Hacker News: skiing_crawling

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

skiing_crawling — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:42:26 +0000

I used to run qwen3.5 27b Q4_k_M on a single 3090 with these llama-server flags successfully: `-ngl 99 -c 262144 -fa on --cache-type-k q4_0 --cache-type-v q4_0`

New comment by skiing_crawling in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

skiing_crawling — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:20:43 +0000

I can't understand why this is a surprise to anyone. An iphone is still a computer, of course it can run any model that fits in storage albiet very slowly. The implementation is impressive I guess but I don't see how this is a novel capability. And for 0.6t/s, its not a cost efficient hardware for doing it. The iphone can also render pixar movies if you let it run long enough, mine bitcoin with a pathetic hashrate, and do weather simulations but not in time for the forecast to be relevant.

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

skiing_crawling — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 01:16:46 +0000

What would be really awesome is if it could use the server its hosted on's GPUs. I have a multi GPU server and it would be great to be able to edit videos from my table or couch without spinning up my laptop so hard.

New comment by skiing_crawling in "Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers"

skiing_crawling — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:54:34 +0000

An interesting point is, SoundTouch has always had a local API available (publicly documented) on a web server that runs on a speaker (at least for the last 10+ years).

New comment by skiing_crawling in "A faster heart for F-Droid"

skiing_crawling — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:17:54 +0000

A "single server" covers a pretty large range of scale, its more about how F-droid is used and perceived. Package repos are infrastructure, and reliability is important. A server behind someone's TV is much more susceptible to power outages, network issues, accidents, and tampering. Again, I don't know that's the case since they didn't really say anything specific.

> not hosted in just any data center where commodity hardware is managed by some unknown staff

I took this to mean it's not in a colo facility either, assumed it mean't someone's home, AKA residential power and internet.

New comment by skiing_crawling in "A faster heart for F-Droid"

skiing_crawling — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:50:49 +0000

I never questioned or thought twice about F-Droid's trustworthiness until I read that. It makes it sound like a very amateurish operation.

I had passively assumed something like this would be a Cloud VM + DB + buckets. The "hardware upgrade" they are talking about would have been a couple clicks to change the VM type, a total nothingburger. Now I can only imagine a janky setup in some random (to me) guy's closet.

In any case, I'm more curious to know exactly what kind hardware is required for F-Droid, they didn't mention any specifics about CPU, Memory, Storage etc.