Hacker News: pulse7

New comment by pulse7 in "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"

pulse7 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:20:25 +0000

So it's mostly the "Optionality". Like USB. And yet USB is everywhere...

New comment by pulse7 in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

pulse7 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 05:00:02 +0000

It there anything similar for RTX 3090 and RTX 4090?

New comment by pulse7 in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

pulse7 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 04:48:35 +0000

Can you please tell which Gemma 4 variant managed to correctly reason through your private benchmarks? Was is Gemma 4 31B?

What quantizations and context lengths did you use for Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.8 27B?

I am asking because I can't even load Gemma 4 31B on my GPU with any reasonable quantization (even with small context), while I can run Qwen 3.8 27B with large context and good quantization...

New comment by pulse7 in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

pulse7 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:20:35 +0000

"--context-shift, --no-context-shift ... whether to use context shift on infinite text generation (default: disabled)"

From: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/tools/serv...

New comment by pulse7 in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

pulse7 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:34:37 +0000

It will come... all big hardware players (Intel, AMD, Broadcom) and dozens of startups (Tenstorrent, etc.) are working on it...

New comment by pulse7 in "Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents"

pulse7 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:38:56 +0000

Hasn't Docker always been just a thin layer of duct tape over existing solutions?

New comment by pulse7 in "Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video]"

pulse7 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:08:44 +0000

You cannot wear out an SSD through AI inference alone. LLM weights are only read from the SSD, and read operations do not contribute to SSD wear. SSD wear is primarily caused by write and erase operations.

New comment by pulse7 in "Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models"

pulse7 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:48:04 +0000

Those are routers - not general purpose computers.

New comment by pulse7 in "The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)"

pulse7 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:08:54 +0000

On the absolute limit of ethics? This is simply not ethical anymore...

New comment by pulse7 in "Quickly rewrite Git repository history"

pulse7 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:57:59 +0000

The same here! Merged several repos into monorepo are retained full history!

New comment by pulse7 in "Bonsai 27B (1-bit LLM): The First 27B-Class Model to Run on a Phone"

pulse7 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:31:25 +0000

Most probably not optimized yet for this model...

New comment by pulse7 in "Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs"

pulse7 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:06:18 +0000

With electron-beam lithography you can build transistors with gate lengths down to 1 to 3 nanometers.

New comment by pulse7 in "Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally"

pulse7 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 22:16:19 +0000

exactly: high demand!

New comment by pulse7 in "Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally"

pulse7 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 22:15:20 +0000

NVidia Spark is much slower (low memory bandwidth)!

New comment by pulse7 in "Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally"

pulse7 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 22:10:04 +0000

Can you please share you llama.cpp server parameters to turn on modern LLM sampling stack?

Docs [1] say that the top_n_sigma is already in the default sampler list: "(default: penalties;dry;top_n_sigma;top_k;typ_p;top_p;min_p;xtc;temperature)"

[1] https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/tools/serv...

New comment by pulse7 in "Rocketlab acquires Iridium"

pulse7 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:27:12 +0000

This https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk%27s_Tesla_Roadster ?

New comment by pulse7 in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

pulse7 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:50:57 +0000

I'm sorry your dad didn't respect your IT work...

New comment by pulse7 in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

pulse7 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:44:15 +0000

So it's similar to "Andy and Bill's Law" [1]: "What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away".

If Windows would stay the same (and not grow) it would be much faster on newer CPUs...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law

New comment by pulse7 in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

pulse7 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:44:43 +0000

It looks like the president - which was a businessman - will make a huge damage to American IT businesses. And IT stocks dominate the S&P 500, comprising roughly 1/3 of the index's total market capitalization... Good luck America!

New comment by pulse7 in "Sony halts memory card shipments due to NAND shortage"

pulse7 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:59:35 +0000

Source?