Hacker News: skiing_crawling

New comment by skiing_crawling in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

skiing_crawling — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:49:29 +0000

This is phone OS developer's fault for even allowing it. When I take a screenshot, I expect to have an image of exactly whatever was displayed on the screen at the time. Its not a picture of your app, its a picture of my screen. Some banking apps used to (or still) prevent this and now some apps get a hook to insert their branding. My device serves some master other than myself.

New comment by skiing_crawling in "Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It"

skiing_crawling — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:01:31 +0000

This has that weird "AI written" sentence structure.

New comment by skiing_crawling in "GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally"

skiing_crawling — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:26:08 +0000

"it can fit" on 256GB of RAM, but it will be heavily quantized and still run very slowly. The headline number is not token generation, its prompt processing. So if you get 10 tok/s and an API gives you 20-30 tok/s, it doesn't seem that bad on its face, but a mac studio or any other machine that's not loading all of it into GPU will do PP 20-50X slower than a purely GPU based setup, which is what actually makes this unusable without $50k in GPUs.

On top of that, you will still be heavily quantized.

New comment by skiing_crawling in "Dallas Fed: 30% of housing cost increase driven by unauthorized immigration [pdf]"

skiing_crawling — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:30:02 +0000

unauthorized? Are they trying to find a middle ground word between "illegal" and "undocumented"?

New comment by skiing_crawling in "Show HN: We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing"

skiing_crawling — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:28:34 +0000

Any generic abliterated or ubcensored open weight model (such as a qwen variant) will happily comply with requests like this.

New comment by skiing_crawling in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

skiing_crawling — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:47:23 +0000

Maybe some (or many) people believe that more people will make it less "lovely". I think this is a popular stance and I think many people are more than satisfied with the current population density of their area.

New comment by skiing_crawling in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

skiing_crawling — Mon, 25 May 2026 04:21:36 +0000

Does my concern somehow become less valid because I'm American? Everyone should be thinking carefully about which of their data is going where.

New comment by skiing_crawling in "DeepSeek to Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model"

skiing_crawling — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:09:48 +0000

I guess I was speaking as an American, we have good domestically hosted options so although it’s probably not ideal to send this kind of data/control anywhere at all, it’s definitely a worse option for us to send it to china vs to an American company. Every user of this service has made their machines trivially exposed to become a botnet. Im wondering why I don’t see this angle more discussed in here.

Again I’m not saying you should trust an American company necessarily more than a Chinese one, but as an American, I probably can.

New comment by skiing_crawling in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

skiing_crawling — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:46:02 +0000

I’m worried about giving a foreign hosted service access to my machine for a coding agent that can run arbitrary commands and read arbitrary files. Coding agent are much more useless if you have to sit there clicking approve on everything.

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

skiing_crawling — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:41:30 +0000

I recently built a system at insane ddr4 prices ($2000 for 256gb). But that’s only after seeing how ddr5 prices were 3-4x that!

New comment by skiing_crawling in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

skiing_crawling — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:39:10 +0000

Using an Epyc platform to get plenty of PCIe lanes and memory channels. I have couple of extra 3090s plugged in which get some offload and help with larger models that don't fit entirely on the blackwell.

New comment by skiing_crawling in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

skiing_crawling — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:08:02 +0000

> Even if LLMs fail spectacularly

Haven't they already proven to be extremely useful? In some areas they are definitely here to stay, coding/software and search (retrieve and summarize information). There's a bunch of places where they are surely shoehorned in, overhyped, and don't belong, but there's also equally many places where they might still be transformative but aren't used yet.

But overall I think the technology is well proven.

New comment by skiing_crawling in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

skiing_crawling — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:57:50 +0000

You can get 70-80 tps on qwen3.6-27b f16 with MTP on a single card

New comment by skiing_crawling in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

skiing_crawling — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:08:56 +0000

I got an RTX 6000 pro too. I like running locally, I've learned a lot more than if I had used an API and there's less worry about overspending tokens. I accidentally spent $100 on claude api in like 2 days because I didn't know what I was doing.

The problem is that while one these gpus is a huge improvement over a laptop or a single 3090, you very quickly wish you had more. I would buy a second one, but I did the math and realized that with the current crop of models, 2 Blackwells doesn't buy me any new capability that I didn't have with one. So I would need a 3rd one. And when I buy a 3rd one I will feel like I want to running a higher quant, so then I will want a 4th.

New comment by skiing_crawling in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

skiing_crawling — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:23:31 +0000

At this point IPOs are mainly for unloading bags onto retail. Every institution who wanted a piece of these labs got in years ago and captured all the value.

New comment by skiing_crawling in "Google Search as you know it is over"

skiing_crawling — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:10:27 +0000

I use claude/gemini as my homepage now (I have to keep switching as these companies make "updates" that periodically render their models useless). Even if I want to search for simple things, I would rather have an LLM wade through the result and extract just the information I asked for. SEO, and now mountains of slop content have made this necessary. Only a matter of time before the SEO industry in large figures out how to game LLMs too, making them equally useless.

I already saw a article recently about how to set up a business domain which can reliably show up in a search result and dump overly positive reviews into anyone's context.

New comment by skiing_crawling in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

skiing_crawling — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:10:57 +0000

They won't, its literally part of their sales funnel. They've specifically engineered a bad experience for anyone outside the ecosystem by making it all of their friend's problem too. Its very important for their stock price that text messages sent by non apple products are just slightly more difficult to read.

New comment by skiing_crawling in "Codex-maxxing"

skiing_crawling — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:55:03 +0000

triggered me with that first sentence

New comment by skiing_crawling in "Codex-maxxing"

skiing_crawling — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:47:34 +0000

Is this LLM psychosis? So much tending and conversing with the matmuls but what was the outcome? Are people who get this into it more successful somehow? It reminds me of people who take drugs and get "revelations" but then are not particularly over represented in the group of successful people for all of their deep insights.

New comment by skiing_crawling in "AI is a technology not a product"

skiing_crawling — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:56:37 +0000

I've been using Siri (via homekit) to turn all my lights on and off for about 3 years now. It's steadily getting worse and worse as somehow, Siri is becoming less accurate and Apple is failing to adopt this new technology in a timely fashion.

I would like to tell it to turn off certain light in a certain room, but unless I get the exact string name of those light correct when I speak, Siri doesn't know what I'm talking about. And it can't do multiple things in a command. I can't say "turn off all the lights in XYZ room" or turn of "this light and this light".

Meanwhile, I can vaguely tell a computer behind my tv to do very complicated things (build me an service that ...) and it can execute on it fairly well. But in apple's "product vision" which I am apparently too dumb to decide for myself what I want, I can't ask for two lights to be turned off at the same time.