Hacker News: slim

New comment by slim in "Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight"

slim — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:50:26 +0000

If Mélenchon wins it will evolve to an even stronger stance against imperialism. He is labeled "anti-american"

New comment by slim in "Study: Blue light impairs the eye's ability to distinguish fine detail most"

slim — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:38:27 +0000

Ils this new research ? Why is it for me common knowledge ? Everyone knows blue light looks blurry because blue retina receptors have lower definition

New comment by slim in "Run Qwen3.8 27B locally: real numbers from my Mac Studio"

slim — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:10:59 +0000

I run qwen3.8 on 5060ti 16G RAM. If you can do with Q3 and 64k of context. It works great at 25t/s

New comment by slim in "Dolly Parton has died"

slim — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:02:39 +0000

first time I hear that song and to my ear, the song was recorded at that speed, then sped up in production.

New comment by slim in "My Friend Aaron"

slim — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:41:01 +0000

we've been primed by the articles from jstor recently posted on hn

New comment by slim in "A Friendly Introduction to Racket"

slim — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:42:02 +0000

because autocad is scripted in lisp ?

New comment by slim in "Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement"

slim — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:58:36 +0000

llama.cpp can run MoE with some layers in vram and some layers in ram

New comment by slim in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

slim — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:07:48 +0000

you can have cz samples in the upcoming Casio SXC-1 ! toy sampler is the new toy synthesizer

New comment by slim in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

slim — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:20:50 +0000

government subsidy

New comment by slim in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

slim — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:34:12 +0000

was sarcasm. sorry for that

New comment by slim in "Mea Culpa – Dark Hours"

slim — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:36:31 +0000

is there evidence that this person is real ?

New comment by slim in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

slim — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:47:21 +0000

no, which obviously implies involvement from US government

New comment by slim in "Western Sahara"

slim — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:04:35 +0000

the states did not expell the jews. israel scared them out of their countries after ww2 to use them as colonizers in palestine.

New comment by slim in "Software for One"

slim — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:31:25 +0000

it's interesting that the cult of work common to capitalism and communism has no appropriate "ism" by itself

New comment by slim in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

slim — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:50:09 +0000

UK is not europe

New comment by slim in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

slim — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:45:00 +0000

the solution is not to travel with your phone. Most people don't travel that much and do it essentially for holiday. So having a factory reset phone for traveling is totally doable. That's what I do

New comment by slim in "Should you wash your solar panels?"

slim — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:10:04 +0000

looks like the planet is warming at the same rate your panels are decaying

New comment by slim in "Our position on open-weights models"

slim — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:35:40 +0000

despite all evidence, this white guy thinks he is more responsible than both chinese entrepreneurs and chinese authorities

New comment by slim in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment"

slim — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:52:39 +0000

I get 66 tps on one. so 100 on two seems plausible to me

New comment by slim in "Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop"

slim — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:01:32 +0000

  LLMs are really only capable of combining different things into output

what makes believe humans can do more than this ?

it's a real question. I've seen a lot of people stating that the human mind "is more than this" as if it was obvious