Hacker News: mrfinn

New comment by mrfinn in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

mrfinn — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:26:13 +0000

The "right to copy" is a made up concept. Just sayin'...

New comment by mrfinn in "What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds Beyond Ours"

mrfinn — Wed, 28 May 2025 21:15:34 +0000

we would be elephants or whales? (sorry couldn't resist)

New comment by mrfinn in "Gonzalo Guerrero"

mrfinn — Sun, 11 May 2025 17:52:08 +0000

Loyalty is one of the strongest qualities of Spaniards. Or curses. Depends on the occasion I guess. But the saying "ser más papista que el papa" (to be more pro-pope than the pope himself) is not said by chance in Spain.

New comment by mrfinn in "CSS Zen Garden"

mrfinn — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 07:54:37 +0000

In the age of spaghetti-mixed Web Components, remember kids you can still be good with yourselves and properly split your Web Apps into individual CSS, JS, and HTML templates files, even going framework-less.

Keep the Zen Torch on.

New comment by mrfinn in "Male octopus injects female with venom during sex to avoid being eaten"

mrfinn — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 16:21:25 +0000

If? never been married, right? PS. You may think of your credit card as your "venom", so you won't get eat alive in a divorce process lol

New comment by mrfinn in "AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU"

mrfinn — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 12:08:04 +0000

Hope this law doesn't become into a peasant-trap. But my gut is telling me that... that's exactly what it is. ("This and that is forbidden EXCEPT to us because blah blah blah")

New comment by mrfinn in "The smallest Hello World program"

mrfinn — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 10:06:01 +0000

Great example, a two bytes reboot utility. From the times when we could turn off the computer with a push of a button without fearing a global catastrophe...

New comment by mrfinn in "The smallest Hello World program"

mrfinn — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 21:44:48 +0000

INT 13h... uff chills

New comment by mrfinn in "The smallest Hello World program"

mrfinn — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 20:22:37 +0000

These challenges are funny - they remind me of the old days. Back in the DOS/Windows days, we used to have the .com format, which was perfect for tiny programs. One could even write a program of less than 10 bytes that could actually do something!

We've come a long way since then, and is like, at some point, nobody cared about optimizing executable size anymore

New comment by mrfinn in "We fine-tuned Llama and got 4.2x Sonnet 3.5 accuracy for code generation"

mrfinn — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 13:06:51 +0000

2023: Our tiny model blah blah blah beats GPT4!

2024: Our tiny model blah blah blah beats Claude!

2025: Our tiny model blah blah blah beats ???

New comment by mrfinn in "How close is AI to human-level intelligence?"

mrfinn — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:22:37 +0000

We are not in control either of the nukeclear power which is available for quite a few nations, since a lot of decades now, as well. Soo... c'mon cheer up most probably is some kind of simulation anyway.

New comment by mrfinn in "1/0 = 0 (2018)"

mrfinn — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 09:32:48 +0000

Disagreed. 1/0 should be infinity, and computers should be able to handle these concepts. Just look into what is 1/0.00000000000[etc]1. And no is not an error, you find out with a very real and tangible example, when you are developing a 3D engine and you want to make the camera to look at vector [ 0, 0, 0 ]. Quick resume: You can't, you need to force add a slight displacement so you can skip this silly error.

New comment by mrfinn in "Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub"

mrfinn — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:53:03 +0000

Yet another chapter of Nintendo's wrath against the people? How long the world is going to be dominated by absurd copy(made up)right laws?

PS. Even if that wouldn't be the case here, my POV stands. Current copy(made up)right laws don't even make tiny-little sense nowadays. FREEDOM NOW FOR HUMAN KNOWLEDGE once for all FGS.

New comment by mrfinn in "Web components are okay"

mrfinn — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:22:54 +0000

How can it be possible that we are in 2024 a no one seems to be proposing the most obvious improvement to the web, which is to create a new standard designed for web applications and let the HTML alone serving it's original purpose, which was to serve documents? (H*T*ML the T goes for "TEXT"!). Instead of that, and make things complex and unmanageable to the extreme, to "improve" things now we dropped out completely the MVC philosophy and went completely ahead with an spaghetti mess of Javascript, HTML, CSS, and create-your-desired-tags-at-will everywhere, aka Components.

PS. And not even mentioning Madnesscript which deserves another chapter in this story of horror.

New comment by mrfinn in "Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models"

mrfinn — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:48:34 +0000

Pity, it's over. We'll never ever be able to download those ten gigabytes files, at the other side of the fence.

New comment by mrfinn in "Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops"

mrfinn — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 14:12:58 +0000

It's kinda funny how nowadays an AI with 8 billion parameters is something "small". Specially when just two years back entire racks were needed to run something giving way worst performance.

New comment by mrfinn in "g1: Using Llama-3.1 70B on Groq to create o1-like reasoning chains"

mrfinn — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 04:13:49 +0000

I did something similar and to my surprise effectively made the LLM in my tests admit when they don't know something. Not always but worked sometimes. I don't prompt "don't hallucinate" but "admit when you don't know something". It's a logical thing in the other hand, many prompts just transmit the idea of being "helpful" or "powerful" to the LLMs without any counterweight idea. So the LLM tries to say something "helpful" in any case.

New comment by mrfinn in "Installing Arch Linux on a Laptop"

mrfinn — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 21:15:11 +0000

I followed a very similar process a couple of years ago (time flies!) and I'm very happy with the results. I'm not even using Arch but Artix Linux but the system runs very smoothly, almost not a single problem updating in years, using all kinds of cutting edge software which is amazing.

On top of what the article mentioned a few tips:

- To achieve really good battery duration I installed powertop (which I run on every boot for auto-adjustment) and thermald which does a great job with Intel CPUs.

- Suspension issues are common, in many cases often was about different part of the system overlapping. I ended up disabling hibernation which I never use anyway, but suspending after closing the lid for me is a must in a laptop.

- Fusuma or something similar is also a must to take advantage of the touchpad.

- Yet another gem, fprintd was a GREAT discovery. First time I autorized a sudo with my finger I couldn't help it but have a big laugh.

PS. Bonus point: This is the second NVidia Optimus laptop that I own and even if Optimus support has gone a long way and now it almost works perfectly out of the box to achieve a really good performance eg in videogames, I use a script to switch between an Nvidia only mode or an Optimus mixed mode.

New comment by mrfinn in "Porting systemd to musl Libc-powered Linux"

mrfinn — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 16:57:20 +0000

If you are trying to convince me that systemd happened out of the creativity of Mr. Poettering and Red Hat just followed him... well I have to say I don't believe that. But anyway, for me it really doesn't matter. It's the beauty of free software.

New comment by mrfinn in "Porting systemd to musl Libc-powered Linux"

mrfinn — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 10:51:27 +0000

Yes, it's massively sponsored as well. So it went heavily imposed almost everywhere even when a quite big chunk of the Linux community deeply disagreed about the imposition.