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New comment by metadat in "Qwen3.8-27B at 256K on a 24GB RTX PRO 4000 SFF (432 GB/s): 50 tok/s with MTP"

metadat — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:43:02 +0000

The article mentions Q4, Q5, Q8, and NVFP4. It's total AI slop though, tough read.

In my testing I got 150 tokens/sec with a single 5090 RTX.

New comment by metadat in "Corgi kills short-lived website that ranked its female employees"

metadat — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 02:49:32 +0000

If corgi distances the company from this, is it a net positive from a PR perspective? I’d never heard of or thought a second about Corgi until now.

New comment by metadat in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

metadat — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:32:45 +0000

You may be able to run a quantized version. One strategy I've found effective is to set Claude or Codex loose on the problem and they'll do a decent job setting up the best possible model revision.

New comment by metadat in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

metadat — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:34:11 +0000

How can you say this when you haven't even tried it yet? Is it just hypothetical vibes?

Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women's employment than a degree

metadat — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:02:34 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/healthcare/articles/harvard-study-links-glp-1-123000637.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245487

Points: 131

# Comments: 196

New comment by metadat in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

metadat — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:18:17 +0000

I still miss Battlefield 2. There is really nothing like it today, not even close. The dynamics with squads and a commander and A+ physics and overall game balance remain unmatched for all FPS games.

Fortnite, PUBG, COD, all are disgraceful in comparison.

New comment by metadat in "The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded"

metadat — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:40:04 +0000

What does this have to do with installing packages?

New comment by metadat in "The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded"

metadat — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:23:31 +0000

What is PAM in this context?

New comment by metadat in "Assembly Hall of Shame"

metadat — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:32:34 +0000

Does responsiveness get better or worse with updates, in general?

New comment by metadat in "Assembly Hall of Shame"

metadat — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:47:58 +0000

It’s crazy how computers still seem to get perceivably slow every few years, given how many instructions can be executed in 1ms. Shameful, even..

What’s that law called about programmers wasting all the compute on abstraction?

New comment by metadat in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"

metadat — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:17:40 +0000

Source?

New comment by metadat in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

metadat — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:36:54 +0000

What would tokens/sec performance look like for a reasoning model? An order of magnitude slower?

New comment by metadat in "Zapscape (CVE-2026-64561): Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86"

metadat — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:50:41 +0000

Do most cloud providers have live-migration or what is the approach to make this seamless? What kind of interruption might tenants notice?

New comment by metadat in "Building an Advanced Agentic Harness"

metadat — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:16:25 +0000

Check out https://github.com/strongdm/attractor along with the community implementations at https://factory.strongdm.ai/products/attractor#community.

Firstmate: Talk to one agent. Ship with a crew

metadat — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:27:53 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kunchenguid/firstmate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112250

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by metadat in "Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9"

metadat — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:47:54 +0000

That is an amazing story. I grew up with a weak performa 560 and was constantly browsing the aisles at Fry’s Electronics looking for games. None of them supported Mac, especially 25MHz 68k!

New comment by metadat in "Should you wash your solar panels?"

metadat — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:56:16 +0000

On tall roofs there tends to not be much dust.

New comment by metadat in "OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line"

metadat — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:01:29 +0000

CoreWeave and Lambda have both raised absurd amounts of money, in the form of bank loans.

New comment by metadat in "OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line"

metadat — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:50:23 +0000

Source? This is gold.

New comment by metadat in "git's –end-of-options Flag"

metadat — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 04:26:42 +0000

Does anyone know why git broke the long standing convention of "--" early on? Kind of a nightmare for humans to use.

Remembering app-specific one-offs is kind of the worst!