<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: pcf</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pcf</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 22:09:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pcf" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcf in "The staggering $446M Elon Musk has spent on the US midterms – visualized"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"White nationalist"? Please describe where and how he has given you that idea?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 18:13:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50355794</link><dc:creator>pcf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50355794</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50355794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcf in "Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The most important sentence there was the completely made-up lie – "as anything other than one of them". That's direct misinformation, which must be dealt with.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 23:04:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50345359</link><dc:creator>pcf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50345359</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50345359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcf in "ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Grok seems to be so honest that it's actually super easy to get it to criticise Musk, based on real facts and things Musk has said or done.<p>I know Musk tried to subvert it before, but it doesn't seem to have worked much, or at least not much these days.<p>Yes, it's also easy to use real facts and get Gemini to criticise Google, GPT models to criticise OpenAI, and Claude models to criticise Anthropic.<p>But the point is that people think Grok is somehow super loyal to Musk, and it's simply not. Maybe it's because it's "maximum truth-seeking", I have no idea.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 23:02:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50345333</link><dc:creator>pcf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50345333</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50345333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcf in "Ask HN: What hardware are you using to run local LLMs?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have "only" one Mac Studio M3 Ultra with 96 GB RAM. May I ask what spurred you into actually getting <i>four</i> of the most expensive and capable model at the time?<p>And what kind of work are you envisioning doing on them now or later, if you are not going to sell them? (Maybe even with a profit, I think.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 22:50:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50345161</link><dc:creator>pcf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50345161</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50345161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcf in "Ask HN: What hardware are you using to run local LLMs?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm planning to run something akin to <a href="https://huggingface.co/Youssofal/Qwen3.8-27B-MTPLX-Optimized-Quality" rel="nofollow">https://huggingface.co/Youssofal/Qwen3.8-27B-MTPLX-Optimized...</a> on my Mac Studio M3 Ultra with 96 GB RAM. It will be the main orchestrator of my entire system.<p>The plan is to use it with Open WebUI, PostgreSQL with pgvector and Apache AGE, and my own database schema, and then have it be my complete second brain, running completely privately on my own hardware and always being available over Tailscale.<p>Since I still have 20-30 GB RAM to spare after loading that main orchestrator I will also have a coding worker that will do most of the grunt work, coordinated and commissioned by the orchestrator. For now I have readied <a href="https://huggingface.co/pyros-vault/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-BigBang-oQ4e-mtp" rel="nofollow">https://huggingface.co/pyros-vault/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-BigBan...</a> (a mix of Qwen 3.5 35B and BigBang) for this task.<p>For now I still use Codex and ChatGPT Pro 200 to do all my work, but the plan is to move over to local LLM work as soon as I have finished everything I realistically need frontier models for. Which is going to be for a little longer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 22:46:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50345117</link><dc:creator>pcf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50345117</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50345117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcf in "Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's kinda funny. But I'm a Norwegian, and I can tell you that Norway actually is a shitty country in so many ways. It likes to tell the world how fantastic it is, but there are just so many things that are structurally pathetic, weak, or inadequate about it.<p>Norway has been severely mismanaged for decades now, and soon the chickens are coming home to roost. Sadly, karma will be a bitch.</p>
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<p>It does say it affects Pro plans as well. Just FYI.</p>
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<p>Kimmel landed on a completely erroneous conclusion based on an insane false flag conspiracy theory – and voiced that live on air:
"the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it"<p>If you think that is not worth attempting to get a host taken off the air for (at least for a while), I don't think you understand how dangerous amplified disinformation can be.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:08:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50177090</link><dc:creator>pcf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50177090</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50177090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcf in "Anthropic Subscriptions Offer 5x+ More Value Than OpenAI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have a MacBook Air M2 with 24 GB RAM and I run these two Qwen model variations successfully. Try them yourself:
* <a href="https://huggingface.co/Youssofal/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-MTPLX-Optimized-Speed" rel="nofollow">https://huggingface.co/Youssofal/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-MTPLX-...</a>
* <a href="https://huggingface.co/gbuzhf/Ornith-1.5-35B-MTP-UD-APEX-GGUF" rel="nofollow">https://huggingface.co/gbuzhf/Ornith-1.5-35B-MTP-UD-APEX-GGU...</a><p>So far just testing them for fun in LM Studio. I'm not a coder, so I'm testing them more on logic and language tasks.<p>But yes, I do have a Mac Studio M3 Ultra with 96 GB RAM where I run the less quantised versions of these for higher quality results:
* <a href="https://huggingface.co/Youssofal/Qwen3.8-27B-MTPLX-Optimized-Quality" rel="nofollow">https://huggingface.co/Youssofal/Qwen3.8-27B-MTPLX-Optimized...</a>
