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New comment by karimf in "Show HN: Nari Qwen3-TTS and Qwen3-ASR – High accuracy, low latency and cost"

karimf — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:50:56 +0000

This is awesome. Thanks for pushing the audio pareto frontier forward.

Probably far fetched for now, but I think the next big evolution is building the pareto/much cheaper alternative to GPT-Live-1.

The STT/TTS market is quite saturated, while today, there's almost no cheap/open source alternative to GPT-Live-1.

New comment by karimf in "DeepSeek v4.1 Flash"

karimf — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:36:26 +0000

While this is very impressive benchmark-wise, GPT-6 Astra showed us that benchmarks don't always correlate 1:1 to intelligence of a model.

When Astra launched, I think Artifical Analysis showed that it was on par with GPT-5.6 Sol and lower than Opus or something like that? Then, they updated the scoring.

I hope that more open source models, including this model, to be "as good to use" as Astra.

K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models

karimf — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:36:43 +0000

Article URL: https://ifm.ai/blog/k2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551760

Points: 335

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New comment by karimf in "Show HN: Free Inference Engineer and Model Training Roadmap"

karimf — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:03:40 +0000

I think a curriculum like this is neat and might help with interviews since you go wide and have a checklist of things that you need to learn.

I'm on a totally different path for learning inference engineering. I self-host a voice AI app that has ~2000 monthly active users on my own GPU box.

This forces me to learn about production serving, KV cache, quantization, inference engine, observability and economics, prefill optimization since I'm optimizing for TTFT instead of decode speed, and many more.

It's fun since every optimization you do directly translate to a better user experience or allow you to serve more users using the same hardware.

New comment by karimf in "GLM-5.3 Artificial Analysis Benchmarks"

karimf — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:12:20 +0000

Yes. Please seriously try other models. See relevant thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296740

New comment by karimf in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

karimf — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:42:17 +0000

This 100%. I was Anthropic-pilled. I had a $200/mo subscription and I only used Anthropic models. I was frustrated by the verbose output and the writing style. I tried ASD-STE-100, it helped a bit, but it's still too verbose for my taste.

Then I tried GPT 5.6 Sol. It's night and day.

I think Anthropic just RL too hard on coding capabilities and never calibrated or benchmarked the writing styles.

New comment by karimf in "llama.cpp"

karimf — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:22:14 +0000

Not sure why it's on the front page now, but I highly recommend using llama.cpp for running AI model locally vs using other inference framework, unless you have a very specific requirement.

ggerganov and the team have done a stellar job maintaining the quality while still being fast to implement new models/improvements.

We built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months

karimf — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:36:51 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/continuous-voice-interaction-with-gpt-live/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49256018

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

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

karimf — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:32:19 +0000

Yes, and also waiting for the next iteration of Gemma. Muse or Qwen are optimized for coding, while IMO Gemma is still better for non-coding tasks.

https://x.com/osanseviero/status/2086107547535122767

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

karimf — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:29:52 +0000

Practically ~20GB with KV cache

> We quantize weights to ~4-bit, bringing the LM under 20 GB. We validated minimal to no degradation on agentic tasks under compression.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vkgsum/introdu...

Nvidia NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B – real-time full duplex with tool calling

karimf — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:50:05 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-NemotronLabs-VoiceChat-11B

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163542

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by karimf in "Turn And Face The Strange"

karimf — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:45:12 +0000

Most people are going under identity crisis right now because of recent LLM advancements. This post is a good example that shows that it's not only happening at the individual level, but also on the company/organization level.

Is it still worth building products or companies that can be one-shotted by AI? Probably not.

One interesting consequence is that this force everyone to be more ambitious and do something bigger that's impossible before.

I hope more people are working on something that can always bring net positive to humanity even if there are hundreds of people working on the same thing, like clean energy.

Turn and Face the Strange

karimf — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:14:50 +0000

Article URL: https://fly.io/blog/kurt-scott-money-sprites/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49043871

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by karimf in "Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro"

karimf — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:21:54 +0000

This repo is a good starting point for comparing TTS models https://github.com/5uck1ess/tts-bench

Kokoro is a really good model, considered it’s released 1.5 years ago. It’s punching above its weight https://5uck1ess.github.io/tts-bench/scores.html

Why WebRTC beats WebSockets for realtime voice AI

karimf — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:05:20 +0000

Article URL: https://livekit.com/blog/why-webrtc-beats-websockets-for-voice-ai-agents

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48616386

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by karimf in "1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug"

karimf — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:07:52 +0000

I've been using Zed for a few weeks now and these two are also my main complaints as well.

Unsloth Joins PyTorch Ecosystem

karimf — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:59:53 +0000

Article URL: https://unsloth.ai/blog/pytorch

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095906

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

Denial of Service Vulnerability in React Server Components

karimf — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:09:58 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/facebook/react/security/advisories/GHSA-rv78-f8rc-xrxh

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058448

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by karimf in "Cloudflare Email Service"

karimf — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:17:58 +0000

Oh yeah for sure. At that point, using SES is probably a better option compared to running a VPS just for SMTP. I posted that to let them know that SMTP support is a requirement for some developers.

New comment by karimf in "Cloudflare Email Service"

karimf — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:01:51 +0000

Ok I just tried the service since I want to migrate from Resend.

Seems like you can only send email via the worker or REST API for now?

Can I send via SMTP? I'm using Supabase and it needs the SMTP credentials.

I can't find anything on the dashboard or on the docs, even though last year they said it supports SMTP [0]

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/email-service/