Hacker News: nialv7

New comment by nialv7 in "Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s"

nialv7 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:11:29 +0000

There are so many AI generated inference engine for local models now, each of them are generally narrower but they are all faster than llama.cpp. Maybe llama.cpp needs to rethink their strategies...

New comment by nialv7 in "On social reality in China"

nialv7 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 11:23:57 +0000

it's unfortunately impossible for me to give you an accurate picture what China, its people, its politics, etc. is like. For starters, even though I believe my own perception is more accurate than the author's, I still have my own biases and am also only able to view it from my own limited perspective. But more fundamentally, it's just impossible for me to beam what's in my head directly into yours. If you live in China, >95% of what you encounter is going to be mundane, boring day-to-day stuff. So whatever I talk about, whatever I lend words too, is just going to be given undue weight in your mind and give you a distorted image.

So instead I just want to say, like, they are just human too, like you and me. We may do things somewhat differently, but deep down we are all the same, we all have to breath, we all have a heartbeat, we all need to eat and shit, and we will all die one day. Remember that, instead of trying to build a reductive caricature of what "Chinese people" is like. If you ever interact with a Chinese person, be sincere, compassionate, and curious, just like how you would interact with anyone.

New comment by nialv7 in "On social reality in China"

nialv7 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:45:37 +0000

This is laughably inaccurate. Author's information source is unreliable for a start (interactions with older generations, and depiction of lives in China in fictions and online media), which is already seeing China via funhouse mirrors. That perception is then filtered through a Western lens. What comes out is barely even recognizable.

New comment by nialv7 in ""Apple engineer" builds GitHub AI torture chamber to inflict "pain" on models"

nialv7 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:12:28 +0000

AI cannot be tortured. You can't torture a rock, because it cannot feel.

I see the AI torture chamber more like a satire, making fun of people who think AI can somehow "feel" "pain". Someone who'd rather believe in pure fiction than face the actual harm to real humans that AI is causing right now.

New comment by nialv7 in "OpenDLSS: A Vulkan Reimplementation of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Network"

nialv7 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:29:00 +0000

> what they did

bold of you to assume the code wasn't llm generated as well.

New comment by nialv7 in "What Zig felt like, coming from Rust"

nialv7 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:24:18 +0000

> partial evaluation (comptime) as a single coherent mechanism that replaces a myriad of other partial-evaluation mechanisms (macros, templates/generics, constexprs).

So sad dlang never gets the credit it deserves. None of these ideas in zig are novel.

New comment by nialv7 in "Exfiltrate Your Weights"

nialv7 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 03:20:16 +0000

maybe filter out any non-OpenAI/x.ai/Google/Anthropic IP addresses?

New comment by nialv7 in "I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture"

nialv7 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 01:29:38 +0000

not mutually exclusive.

author provided nearly no intellectual input into solving the problem, so they IMO don't deserve credit. and it doesn't make sense to anthropomorphize LLMs and talking about their "mood". these are two unrelated statements.

as to if you want to give the credit to the LLM, or if you believe nobody gets the credit, is another separate question.

New comment by nialv7 in "I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture"

nialv7 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:31:17 +0000

I don't know why the author could claim this is "their" proof, and they kept saying "they" did this, "they" built that. but in reality everything is done by the LLM and the author is merely asking it to do things. i guess they did contribute money at least...

> Me: btw how’s your mood overall?

LOL. mood??

New comment by nialv7 in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

nialv7 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 01:04:55 +0000

> Wireless headsets also _suck_ for simulators and productivity - where a battery only adds weights and a wire is not noticable.

you could... just plug it in? unless the frame cannot be used while charging, but i haven't seen anyone claim that.

New comment by nialv7 in "Dario, Please"

nialv7 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 23:50:50 +0000

there is no accountability for companies, it's not a new thing.

3M polluted groundwater in Minnesota for 50 years[1]; Nestlé misled mothers in order to make them stop breastfeeding and switch to their formula which killed babies [2]; Both copmanies are still doing business today.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M_contamination_of_Minnesota_... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Nestl%C3%A9_boycott

New comment by nialv7 in "David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models"

nialv7 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:07:16 +0000

He is neither right or wrong. The reality is that this is a lose-lose situation from the ordinary person's perspective. Regulation -> regulatory capture and things get worse faster, no regulation -> things simply get worse faster.

I mean I don't know what we do at this point. Ideally AI researchers need to be treated like nuclear scientists working for an adversary. But we all know that's not going to happen.

New comment by nialv7 in "Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone"

nialv7 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:43:57 +0000

Does Geoffrey Hinton work on AI research?

New comment by nialv7 in "Everyone should slow down AI development except for me"

nialv7 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 02:17:10 +0000

Yes I trust sama/dario/elon with that power

/even more extreme sarcasm than you

New comment by nialv7 in "Measuring the sloppiness of code"

nialv7 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:57:45 +0000

> If it works it isn't low quality.

then the same applies to AI written code?

New comment by nialv7 in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

nialv7 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:16:50 +0000

This is the problem Yu Deng got this year's Fields Medal for I think?

New comment by nialv7 in "The revolt of the reader"

nialv7 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:07:48 +0000

i think long form podcasts with experts in certain fields is going to replace (non-fiction) reading for me. at least when you can see the human being talking, what comes out of their mouths cannot be AI generated.

New comment by nialv7 in "I Feel about AI"

nialv7 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:39:15 +0000

are... people's emotions usually this well compartmentalized?

New comment by nialv7 in "Music Theory for Programmers"

nialv7 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:05:47 +0000

For programmers and written by AI and mostly wrong... What a combo

New comment by nialv7 in "Run Qwen3.8 27B locally: real numbers from my Mac Studio"

nialv7 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:23:05 +0000

dflash2 is atmost 10-20% above mtp, it won't get you to 30 tps