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New comment by qskousen in "Everyone should slow down AI development except for me"

qskousen — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 02:33:48 +0000

I have a pet project I have been working away on for some time that involves building GPU backends for various cards in Zig, lots of complex stuff in it. Lately I mostly use Opus 5, it can pretty reliably plug away at things but it does mess stuff up occasionally. For this codebase, Fable 5.1 was noticeably better at getting things right and doing things in a good reliable way. Of course, I can only use Fable for a bit before I hit the usage cap for the week, so I save it for the tougher things. That said, I absolutely abhor the way recent Anthropic models write prose, especially comments.

I recently tried doing a fairly normal task for this codebase with codex, as I have seen a lot of people talking it up on here. A single task running for ~1-2 hours burned through over half of my usage for the week on the $125/month plan, not on a top model (I don't remember which one specifically I used). It struggled to get the basics done, then got absolutely stuck on a follow up. Handed it over to Claude and it 1-shot it.

New comment by qskousen in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

qskousen — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:59:11 +0000

I've had several bun-related crashes in Claude code in the last week, which I don't remember ever seeing before then.

New comment by qskousen in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

qskousen — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:06:43 +0000

it does have telemetry, enabled by default, that sends metrics to tracking.miui.com, including what model you are using. it can be turned off by environment variable (MIMOCODE_ENABLE_ANALYSIS=false), and yes it still has all the normal OpenCode provider logic so it will work with other/local models. it also automatically looks for updates and fetches a mimo model list, including when the telemetry is off, though those can also be disabled.

telemetry enabled by default and named "analysis" is not great.

New comment by qskousen in "Valve removes free game from Steam after players discover it contains malware"

qskousen — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:29:44 +0000

Not sure if it was a typo or not but "colleagues" is a great word, I'm going to start using it.

New comment by qskousen in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

qskousen — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:13:04 +0000

Sorry this is a bit of a tangent, but I noticed you also released UD quants of ERNIE-Image the same day it released, which as I understand requires generating a bunch of images. I've been working to do something similar with my CLI program ggufy, and was curious of you had any info you could share on the kind of compute you put into that, and if you generate full images or look at latents?

New comment by qskousen in "EMachines never obsolete PCs: More than a meme"

qskousen — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:40:32 +0000

My father just closed his local small shop, as it was no longer paying the bills. It's harder and harder to compete with the internet.

New comment by qskousen in "Quantization from the Ground Up"

qskousen — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 02:06:32 +0000

I've experimented with this with diffusion models with a safetensors - gguf tool I wrote. even with relatively few sample images (~10k, still enough to keep my 3090 spinning for days straight) the benefits are quite noticeable - a smaller file with overall better results.

New comment by qskousen in "A Review of Dice that came with The White Castle (2025)"

qskousen — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:21:23 +0000

Wendell at level 1 techs built one for Steve of gamers nexus! It was interesting. I was going to link the video but couldn't find it, sorry.

New comment by qskousen in "Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs"

qskousen — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:10:56 +0000

This is pretty interesting, based on the blog post, it seems like they are using a technique similar to what I have been using to generate "layer sensitivity" data in my (still pretty beta) ggufy project, which is more aimed at diffusion (image) models. https://github.com/qskousen/ggufy

New comment by qskousen in "Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time"

qskousen — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:51:53 +0000

Just yesterday I watched this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7bSzp-QildA I am not a graphics programmer, but from what I understood I think he talks about doing what you are describing with Vulkan.

New comment by qskousen in "AMD GPU Debugger"

qskousen — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 19:01:36 +0000

I've done it with a 6800XT, which should be similar. It's a little trickier than with an Nvidia card (because everything is designed for CUDA) but doable.

New comment by qskousen in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

qskousen — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:52:24 +0000

It seems like you are saying the AI features don't work if you don't have a GPU, if I understood correctly, but I have my install on a server with no GPU and the object search and facial recognition features work fine. Probably slower to generate the embeddings, but I don't have any comparison to make.

New comment by qskousen in "Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor"

qskousen — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:25:41 +0000

My number one reason for moving away from using LXD in production after this change is that LXD is only available through snap, which caused multiple downtimes in the cluster because of the forced updates.

New comment by qskousen in "Nvidia DGX Spark: When benchmark numbers meet production reality"

qskousen — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:50:48 +0000

It does - the inference speed is much slower than a consumer video card. The draw for the Spark and systems like it are the massive amounts of memory available to the GPU.

New comment by qskousen in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

qskousen — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 02:46:02 +0000

I had been unemployed for a year and worked a lot on DiffKeep (https://github.com/DiffKeep/DiffKeep), a cross platform AI generated image management program. Fortunately / unfortunately I got a job and haven't been able to dedicate much time to it lately.

New comment by qskousen in "When Bruce Lee trained with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar"

qskousen — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 21:04:51 +0000

The master teacher.

New comment by qskousen in "Altoids by the Fistful"

qskousen — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 10:34:58 +0000

Do you determine the worthiness of all your activities by how much money you could make in the time they took?

I read the full article and found it well worth the time. A somewhat sobering essay, prompting some self-reflection, while also being beautifully written. I appreciated the art displayed.

How can you put a price tag on something like that?

New comment by qskousen in "Hyundai battery plant faces startup delay after US immigration raid, CEO says"

qskousen — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 23:42:58 +0000

Yes. But it is possible to agree with the principle and disagree on the specifics.

New comment by qskousen in "Ten Thousand Lifetimes with Roguelikes"

qskousen — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 02:17:37 +0000

Would you mind sharing more about the code-along? Or where to find more info?

New comment by qskousen in "Left to Right Programming"

qskousen — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:14:52 +0000

Off topic, but I really wish DuckDB's FTS extension could add to the index as the table is added to. It's the only thing keeping me on sqlite for a project.