Hacker News: theChaparral

New comment by theChaparral in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

theChaparral — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:16:12 +0000

It's Personal Intelligence in the Gemini settings. I just turned that off last night when it was doing similar things.

New comment by theChaparral in "Where did my 128GB of video RAM go? AMD GPU BIOS gotcha for LLM builders"

theChaparral — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:29:13 +0000

Adding amdgpu.gttsize=126976 and ttm.pages_limit=32505856 to the kernel parameters, while setting the VRAM in the BIOS to the minimum value, enables unified memory to work as expected on AMD Strix Halo running Linux.

The https://strixhalo.wiki has most of the info you need to get LLMs running on these machines.

New comment by theChaparral in "Flipper Zero dark web firmware bypasses rolling code security"

theChaparral — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 23:23:22 +0000

This attack lets you use all the functions of the key fob, and not just the action captured.

New comment by theChaparral in "DigiKey's Tariff Resources"

theChaparral — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 16:53:53 +0000

I think the de minimis exemption is still in effect temporarily because they don't have a system set up to charge the tariffs yet.

https://www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-news/2025/02/07/tru...

New comment by theChaparral in "WebStorm and Rider Are Now Free for Non-Commercial Use"

theChaparral — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:27:20 +0000

I'm all in with the JetBrains love, but for clarity, you can keep the first version you paid for indefinitely not the last. So if you decide to stop paying the subscription you have to go back to a year old version.

New comment by theChaparral in "Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?"

theChaparral — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 16:10:22 +0000

Garmin connect also has segment feature. Might have to set it up on the website, not sure.

New comment by theChaparral in "Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later"

theChaparral — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:56:34 +0000

I really agree. I think the key to your key is you have to actively seek out media that interests you. Don't just be a passive consumer of it.

New comment by theChaparral in "Security flaws in an SSO plugin for Caddy (2023)"

theChaparral — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 04:33:33 +0000

It's #9 on the overall 'plugin" list

New comment by theChaparral in "'Devastating' melt of Greenland, Antarctic ice sheets found"

theChaparral — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 20:39:46 +0000

Think the OP misremembered it, It wasn't global cooling in the 80's it was nuclear winter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter

New comment by theChaparral in "Ask HN: Best typing training for symbols and numbers?"

theChaparral — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 23:03:38 +0000

I don't know if it's the best one, but momkeytype.com has an option where you can not only set it for different written languages, but it also has programming language options.

New comment by theChaparral in "Reddit's favorite products in one place"

theChaparral — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:55:32 +0000

Perhaps it's because Thinkpads have their own subreddit so a lot of mentions|questions|comments get siphoned off from a more general subreddit like /r/laptops