Hacker News: rsolva

New comment by rsolva in "Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants"

rsolva — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:13:59 +0000

Agreed on all points, but you forgot to mentioned that Google pay close to no taxes in Norway (~1%). At the same time, their hyperscaler in Skien alone will, when finished, consume ~5% of total energy production. Put another way, 25% of what households use.

Now Google is planing another hyperscalar in Østfold, and other hyperscalars are being built in rapid succession (about 50 is planned), putting a severe strain on our power transfer net.

New comment by rsolva in "Fastpotify"

rsolva — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:26:52 +0000

Just tried your slack client, it has all the features I need and it is super smooth and lightweight, thanks!

New comment by rsolva in "AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps"

rsolva — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:39:56 +0000

I love this! Hacky recycling of old computer parts, home-cooked fan controllers and a website that is just plain HTML with a stylesheet that is so short I don't even have to scroll to read it all. Just write part 2 already, I want to know what you can squeeze out of those AMD cards <3

New comment by rsolva in "Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard"

rsolva — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:15:42 +0000

I have seen many a model card claim Spark compatibility, but without any proof or instructions. There are vibe-patched images of vLLM that kinda works with NVFP4 models, but I have not seen any support from NVIDIA. Does not seem to be a priority for some reason.

New comment by rsolva in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"

rsolva — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:59:01 +0000

I made a small booking site for a local dutch canal boat, which has a calender function. A simple PHP app. I checked the Apache logs recently, and it had THOUSANDS of claudebot and other AI UserAgents flooding the logs every day, apparently because the scrapers keep hitting the 'next month' button on the calendar in a an infinite loop, all day, everyday!

This is a small booking app without any useful information at all, it surprises me that the AI boots have no discernment about what the are scraping, just wasting their own and other peoples resources. And their own reputation! You would thing they could spare a few tokens on a classifier model to do a quick evaluation of their scraping efforts, but apparently they do not.

Anyway, I have done my best to block these UAs and so far it seems to have improved the situation.

New comment by rsolva in "In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years"

rsolva — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:27:01 +0000

I still have an instance of it running and get email reminders about birthdays, but no, I don't think it has been actively developed for years.

New comment by rsolva in "Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences"

rsolva — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:33:08 +0000

It seems public health recommendations where walked back after the controversy in the early 2010's, so it is not an official recommendation anymore.

Here are some of the studies and debates from back then:

- Chronic Consumption of Farmed Salmon Containing Persistent Organic Pollutants Causes Insulin Resistance and Obesity in Mice (2011): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

- Are environmental pollutants in the Norwegian diet harmful to children?: https://tidsskriftet.no/en/2017/02/perspectives/are-environm...

New comment by rsolva in "Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences"

rsolva — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:09:48 +0000

Fatty fish accumulates heavy metales and other unhealthy components and pregnant women in Norway is told to limit the intake. But it has been controversial, the industry is not happy with these recommendations!

New comment by rsolva in "Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes"

rsolva — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:01:39 +0000

This seems like a rare gem in a space swamped with lazily LLM generated summaries. Added to my RSS feed!

New comment by rsolva in "Back to Kagi"

rsolva — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:26:00 +0000

I use Kagi's search API with my agents, including their summarizer, and it has been great!

New comment by rsolva in "We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky"

rsolva — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:03:57 +0000

I got hired by a local company exactly for my experience with running linux servers at home and in a semi-professional capacity. They had hired someone with perfect credentials from university with several masters degrees, but they had to let him go after half a year because he did not fit in to their linux environment that has been operating since the 90s. I had no formal education, but many years with tinkering, self-hosting and operating linux machines for a small number of customers, and they could not hire me fast enough. They told me that it is really hard to come by people with this mix of experiences, everything is in the clouds these days.

New comment by rsolva in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

rsolva — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:19:35 +0000

Exactly! It is so empowering to host my own instance at home and own my own identity online, using GoToSocial.

New comment by rsolva in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

rsolva — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:09:06 +0000

I do NOT consider the Fediverse and the myriads of implementations of it to be social media, but rather a social web. More like websites with the abilities to communicate and interact in different and interesting ways.

Social media is dead, and has been for a while. Many use it still, but it is not primarily social. The social part was mainly a ploy to get peoples attention and then badly abusing it in ever more creative and sinister ways.

New comment by rsolva in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

rsolva — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:06:29 +0000

EDIT: This comment was meant to be posted to the parent comment!

New comment by rsolva in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

rsolva — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:01:10 +0000

Oh, great, I can log in with my GoToSocial instance to comment and vote! I will definitely add this site alongside my HN addiction :)

New comment by rsolva in "Running local models is good now"

rsolva — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:36:49 +0000

But for how long? The subsidized phase is probably short, and then what? I run Qwen 3.5 27 Dense om my old AMD RX7900XTX at about 45 t/s and barely use my Claude Code subscription anymore.

New comment by rsolva in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

rsolva — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:03:05 +0000

We have set up two DGX Sparks at work and are self sufficient for our AI needs. It is not SOTA, but it works really well for our needs. No matter what happens around cloud-hosted AI in the future, we will have decent in-house AI without further investments or expenses. We are a company of 24 people.

New comment by rsolva in "Is This the Dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?"

rsolva — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:50:28 +0000

This might help Mistral sell more on-prem solutions. Not only do you get to keep your data, it might make more financial sense too.

New comment by rsolva in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

rsolva — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:10:10 +0000

Thanks, English is not my first language, and I appreciate the knit pick :)

New comment by rsolva in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

rsolva — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:13:27 +0000

What they need to figure out is what topics peaks their interest. Kids need exposure to a broad spectrum early, get interested, and then have mentors that know how to run with it and harness that motivation. Later on these kids can tolerate learning more mundane, boring stuff if that brings them closer to a goal they have set for themself. But motivation has to come first!