Hacker News: halyconWays

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.

New comment by halyconWays in "Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)"

halyconWays — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:41:50 +0000

Did they fix being able to select text without a ton of empty spaces across multiple lines, and being able to use the mousewheel as effectively as a non-multiplexed terminal?

New comment by halyconWays in "Goodbye to Sora"

halyconWays — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:06:29 +0000

They need the GPU cycles to help target children to bomb for their new partnership with the US military.

New comment by halyconWays in "We were right about Havana syndrome"

halyconWays — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:02:29 +0000

That should disqualify them from ever being taken seriously on anything. Would you trust water from a well that was once poisoned? Even if you scrubbed every inch with soap and water, wouldn't there still be some residue that you'd rather not ingest? And I don't think people's inner selves can actually be cleaned, nor do they even want to, usually.

New comment by halyconWays in "The dead Internet is not a theory anymore"

halyconWays — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:00:15 +0000

The only place that reminds me of the old Internet is VRChat, funny enough. You're guaranteed to be interacting with a nerdy, culturally similar human who's present in the moment.

New comment by halyconWays in "I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word”"

halyconWays — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:50:56 +0000

Searle's Chinese Room experiment but without knowing what's in the room, and when you try to peek in you just see a cloud of fog and are left to wonder if it's just a guy with that really big dictionary or something more intelligent.

New comment by halyconWays in "Sam Altman responds to Anthropic's "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude" ads"

halyconWays — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 02:11:58 +0000

He's a narcissist and has to defend his ego

New comment by halyconWays in "IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world"

halyconWays — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:33:22 +0000

It's so ingrained in you you don't even consider it a use of ipv4. 192.168.1.x is natural and pretty. ipv6 is a horror show and incompatible with the way that we think and remember things.

"Ah, crap, avahi isn't working, but fortunately I remember that that computer is blablabla.34." The IPv6 equivalent of that is like "fd12:3456:7891::1". Absolute non-starter.

New comment by halyconWays in "IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world"

halyconWays — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:51:30 +0000

IPv6 addresses are ugly and hard to memorize. IPv4 addresses are pretty and easier to memorize. That's about the end of the discussion as to why it's basically a failure.

New comment by halyconWays in "Why users cannot create Issues directly"

halyconWays — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:30:01 +0000

I briefly tried to contribute to a popular AI project (a ChatGPT-like web-based interface) where I found some bugs and reported them as issues, with steps to reproduce. The maintainer closed them and moved them to discussions, which is what he did to any issue he didn't like or personally didn't believe mattered, I guess. Items in Discussions didn't get any attention, nor were follow-ups looked at. One of the issues even involved the total loss of user data on upgrade.

So this makes me think the developer here just doesn't like the idea of issues being reported on his project.

New comment by halyconWays in "UBlockOrigin and UBlacklist AI Blocklist"

halyconWays — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 22:36:48 +0000

Given the political comments in what's supposed to be a filter, and how everything is prefaced with "shit" like "Pinterest shit," I bet the author had a personal political disagreement with those accounts.

The list is also too specific to be useful in some cases, like, is it really important to you that you add 12 entries for specific Amazon products, like: ` duckduckgo.com,bing.com##a[href*="amazon.com/Rabbit-Coloring-Book-Rabbits-Lovers/dp/B0CV43GKGZ"]:upward(li):remove()`?

New comment by halyconWays in "DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]"

halyconWays — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:52:50 +0000

I haven't used GPT-OSS 120B, or other GPT-OSS models, and I mostly go on personal recommendations rather than benchmarks directly.