Hacker News: formerly_proven

New comment by formerly_proven in "Olo (Color)"

formerly_proven — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:46:37 +0000

This is heroin for the eyes. Once the hit is over you want to take another one and if you don't it'll take ten minutes or so until the "real" world won't feel like a bleached sepia picture any more.

New comment by formerly_proven in "A Preview of DuckDB v2.0"

formerly_proven — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:38:18 +0000

In terms of project trajectory this is also an interesting contrast. DuckDB is "SQLite, but for OLAP".

DuckDB 1.0 was in 2024. DuckDB 2.0 (new API, new storage format, new ...) is in 2026.

SQLite has been 3.x since 2004.

New comment by formerly_proven in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

formerly_proven — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:31:31 +0000

> To all of those proposing self-hosted GitLab: ... it's not always a smooth sailing.

> (we pinned to major afterwards)

I mean OK. But also, if I want a reliable service in my business, I wouldn't typically auto-upgrade docker images nightly to "*".

New comment by formerly_proven in "AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira"

formerly_proven — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:58:17 +0000

> It’s find for actions and workflows as long as you do no interpolation and logic.

How do you specify actions and workflows without interpolation and logic kind sir?

New comment by formerly_proven in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

formerly_proven — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:18:07 +0000

Runs faster on bad hardware.

New comment by formerly_proven in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

formerly_proven — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:59:42 +0000

> I sure hope my boss doesn't think he built my work!

Most managers do though?

New comment by formerly_proven in "HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript"

formerly_proven — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:38:25 +0000

This is only true if the browser is connecting via HTTP/1.1, then you get the six connections per origin limit. Relevant for localhost:8000 though.

New comment by formerly_proven in "Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering"

formerly_proven — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:12:27 +0000

Now there's three of them https://github.com/hashicorp/raft

New comment by formerly_proven in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"

formerly_proven — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:21:03 +0000

If that happens you can still buy hardware later with almost certainly more (tok/s)/$ and better capabilities to run newer models more efficiently (remember native MXFP4?). Right now basically every generation of accelerator is adding new capabilities. These aren't yearly DirectX 9.0c-compatible GPU performance bumps.

As an individual, for average privacy needs (e.g. open source or at-home coding and automation), it's pretty much complete nonsense financially to self-host LLMs currently or select hardware now based on the capability to do so, and pay thousands of bucks extra.

New comment by formerly_proven in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"

formerly_proven — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:46:10 +0000

4K bucks buys you around 180 months of with zero upfront cost.

New comment by formerly_proven in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

formerly_proven — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:02:20 +0000

It's quite telling that the 8B Taalas chip was already reticle-sized on TSMC N6. I mean, we're talking about a process that does ~100 MTr/mm², ROM needs about one transistor per bit, but can probably be packed more densely than general logic. Something like, say, 150 megabit/mm² is not a lot. N6 has a 850 mm² reticle limit. This roughly tracks, the article says the chip has 8B parameters and apparently spends about half the area on ROM. There's a reason AI accelerators just use a ton of silicon area (each HBM3 die is >1000mm² of silicon). I imagine this is not terribly viable unless they make it a lot more space efficient e.g. using MLC ROM if they don't already, or use stacked dies with a ROM-optimized process. And then we're back to not cheap, though reticle chips were never in the cheap area to begin with.

New comment by formerly_proven in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

formerly_proven — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:25:34 +0000

There's a reason you used to have a separate four-pin cable going from the CD drive to the sound card ;)

New comment by formerly_proven in "Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index"

formerly_proven — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:48:18 +0000

> I can't believe how many critical bugs fall through.

Almost like CC is 100% vibe coded.

New comment by formerly_proven in "Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls"

formerly_proven — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:23:10 +0000

> Rovo's URL retrieval tool is insecure: there are no protections against opening a URL that has been dynamically created by the agent. Here, Rovo is manipulated to append sensitive data to an attacker's URL. When Rovo calls the insecure tool to open the URL, the attacker's site logs the request, including the appended sensitive data.

New comment by formerly_proven in "Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone"

formerly_proven — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:39:36 +0000

Except the 499$ of a 1080 GTX inflation-adjusted only buys you a 5070 or 5070 Ti even by MSRP.

New comment by formerly_proven in "Nerd culture is murdering intellectuals"

formerly_proven — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:24:21 +0000

> super heroes or fantasy books/movies and I was never into playing Pokemon or Magic the Gathering. Star Wars didn't appeal to me and neither did Lord Of The Rings nor Narnia nor Harry Potter. I wasn't even that big into video games

Aren’t all of these things mainstream escapism?

New comment by formerly_proven in "I Have Thoughts on the iPhone Air"

formerly_proven — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:19:24 +0000

Not having a second camera is insanity on a smartphone with a four-digit price.

New comment by formerly_proven in "Show HN: XY – A Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated interactive plotting library"

formerly_proven — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:52:09 +0000

There are some niche charting applications which are offloaded to FPGAs and even ASICs.

New comment by formerly_proven in "Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles"

formerly_proven — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:45:19 +0000

The person you are replying to wrote that post.

New comment by formerly_proven in "Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles"

formerly_proven — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:43:54 +0000

Apple Pay even works if the phone/watch battery is "dead"