Hacker News: rubiquity

New comment by rubiquity in "Raft Consensus with a Minority of Nodes"

rubiquity — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:49:04 +0000

Heidi's more abstract work on generalizing consensus as grids/matrices of intersecting registers is geoemtric.

New comment by rubiquity in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

rubiquity — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:19:14 +0000

I think it's fair to say they had achieved product-market fit when their revenues were growing deep triple digits month over month. What we're seeing now is that perhaps they have achieved profitability or at the least a more sustainable balance sheet.

New comment by rubiquity in "Raft Consensus with a Minority of Nodes"

rubiquity — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:02:17 +0000

This was already known to be true by Heidi Howard’s research that yielded Flexible Paxos[0], Relaxed Paxos[1], and her more general thesis on Distributed consensus[2] as a whole

0 - https://fpaxos.github.io/

1 - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3517209.3524040

2 - https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-935.pdf

New comment by rubiquity in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

rubiquity — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:26:10 +0000

AWS has CLIs and SDKs in many languages.

New comment by rubiquity in "The OpenAI Deployment Company"

rubiquity — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:30:44 +0000

People laugh at this, myself included in the past, but it works. I remember scoffing at AWS partnering with Deloitte and Accenture over a decade ago. My exact thoughts were "Our technology is great, why do we need these people to sell it?", and it turns out that selling to enterprises at scale is a lot more like an American high school experience than anything else.

New comment by rubiquity in "10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home"

rubiquity — Fri, 01 May 2026 05:10:16 +0000

This is what I ended up doing. A 2.5G switch for the few devices that can use it and a 1Gbit+PoE switch for all the other PoE and 1Gbit and less devices.

New comment by rubiquity in "Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model"

rubiquity — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:54:22 +0000

I use Pi at home and Claude Code at work (no choice). I use bone stock Pi. No extensions.

New comment by rubiquity in "Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model"

rubiquity — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:51:11 +0000

You should try it out. I'm incredibly impressed with Qwen 3.5 27B for systems programming work. I use Opus and Sonnet at work and Qwen 3.x at home for fun and barely notice a difference given that systems programming work needs careful guidance for any model currently. I don't try to one shot landing pages or whatever.

New comment by rubiquity in "Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model"

rubiquity — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:46:09 +0000

At 8-bit quantization (q8_0) I get 20 tokens per second on a Radeon R9700.

New comment by rubiquity in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

rubiquity — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:25:03 +0000

Wouldn’t Cursor agreeing to such a deal be almost ironclad proof they are subsidizing tokens/inference out the ass? There’s wide speculation all the large revenue growing companies right now are selling inference at break even or a loss.

New comment by rubiquity in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

rubiquity — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:20:00 +0000

Are the mainboards and upgrade kits available for purchase now or just the whole laptop?

edit: I think I found it: https://frame.work/products/laptop13pro-mainboard-intel-ultr...

New comment by rubiquity in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

rubiquity — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:40:12 +0000

He doesn't work at Vercel but he is the type to never pass up any opportunity to chase clout.

New comment by rubiquity in "Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD"

rubiquity — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:31:31 +0000

I have both HW3 (2021 Y) and HW4 (2025 3). FSD in the HW4 is a delight. FSD in HW3 phantom brakes constantly both back when FSD was a pile of C++ and now with the "Lite" driving model. I don't see how Tesla can ever make FSD suitable on HW3 given the hardware (<200 TOPS).

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

rubiquity — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:10:29 +0000

You are right that it is an environment variable, and that's how I have it set in my nix config. Thanks for correcting that.

Unfortunately llama.cpp is somewhat notorious for having lackluster docs. Most of the CLI tools don't even tell you what they are for.

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

rubiquity — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:39:10 +0000

Have you tried running llama.cpp with Unified Memory Access[1] so your iGPU can seamlessly grab some of the RAM? The environment variable is prefixed with CUDA but this is not CUDA specific. It made a pretty significant difference (> 40% tg/s) on my Ryzen 7840U laptop.

1 - https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/docs/build...

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

rubiquity — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:34:48 +0000

Not sure why you're being downvoted, I guess it's because how your reply is worded. Anyway, Qwen3.7 35B-A3B should have intelligence on par with a 10.25B parameter model so yes Qwen3.5 27B is going to outperform it still in terms of quality of output, especially for long horizon tasks.

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

rubiquity — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:24:19 +0000

Could be on a bike path where bikes are on the left and pedestrians to the right.

New comment by rubiquity in "Copilot is 'for entertainment purposes only', per Microsoft's terms of use"

rubiquity — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:17:11 +0000

All Microsoft services are for entertainment purposes only, as in you’d have to be absolutely crazy enough to use before a Microsoft sales rep has taken your execs to a steakhouse and strip club.

New comment by rubiquity in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

rubiquity — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:12:32 +0000

The optionality of consuming services from places other than internet titans for one would be nice.

New comment by rubiquity in "Vulnerability research is cooked"

rubiquity — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:53:59 +0000

I was distracted by the picture of the ingredients to a Final Ward being at the top of the page.