<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: om8</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=om8</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:50:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=om8" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by om8 in "It's getting harder to focus every day"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> So how can I regain my ability to focus?<p>Getting diagnosed with ADHD and taking meds did the trick for me.<p>Not sure how relevant this is, since inability to focus was always an issue for me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:50:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033692</link><dc:creator>om8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033692</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by om8 in "1-Bit LLM in the Browser"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This project needs webgpu -- I did it on cpu about a year ago.<p>My demo uses 2 bit quantization to run llama3 models on any device with enough ram.<p><a href="https://galqiwi.github.io/aqlm-rs/" rel="nofollow">https://galqiwi.github.io/aqlm-rs/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:01:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979842</link><dc:creator>om8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979842</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by om8 in "2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> manufacturing companies making the flimsiest, cheapest, plastic crap to save 1/3 of a cent on every mop they produce. Designed to work for the least amount of time before needing replaced<p>We live in a world with such companies, and we can still buy quality things. If there is a demand for the purely-human generated texts, they will be around. Perhaps a lot of people around you will read ai text instead, and you'll get upset because of it, but it's their choice. You'll still have your thing</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:52:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48783506</link><dc:creator>om8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48783506</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48783506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by om8 in "US battery manufacturing output continues to break records"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh, yes, you are right about watts. My bad</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:38:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48554297</link><dc:creator>om8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48554297</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48554297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by om8 in "US battery manufacturing output continues to break records"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> volt-amperes are technically the same unit as watts<p>volt-amperes are joules</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:30:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549431</link><dc:creator>om8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549431</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by om8 in "US battery manufacturing output continues to break records"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cool way to think about GWh/year:<p><pre><code>  1 GWh/year = (10 ** 9) / 24 / 365.25 / (10 ** 6) MW = 0.11 MW

  70 GWh/year = 8 MW
  1755 GWh/year = 200 MW
  252 GWh/year = 29 MW</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:26:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548487</link><dc:creator>om8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548487</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by om8 in "Copy Fail"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>cargo/uv/go have lock files though</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:36:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957030</link><dc:creator>om8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957030</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by om8 in "TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://docs.vllm.ai/en/v0.20.0/api/vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/turboquant/#vllm.model_executor.layers.quantization.turboquant" rel="nofollow">https://docs.vllm.ai/en/v0.20.0/api/vllm/model_executor/laye...</a><p>`vllm.model_executor.layers.quantization.turboquant`<p>> The technique implemented here consists of the scalar case of the HIGGS quantization method (Malinovskii et al., "Pushing the Limits of Large Language Model Quantization via the Linearity Theorem", NAACL 2025; preprint arXiv:2411.17525): rotation + optimized grid + optional re-normalization, applied to KV cache compression. A first application of this approach to KV-cache compression is in "Cache Me If You Must: Adaptive Key-Value Quantization for Large Language Models" (Shutova et al., ICML 2025; preprint arXiv:2501.19392). Both these references pre-date the TurboQuant paper (Zandieh et al., ICLR 2026).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:32:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919837</link><dc:creator>om8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919837</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by om8 in "TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These are <i>very</i> different media types with <i>very</i> different goals.</p>
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<p>Is there a way to disable it? Sometimes I value agent not having knowledge that it needs to cut corners</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:23:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902887</link><dc:creator>om8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902887</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by om8 in "Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://steveklabnik.com/writing/does-unsafe-undermine-rusts-guarantees/" rel="nofollow">https://steveklabnik.com/writing/does-unsafe-undermine-rusts...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:40:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303622</link><dc:creator>om8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303622</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by om8 in "You are the scariest monster in the woods"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>... Yet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:14:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45594779</link><dc:creator>om8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45594779</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45594779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by om8 in "Uv overtakes pip in CI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>FYI you can run just `uvx pdm`</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 05:03:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45576428</link><dc:creator>om8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45576428</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45576428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by om8 in "Mass phishing emails pretending to be Y Combinator right now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also got it, found this thread by googling "ycombiinator"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 23:07:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45353973</link><dc:creator>om8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45353973</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45353973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by om8 in "GitHub Y Combinator phishing attack"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also got it, found this thread by googling "ycombiinator"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 23:06:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45353970</link><dc:creator>om8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45353970</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45353970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by om8 in "RustGPT: A pure-Rust transformer LLM built from scratch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have a similar project. Also written in rust, runs in a browser using web assembly<p>In-browser demo: <a href="https://galqiwi.github.io/aqlm-rs" rel="nofollow">https://galqiwi.github.io/aqlm-rs</a><p>Source code: <a href="https://github.com/galqiwi/demo-aqlm-rs" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/galqiwi/demo-aqlm-rs</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:50:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45255387</link><dc:creator>om8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45255387</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45255387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by om8 in "Website is hosted on a disposable vape"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250914222638/http://ewaste.fka.wtf/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20250914222638/http://ewaste.fka...</a></p>
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<p>Oh, ok. Thanks, I agree</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 06:41:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44948876</link><dc:creator>om8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44948876</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44948876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by om8 in "Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why? They acquired books, that’s what they do</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:59:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44944056</link><dc:creator>om8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44944056</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44944056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by om8 in "Why are there so many rationalist cults?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good rationalism includes empiricism though</p>
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