Hacker News: tempoponet

New comment by tempoponet in "Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware"

tempoponet — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:37:25 +0000

My take as well. The dual-3090 and dual-spark configs have an outsized voice in this conversation. I'd add pipeline parallelism vs tensor parallelism and in the case of TP setting your lanes and speeds per card.

New comment by tempoponet in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

tempoponet — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:58:47 +0000

I might have said the same thing in 2023, but any coding CLI installed on Linux can rip through this work and keep it updated.

New comment by tempoponet in "Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Latent Factorization"

tempoponet — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:48:54 +0000

Most popular would be Qwen 9b or Qwen 35b with experts offloaded to CPU. Even these aren't great, but they can be run at higher quants on lower hardware. We'll see what Qwen releases version 4 in the coming weeks.

New comment by tempoponet in "Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Latent Factorization"

tempoponet — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:01:00 +0000

Influencers have latched onto the pitch that everyday people can run frontier models on an 8gb GPU while sticking it to the labs. There's a large audience of people who haven't had the hardware to test larger quants to see the difference.

They would be better served with smaller models that can reliably call tools and generate structured outputs without looping or totally hallucinating. These projects exist, but aren't getting amplified.

New comment by tempoponet in "A Cop's Case for Flock"

tempoponet — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:21:27 +0000

Sure, like in the case of a rear/front plate switch on a stolen car, Flock has every bit of information to identify that this is the case before deploying an officer to perform a pit maneuver on an innocent citizen. But they have no incentive to build that, and the author makes no allowances for this kind of self-imposed accountability. The entire tone is "bad things happen, what can ya do?"

New comment by tempoponet in "A Cop's Case for Flock"

tempoponet — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:12:50 +0000

The article takes a hand-wavy attitude towards abuse and negligence, with little attempt to counter-balance it with transparent accountability. If we can't address that in good faith, I see no reason to give the other 98% of the article weight.

New comment by tempoponet in "Pi 1.0"

tempoponet — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:10:26 +0000

lazypi has a sensible default collection of plugins and configs to get started

New comment by tempoponet in "M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review"

tempoponet — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:52:21 +0000

While I know it's not apples to apples, the target comparison right now is 2x DGX Sparks. Similar price, 256gb. The conversation has focused on memory bandwidth vs. compute in agentic loops, so for most people the raw numbers will mean less than the "time per task" in coding benchmarks.

This is a great article and bodes well for the M5, but we should expect more like this comparing to other platforms before we truly understand where it fits.

New comment by tempoponet in "Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++"

tempoponet — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:17:20 +0000

A lot of people just want to play "Smash Bros" on their iPad or get native ulatrawide support on "Majora's Mask".

This might be a product vs. eng split, but "whole point of the endeavor" isn't the same for everyone.

New comment by tempoponet in "DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro"

tempoponet — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:22:16 +0000

Can you share what tools and processes you're using to do this?

I've been using Pi to build custom extensions and wrapping workflows in shell processes to make it more deterministic and enforce certain validations, all guided by Fable. This isn't production work, though, just playing llm factorio at home.

New comment by tempoponet in "DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices"

tempoponet — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:28:04 +0000

It's exciting, but that's $9k for a model that's in the ballpark of last year's frontier. For many people that's like 10 years of up-front cost in a landscape that's getting better and cheaper every week.

but compared to the $500k+ racks running the current frontier, it does give perspective.

New comment by tempoponet in "Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg"

tempoponet — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:27:29 +0000

There's great VST plugins like "Sketch Cassette 2" that will do hiss, flutter, all of that, along with some great presets. That one's less about creating authentic sound profiles, more like creating lo-fi tracks and instruments for music production.

New comment by tempoponet in "Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling"

tempoponet — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:37:27 +0000

If llama 3 70b were available for $400 today, people would make it work. They would have 4 of them working side by side or 1 of them working with a GPU on another model.

To me, it's like imagining if Sonnet 3 was burned into an ASIC 8 years ago and then never changed. It would still be revolutionary, and today we would have an entire ecosystem of tools and services built around it, likely surpassing some of our current workflows.

The frontier is a different beast, but it would likely mean competing on price.

New comment by tempoponet in "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"

tempoponet — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:14:54 +0000

The barrier to entry for tinkering on Linux is so much lower now for anyone with a $20 Claude/Codex plan. What might have been an hours/days of fruitless head-scratching can now be done in minutes while you grab a coffee.

While I haven't tried this yet, I do have a Bazzite box that would be a good fit. I wouldn't treat the rough edges as a deterrent the way we have in the past.

New comment by tempoponet in "My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable"

tempoponet — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:36:25 +0000

In Bazzite I've had innumerable issues with waking from sleep and display driver crashes, which means a 50 ft walk to press the reset button.

If you're cool with that, this appliance isn't for you.

New comment by tempoponet in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

tempoponet — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:29:47 +0000

I bought an irresponsible pile of homelab equipment in 24/25. Hard drives, SSD, memory, GPUs.

I feel bad for people locked out right now, since it's become more interesting and important than ever.

At the time it seemed wasteful, but I'm happy to report that I'm putting it all to use now.

New comment by tempoponet in "Apple Foundation Models"

tempoponet — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:54:31 +0000

To go further down this pipe dream - Anthropic / OpenAI would buy them all and still price out the consumer. There's no end-run in this scenario.

New comment by tempoponet in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

tempoponet — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:24:30 +0000

I can actually use and enjoy Linux. The "year of the desktop" never came for me, but instead I got the "year of the cli".

For 20 years I've used Linux in one form or another, but I've felt like I was kneecapped for the most basic things. Just trying to plug in an external drive or a second display meant hours of stack overflow and pasting commands I didn't understand.

Now I'm using several Linux machines for Steam, NAS, local LLM, development, and what used to derail a weekend project now amounts to a coffee break while Claude figures it out.

New comment by tempoponet in "Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux"

tempoponet — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:24:34 +0000

It's fine for dense models where you need them in VRAM, less so for MoE where you're offloading layers to ram. But 32/32 is pretty good for both in the popular ~30b range right now.

New comment by tempoponet in "Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house (2025)"

tempoponet — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:25:47 +0000

- You can send any amount of money to anyone in the world very quickly and cheaply, and nobody can stop you.

- No government can dilute it or limit its supply.

Stuff like that. Maybe that matters to you, maybe not, but BTC was created because that didn't exist. And even if you don't use it, you're living in a world where financial institutions have to live alongside an alternative that does these things, for whatever that's worth.