<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: pkroll</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pkroll</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:04:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pkroll" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pkroll in "MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People on reddit have definitely pointed out that sageattention will speed up the renders.<p>And it's literally the first day. Someone will make a distilled 4-8 step LoRA and we're off to the races.<p>Edit: did a couple of 10 second long 864/480 i2v videos on my RTX Pro 6000: sageattention bumps them up 33%, that is to say, 140.89 seconds without sageattention becomes 105.69 with sageattention on (if using the KJ Sageattention node, "allow_compile" doesn't seem to affect it, just "sage_attention" set to "auto" works fine).<p>EasyCache also appears to work, but does affect quality, at least with the default threshold or even down to 0.10. Still, at 0.10 threshold the same render above, with sageattention, is down to 71.33 seconds, so depending on your use case the quality hit might be worth it. Also it seems that with EasyCache the video still matches the un-EasyCached video (with the same seed), so you could use it to do seed hunting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:53:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157435</link><dc:creator>pkroll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157435</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pkroll in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Since no one else posted it... I have open-webui pointed at a linux box with 128 gig of ram and an RTX Pro 6000, and after a couple of runs on trivia, had it do one of Open WebUI's conversation starters: "Show me a code snippet of a website's sticky header in CSS and JavaScript."<p>72.06 t/s. That's the full Qwen 3.6 27B model BF16, using MTP, running on Ollama. Yes I know I should bite the bullet and get vllm running on that box.<p>That was, also, at a 570 watt limit: I normally run a little less, but when I first tried this I actually forgot I had set the limit to 300 (it's a hot day, I figured why fight the A/C?), and at 300 watts the same question came back at 69.38 t/s. (The extra power matters more for compute bound things, the difference in generating LTX2.3 videos is considerably higher... but still not linear.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:33:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48724817</link><dc:creator>pkroll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48724817</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48724817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pkroll in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Check the LLM benchmarks once it's out: it's such a common use case for these kinds of machines, you won't be waiting long.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:07:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48724448</link><dc:creator>pkroll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48724448</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48724448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pkroll in "GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If this pans out, you're not at all kidding: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ekndZwyOzo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ekndZwyOzo</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:54:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666071</link><dc:creator>pkroll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666071</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pkroll in "Sandboxes won't save you from OpenClaw"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Really? Why? I'd bet the opposite: the worst of the things happening with OpenClaw aren't being revealed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:22:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47158070</link><dc:creator>pkroll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47158070</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47158070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pkroll in "The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not a shareholder, but on first try, it won't do it because it recognizes Iger's name. And clearly the deal is fresh because it balked at Mickey Mouse too. But it has no trouble with just, "mouse": <a href="https://sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_693ae0d25bbc819188f6758fce3f90ce?psh=HXVzZXItREMzV2diWmh0RUJTM2J2ZkVqdW5JeDlH.O5zzWJA7LMz9" rel="nofollow">https://sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_693ae0d25bbc819188f6758fce3f90c...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:19:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232449</link><dc:creator>pkroll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232449</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pkroll in "We ran over 600 image generations to compare AI image models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's likely that I'm seeing this from my deep into ComfyUI bubble. My impression was that AUTOMATIC1111 and Forge and the like, were fading as ComfyUI was the "what people ended up on" no matter which AI generation framework they started with. But I don't know that there are any real stats on usage of these programs, so it's entirely possible that AUTOMATIC1111/Forge/InvokeAI are being used by more people than ComfyUI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:52:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45901664</link><dc:creator>pkroll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45901664</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45901664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pkroll in "We ran over 600 image generations to compare AI image models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did you test some local image gen software in that you installed the Python code on the github page for a local model, which is clearly a LOT for a normal user... or did you look at ComfyUI, which is how most people are running local video and image models? There are "just install this" versions, which eases the path for users (but it's still, admittedly, chaos beneath the surface).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 22:26:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893733</link><dc:creator>pkroll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893733</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pkroll in "What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mass shootings in the US, are a little over 1 a day. School shootings are a subset, and as cudgy says, so far 13 this year.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:16:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45594797</link><dc:creator>pkroll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45594797</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45594797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pkroll in "Decoding Netflix's AV1 Streams"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"NTSTC content at 23.976 I'd hope the player would just speed up at that point, but even if not... judder at 120 Hz is better than at 60 Hz."