Hacker News: rvba

New comment by rvba in "Win16 Memory Management"

rvba — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:05:03 +0000

You had to figure out so much on your own back then - and reinvent the wheel.

For me it is fascinating how today I can learn a foreign language, or how to code by interacting with the LLM.

New comment by rvba in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

rvba — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:55:50 +0000

Getting rid of UEFI is bad?

New comment by rvba in "Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel"

rvba — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:05:15 +0000

The people scraping were too dumb to do it so far, but you just reminded them to start doing it.

Alrhough technically HN could detect bots opening tons of profiles and feed them wrong data.

New comment by rvba in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

rvba — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:03:06 +0000

You mean 22k unique visitors per day making 13k comments and tons of web scraping bots?

Data from 2022, so if we multiply it by 2 I would say 26k real hacker news users.

Wasnt the stat that for 1 creator there are 10 commenters and 1000 viewers?

New comment by rvba in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

rvba — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:59:00 +0000

Alphabet still cant fix search in Android Play store, so it works

New comment by rvba in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

rvba — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:22:22 +0000

Because twitter helped elect those who set the rules now.

New comment by rvba in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

rvba — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:21:13 +0000

I doubt that a FAANG programmer from hacker news has to work till they die. You are doing something wrong.

Current system isnt great but works. Just fear uncertainity doubt here.

New comment by rvba in "Ask HN: Gen model to 1) design characters 2) make a consistent comic with them?"

rvba — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:01:59 +0000

Thank you for the detailed reply! I want to learn

My idea was to go with a "generic" super hero color comic book look. But can be something else too. In fact each character could be different, as long as they stay consistent (-ish).

On a side note, in real comics & manga they start with character design / references too.

Any tips what tools / how to fine tune Lora?

New comment by rvba in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

rvba — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:39:24 +0000

As someone doing this for fun on a windows 11 machine (96gb ram, 5090 24gb) I wonder if I need any flags to keep the model in memory and avoid swapping to ssd?

I use LM studio and qwen3.5 35B - but never figured out if it is swapping or not.

Om am unrelated note, does anyone know a model that can help with this use case:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301635

New comment by rvba in "Ask HN: Gen model to 1) design characters 2) make a consistent comic with them?"

rvba — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:53:00 +0000

What model allows that?

Preferably one that can be self hosted

New comment by rvba in "Last.fm is now independent"

rvba — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:37:14 +0000

I think pandora had the best recommendations - because it was based on real human input, not AI and not even "group think".

Sadly many years ago pandora bacame US only, so I couldnt use it (did not bother with VPN).

Ask HN: Gen model to 1) design characters 2) make a consistent comic with them?

rvba — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:28:31 +0000

I am looking for a generative model that can make a drawings based on an RPG campaign I had with my friends.

The idea is to create consistent character designs of each character first (say ogre, mage, dragonborn)

and then use those designs for panels that would be based on my inputs about the story (I have notes from a longer campaign).

The models I know / tried are not consistent at all.

They dont store the character design, so each panel is different in style (apart from those model that generate designs ripped off from Studio Ghibli).

Is there any free or paid model that allows that?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301635

Points: 4

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New comment by rvba in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

rvba — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:31:26 +0000

Apple is very far from anything gaming related - tons of games just dont work. And top tier gaming is pc gaming.

New comment by rvba in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

rvba — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:14:48 +0000

Maybe there were no errors and a certain techbro helped with the counting machines so right wing could win?

New comment by rvba in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

rvba — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:59:11 +0000

PIS party works to ruin it, republican style.

New comment by rvba in "US in closely-guarded talks to open new bases in Greenland"

rvba — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:12:34 +0000

Definitely not a trojan horse /s

New comment by rvba in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

rvba — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:55:01 +0000

Really riles up PE types and "patriots" though.

New comment by rvba in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

rvba — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:10:09 +0000

One of the first things I did when openAI came out was asking it "which active politican is a spy?" - and it was blocked from the start.

I asked early, at the time people were posting various jailbreaks, never worked.

On a side note, any self hosted model I can get for my PC? I have 96 GB of RAM.

New comment by rvba in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

rvba — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:55:37 +0000

Did anything come out from those billions?

New comment by rvba in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"

rvba — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:07:14 +0000

What does a soldier / pollitical appointment know about finance?