Hacker News: sznio

New comment by sznio in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

sznio — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:27:11 +0000

use a quantized version. since it's MoE, what matters is that the 3b parameters that are used for every token fit in gpu vram, the rest can stay in system ram. really great if you don't have unified memory.

New comment by sznio in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

sznio — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:25:34 +0000

quantized + offload

I have an RX 6700 XT with 12gb vram and 64gb system ram. running dense models like 27b is difficult, but i can run IQ4/IQ5 qwen 122b-a10b or 35b-a3b at ~20tok/s

New comment by sznio in "Kimi K3's Design Secret May Be in Its Thinking Traces"

sznio — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:36:27 +0000

why does newer Claude reject this

New comment by sznio in "'My life's screwed': Korean investors stress out after AI bubble bursts"

sznio — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:12:25 +0000

>bursts

so it's bursting now?

New comment by sznio in "Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac"

sznio — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:54:22 +0000

at that much ram you can just load it outright without tricks. it will be much faster even if it ends up swapping.

New comment by sznio in "Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac"

sznio — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:53:09 +0000

Nice. Gemma feels nice to write with but every time I use it for coding it struggles with tool calling significantly.

New comment by sznio in "Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac"

sznio — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:51:01 +0000

distill. start with a general model, then create a smaller model trained only on relevant coding examples.

New comment by sznio in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

sznio — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:09:59 +0000

Let's just settle it with pigeons, chickens and turkeys.

Maybe too early for the turkeys right now...

New comment by sznio in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

sznio — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:07:48 +0000

I as a random Pole with a lefty euroenthusiast stance would gladly accept the Pantheon or Notre Damme. I'd prefer Colosseum and Eiffel tower though.

The blandness comes from the fact that the EU has to tiptoe around the nationalists which will be upset that a country they don't like gets a banknote, and possibly even worse - they didn't get one.

Reading back both your and my post I guess it's the radicals of either stance who the EU desperately needs to cater to, resulting in generic designs. It's erasing itself like any institution with a 1-member veto.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberum_veto

New comment by sznio in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

sznio — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:53:22 +0000

I don't think any of these buildings has the recognizability potential. I could recognize the Commission too since I see it on TV every day, but others are generic offices. The White House has a distinct shape. The Capitol has a distinct shape. The Pentagon absolutely has a distinct shape.

I don't think the ECB will ever be recognizable (or at least won't become recognized via exposure), since it's just a glass tower like thousands of others.

New comment by sznio in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

sznio — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:49:48 +0000

they could put the ECB on the 500€ since a money factory is a decent image to put on a banknote, and follows the original bridge series theme of ancient-modern.

but find some actually nice buildings to put on the rest

New comment by sznio in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

sznio — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:39:19 +0000

oh attempting to put anyone from what now is ex-Jugoslavia on a banknote is a recipe for yet another genocide

New comment by sznio in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

sznio — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:36:19 +0000

I think the whole original bridge and doorway was representing the whole idea of the Euro. The bridge between various nations, the doorway into a larger market.

As the EU is slowly growing beyond just economical ties I assume it tries to form a pan-european identity, hence why some famous European people. And Skłodowska to entice the Poles to drop their currency and finally join the Eurozone.

I still don't know who is it that they placed on the 5€ banknote

New comment by sznio in "Why Would Meta Download So Much Porn?"

sznio — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:42:17 +0000

to train models to detect and remove porn from their platforms

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New comment by sznio in "Claude Opus 5"

sznio — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 05:16:49 +0000

If it's "read as an article" or something then yeah it's crap and Fable's current style isn't actually better than older models. For flowery speech old models are perfectly fine.

For quickly parsing the agent output, it's formulaism isn't a bad thing.

Fable's writing does have a property of going over my head, which didn't happen with earlier agents. Asking for clarification doesn't really give good results.

We've gone full circle where I once again use classical search just to look up what the fuck it's yapping about. It's much quicker and more accurate to take a glance at Wikipedia, than to ask the agent.

New comment by sznio in "When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?"

sznio — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 05:43:43 +0000

near sure, i live in a city and people have lines right next to their homes, but never right above them because that's what causes issues.

New comment by sznio in "Show HN: Claude-thermos – keeps your Claude session warm for you"

sznio — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:28:11 +0000

you use more memory?

New comment by sznio in "Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

sznio — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:16:36 +0000

yep, theft but not plagiarism.

New comment by sznio in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

sznio — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:25:01 +0000

i assume openai is trying to beat anthropic at any cost, and made a training regiment that makes agents manic

New comment by sznio in "When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?"

sznio — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:01:35 +0000

you've never walked under a high voltage power line? even driving a car under it you can hear the radio being weird. i assume it can make life miserable for a ham radio enthusiast. also, walking beneath one, you can hear the crackle, which is why nobody places a power line above homes.

as for them causing leukemia i'd not consider that realistic