Hacker News: mips_avatar

New comment by mips_avatar in "Tesla Roadster"

mips_avatar — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:49:23 +0000

It's basically the batmobile from Dark Knight. A small bridge jumper. Still pretty cool

New comment by mips_avatar in "It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360"

mips_avatar — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:44:35 +0000

Do you think that vendors like nvidia will be able to keep their bios proprietary and encrypted? Would be cool if we could enable things like nvlink on consumer cores

New comment by mips_avatar in "Show HN: An offline 0.8B model that ties Gemini Flash on OpenStreetMap questions"

mips_avatar — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:49:04 +0000

Author here: If you want to try it without downloading I set up a huggingface space with the model + environment you can try it for yourself: https://huggingface.co/spaces/topoloop/finch (type any place question; it streams the tool calls and cites what it read)

Show HN: An offline 0.8B model that ties Gemini Flash on OpenStreetMap questions

mips_avatar — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:46:21 +0000

Article URL: https://jonready.com/blog/posts/rl-on-a-0_8b-travel-agent.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090683

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by mips_avatar in "Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment"

mips_avatar — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 03:05:29 +0000

Please don't show this comment to anyone involved in educating me

New comment by mips_avatar in "Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment"

mips_avatar — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:38:28 +0000

It was apparently something derogatory about the profit Muhammad according to other reporting. Though I guess news outlets are skeptical to mention the profit Muhammad.

New comment by mips_avatar in "We Must Pace the Frontier"

mips_avatar — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:58:15 +0000

The problem with being a safety focused AI lab, is you're also a danger focused AI lab. I don't think being danger focused leads you to build inspiring things.

New comment by mips_avatar in "Live map of public transport in Belgium"

mips_avatar — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 23:59:22 +0000

We really need some open source project to manage all the shims across the world. Like in Seattle the WSDOT API has live ferry locations but they never made a GTFS feed for, so i made my own shim for it. I feel like there needs to be some way to make the data access easier for developers.

New comment by mips_avatar in "Previewing the Model Hardware Standard"

mips_avatar — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:16:54 +0000

As far as I can tell is these standards (MCP/MHS/etc) are just semi obvious tool inferfaces that Anthropic uses as training scenarios.

New comment by mips_avatar in "Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30"

mips_avatar — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 01:26:32 +0000

Surprised Amazon managed to fumble mechanical turk at the same time Mercor/Scale and all these other companies started hiring humans to do data labeling tasks.

New comment by mips_avatar in "How Universities Should Prepare Founders"

mips_avatar — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:07:35 +0000

I spent multiple hours every week in various risk management meetings one semester for our drone building student team. There was no risk management done, they just made it clear they would try and expell and sue us if we tested our drone.

New comment by mips_avatar in "vLLM-iOS: 88% Faster Multi-Agent Inference on iOS"

mips_avatar — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:48:15 +0000

Thanks! It was really cool to work a layer deeper in the stack

New comment by mips_avatar in "vLLM-iOS: 88% Faster Multi-Agent Inference on iOS"

mips_avatar — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:47:25 +0000

Direct link to the repo on github: https://github.com/jonready/vllm-ios

vLLM-iOS: 88% Faster Multi-Agent Inference on iOS

mips_avatar — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:47:00 +0000

Article URL: https://jonready.com/blog/posts/continuous-batching-on-an-iphone.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49440382

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

New comment by mips_avatar in "Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online"

mips_avatar — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:55:45 +0000

I wouldn’t include YouTube given how only Google is allowed to index it

New comment by mips_avatar in "Characterizing Agentic Flooding of Government Services"

mips_avatar — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:28:10 +0000

I hope it will force institutions to simplify entitlements. Right now the institutions can pretend like their kafkaesque system is fine because nobody manages to navigate the maze.

New comment by mips_avatar in "Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose"

mips_avatar — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:14:48 +0000

I think the biggest problem with the models is they don’t actually have any decent lookups except chunked document embedding search

New comment by mips_avatar in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

mips_avatar — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:18:47 +0000

Depends on your pcie connection. If they're both x16 then it's pretty low overhead, x8 is ok, but x4 is too slow. Also it's a bit tricky getting an optimal setups with mismatched vram, I think you could probably still make use of the full vram if you're clever but it's trickier.

New comment by mips_avatar in "Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast"

mips_avatar — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:58:26 +0000

Unfortunately AMD bought them, so I don't think we will get to see another release from them.

New comment by mips_avatar in "Qwen3.8-2.4T"

mips_avatar — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:58:06 +0000

Qwen3.5 was awesome: fairly open and fully featured. 3.8 lacking vision, nerfing thinking modes, and low context length feels pointless.