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AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps

timmmmmmay — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:22:05 +0000

Article URL: https://jdagostino.github.io/ai-pt1-box-o-scraps/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288293

Points: 125

# Comments: 58

New comment by timmmmmmay in "DeepSeek API Pricing Update"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:53:11 +0000

the neat thing about the models being open-weights is there's a dozen other providers on OpenRouter still at the old price, or lower

New comment by timmmmmmay in "AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:45:47 +0000

I'm sure their coverage on other topics is truthful and informative though and it's only the ones where you know a lot about the topic where it's all a bunch of bullshit

New comment by timmmmmmay in "llama.cpp"

timmmmmmay — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:59:02 +0000

straightforward solution is probably Qwen3.6-27B-Q4 running on a used RTX 3090. price on those is unfortunately high, in fact so high that getting a new Radeon AI PRO R9700 might be a better deal

a solid step up from there is anything that can run Deepseek V4 Flash but the hardware ask there is a bit higher

New comment by timmmmmmay in "llama.cpp"

timmmmmmay — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:46:30 +0000

so instead of downloading a script with curl and running it with bash, you should download it with git and run it with cmake? if you aren't reviewing the code between download and execution, what's the difference?

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning"

timmmmmmay — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:39:56 +0000

you wouldn't be happy then either

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"

timmmmmmay — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:45:19 +0000

No, but you can compare it to the similarly-sized Gemma4 model and see the difference, it's not subtle

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

timmmmmmay — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:52:48 +0000

I don't think you can characterize the discussion around then as simple calling for caution. There was a serious attempt to keep all access to even very basic LLM techniques locked into essentially an exclusive guild.

New comment by timmmmmmay in "ASRock 4U16X-GNR2 packs 8 B300 GPUs, demands liquid cooling"

timmmmmmay — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:49:33 +0000

entire post is an AI rewrite of this article: https://www.servethehome.com/asrock-rack-4u16x-gnr2-nvidia-h...

New comment by timmmmmmay in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

timmmmmmay — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:27:10 +0000

so... not rare, then? another fear mongering article lying to everyone.

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

timmmmmmay — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:19:09 +0000

SpaceX has had multiple share classes the entire time, what are you talking about? pre-IPO there was a third Class C with no voting rights at all, these got converted to Class A

New comment by timmmmmmay in "I think you might be fooling yourself with AI"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:09:20 +0000

what evidence? more than half of social science studies fail to replicate, why would I believe that this one is in the good half?

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:04:16 +0000

this is fun! I'm excited to see what they'll ban two weeks from now

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:53:43 +0000

perhaps! but you can look at what a five year old GPU (Nvidia A100 80gb) sells for today. it's not cheap! I wish it was!

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth"

timmmmmmay — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:00:15 +0000

This is also true of the older P100 and hobbyists do this stuff now, today

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

timmmmmmay — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:01:27 +0000

Of course it is. If I write a movie review and sell it to a magazine or whatever, it's derived from the movie, and it's fair use, and I don't need to ask the movie owner for permission first, or give them a cut of my sales. Even if I use some reasonable number of screenshots and video clips, as long as the resulting work is "transformative" i.e. actually a new work, a movie review instead of a copy of the movie.

Do you want this to work any other way? I constantly see people in the AI debate working themselves into wildly copyright maximalist positions. I actually don't think that we should give every author veto power over a book review!

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

timmmmmmay — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:42:21 +0000

you know you can just log onto eBay and see what the price of a used H100 is. nobody is stopping you

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (2025)"

timmmmmmay — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:21:08 +0000

there's no prize for predicting 12 of the past 2 bubbles

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Byobu – text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer"

timmmmmmay — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:10:35 +0000

oh no he's using computers to write software

New comment by timmmmmmay in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

timmmmmmay — Fri, 22 May 2026 06:20:46 +0000

if you want people to use public transit, you need to make it not be a mobile homeless shelter. otherwise everyone who can afford to will insist on a private transport