Hacker News: pbgcp2026

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?"

pbgcp2026 — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:05:19 +0000

@noprocrasted - thank you for your 100% spot on comments. +1. And you summarised it so well that I hope they will be remembered by job seekers of today.

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?"

pbgcp2026 — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:59:39 +0000

Those are the "visa applicants ghost jobs".

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters"

pbgcp2026 — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:28:27 +0000

So, it's a webpage with 3 paragraphs and a simple chart. It has: 1) terrible color scheme – fine, I switch to reader mode 2) shitloads of JS - fine, NoScript works, page breaks 3) Fancy "design" with simple graph but unreadable X axis labels - fine, I can use screen zoom for that ... to see 3x "Claude O..." LOL are we playing guess-me-over game? 4) ... "LxxxLxxx - Learn languages with YouTube!"

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

pbgcp2026 — Fri, 01 May 2026 04:48:42 +0000

"carbon emissions" LOL. Just lookup what's happening In Tuapse, and in other war zones. And we are penalising some poor bugger burning wood to warm his house at winter ...

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Mistral Medium 3.5"

pbgcp2026 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:35:06 +0000

I have no idea why @wasfgwp is downvoted - it's very true. +1 on that.

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Mistral Medium 3.5"

pbgcp2026 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:13:13 +0000

QAT typically uses BF16/FP32 during the training process to simulate lower precision.

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Mistral Medium 3.5"

pbgcp2026 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:10:53 +0000

+5% to every API call.

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Mistral Medium 3.5"

pbgcp2026 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:04:50 +0000

@simjnd, I hate this idea but you remember how radio had been regulated to death? And how fast one will be triangulated if one decides to run a "self hosted" radio station today? My bet is in 5 years not only owning AI-inference-capable computer but using AI itself will be regulated. Essentially, we will have to scan biometrics to just ask any SOTA model to "summarise this".

Why? Because capable and free models at the dawn of AI almost made people think again and - oh oh - ask questions!

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Mistral Medium 3.5"

pbgcp2026 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:58:01 +0000

"Q4 has generally been the sweet spot" for self-hosting, yes. For any real meaningful work it's dumb AF. The only way to get reasonable intelligence from mid-size Gemma or Qwen is to run full precision BF16. Anything else is just an emulation of AI.

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Mistral Medium 3.5"

pbgcp2026 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:01:09 +0000

Thank you, I just realised we are talking about MTP. It seems that it's not that clear though. "Currently, the MTP capabilities are primarily accessible through Google's proprietary LiteRT framework, rather than the open-weights versions... Despite the missing MTP heads in the open release, Gemma 4 (specifically the 26B-A4B variant) still demonstrates high efficiency"

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Mistral Medium 3.5"

pbgcp2026 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:03:34 +0000

It seems to me it's only Grok 4.20 that does this currently? Which other models did you have in mind, if I may ask?

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Mistral Medium 3.5"

pbgcp2026 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:20 +0000

" it supports prompt caching" May I ask if you checked that? I use "{"cachePoint": { "type": "default" }" and I found 2 things: * 1) even if stated in the Doco, Bedrock Converse API does not allow 1hr expiry time, only 5m - gives error when attempted; * 2) Bedrock Converse API does accept up to 4 cachePoint's but does NOT cache and returns zeroes. LOL. It was confirmed by some other people on Github. (Note: VertexAI does cache properly reducing the bill drastically, so I use Vertex instead of OpenRouter.)

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "I quit drinking for a year"

pbgcp2026 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:46:14 +0000

... cheers to that! ;-)

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "To my students"

pbgcp2026 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:44:33 +0000

"here have been times, especially this year, when I wonder despairingly what it is exactly that I am preparing you for." This. Leaving the virtue signaling aside – what is exactly the value of your "preparation"? This article just proves, again, one thing: western educational system is corrupt and defunct. And will be extinct soon.

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Do I belong in tech anymore?"

pbgcp2026 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:46:03 +0000

@arcfour - you are absolutely correct and you will be PIP'd and pushed out if you try this in FAANG company today, where *everything* is about AI.

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

pbgcp2026 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 02:28:03 +0000

it deleted the db to "simplify the migration". That was real scenario of at least one Sev 1 outages in "leading cloud provider".

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

pbgcp2026 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 02:26:33 +0000

"servers I own" - that's a temporary glitch and AI will fix it for ... someone else.

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

pbgcp2026 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 02:25:13 +0000

... expect Hetzner raising prices in ... 3 ... 2 ... 1

New comment by pbgcp2026 in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

pbgcp2026 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:11:57 +0000

... meanwhile, all these students graduate, can't find jobs and become plumbers or bricklayers.