Hacker News: nightski

New comment by nightski in "Incident with Github.com"

nightski — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:07:03 +0000

All of my code repos are on gitea (personal and professional). The instance is not exposed to the internet (wireguard access). It's fantastic honestly, simple and just works.

New comment by nightski in "Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace"

nightski — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:34:27 +0000

Not the parent, but here is one location that has rates in that range in the U.S.

https://casscountyelectric.com/rates

New comment by nightski in "Patreon laying off 20% of staff"

nightski — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:54:37 +0000

These posts seem more like emotional therapy for the founder, helping them cope. It's not about the people being let go at all.

New comment by nightski in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

nightski — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:55:09 +0000

No you don't. I use the same passkeys for all my devices sync'd with bitwarden.

New comment by nightski in "Nvidia DGX Spark as a daily driver"

nightski — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:37:39 +0000

It's simple, the 395+ Max Strix Halo you bought for $1800 is now a ~$4000 build (at least the AMD AI dev unit). If only we had time travel right? Either way, the Nvidia unit comes with Connect-X 7. That may or may not matter to you, but the hardware for that isn't cheap. In general the Nvidia cards also have better support for models. I know AMD is trying to catch up but anything except their datacenter cards do not seem to be getting a lot of attention.

New comment by nightski in "Show HN: Read the Tape – Wordle for daytrading, five blind S&P 500 charts a day"

nightski — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:18:50 +0000

The baseline is the market average, not 0.

New comment by nightski in "'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling"

nightski — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:05:34 +0000

I mean I pay for a domain for my homelab. No one else uses it.

New comment by nightski in "Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling"

nightski — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:59:49 +0000

Except LLMs are not stochastic in nature. Correct me if I am wrong, but it's just the final layer which outputs a distribution across the output tokens. In reality, the rest of the model is deterministic.

This is not like a bayes model or something were it's distributions all the way down.

New comment by nightski in "Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok"

nightski — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:53:53 +0000

I mean, you are using BaseUI directly... The components on top live in your code base.

New comment by nightski in "AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit"

nightski — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:18:34 +0000

Only Asus from what I have seen. Acer/Dell units seem to run cooler than the Nvidia unit, by a noticeable margin. That said I bought the OEM units for the Gen 5 4TB SSD and the fact that it was on sale.

New comment by nightski in "Better Auth is joining Vercel"

nightski — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:26:48 +0000

Open source isn't really open any more. It's just pre-acquisition. I'm happy to the creators for their payday but honestly just happy I opted out of BetterAuth building my latest product.

New comment by nightski in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

nightski — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:22:16 +0000

Meta's FAIR has several R&D offices in the EU, yes. So you are saying their labs can conduct R&D on models in the EU, potentially even train them there, they just can't have production LLM inference serving or release the model weights? I'm just not seeing it.

A not-insignificant portion of the AI/ML research community is in the EU.

New comment by nightski in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

nightski — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:47:07 +0000

So Deepmind/Meta/etc... would all have to cut off their EU offices even though they hold incredible talent? I'm just not finding this scenario likely.

New comment by nightski in "AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit"

nightski — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:59:09 +0000

They had it on sale last week for $3999, it will likely happen again. Also if you are willing to buy ASUS/Acer/MSI you can get them cheaper, in the same range as well. Those units are identical (mainboard/ram/chipset/connectivity), they only tend to differ in SSD being offered.

New comment by nightski in "AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit"

nightski — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:42:59 +0000

The spark also has 128GB VRAM (same type) and by recently I mean I bought them last week for $3999 each.

New comment by nightski in "AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit"

nightski — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:27:00 +0000

I recently bought a few sparks from Micro Center for the exact same price and it comes with ConnectX-7 200Gbps inter-connectivity. Not sure how AMD feels it can charge exactly the same for less.

New comment by nightski in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

nightski — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:52:48 +0000

That intellectual property argument goes both ways. The model might not exist without protection, but it also would not exist without the data.

New comment by nightski in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

nightski — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:33:23 +0000

I'm pretty sure you could do this with an AI card as well...

New comment by nightski in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

nightski — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:03:34 +0000

Hallmark built a brand on creating generic messages in card.

New comment by nightski in "1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse"

nightski — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:44:58 +0000

When the Minneapolis bridge collapsed there were no criminal charges involved. HN has this obsession with "licensed engineers" as if it completely prevents catastrophe and holds people to the highest standards. It's just a dog and pony show.