Hacker News: thomasjb

New comment by thomasjb in "ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux"

thomasjb — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:01:03 +0000

Tuning into time radio signals like DCF77?

New comment by thomasjb in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

thomasjb — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:35:15 +0000

Apparently the Force Majeure section of the deal is very weak, so if there's the slightest upset, they get out of that.

Byte-Exact Across Four Languages

thomasjb — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:20:34 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.stackdump.com/posts/byte-exact-across-four-languages

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49661949

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by thomasjb in "Extreme 220GHz+Broadband Silicon Capacitor X2SC 0201M 22nF BV11"

thomasjb — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:05:32 +0000

https://www.digikey.ie/en/products/detail/murata-electronics...

A mere 2.40 euros each!

New comment by thomasjb in "Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership"

thomasjb — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:35:10 +0000

A single 6MHz channel at the top end of UHF band would be enough to implement a universal cellular telephony service - simple calls and texts - at very low cost if phones had modems for it. I think that would be the better use of spectrum.

New comment by thomasjb in "Stop Using OpenCode"

thomasjb — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:59:08 +0000

It's not a great UI, but for messing with ideas in a VM, the free tier is very hard to beat, otherwise I'd be on Claude Code, but still on a VM, because I won't let them near anything I actually care about.

New comment by thomasjb in "Grok Build is open source"

thomasjb — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:12:11 +0000

Easiest to use when sshing into a VM.

New comment by thomasjb in "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"

thomasjb — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:41:22 +0000

I was inspired by that post also, got a Qwen Coder 1.5B up to 27tok/s prompt eval and 13tok/s decode on an e5-2650v2 inside a GNOME box

Don't Sleep on BitNet (2025)

thomasjb — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:52:28 +0000

Article URL: https://jackson.dev/post/dont-sleep-on-bitnet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48918446

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by thomasjb in "Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone"

thomasjb — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:27:30 +0000

I aspire to someday move up to an AM5 system, but for now, the Dell T3610 has to do everything. Might get a second GPU for it though.

New comment by thomasjb in "Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone"

thomasjb — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:09:47 +0000

Or watch and wait as models get denser

New comment by thomasjb in "Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone"

thomasjb — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:20:09 +0000

I've been watching and waiting for this, interested to see how smart it is, as it fits with my interest of getting the smartest possible model running in 10GB of VRAM (RTX3060 that has to drive 2 monitors and run an llm)

New comment by thomasjb in "I Built the Only 2026 WWII Jeep"

thomasjb — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:29:30 +0000

I can see the appeal, not having to deal with much rust or bolts breaking (the 2 things which cause the most trouble for me in working on vehicles). 800 miles across the desert is some way to run it in though!

Rotman Lens

thomasjb — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:56:17 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotman_lens

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747889

Points: 140

# Comments: 47

Kog Laneformer 2B: The Latency-First Model Behind Kog Inference Engine

thomasjb — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:40:26 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kog.ai/kog-laneformer-2b-the-latency-first-model-behind-kog-inference-engine/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48716487

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Interview with Jim Goodnight, July 22, 1999

thomasjb — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:35:26 +0000

Article URL: https://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/I-0073/I-0073.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48659591

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Glassblowing #2: Making a tungsten lamp and (bad) vacuum diode

thomasjb — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:57:41 +0000

Article URL: https://maurycyz.com/projects/glass/2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48603754

Points: 15

# Comments: 2

Mini MOSBius

thomasjb — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:15:40 +0000

Article URL: https://tinytapeout.com/news/mini-mosbius/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567350

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Othello World

thomasjb — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:43:22 +0000

Article URL: https://flowtwo.io/post/othello-world

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542972

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by thomasjb in "AI coding at home without going broke"

thomasjb — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:06:33 +0000

Opencode's free models have been fine for me, they're what I tried after Gemma 4 8B proved hard to persuade into usefulness (I want to revisit with 12B and messing with harnesses, but I'm happy for now).