<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: sspiff</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sspiff</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:18:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sspiff" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The setup script often runs privileged (by calling sudo) and that's not unexpected when installing new software.<p>When I install something, and it asks for my root password later, I will be much more likely to think "hold up, this ain't right".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:14:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49954601</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49954601</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49954601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Any future plans you can share to further evolve / train models in this size class?<p>It seems like a very suitable size for local AI models on reasonably high end consumer devices, given it's low active parameter count and a mixed 8bit/4bit quant would fit easily inside 64GB of memory.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:30:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49949303</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49949303</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49949303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Off topic for sure, but why do people insist on using X/Twitter in this day and age?<p>The majority of people are not on it, and the links are gated by a ton of toxic dark patterns and horrible UX trying to force people to sign up or log in.<p>I try to click on the image to enlarge and make the text readable, and I'm greeted with a login screen instead of a larger image.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:38:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906514</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906514</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They run one step/iteration on an additional chunk of training data, then use the snapshot of the weights after that iteration in a separate validation benchmark while continuing to train on another chunk of data for the next iteration.<p>They result of the benchmark does not feed back into the training, it simply serves to provide a measurement of progression over time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:14:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49739686</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49739686</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49739686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "One year of sponsored Servo development"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Google still tries to sabotage Firefox experience on Google Apps, especially Meet but also YouTube and sometimes Google Sheets/Docs as well.<p>They want to degrade the experience just enough to get you fed up with FF and go (back) to Chrome, without making it absolutely obvious that's what they're doing.<p>They often label these things as "regressions" because they don't test on Firefox and take forever to fix them. But I can't help but believe it's intentional.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:26:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49739221</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49739221</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49739221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can someone explain to me why such farms exist? Who benefits, other than Google?<p>The farm doesn't gain anything, the only thing it does is waste the advertisers money?<p>What's the play for the farm operator?</p>
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<p>I'd much rather have them ban alcohol and mandate stricter testing of drivers and vehicle safety than banning non-autonomous driving.<p>Driving older cars is one of the simple things that bring me joy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:17:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49644127</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49644127</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49644127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "DeepSeek v4.1 Flash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Similar to countries putting democratic in their name being the least democratic, like the Deutsche Demokratische Republik and Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:16:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49644093</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49644093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49644093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "I advertise malicious software on Google Ads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are begging you to spend your ad budget elsewhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:04:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49625900</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49625900</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49625900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This resonates with me. The past few months, frontier AI labs were rushing to announce "no, our AI bot broke out of its sandbox and committed crime first and harder than yours".<p>I said to so friends back then: if I posted about how I ran GLM 5.2 or whatever I was running then in some shoddily built sandbox and it escaped and accidentally hacked some US company, I'd probably already have been extradited to the US and be awaiting sentencing. But when a hyperscaler does it, they just get inflated stock prices.</p>
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<p>I'm guessing they acquired it mostly exchanging stocks. Which I guess is an indication that their stock is overvalued right now if they're willing to overpay by that much.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:10:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720315</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720315</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "Rocketlab acquires Iridium"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are trying.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:09:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720291</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720291</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes but it depends what you want. I didn't want to spend 8k (or now 11k) for a video card that I couldn't run without turning my home office into a boiler room and pay through the nose in electricity.<p>I wanted a laptop that could run some medium sized LLMs locally and experiment with. Strix Halo is great for that. But it was also 2800 euros for a 128GB premium laptop. Not 7899 like it is now.<p>Shame it broke out of warranty.</p>
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<p>Yeah it isn't worth it, but comparing a server with a laptop is also not a relevant comparison.<p>I didn't get a Strix Halo laptop because it was the best bang per buck, I got it because it was an awesome machine that could do a little bit of everything, fit in a backpack and only needed 140W.<p>But noone should buy one at 7899, obviously. It was a tough sell for me at the old 2800 pricing.</p>
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<p>You are comparing US pricing with EU pricing. EU pricing includes 21% VAT and currency conversion "rounding up".<p>The cheapest 128GB Macbook Pro here costs €7.949,00.<p>No doubt a better value than the HP, and will depreciate a lot less quickly, but just as expensive. Unfortunately, not being able to run Linux is a breaking point for me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:11:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48709869</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48709869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48709869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had a Strix Halo laptop with 128GB which unfortunately died last week. I paid 2800 euro for it. If I buy the same machine today, the sticker price is 7899.<p>The device was not perfect by any means, but the ability to run fairly large models is some kind of magic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 07:55:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48705313</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48705313</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48705313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I have yet to see a documented example of a system prompt leak that was NOT the real system prompt. Have you seen one?<p>I have yet to see a convincing proof that there is a teapot in an orbit around the sun between earth and mars.<p>The people who can debunk these system prompts claims have zero incentive to do so.<p>The fact that a lot of these "leaks" happen yet non of the prompts are the same or even seem to be different iterations of the same family of system prompts, should tell you all you need to know.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 05:58:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263850</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263850</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Posts like these happen every other week with people thinking they've got some magic sauce.<p>Every time it turns out to be hallucinations.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 13:21:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222198</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222198</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "StarFighter 16-Inch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To consumers. You can sell to businesses.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 06:08:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032834</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032834</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>OP, the Badger Badger link is leading to a wiki page about the dead Internet theory.<p>Here's the correct link for all to enjoy: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI</a><p>Used to be just a Flash animation on Weebl's stuff, but preserved on YouTube by the OG :)</p>
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