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New comment by skhameneh in "WSL Manager"

skhameneh — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:26:41 +0000

So there’s a good number of comments, I’ll try to address them:

- Yes, these issues persist with WSL2.

- WSL2 allows mounting between the system/subsystem, but there is considerable overhead.

- Using WSL for remote workspaces from the host is very much a mixed bag.

- Attempting to use WSL entirely with graphical applications has very limited/poor support.

- If you wish for VM acceleration, you have to use Hyper-V, not all toolchains work with Hyper-V and this heavily restricts the host machine.

- If you wish to do anything that crosses the subsystem and the host, line delimiters and platform detection are very error prone.

- If you accidentally misconfigure WSL2 (which is quite easy to do) the WSL userspace can have substantial access to the host files, often beyond what may be initially apparent.

- Of compatibility issues, non-standard socket implementations have caused a lot of incompatibilities with software for me.

New comment by skhameneh in "WSL Manager"

skhameneh — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:27:16 +0000

This is great and all... Except I’ve long given up on WSL. I really tried to make WSL work for many things, only to find the entire experience (reliability, performance, and beyond) was simply better in every way without Windows.

No matter what you do, there will always be some weird platform detection or line termination that pops up somewhere. And if it isn’t that, it’s degraded performance or kernel-level incompatibility.

New comment by skhameneh in "Qwen3-Coder-Next"

skhameneh — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:38:51 +0000

It’s hard to elaborate just how wild this model might be if it performs as claimed. The claims are this can perform close to Sonnet 4.5 for assisted coding (SWE bench) while using only 3B active parameters. This is obscenely small for the claimed performance.

New comment by skhameneh in "Step 3.5 Flash LLM model, agentic coding ~18x faster than GLM 4.7 / Kimi K2.5"

skhameneh — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:36:18 +0000

This model is very impressive for the size and the architecture enables incredible speed.

Thus far community comments suggest the performance claims are real. However, the region gating for the company’s main website does seem odd.

Step 3.5 Flash LLM model, agentic coding ~18x faster than GLM 4.7 / Kimi K2.5

skhameneh — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:36:18 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/stepfun-ai/Step-3.5-Flash

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46863873

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by skhameneh in "FAA institutes nationwide drone no-fly zones around ICE operations"

skhameneh — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 06:35:01 +0000

Historically, the FAA had zero interest/jurisdiction in most hobbyist aircraft below 500 feet, they would not even bother entertaining such as it was not relevant to their opperations. Helicopters, planes, and quadcopters could be flown freely under general guidance, with no actual enforcing regulations. These were largely not seen as something the FAA had jurisdiction over, nor did the FAA express any interest. It was widely accepted that fields away from an airport and at low altitude were outside of controlled airspace.

Then come affordable drones and suddenly the FAA attempts to exert full regulation over the space.

To answer your question, roughly 2012 is when this started.

New comment by skhameneh in "FAA institutes nationwide drone no-fly zones around ICE operations"

skhameneh — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:16:27 +0000

It's been overreach since the start of FAA claims on low altitude space.

From what I understand their jurisdiction didn't begin until 500 feet into the air.

Not only is it overreach, it's encouraging impediments on what has been largely considered private property.

New comment by skhameneh in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

skhameneh — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:09:37 +0000

Also, a less efficient option with less “tech” would be a Silverado WT (work truck), those have a lot of range and sometimes you can find them for good used prices. Those are a hit or miss for deals because the MSRP is on the higher end.

New comment by skhameneh in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

skhameneh — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:06:35 +0000

For cheap, the 2018 and later Nissan Leafs (old tech) or an Ariya (new tech, nothing notably exciting.

Maybe also check out Ioniq 5, EV6, Equinox, etc.

FWIW, my wife drives a Mach-E and I drive a Fisker Ocean. The Mach-E is very comfortable but tends to be a bit higher in price than some other options. The Fisker Ocean is.. (from what you’ve said) probably not for you.

