Hacker News: nzeid

New comment by nzeid in "Half-Life 2 in a Browser"

nzeid — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:25:36 +0000

What!? Amazing.

New comment by nzeid in "My two-part desk setup (2025)"

nzeid — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:31:29 +0000

I want this. It's the reason why every time I shop for desks I look for workbenches. Desks are always TINY and I never understood why.

New comment by nzeid in "Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks"

nzeid — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:42:48 +0000

> # External mode — you manage llama-server, forge proxies it

> python -m forge.proxy --backend-url http://localhost:8080 --port 8081

This is a good example because I've currently stuck with llama.cpp's UI. I can read your code (or throw Gemma at it =p ) but thought I'd ask anyway.

In this example, what is it exactly that your proxy is fortifying? The HTTP SSE requests? (Those would be `/chat/completions`.)

New comment by nzeid in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

nzeid — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:14:29 +0000

This fixation on "importance" is laughable. It is "insane" to drop Gmail because it makes them a shitload of money. That is how corporations work.

New comment by nzeid in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

nzeid — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:31:38 +0000

> They've essentially gotten roped into maintaining a huge chunk of internet infrastructure, for free. If they ever shut it down the whole world would end up rioting because it's so widely used.

Not even remotely true. They regularly shut down products and services with impunity. If Gmail cost more than the data they directly or indirectly mine and sell from their users, Gmail wouldn't exist either.

New comment by nzeid in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

nzeid — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:10:58 +0000

General purpose, mostly internet research in the form of slow-crawling. (Emphasis on slow - I've ultimately landed on Scrapling's API for seamless content rendering, and I use image support so as not to exclude informative images or weirdly rendered text.)

For coding I don't need image support so I stuff the entire GPU with text-only mode. I don't have a workflow where I send LLMs off to generate thousands of lines of code but what little coding I did I did with Qwen3.6 and it was spectacular, as you likely suggest.

New comment by nzeid in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

nzeid — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:39:03 +0000

I'm using llama.cpp with Gemma and tool calling is mission critical. It's perfectly fine on my end.

There are definitely differences in the eagerness to tool-call that you'll need to manage. And for all local models I've ever used, I've had to micromanage the tools provided by servers to eliminate any possibility that they reach for something wonky or confusing.

New comment by nzeid in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

nzeid — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:34:57 +0000

A few days ago I switched again from Qwen3.6 to Gemma 4 - for personal use I've experienced better average performance with the 26B version of the latter than the 27B of the former.

For someone who's been running local models for a long while, these are very very exciting times.

New comment by nzeid in "Cursor Camp"

nzeid — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:00:39 +0000

I'm a huge neal.fun fan but I still worried that this was some scammy LLM coding YouTube clickbait.

Love the joystick for mobile users.

New comment by nzeid in "FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies"

nzeid — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:28:56 +0000

I've always chuckled at this. Just don't used bad HTTP server libraries. I wouldn't put something like that on my intranet either.

But even if you disagree with me the point is that I can count on only one hand the number of times I went "oh man, I need a FastCGI middle end".

New comment by nzeid in "The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness"

nzeid — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:20:39 +0000

The paper isn't concerned specifically with survival. It's saying that you cannot achieve "abstraction" (presumably the structure that underlies critical thinking, creativity, etc.) through shear mimicry.

Again, just echoing the paper here. I don't know that I'm doing it justice.

New comment by nzeid in "FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies"

nzeid — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:54:38 +0000

Also, embedded servers are now much much much more popular. Stuff an HTTP server directly into your application and do whatever you gotta do without gateways.

New comment by nzeid in "The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness"

nzeid — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:45:43 +0000

The paper isn't saying "AI can't have one" it's saying (very approximately) that behavioral mimicry is not the path to one.

New comment by nzeid in "Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it"

nzeid — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:24:59 +0000

No, Brussels is Belgium.

And Brussels is not the capitol of the EU because the EU is not a country.

New comment by nzeid in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

nzeid — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:21:19 +0000

This was surprisingly complicated for me on Altice/Optimum, which is why my home didn't have IPv6 for a while even after they started provisioning.

We actually have a /128 address only, and had to tweak several settings including enabling IPv6 masquerading (NAT).

I haven't the slightest clue why they didn't give us a block.

New comment by nzeid in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

nzeid — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:57:08 +0000

I'd describe that as passable engineering.

Good engineering is building the strongest bridge within budget and time.

New comment by nzeid in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

nzeid — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:58:36 +0000

What evidence is there that developers won't break even or profit? The demand is clearly there, it's a seller's market.

New comment by nzeid in "Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting"

nzeid — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:11:27 +0000

> and a world that didn't care about your feelings

Dead on.

New comment by nzeid in "Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting"

nzeid — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:05:04 +0000

UO didn't have a global concept of a level. You had a maximum number of points per character, which you allocated to skills by doing the corresponding activity. This is how you can skill cap your character without killing monsters or players.

New comment by nzeid in "GitHub Actions is shitting the bed again"

nzeid — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:09:44 +0000

Take this with a grain of salt - several Youtube exposés showed that the Actions code was utter shit before LLM coding was widely available. I'm assuming the tech debt finally sent the product off a cliff.