Hacker News: halyconWays

New comment by halyconWays in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"

halyconWays — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 02:48:06 +0000

You mean to tell me it's been 10 hours and there's no unsloth quant? I've been running 0731 and love it.

New comment by halyconWays in "Pixel Watch 5"

halyconWays — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:59:10 +0000

WearOS watches are trash for me personally as they all require you to run Google Play Services on your phone, which I won't do. The only smartwatch I've had luck with is the Garmin series (Venu, Fenix), and since I really only wear a smartwatch when exercising, it's perfect for me. I find myself happier when I go with an analog watch, and all the notifications I get are never so important that I need to check them the second they come in.

New comment by halyconWays in "llama.cpp"

halyconWays — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:01:32 +0000

llama.cpp is like the ffmepg of AI, and one of the reasons I so greatly dislike ollama is that the latter completely obfuscates that they're a rebrand of the former. Georgi Gerganov and team did all the hard work; ollama is langchain-like VC-bait with a HF download wrapper.

New comment by halyconWays in "Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app"

halyconWays — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:27:16 +0000

The only promising social network to me was that browser extension that let you comment on every single page, but it was shut down when people freaked out that it (obviously) sent the URL of every page you visited to their servers. I've wanted something like that for so long. There just isn't enough thread-based discussion happening online. It's all buried in what are essentially darkweb chatrooms (unindexed Discord chats)

New comment by halyconWays in "An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold"

halyconWays — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:32:25 +0000

You don't need trade routes to invent latrines and garbage cans. European exploitation doesn't create a caste system where it's seen as beneath you to do the most basic of socially hygenic tasks. Obviously there's something more going on

New comment by halyconWays in "Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity"

halyconWays — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:44:02 +0000

Electricity exists to be used, and we have essentially infinite free energy from nuclear power. Why are we wringing our hands pretending like we're going to run out of electrons? The days of hauling and burning ancient organic material to generate power should be over, and all these guilt-based arguments fallaciously require you to accept that as a premise.

New comment by halyconWays in "The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online"

halyconWays — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:48:33 +0000

More info on AIPAC endorsements:

Guthrie (4th out of 7): $42k https://www.trackaipac.com/states/kentucky

Pallone (7th out of 10): $241k https://www.trackaipac.com/states/newjersey

New comment by halyconWays in "GLM 5.2 vs. Opus"

halyconWays — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:37:22 +0000

"We did multi-shot prompting to try and get these two games into comparable states using these two different models."

"Well obviously you provided better follow-up prompts to the one that came out better."

Also nothing about human-provided plan files and guardrails preclude the one-shot benchmark test. Heavens, I almost said "real coding," but in "real agentic program creation" you'd obviously be doing multi-turn interaction with the agent, but how can you provide a fair test when the model's output n determines your n+1 response?

New comment by halyconWays in "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"

halyconWays — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:39:52 +0000

Long thread but I highly recommend this game. It scratched the itch I had for TA. Well, for everything but that amazing soundtrack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxAdOQtAFEs&list=RDBxAdOQtAF...

New comment by halyconWays in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

halyconWays — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:38:37 +0000

>Click

>Read top link

>It's some garbage about white supremacy

>Read second link

>It's a Hacker News story about Linux

>Same for the next three links

>Read sixth link

>More garbage about white supremacy and how Trump bad

>Close site and don't bother to remember its name

This isn't normal and this isn't how the Internet used to be

New comment by halyconWays in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

halyconWays — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:48:55 +0000

So the US government wants Anthropic to require IDs from their users, driving them to over platforms, but won't require this from OpenAI?

New comment by halyconWays in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

halyconWays — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:01:42 +0000

>Raspberry Pi are working the issue by releasing new memory variants that are cheaper[2]

Raspberry Pi are working on the issue but letting you spend the same amount of money per GB, for fewer GB.

New comment by halyconWays in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

halyconWays — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:36:31 +0000

>How could the maintainers understand their codebase if most of it was not directly written by them?

Counterpoint: I look back at code I wrote a few years ago and just take it on faith that I knew what I was doing at some point. That's still better than never knowing, but it requires faith--faith in a human, vs. faith in an LLM.

New comment by halyconWays in "Stable Audio 3"

halyconWays — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:45:16 +0000

How I yearn for an open source alternative to Suno.AI, and something that can create super niche sound effects. This feels like Suno 1.0 levels of quality but maybe it can get there?

New comment by halyconWays in "What's in a GGUF, besides the weights – and what's still missing?"

halyconWays — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:42:09 +0000

Stealing code and credit (and being unrepentant) is actually what gets you into situations like that one. I read your document and you still seem to think you're a victim.

Also I must've been mistaken about you having been unbanned from llama.cpp, as I'm sure you're aware that being so brazen and unrepentant about your plagiarism and victimization of another developer would have risked your access once again. It's a shame you've not grown as an open source contributor

New comment by halyconWays in "What's in a GGUF, besides the weights – and what's still missing?"

halyconWays — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:50:53 +0000

I recall reading it and you mischaracterize and conflate the core issues with accusations of hate and mean words, which is an inappropriate deflection and an attempt to control the narrative. The core issues were always plagiarism, misrepresentation of another user's work, refusal to give proper credit to the real author, and you bragging about it when you thought you could get away with it with quotes like "great artists steal." You never took accountability nor grasped the seriousness of what you attempted to do. You don't seem to understand WHY you faced blowback. You never expressed regret that the person you were victimizing was deeply depressed and pushed moreso by your betrayal. It's always "me, me, me." Your behavior and response is toxic.

New comment by halyconWays in "What's in a GGUF, besides the weights – and what's still missing?"

halyconWays — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:04:07 +0000

Fun lore, GGUFs were once called GGJTs until I caught the "JT" (Justine Tunney) stealing the memory map code from a user who did 99% of the work in a draft PR (slaren) and lying about it, and misrepresenting or not understanding how memory map worked. She wanted her initials in the file format for bragging rights because it was claimed that it caused 90% memory reduction (actually it was just lazy loading into memory). Gerganov was quite angry when he found out what happened. Jart (JT) was then banned from the llama.cpp repo but managed to get back in a year or so later.

New comment by halyconWays in "AI slop is killing online communities"

halyconWays — Wed, 13 May 2026 04:02:01 +0000

What?

New comment by halyconWays in "Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model"

halyconWays — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:26:13 +0000

I assume this would only be useful as the second stage after a model like Whisper, as it can't understand speech where you'd want it, like on a phone or small device?

New comment by halyconWays in "AI slop is killing online communities"

halyconWays — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:12:40 +0000

What online communities? Ever since Reddit went all-in on censorship, actual conversation moved to the deep web, mainly on Discord and other places invisible to search engines.