New comment by skhameneh in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

skhameneh — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 02:13:36 +0000

This does read/interpret a bit odd, because the Hummer H2 doesn’t strike me as a reliable vehicle and I’ve generally heard of them to be cost sinks (completely disregarding the horrible efficiency).

Why not start off looking at the cheapest EV or PHEV that you can find without high mileage that’ll fit your daily driving habits, then give it a test drive? Consider how much monthly expenses will cost (might save ~90% on fuel) and then consider if you like the driving characteristics more.

New comment by skhameneh in "LLM Optimized Engineering Principles"

skhameneh — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 04:21:25 +0000

I’m sharing a prompt/template/document created to weight context with engineering principles.

The goal is to weight initial context with principles to improve software development when using LLMs.

LLM Optimized Engineering Principles

skhameneh — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 04:21:25 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/skhameneh/principles

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46508696

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by skhameneh in "Agentic Patterns"

skhameneh — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 04:23:38 +0000

I didn't have the patience to click through after visiting a few pages only to find the depth lacking.

About an hour ago or so I used Opus 4.5 to give me a flat list with summaries. I tried to post it here as a comment but it was too long and I didn't bother to split it up. They all seem to be things I've heard of in one way another, but nothing that really stood out for me. Don't get me wrong, they're decent concepts and it's clear others appreciate this resource more than I.

Recursive Language Models: the paradigm of 2026

skhameneh — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:45:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/rlm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458385

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by skhameneh in "Publishing your work increases your luck"

skhameneh — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:49:06 +0000

> I can't stop any megacorp from training on my code, and it's futile to try.

I do not like this take and I do hope you reconsider repeating such. This very much reads as accepting a lack of any claim to reasonable privacy and ownership, borderline on accepting what I would consider theft.

New comment by skhameneh in "Publishing your work increases your luck"

skhameneh — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:38:07 +0000

I have no doubt your intentions were good and I am a fan of open-source myself. Unfortunately, since this was written, it’s become more widely known and commonplace for large corporations to disproportionally benefit from open source.

And that wouldn’t bother so many as much if it weren’t for the fact that large corporations often do not give back. It’s become so much of an issue that OSS maintainers have switched licenses, some have shifted closed-source, and others have simply abandoned their projects.

Just last week I began rethinking usage of MIT/Apache licenses for future work. For the longest time I was hesitant about GPLv3 and almost scared to use in my personal projects, but it turns out my hesitations were fueled by...large corporations.

New comment by skhameneh in "A guide to local coding models"

skhameneh — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 07:10:39 +0000

ik_llama is almost always faster when tuned. However, when untuned I've found them to be very similar in performance with varied results as to which will perform better.

But vLLM and Sglang tend to be faster than both of those.

New comment by skhameneh in "Big GPUs don't need big PCs"

skhameneh — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:24:22 +0000

There is plenty that can run within 32/64/96gb VRAM. IMO models like Phi-4 are underrated for many simple tasks. Some quantized Gemma 3 are quite good as well.

There are larger/better models as well, but those tend to really push the limits of 96gb.

FWIW when you start pushing into 128gb+, the ~500gb models really start to become attractive because at that point you’re probably wanting just a bit more out of everything.

New comment by skhameneh in "Big GPUs don't need big PCs"

skhameneh — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:15:18 +0000

In theory, it’s only sufficient for pipeline parallel due to limited lanes and interconnect bandwidth.

Generally, scalability on consumer GPUs falls off between 4-8 GPUs for most. Those running more GPUs are typically using a higher quantity of smaller GPUs for cost effectiveness.

New comment by skhameneh in "I made a quieter air purifier"

skhameneh — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:29:24 +0000

At first glance, it appears to have lower negative pressure and a much higher filter surface area than most air purifiers.

AFAIK PC fans are designed to move air at low pressure while quality air purifiers are designed to handle more pressure.

Other than that, it’s a neat writeup. Would like to see a follow-up with static pressure considerations.