Hacker News: kcb

New comment by kcb in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

kcb — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:13:16 +0000

The point is metric shit-tons of SRAM is still large amounts of expensive memory.

New comment by kcb in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

kcb — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:17:24 +0000

There's no magic bullet for inference on cheap accelerators. Any accelerator will still require large amounts of high bandwidth memory.

New comment by kcb in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

kcb — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:11:34 +0000

Elon Musk has been failing any minute now since like what? 2015

New comment by kcb in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

kcb — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:44:53 +0000

This reads a lot like "the way I choose to live is the best and everyone else is sad." Anyone in a dense suburb is getting all the fresh food they want from a choice of 6 different grocery stores. And it's silly to complain about suburbs being crowded in comparison to cities.

New comment by kcb in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

kcb — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:08:26 +0000

Nonsense, Apple has on package memory and the primary reason for that is overall packaging and layout not performance

New comment by kcb in "Amazon won't release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore"

kcb — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:54:29 +0000

We can't let people install the applications they choose because my grandma. Is a pretty prevailing opinion

New comment by kcb in "US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification"

kcb — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:17:32 +0000

You can just configure the device to not give the child the ability to download apps without approval.

New comment by kcb in "US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification"

kcb — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:15:45 +0000

There's already like 17 different parental control solutions out there for every device platform. You can and should use one and don't let your kid go to any website or use any specific app without your approval first.

New comment by kcb in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

kcb — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:45:04 +0000

In a few months Google will automatically deploy new software on our devices. This will be for our benefit and to help protect us.

If you still want to sideload dangerous unnaproved applications, first just ask Google for permission and then a day later they'll let you sideload applications to your device. I'm so grateful that they are allowing us to do this and protecting us.

New comment by kcb in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

kcb — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:43:54 +0000

There are countless games on the store that let you kill endless hordes of humans in detail...

New comment by kcb in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

kcb — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:24:02 +0000

That's why we all still use our e machines its never obsolete PCs. Works just the same it did 20 years ago, though probably not because I've never heard of hardware that's guaranteed not to fail.

New comment by kcb in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

kcb — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:18:44 +0000

My point is LLMs aren't more usable if the hardware is in your room versus a few states away. Personal computers still to this day aren't great when the hardware is fully remote.

New comment by kcb in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

kcb — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:55:05 +0000

The difference is computers post text terminal are latency and throughput dependent to the user. LLMs are not particularly.

New comment by kcb in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

kcb — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:18:00 +0000

That's 4 32GB GPUs with 600GB/s bw each. This model is not running on that scale GPUs. I think something like 96GB RTX PRO 6000 Blackwells would be the minimum to run a model of this size with performance in the range of subscription models.

New comment by kcb in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

kcb — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:10:55 +0000

Exactly the point though. In the 640KB days there was no subscription to ever increasing compute resources as an alternative.

New comment by kcb in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

kcb — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:06:44 +0000

Subscription services get all the same benefits from computer hardware getting better. But actually due to scale, batching, resource utilization, they'll always be able to take more advantage of that.

New comment by kcb in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

kcb — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:05:34 +0000

The 4-bit quants are 350GB, what hardware are you talking about?

New comment by kcb in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

kcb — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:56:10 +0000

What benefit is there to dropping $50k on GPUs to run this personally besides being a cool enthusiast project?

New comment by kcb in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

kcb — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:49:46 +0000

Nemotron 3 Super was released recently. That's a direct competitor to gpt-oss-120b. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/introducing-nemotron-3-sup...

New comment by kcb in "Android Developer Verification"

kcb — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:41:36 +0000

Victory is my device and its OS working the same way it always worked and the way it worked when I bought it.