<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: green7ea</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=green7ea</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:29:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=green7ea" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by green7ea in "Gemma 4 on iPhone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It should be easy with a Q4 (quantization to 4 bits per weight) and a smallish context.<p>You won't have much RAM left over though :-/.<p>At Q4, ~20 GiB<p><a href="https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF" rel="nofollow">https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:27:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657598</link><dc:creator>green7ea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657598</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by green7ea in "Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been using opencode and would be curious to try something else. What would recommend for self hosted llms?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:34:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445626</link><dc:creator>green7ea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445626</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by green7ea in "Every single board computer I tested in 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm really curious what will happen to this space when Valve releases great open source drivers for the Qualcomm chip they have in the Steam Frame. It might be one of the first, very powerful, GPU accelerated SoC you can buy that has mainline support.<p>I can image having a very usable ARM linux laptop and tablet as a result of this — maybe even cellphone when the modems get mainlined or used via USB.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:00:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47306456</link><dc:creator>green7ea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47306456</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47306456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by green7ea in "Keep Android Open"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> This will allow you to distribute your creations to a limited number of devices without going through the full verification requirements.<p>How can they count the number of devices you install the app on without being the ones to give a permission to install it?<p>They took nothing back, they are still putting in place the requirement that Google gives permission to install apps on your phone. They are misleading us about it too which is also terrible.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:24:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110455</link><dc:creator>green7ea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110455</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by green7ea in "Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I made a time sync library over local network that had to be more precise than NTP and used i128 to make sure the i64 math I was doing couldn't overflow.<p>I32 didn't cover enough time span and f64 has edge cases from the nature of floats. This was for Windows (MACC not GCC) so I had to roll out my own i128.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 06:38:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46853114</link><dc:creator>green7ea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46853114</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46853114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by green7ea in "The dank case for scrolling window managers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm using niri with two screens at work and it's been very nice. I don't open windows on the side as you suggest but I believe that can be done with custom bindings and/or window rules.</p>
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<p>This is how I also read it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 11:54:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077840</link><dc:creator>green7ea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077840</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by green7ea in "Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> it's still the best OS by a mile<p>I'm not so sure about that, modern Linux is pretty good — I was able to configure it to fit my needs much better than I could a mac. It's also free of dark patterns (looking at Windows).<p>If you're willing and able to configure Linux, I would say that, for some people, it's much better than a mac.</p>
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<p>Wouldn't it be accurate to say that you can no longer install apps on your phone, only Google can?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:56:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45992090</link><dc:creator>green7ea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45992090</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45992090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by green7ea in "Strix Halo's Memory Subsystem: Tackling iGPU Challenges"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Those are very good prices, it's 3700€ in Austria</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:13:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45971395</link><dc:creator>green7ea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45971395</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45971395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by green7ea in "Strix Halo's Memory Subsystem: Tackling iGPU Challenges"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The fan curve also drives me nuts. It seems to be related to the processor's speed so I turn off boost — I don't notice a perf diff for my workloads. The fan noise is much better.<p>echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/boost</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:11:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45971381</link><dc:creator>green7ea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45971381</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45971381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by green7ea in "Strix Halo's Memory Subsystem: Tackling iGPU Challenges"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have one as well and haven't had this problem. I've been using mostly the HP G4 dock and a Dell dock at the office with an occasional use of the charger. I'm running Linux 6.17.8-arch1-1, it could also be fixed in newer kernels. When I play demanding games, it pulls quite a few watts and all the chargers are keeping up.<p>It might be your device that is unlucky, maybe contacting support might help.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:09:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45971359</link><dc:creator>green7ea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45971359</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45971359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by green7ea in "Strix Halo's Memory Subsystem: Tackling iGPU Challenges"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have an HP ZBook g1a ultra in Austria. I've had mine for about 4-5 months and I got the 64gb version because I needed a new laptop and the 128gb wasn't yet available. It should now be widely available everywhere.<p>It's pricey but I have to say it's the best Linux laptop I've used. I'm a Linux user so for me that's as good as it gets :-).<p><a href="https://geizhals.at/hp-zbook-ultra-g1a-v193148.html" rel="nofollow">https://geizhals.at/hp-zbook-ultra-g1a-v193148.html</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:05:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45971314</link><dc:creator>green7ea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45971314</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45971314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by green7ea in "People are using iPad OS features on their iPhones"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had the opposite experience going from a OnePlus 8T stock to Lineage OS. Having root means being able to reduce the amount of apps and wake up — no google play service was the key. This was a while ago but I went from 1-2 days of battery life to about 4-5 days. This is with light use, screen on time was equally draining with both setups.<p>I would assume that an iPhone has similar amounts of unwanted background apps and would also be able to gain battery life instead of losing it if rooted. Obviously if you install spyware, you lose a lot of battery life. Funnily enough, I remember that a few years ago, people were surprised to find that uninstalling facebook increased battery life because it behaved much like spyware.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:07:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45957668</link><dc:creator>green7ea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45957668</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45957668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by green7ea in "Evaluating the Infinity Cache in AMD Strix Halo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not the AI expert in the company but one of my colleagues creates image segmentation models for our specific use case. I've been able to run the PyTorch training code on my computer without any issues. These are smaller models that are destined to run on Jetson boards so they're limited compared to larger LLMs.<p>edit: just to be clear, I can't train anything competitive with even the smallest LLMs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:39:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45668150</link><dc:creator>green7ea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45668150</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45668150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by green7ea in "Evaluating the Infinity Cache in AMD Strix Halo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have a Strix Halo based HP ZBook G1A and it's been pretty easy getting local models to run on it. Training small LLMs on it has been a bit harder but doable as well. Mind you, I 'only' have 64 GB with mine.<p>Under Linux, getting LM Studio to work using the Vulkan backend was trivial. Llama.cpp was a bit more involved. ROCm worked surprisingly well with Arch — I would credit the package maintainers. The only hard part was sorting out Python packaging for PyTorch (use local packages with system's ROCm).<p>I wouldn't say it's perfect but it's definitely not as bad as it used to be. I think the biggest downside is the difference in environment when you use this as a dev machine and then run the models on NVIDIA hardware for prod.</p>
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<p>I also have one with 64gb — best laptop I've ever used :-). I have the same regret of not waiting for the 128gb version to be available before buying.</p>
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<p>The HP zbook g1a ultra is as close as you can get with Strix Halo. There are two screen options and the OLED one is high resolution. It's Ubuntu certified as well and can run LLMs nicely. The keyboard, trackpad, etc are all to notch. It's somewhere in between a mac pro and max.<p>I have one and love it but it's not close to my wife's mac on battery life.</p>
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<p>Sure, I can chime in. I've been using emacs for about 18 years with meow for the last 4 or 5. I have the caps lock as control switch for about 10 years so it's not about that for me.<p>I still edit with chords in insert mode but meow enables me to take actions on a variety of subjects more easily (current string, until start of scope, until the next 2 -, next 5 words).<p>I had a few packages to do similar things before (expand-region) but none of them clicked like meow did.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 07:57:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45230201</link><dc:creator>green7ea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45230201</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45230201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by green7ea in "Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This 1000x.<p>I was working in Europe for a big American company, which will remain nameless, and they started shutting down most, if not all, of their European operations.<p>A change in the US tax code made software development amortize over 5 years in the US and over 15 years overseas. It was later changed instant deduction in the US but still 15 years for overseas. It no longer makes sense to outsource software development in many cases.</p>
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