Hacker News: marci

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.

New comment by marci in "How AI labs are solving the power problem"

marci — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:48:44 +0000

When they bothered compensating, it was far from market value, so no.

New comment by marci in "How AI labs are solving the power problem"

marci — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:19:53 +0000

It makes more sense to word it like this when you take into consideration historical trends, like drowned towns for lakes or dams, highway system along redline, thriving neighbourhoods erased to create parks… often preceded by violence and little to no compensation.

New comment by marci in "History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts"

marci — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:19:23 +0000

In other words, sometimes, things happen in reality that, if you were to read it in a fictional story or see in a movie, you would think they were major plot holes.

New comment by marci in "Running Unsupported iOS on Deprecated Devices"

marci — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 04:10:44 +0000

Thinpkad owners/modders, probably.

New comment by marci in "Build your own database"

marci — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 07:20:05 +0000

Any repo? even if not production ready. I'm curious about how you approached replication, compared to mnesia or couchdb, especially now that erlang natively supports json.

New comment by marci in "What do we do if SETI is successful?"

marci — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 07:06:44 +0000

How can something be universal and not universal at the same time?

New comment by marci in "Thieves steal crown jewels in 4 minutes from Louvre Museum"

marci — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:52:18 +0000

It’s already the case.

New comment by marci in "Qwen3-VL"

marci — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:28:57 +0000

My precedent post should have answered this question. But since it didn't, I think I'm ill equipped to answer you in a satisfactory fashion, I would just be repeating myself.

New comment by marci in "Qwen3-VL"

marci — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 20:16:09 +0000

it's sometimes not really a matter of which one is better but which one fits best.

For example many have switched to qwen3 models but some still vastly prefer the reasoning and output of QwQ (a qwen2.5 model).

And the difference between them: those with "plus" are closed weight, you can only access them through their api. The others are open-weight, so if they fit your use case, and if ever the want or need arise, you can download them, use them, even fine-tune them locally, even if qwen don't offer access to them any more.