<p>I'd bet money when TVs are advertised at 120 FPS, they're really 119.88 FPS, so no judder showing 23.976 FPS and the other NTSC-off display rates.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 20:42:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45443225</link><dc:creator>pkroll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45443225</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45443225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pkroll in "Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a regular expression, and OS/2 was referred to in many ways, so try something like: "os-2|os\/2|os2" (without the quotes)<p>I get 136 results, from that query.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2025 18:48:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45043456</link><dc:creator>pkroll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45043456</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45043456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pkroll in "Wan – Open-source alternative to VEO 3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, they sort of do: they keep referring to the 4090, on their Github and primary promotional pages (<a href="https://wan.video/" rel="nofollow">https://wan.video/</a>).<p>But really all the various video models really want an 80+ gig vram card, to run comfortably. The contortions the ComfyUI community goes through to get things running at a reasonable speed on the current, dinky-sized vram consumer cards, are impressive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 08:00:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44938365</link><dc:creator>pkroll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44938365</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44938365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pkroll in "Qwen3 30B-A3B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As jasonjmcghee says, they're available... but if you go to ollama.com and set models to "newest" you'll see Mistral (specifically mistral-small3.2 at this writing) because they seem to not sort the models based on newest update: only newest "group" or however you'd phrase it. So you need to scroll down to "qwen3" to see it's been updated.<p>Slightly frustrating. But good to know.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 19:42:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44738672</link><dc:creator>pkroll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44738672</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44738672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pkroll in "The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.10849" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.10849</a><p>"Our study suggests that LLMs have achieved superhuman performance on general medical diagnostic and management reasoning"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2025 05:33:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142063</link><dc:creator>pkroll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142063</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pkroll in "If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use Markdown Viewer, in Chrome: I'd bet there are multiple equivalents in Firefox and Safari. Well. I don't know what Safari's extension universe is like but it seems likely.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 21:10:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43188245</link><dc:creator>pkroll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43188245</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43188245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pkroll in "The AMD Radeon Instinct MI300A's Giant Memory Subsystem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're not the only one thinking that: <a href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/project-digits/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/project-digits/</a><p>128G of unified memory. $3K. Throw ollama and ComfyUI on that sucker and things could get interesting. The question is how much slower than a 5090, is this gonna be? The memory bandwidth isn't going to match a 512 bit bus.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2025 15:28:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42749039</link><dc:creator>pkroll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42749039</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42749039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pkroll in "We all took the DVD boom era for granted"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's too simple a comparison, against something that's a little more complicated. A 720p stream without adequate bandwidth can have terrible artifacts, mostly showing up during fast motion/panning/action. They can look objectively worse than DVDs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2024 20:02:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42392200</link><dc:creator>pkroll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42392200</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42392200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pkroll in "FLUX.1 Tools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't get it: the new models still need to be used somewhere, unless you're coding everything yourself, and that means they'll mostly get used in the updated ComfyUI nodes that work with the new checkpoints and LoRAs (and are available today).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:47:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42218507</link><dc:creator>pkroll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42218507</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42218507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pkroll in "Teri Garr, offbeat comic actor of 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Tootsie,' has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, MS isn't fatal, but it certainly doesn't HELP... people with it have a generally shorter life expectancy (by like 7 years) from complications with something else, like heart disease or cancer.<p>None of which takes away from it being terrible that we've lost Terri Garr.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2024 22:31:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41990097</link><dc:creator>pkroll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41990097</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41990097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pkroll in "ADHD headband treats symptoms in 20 minutes per day"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The "fixes your colorblindness" glasses don't work, and they're still a thing.</p>
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