Hacker News: qskousen

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.

New comment by qskousen in "Electromechanical reshaping, an alternative to laser eye surgery"

qskousen — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 16:54:42 +0000

Sorry, I guess I was mistaken, and now my comment is past the edit window so I can't correct it.

New comment by qskousen in "Electromechanical reshaping, an alternative to laser eye surgery"

qskousen — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:54:46 +0000

Sounds like astigmatism, which I also have. I don't know if this procedure, unlike LASIK, can correct astigmatism. I know you said you weren't interested, but for me personally, wearing contacts (not glasses) completely fixes my astigmatism and makes it much easier to drive at night.

New comment by qskousen in "PG Auto Upgrade – Docker (and K8s) container to auto upgrade your database"

qskousen — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:19:05 +0000

I also would like to know this, I was just told that databases should be outside the cluster a couple days ago by someone with a decade of K8s experience.

New comment by qskousen in "Show HN: unsafehttp – tiny web server from scratch in C, running on an orange pi"

qskousen — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 02:01:54 +0000

Almost everything is going to sound like something else in some other language, I don't know that there's much you can do about that. On the plus side, maybe the silly association will make the name stick in people's heads!