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New comment by theblazehen in "Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful"

theblazehen — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:40:21 +0000

Even just giving the image and "do image analysis to figure out what it says" to your LLM will get it done

New comment by theblazehen in "Free v4 front end for your v6 site"

theblazehen — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:34:20 +0000

How does this work, technically?

Does it try guess the upstream by SNI / Host header and forward the data on? That'd only work for http(s) though.

New comment by theblazehen in "LFM2.5 2.6B model competitive with 4x larger models"

theblazehen — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:43:31 +0000

Still a work in progress, but planning on publishing a post when it's complete

New comment by theblazehen in "LFM2.5 2.6B model competitive with 4x larger models"

theblazehen — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:49:36 +0000

I use them for game AI

New comment by theblazehen in "Moonshot’s Kimi uses 20k Nvidia chip cluster from Alibaba"

theblazehen — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:09:59 +0000

There's significant amounts of traffic going through transfer stations [1], which is then re-sold to the model labs. For a while the DeepSeek API was serving Fable as the DS 4 Pro model even. [2]

[1] https://www.chinatalk.media/p/how-to-buy-cheap-claude-tokens... [2] https://xcancel.com/synthwavedd/status/2078514339552628880

Sideshow – A live visual surface for your terminal coding agent

theblazehen — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:17:13 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/modem-dev/sideshow

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48960644

Points: 1

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Squiggle: A minimalist programming language for probabilistic estimation

theblazehen — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:09:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.squiggle-language.com/docs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48905520

Points: 1

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New comment by theblazehen in "Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself"

theblazehen — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:59:45 +0000

There is! https://valetudo.cloud/

New comment by theblazehen in "How do you keep Web MIDI from crashing a 1983 synthesizer?"

theblazehen — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 10:50:32 +0000

Well that's on me for assuming :/ I assumed that it did, based on it being explained in the blog post

New comment by theblazehen in "How do you keep Web MIDI from crashing a 1983 synthesizer?"

theblazehen — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 08:03:43 +0000

Not necessarily. The RTS/CTS pins on the serial port are there for the device to tell the host "stop sending data, I need to process the data already sent"

The reason this doesn't work is that USB adapters don't have those pins, and thus assume you can send it at 30kbaud - not respecting when the device says it must pause sending data.

By introducing a static flow rate below what the CPU can handle, it should theoretically keep the flow rate below the threshold that the CPU starts to choke at

Learning Is a Skill

theblazehen — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:50:13 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.micr.dev/blog/learning-is-a-skill

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48599271

Points: 4

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

theblazehen — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:34:30 +0000

I've implemented the same idea with OpenCL: https://github.com/theblazehen/vramblk

There is originally https://github.com/Overv/vramfs however that has the overhead of a FUSE filesystem + loop device when using as a swap device.

The performance is rather lackluster however, it's far from a miracle "now you effectively have more ram for a 90% performance drop" - it definitely feels like traditional swapping

New comment by theblazehen in "Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance"

theblazehen — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:04:50 +0000

For me personally, it's because it retains the same window position, and I get back what I had before when it closes. If GUIs worked more like they did with windows in plan9, I'd definitely use them more

New comment by theblazehen in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

theblazehen — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:51:24 +0000

Yeah, copilot is only my backup - Codex and Claude are my primary, where it's per-token. Just looked up my user prompt count from my opencode db

New comment by theblazehen in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

theblazehen — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:10:00 +0000

I think we use it differently then, I tend to go heavy on the back and forth.

For speccing things out, I have a back-and-forth with the grill-me skill, break things down into tickets, as well as kicking off subagents. That said, I significantly overestimated the number of human messages I send.

My daily 90th percentile wrt number of prompts sent is sitting at 160 queries / day and average at 97 queries / day.

Ran an analysis of my last 2000 messages, with the following breakdown

Task delegation / execution: 23% Investigation / diagnosis / “what’s going on?”: 21% Planning / architecture / brainstorming: 15% Testing / verification / release ops: 10% Review / cleanup / quality control: 9% Course-correction / constraints / preferences: 8% Agent / ticket / workflow orchestration: 6% Providing context / evidence / pasted material: 4% Social reactions / acknowledgements / vibes: 2% Other: 2%

New comment by theblazehen in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

theblazehen — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:18:19 +0000

300 prompts in a day isn't that unreasonable to achieve on a heavy day? And Opus has a significant multiplier as well

New comment by theblazehen in "Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE"

theblazehen — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:42:11 +0000

> models are judged by GPT-4

An interesting choice

New comment by theblazehen in "ACE on a USB-HDMI Adapter"

theblazehen — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:14:57 +0000

There's a hard limit of 4 displays on Nvidia, even if they're chained via MST - that is how I have a couple of them already. I don't have the PCI-e slots for a second GPU

New comment by theblazehen in "ACE on a USB-HDMI Adapter"

theblazehen — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:33:07 +0000

HN second-chance bump just had to happen when I had a power outage... Back up now :)

ACE on a USB-HDMI Adapter

theblazehen — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:44:55 +0000

Article URL: https://blazelight.dev/blog/ms2160.mdx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47643779

Points: 24

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