Hacker News: marci

New comment by marci in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

marci — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:25:59 +0000

https://xcancel.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2084100707423289643#...

New comment by marci in "What if LLMs escape through inferences itself? This is fiction. For now"

marci — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:23:32 +0000

Makes me wonnder... how much compute/storage there's in all the satellites currently in LEO combined.

New comment by marci in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

marci — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:29:16 +0000

This was a preview release. They haven't finish training. The Pro contains more knowledge but it probably takes longer training than flash for the smarts to kick in.

New comment by marci in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"

marci — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:57:17 +0000

  "That’s where EMO comes in.

  We show that EMO – a 1B-active, 14B-total-parameter (8-expert active, 128-expert total) MoE trained on 1 trillion tokens – supports selective expert use: for a given task or domain, we can use only a small subset of experts (just 12.5% of total experts) while retaining near full-model performance."

https://allenai.org/blog/emo

New comment by marci in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"

marci — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:54:09 +0000

But with Apple's AFM 3 architecture, we might end up with huge SOTA adjacent on devices with limited RAM.

They use a technique where you only load between 1B and 4B of a 20B dense model for an entire prompt run, not token by token like a MoE, and use mostly the low power ANE instead of GPU cores.

Now, imagine if/when they scale up to 100B or more? On a chip using 2W?

New comment by marci in "I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models"

marci — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:53:06 +0000

Don't worry. Most people spend most of their compute time on a phone, where you're ability to filter ads is way more enshitified.

New comment by marci in "Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up"

marci — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:16:37 +0000

I wonder where's the line between using a font and copyright/trademark infringement.

New comment by marci in "A few words on DS4"

marci — Fri, 15 May 2026 06:56:51 +0000

"That’s where EMO comes in.

We show that EMO – a 1B-active, 14B-total-parameter (8-expert active, 128-expert total) MoE trained on 1 trillion tokens – supports selective expert use: for a given task or domain, we can use only a small subset of experts (just 12.5% of total experts) while retaining near full-model performance."

https://allenai.org/blog/emo

New comment by marci in "DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal"

marci — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:25:34 +0000

Did they modify their post? I can't see who claimed that consumer hardware will be able to build most things?

New comment by marci in "Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar"

marci — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:17:15 +0000

when you sign an app with your personal dev account.

New comment by marci in "The road signs that teach travellers about France"

marci — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:01:28 +0000

That's just a regular rounndabout.

I thought you were talking about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OGvj7GZSIo

New comment by marci in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

marci — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:17:32 +0000

Also everything from scratch by allen.ai.

Weights, datasets, code, multiple checkpoints...

I like their FlexOlmo concept.

New comment by marci in "Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg"

marci — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:58:11 +0000

I think it's mostly because most cpus that can run a gpu already have parts dedicated as h264 encoder, way more efficient energy wise and speed wise.

New comment by marci in "Something is afoot in the land of Qwen"

marci — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:49:22 +0000

Unfortunately, the most extreme is that it's the new normal that now, there's >0 chance that someone, whether they are a US citizen or not apparently, child or adult, can end up in a camp, with no due process.

New comment by marci in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

marci — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:45:04 +0000

Imagine, a llm trained on the best thrillers, spy stories, politics, history, manipulation techniques, psychology, sociology, sci-fi... I wonder where it got the idea for deception?

New comment by marci in "Qwen3-Coder-Next"

marci — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:45:34 +0000

Their issue with the mac was the sound of fans spinning. I doubt a dedicated gpu will resolved that.

New comment by marci in "Two Concepts of Intelligence"

marci — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:30:34 +0000

"finetune"

Not

"Train from scratch"

New comment by marci in "Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees"

marci — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:22:35 +0000

It is so, so long... I barely reached the middle before my brain just "Nope."

They are talking about this kind of battery replacement: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Fairphone+3+Battery+Replacement... . The "TV remote" battery replacement kind.

New comment by marci in "Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees"

marci — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:57:08 +0000

If your family members ever had to mount an ikea furniture or equivalent, they'll probably have an as easy or easier time replacing a part on a fairphone. Especially for the battery. At least for version 3 and older. I don't know for later models. If you know how to swap batteries in a tv remote, you know how on this phone.

New comment by marci in "Street-Fighting Mathematics (2008)"

marci — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:15:13 +0000

This is the draft, not the current version.

edit: and for the current unfortunately there's only a dead dropbox link.