05 +0000

While they do make this argument, realistically anyone sending their prompt/data to an external server should assume there will be some level of retention.

And more so in particular, anyone using Darkbloom with commercial intents should only really send non-sensitive data (no tokens, customer data, ...) I'd say only classification tasks, imagine generation, etc.

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

flockonus — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:34:11 +0000

My motivation was quite different, and i'd like to encourage more people to consider the same.

Often times narcissistic power grabbing (often technically incompetent) engineers become managers, like it was the case a previous team I've worked at and it was quite penalizing to the whole team.

I've realized that either i can be the one managing and try to do good, or be at the mercy of another manager; chose the first.

New comment by flockonus in "HyperAgents: Self-referential self-improving agents"

flockonus — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:48:09 +0000

The readme seems very unclear about what it does. Anyone has a practical example of it?

Explosion at the Valero Oil Refinery in Texas

flockonus — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 03:43:22 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/TFE/comments/1s208fv/an_explosion_at_the_valero_oil_refinery_of_port/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47498376

Points: 21

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New comment by flockonus in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)"

flockonus — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:15:19 +0000

nit: the menu on your portifolio feels drunk.. the last thing i want as user is links skidding away as i try to click them

New comment by flockonus in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"

flockonus — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:11:35 +0000

This post says remote, but then Greenhouse for the manager says it requires to be in NYC.

Would a Canadian candidate be considered?

I was previously manager at several monetization teams at Asana.

New comment by flockonus in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

flockonus — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:57:38 +0000

Anyone who has a mobile phone has been tracked by their phone provider forever, with the accuracy of a couple blocks. Smartphones only bring more trackers to the equation in the form of apps.

What's the material concern to tracking that glasses add?

New comment by flockonus in "Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve?"

flockonus — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:41:40 +0000

Random is a very interesting concept. In relation to nature we seem to use "random" as anything we can't or are currently unable to model.

To call something random doesn't mean it's impossible to model, in fact all sorts of natural facts seemed random one day before being covered by a model. One very relatable example example is the motion of stars in the the night sky, which seemed random for ages, until the Copernican revolution.

The fact we have access to random() function in programming seems to trip many people. random() is a particular model implementation of random, but stuff in nature isn't random().

My point is, using "just random" to do work in any scientific explanation is a clutch.

New comment by flockonus in "Prism"

flockonus — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:37:53 +0000

Curious in terms of trademark, does it could infringe in Vercel's Prisma (very popular ORM / framework in node.js) ?

New comment by flockonus in "JSON-render: LLM-based JSON-to-UI tool"

flockonus — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 05:13:44 +0000

While this is interesting i'd incentivize looking into `yaml` returns for LLMs, it's cheaper in terms of tokens and more closely aligned with direct English / markdown.

New comment by flockonus in "Eat Real Food"

flockonus — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 05:52:00 +0000

Very interesting, if they indeed are after public health and yet don't talk about organic vs. sprayed produce.