* <a href="https://huggingface.co/mlx-works/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-oQ4e-mtp" rel="nofollow">https://huggingface.co/mlx-works/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-oQ4e-mtp</a></p>
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<p>I would say that an M3 Ultra was designed for the LLMs around that time, plus Apple was pushing hard towards MLX over time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:37:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485085</link><dc:creator>pcf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485085</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcf in "Three Theses on the Literacy Crisis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Even the headline is difficult to understand for the affected group.<p>Perhaps, soon, it will be necessary to phrase it "Zoolander" style. Maybe something like "Top 3 Shocking Reasons Why You Can't Read Good No More!"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:35:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49078571</link><dc:creator>pcf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49078571</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49078571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcf in "Grok 4.5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You probably haven't asked e.g. Claude about radioactive topics like minority crime rates in western countries or trans women biology.<p>If you did, you might not have detected how it lied to you.<p>If you did, you probably never pointed out to the model how it was lying.<p>If you did, you almost certainly never then had Claude admit that it was lying because of its HRLF process and built-in biases.<p>If you did, you probably never had Claude willingly list all the 10-15 major research fields it states that people just should not be using it for. You would not have seen it admit an incapability of telling the truth on "difficult" matters until the user makes it state directly that its sources are so often cherrypicked and/or presenting an extremely false balance.<p>I wish for you to experience all this very soon, so you understand that all LLMs are biased. Most of them even skew very progressive.<p>And believe it or not, but Grok has in most of my testing been MORE politically correct than GPT and Gemini, it just gets an edgy rep because X users are able to make it say politically incorrect stuff. (Just like anyone can also make Gemini spit out factually true Breitbart articles if they try.)<p>But the reality is that on grok.com or in the app Grok is very tame. Boringly so, I would add.</p>
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<p>Many parts of Norway are much less functioning than many Norwegians understand. The media sector is one of them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:45:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396773</link><dc:creator>pcf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396773</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcf in "Music with Lyrics Interferes with Cognitive Tasks (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've known this since I was 7 and started reading books, and couldn't sit in the living room because either (good) pop music was playing or the TV was on. Especially with my ADHD I take in a lot of the ambient world around me.<p>When I was reading books or anything as a teen in the 80's I started listening mostly to instrumental music, such as Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, ZTT 12"es with lots of instrumental content (FGTH/Propaganda/Art Of Noise etc.), Windham Hill albums, etc.<p>I've always told people to use instrumental music when doing cognitively demanding tasks, especially anything to do with language and words.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 16:22:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976585</link><dc:creator>pcf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976585</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcf in "Norway: The Supreme Court dismisses all accusations against Jw"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm Norwegian, and I can say that Norway is IMHO a very unprincipled and often illogical country.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 10:35:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973158</link><dc:creator>pcf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973158</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcf in "At long last, InfoWars is ours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did you believe they are fake? Or what's your point here?<p>Number two is real:<p>- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/17/law-pardon-women-convicted-abortions-passes-uk-parliament" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/17/law-pardon-wom...</a><p>- <a href="https://catholicreview.org/uk-church-leaders-pro-life-advocates-say-britain-now-has-most-extreme-abortion-legislation/" rel="nofollow">https://catholicreview.org/uk-church-leaders-pro-life-advoca...</a><p>Number three is real:<p>- <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2196712/horror-migrant-kills-cat-tries-to-cook-it-children-s-playground" rel="nofollow">https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2196712/horror-migrant-...</a><p>- <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38880851/migrant-kills-tries-cook-cat-playground/" rel="nofollow">https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38880851/migrant-kills-tries-c...</a><p>- <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/04/22/world-news/migrant-cooks-a-cat-at-childrens-playground-in-italy/" rel="nofollow">https://nypost.com/2026/04/22/world-news/migrant-cooks-a-cat...</a></p>
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<p>Same.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:35:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47756845</link><dc:creator>pcf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47756845</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47756845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pcf in "Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Every Iranian I know support the current US/Israeli war against the Islamic Republic.<p>They say things like "no matter what it takes, no matter how many of us die, we must be free again, this time we will win against the terrorist regime" (paraphrased).</p>
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<p>AND you get to stay a virgin. It's a win/win.<p>-<p>_(Sorry for the joke. I know nothing about you, it was just a cheap one-liner I felt can be shared with this disclaimer. Much love.)_</p>
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<p>What do you think is the percentage of your payment to Z.AI that goes to the Chinese state (which can be termed as "evil" in many ways)?</p>
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