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New comment by pyrolistical in "Memory-Safe WebP Decoding"

pyrolistical — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:32:01 +0000

Why not just just have most of it in wasm? There are wasm runtimes that don’t require js, and I’m sure Google can adapt their engine. Then they could integrate the other side with rust

New comment by pyrolistical in "Pi.dev: You Said No MCP"

pyrolistical — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:57:04 +0000

I was enticed by the promise of it being barebones but I still found it too bloated

So I cut out a lot of functionality in my own fork

https://github.com/Pyrolistical/mi

I took “expected to customize basically everything” to heart

New comment by pyrolistical in "Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate""

pyrolistical — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:52:10 +0000

But you kind of do.

For a untype language like js array, since it can be empty, you have to either always check the length, the item returned, or have a precondition to know the array is not empty.

All three of those cases is either code or context you’re holding in your head.

All that stuff is equivalent to a type system

New comment by pyrolistical in "Unreal Agent"

pyrolistical — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:03:25 +0000

Funny, I solved this problem by having Claude write a pi extension

https://github.com/Pyrolistical/pi-notify

Now my pi agent setups its own trigger to notify itself when a background process is done

New comment by pyrolistical in "What Zig felt like, coming from Rust"

pyrolistical — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 14:54:15 +0000

Until there is a machine that is natively functional, there is always going to an incentive to go lower level for more performance.

Even hardware (GPUs) that functional language could trivially exploit, it’s still higher performance to write low level code and manages all the memory imperatively

New comment by pyrolistical in "I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture"

pyrolistical — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:41:37 +0000

Ask for analogy in terms of a thing you are an expert in.

ie. i am an expert at zig, explain this c++ in terms of zig

New comment by pyrolistical in "iPhone Duo"

pyrolistical — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:17:04 +0000

Soooo anytime now to bring it back right??

New comment by pyrolistical in "Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs"

pyrolistical — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 21:08:53 +0000

No way you can get that much each without extremely quants

For a single r9700 you have 637 GB/s and for qwen 3.8 27b q4_k_xl the maximum tg/s is 33 before mtp

Now if you meant 4xr9700 tensor parallelism with mtp, 80 tg/s starts to make sense

New comment by pyrolistical in "Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s"

pyrolistical — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:04:13 +0000

I run it locally at q4_k_xl on a r9700 with kv cache bf16 and while it thinks a lot, it’s still fast enough to do the task.

This model had its knowledge replaced with reasoning ability. The chain of thought what makes this reasoning effective.

So this is why you need to let it think and don’t quantize the kv cache.

New comment by pyrolistical in "Cheap Desktop 400GbE Switch MikroTik CRS804-4DDQ-HRM Review"

pyrolistical — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:46:52 +0000

Nic needs pcie5 x16 slot, so on am5, take out your gpu

New comment by pyrolistical in "Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript"

pyrolistical — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:54:05 +0000

It’s like next.js but for backend.

Personally not for me. These are very productive once you learn the shape they expect.

But the wheel needs to be reinvented on how to do everything.

I ran have straight forward verbose code with no hidden control flow

New comment by pyrolistical in "Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat"

pyrolistical — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:34:23 +0000

Give it agent instructions in the major breaking api changes. I force around Io stuff. Then point it to the zig source code.

Sure it wastes a bit of time always figure it out when it fails to compile.

This is why I’m excited to see qwen3.8 27b removed a bunch of knowledge for more reasoning. Baked in old zig api is worthless

New comment by pyrolistical in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

pyrolistical — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:26:19 +0000

Umm I have an extra 35, do you have layer 6?

New comment by pyrolistical in "LLMs reward expertise"

pyrolistical — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:07:51 +0000

Then fix it using the llm

New comment by pyrolistical in "PSA about abuse of cat(1) command. Don't abuse cats"

pyrolistical — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:10:41 +0000

I like putting the stdin before the command

< file grep abc

New comment by pyrolistical in "Accretive Editing"

pyrolistical — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:34:58 +0000

Except Claude remembers in it memories. You need to clear that too

New comment by pyrolistical in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

pyrolistical — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:34:31 +0000

It’s open source. You take ownership of it for your deployment and stop relying on continued free work.

You can use llm to pull in updates as they are released. It’s not gpl, so you don’t need to publish your port

New comment by pyrolistical in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

pyrolistical — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:08:22 +0000

Yeah but they turned it into something unreadable. Call it a skill issue if you wish.

I just haven’t found another language that just makes sense. Zig doesn’t hide anything from you

New comment by pyrolistical in "Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus"

pyrolistical — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:25:39 +0000

I predict we may be heading back to self implementations based off of papers since it is now cheaper to do so with AI coding agents.

Yeah they kinda suck and make mistakes right now, but tech only gets better.

It’s no different than 3D printing. Instead of cutting and joining a bunch of stock parts, you just print the desired part.

In the same way printing with plastic kinda sucks, the tech will improve. Now you can print in metal or in resin without supports.

The future will be take all the ideas from various off the shelf products but tightly integrate them together for my specific use case

New comment by pyrolistical in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

pyrolistical — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:50:12 +0000

That would require someone who knows what they are doing, hence this service