Hacker News: metadat

New comment by metadat in "Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly Report GLP-1 Signals of Slowed Biological Aging at ARDD"

metadat — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 03:12:29 +0000

Why mention your info site without providing a link? It's a little frustrating to read comments like this. Thank you.

New comment by metadat in "New 'super ice' 10 times stronger, bringing it close to the strength of concrete"

metadat — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:19:59 +0000

Mythbusters busted ice bullets. IIRC, the ice didn’t tolerate being shot out of a barrel and disintegrated.

New comment by metadat in "Phloem: Git history grown like a slime mold"

metadat — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:52:30 +0000

Blocked for me too. If you want to hear it open a a phloem repo url and click play in the lower right corner.

e.g. https://phloem.stemdeck.app/?repo=kubernetes/kubernetes&t=1

The CEO's of Broadcom and Intel Say the Quiet Part Out Loud about AI and ROI

metadat — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:05:07 +0000

Article URL: https://wolfstreet.com/2026/10/12/ceos-of-broadcom-intel-say-the-quiet-part-out-loud-about-ai-and-roi/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063707

Points: 35

# Comments: 8

Fall To One (Math Song) [video]

metadat — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:02:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9juhm97co1U

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049978

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by metadat in "Windows 11½"

metadat — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:28:14 +0000

Win XP was peak computing for the masses, and most didn’t have a clue!

TempleOS in 100 Seconds [video]

metadat — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:53:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7gf5M04hdg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49811791

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by metadat in "Eating Fruit Skins"

metadat — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:30:41 +0000

It depends on the variety, some kiwi skins are tick and hairy, while others exteriors are thin and smooth.

New comment by metadat in "No Man's Sky Cosmos"

metadat — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:27:53 +0000

Totally agree. But I'm still wondering why was Escape Velocity so fun yet NMS is a nothing burger? They are very similar, except EV was goofier.

New comment by metadat in "Muse Spark 1.3"

metadat — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:49:44 +0000

It's more like Anthropic present themselves in a deceptive way. I was confused at first too until someone on HN clued me in!

Humans naturally want SOMEONE to be the good guy! Sad story, in this instance.

New comment by metadat in "Show HN: Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s"

metadat — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:03:25 +0000

Nice.. and how many toks/sec?

New comment by metadat in "GLM-5.3-Flash"

metadat — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:31:13 +0000

Qwen 3.8 27B is around Opus 4.8 level of capability on the Agentic Intelligence Index (52 vs 57). In my testing the locally hosted Qwen is good enough that looking at a given piece of work output I couldn't tell you which model was behind it.

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/qwen3-8-27b?models=gpt-...

Nvidia's Groq 3 LPX accelerator enters full production at 3,500 tokens/SEC

metadat — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:13:02 +0000

Article URL: https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/24/nvidias-dedicated-inference-accelerator-groq-3-lpx-enters-full-production-to-supercharge-ai-agents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437347

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by metadat in "The entire city of San Francisco as a video game"

metadat — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:49:14 +0000

I checked some obscure buildings and I found every one of them in-game, but you're correct that it's not 1:1 topographically.

New comment by metadat in "The entire city of San Francisco as a video game"

metadat — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:05:52 +0000

That was actually Watchdogs 2. Great game, basically GTA but you are a hacker in the Bay Area. The SF portion of the map was accurate down to every building.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_Dogs_2

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbDzFt...

New comment by metadat in "Generic Methods in Go 1.27"

metadat — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:07:25 +0000

Yes, though it's non-idiomatic and in my experience, rare to encounter in the wild for anything you'd actually want to use.

New comment by metadat in "Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit"

metadat — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:14:15 +0000

$1,200, wow that is pricey!

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.