Hacker News: redman25

New comment by redman25 in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

redman25 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:38:46 +0000

IDK this model release is a bit disappointing considering the community has been chomping at the bit for the 124ba4b model. There was some leaked info about it but people suspect it was not released because it was too close to gemini flash in performance.

New comment by redman25 in "Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia"

redman25 — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:02:57 +0000

I too prefer my misinformation delivered with maximum confidence and no accountability.

New comment by redman25 in "A few words on DS4"

redman25 — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:46:57 +0000

What prompt had you given it?

New comment by redman25 in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

redman25 — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:06:26 +0000

I'm not OP but I work outside and use light mode. Macs are generally fairly bright as long as you aren't in direct sunlight. Solarized light mode for the win though.

New comment by redman25 in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

redman25 — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:30:02 +0000

It’s a heck of a lot faster too.

New comment by redman25 in "Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs"

redman25 — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:06:14 +0000

Doesn’t ham radio not allow transmissions to be encrypted by law? That rules out most of the internet.

New comment by redman25 in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

redman25 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:48:49 +0000

A strix halo machine or MAC will run at less than 20watts idle. You could leave it running.

New comment by redman25 in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

redman25 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:38:49 +0000

Is 10 days enough to make walking difficult?

New comment by redman25 in "Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs"

redman25 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:36:17 +0000

Not to be confused with nanocoder, the agentic coding harness.

https://github.com/Nano-Collective/nanocoder

New comment by redman25 in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

redman25 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:38:53 +0000

Exactly, compare MoE with MoE and dense with dense otherwise it's apples and oranges.

New comment by redman25 in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

redman25 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:31:46 +0000

200a10b please, 200a3b is too little active to have good intelligence IMO and 10b is still reasonably fast.

Empiricism and Rationalism in Software Testing

redman25 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:36:31 +0000

Article URL: http://joshvoigts.com/articles/empiricism-and-rationalism-in-software-testing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553339

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by redman25 in "Every layer of review makes you 10x slower"

redman25 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:13:20 +0000

It's why you always have a rollback plan. Every `up` needs to a `down`.

New comment by redman25 in "Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories"

redman25 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:48:22 +0000

So someone is debugging something with git bisect and stumbles on the old commit and gets pwned. Maybe that's why they force killed it? To avoid people going back in history and stumbling on it.

New comment by redman25 in "The 49MB web page"

redman25 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:21:54 +0000

CPU/network throttling needs to be set for the product manager and management - that's the only way you might see real change.

We have some egregious slowness in our app that only shows up for our largest customers in production but none of our organizations in development have that much data. I created a load testing organization and keep considering adding management to it so they implicitly get the idea that fixing the slowness is important.

Olaf: Bringing an Animated Character to Life in the Physical World [video]

redman25 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:01:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L8OFMTteOo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47391276

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by redman25 in "Shall I implement it? No"

redman25 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 02:43:51 +0000

It’s mainly the benchmarks that have encouraged that. The more tokens they crank out the more likely the answer is to be somewhere in the output.

New comment by redman25 in "Shall I implement it? No"

redman25 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 02:41:54 +0000

I feel like the right response for those situations is to start asking questions of the user. It’s what a human would do if they did not understand.

New comment by redman25 in "Shall I implement it? No"

redman25 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 02:39:30 +0000

It depends on the harness and/or inference engine whether they keep the reasoning of past messages.

Not to get all philosophical but maybe justification is post-hoc even for humans.

New comment by redman25 in "Shall I implement it? No"

redman25 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 02:34:55 +0000

How about a human coworker who screws up 1% of the time? Doesn’t sound so bad in that light. It’s the nature of being human.

Good code review is the solution but if it’s faster to do it yourself, that’s fine too.