Hacker News: simjnd

New comment by simjnd in "Mistral Medium 3.5"

simjnd — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:30:03 +0000

I'm not sure what people are on in the comments. It doesn't beat the other models, but it sure competes despite its size.

GLM 5.1 is an excellent model, but even at Q4 you're looking at ~400GB. Kimi K2.5 is really good too, and at Q4 quantization you're looking at almost ~600GB.

This model? You can run it at Q4 with 70GB of VRAM. This is approaching consumer level territory (you can get a Mac Studio with 128GB of RAM for ~3500 USD).

For the Claude-pilled people, I don't know if you only run Opus but when I was on the Pro plan Sonnet was already extremely capable. This beats the latest Sonnet while running locally, without anyone charging you extra for having HERMES.md in your repo, or locking you out of your account on a whim.

Mistral has never been competitive at the frontier, but maybe that is not what we need from them. Having Pareto models that get you 80% of the frontier at 20% of the cost/size sounds really good to me.

New comment by simjnd in "VibeVoice: Open-source frontier voice AI"

simjnd — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:53:43 +0000

What a terrible name

New comment by simjnd in "Laguna XS.2 and M.1"

simjnd — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:19:04 +0000

Probably a testament to how good Qwen3.6 is considering Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is not only ahead of their similar weight class XS.2 but also their M.1 (close to 10x bigger at 225B-A23B).

Interestingly, Gemma 4 26B-A4B and Qwen3.6 27B (dense) have been left out of the comparison.

The smaller models are becoming very good and quantization techniques like importance weighting and TurboQuant on model weights let you run aggressively quantized version (IQ2, TQ3_4S) on consumer hardware with extremely acceptable perplexity and quality loss.

Very exciting times for local LLMs.

New comment by simjnd in "NPM website was down"

simjnd — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:05:58 +0000

https://npmx.dev is not

PerryTS: Compile TypeScript to native executables with LLVM

simjnd — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:28:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.perryts.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826447

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Optimization of 32-bit Unsigned Division by Constants on 64-bit Targets

simjnd — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:23:35 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07902

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735118

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Maki – the efficient coder (AI agent)

simjnd — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:35:02 +0000

Article URL: https://maki.sh/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47725243

Points: 15

# Comments: 4

New comment by simjnd in "Improving Composer through real-time RL"

simjnd — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:17:53 +0000

Also from a security perspective. People have been able to extract copyrighted code / API keys some LLMs have been trained on before. If you opt-in to this, your / your company code will be used to train and improve the model. People may then be able to extract that from the model. Another threat vector.

New comment by simjnd in "Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM"

simjnd — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:11:04 +0000

Feedback from just 5 minutes of messing around.

- You can't delete the audio track from a video, only mute it

- You can't add a new Audio track

- Because of the two points above you can't really seem to be able to overlay a song to a video that already has an audio track?

- You can only scroll horizontally and not vertically in the track block, so tracks can go out of screen and remain invisible

New comment by simjnd in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

simjnd — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:50:01 +0000

I also think Steam does a great job a hiding it, and the new recommendation page is really great IMO. Other than some generic AAA, it introduced me to really great games I enjoyed based on my play history.

The more content is available, the more curation is important and IMO their algorithm currently does a good job at it.

New comment by simjnd in "A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch"

simjnd — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:06:50 +0000

It's not about productivity, it's about good posture

New comment by simjnd in "If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design"

simjnd — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 05:33:34 +0000

> The earliest icons aren't recognisable enough as they're too illustrative.

What? The fact that they have a unique silhouette alone make them so much more recognizable than all the other versions.

New comment by simjnd in "Apple Creator Studio"

simjnd — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:58:31 +0000

Great strawman dude (and even if that was my point, they didn't cool in isolation only, they looked good as part of an entire screen of icons too). The purpose of icon isn't to look cohesive within a brand either.

Look at the new Pixelmator icon: geometric shapes overlayed with Bezier Curve handles at the bottom. What does it look like? Vector design. What does the app do? The exact opposite, raster design, pixel painting. What the previous icon signaled.

The previous Compressor icon: A machine compressing film, because despite the name Compressor is for encoding video files. The new icon? Sure with the context of the label you will understand it's something being squeezed, but what? And without the label?

The previous Final Cut icon was unmistakably a movie slate. The new one almost looks like a radio. Why is the pattern under the body? Why is it only at on the bottom and not the top clapper stick?

How are the new ones superior design? How does it improve on anything? It's forcing everyone to learn new icons that convey are less clear, convey less meaning, look uglier, just to serve the corporate interests of "brand cohesion"?

macOS Tahoe icons are a regression on every single front. I invite you to compare Disk Utility (where is the disk now?), or Migration Assistant (where is the notion of migrating from old to new?). And these are just a few examples.

New comment by simjnd in "Apple Creator Studio"

simjnd — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:46:15 +0000

> There were similar negative reactions back ~15 years ago when Adobe switched to their minimalist icon style.

Adobe icons are terrible and should not be the standard. Photoshop 7, Illustrator 10, InDesign 2 were so much more memorable and recognizable than the lazy minimalist slop we have now. Even the first CS or CS2 icons were a thousand times better. The fact that the company behind the most powerful and popular creative software did this is unforgivable.

Some tasteless manager made a PowerPoint about "brand cohesion", got his promotion and ruined it for everybody else.

New comment by simjnd in "Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux"

simjnd — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:39:24 +0000

Yeah I never used or liked Launchpad. On macOS I only ever used Spotlight (and Raycast for the past few years).

The only redeeming thing I could say about Launchpad is that it did not replace Spotlight (unlike Windows 8 Start Menu which was a replacement to the previous start menu)

New comment by simjnd in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

simjnd — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:37:12 +0000

https://simji.co

New comment by simjnd in "Apple Creator Studio"

simjnd — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:01:58 +0000

They're definitely awful compared to the icons they're replacing. Losing so much identity and detail.

New comment by simjnd in "Apple Creator Studio"

simjnd — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:04:06 +0000

But Keynote, Pages and Numbers are already free

New comment by simjnd in "Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux"

simjnd — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:52:38 +0000

I also use the Windows key, but even then the WHOLE screen animating and changing to a different solid color was super jarring and tiring IMO. I much prefer a small popup like they have now

New comment by simjnd in "I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13"

simjnd — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:14:52 +0000

It's more a matter of effiency and battery life, and that's mostly due to Linux more than inherent to the Framework or its hardware (try running Asahi Linux on an M MacBook and just notice your battery life be cut in half).

I love my M1 Pro MacBook and I wish I could have the same efficiency when running Linux but I can't.

My Framework runs faster, but a lot hotter, louder and with a lot less battery life. But I feel like I'm supporting a good company, a good cause, and I love that I can do software updates without fearing that it fucked everything up like every major macOS release does.