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New comment by toyg in "RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8"

toyg — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:04:18 +0000

Yeah but they can also be used to play games and do other stuff.

New comment by toyg in "The computer science degree isn’t dead"

toyg — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:59:08 +0000

Such a correction was always going to happen. Coders always were the blue-collar workers of the 21st century, and capital ruthlessly optimises for profit. Where you once needed thousands of workers to run an assembly line, you now have dozens; where you once needed hundreds of programmers to run a big SaaS, you will now have a handful. It was always inevitable.

That doesn't mean we're all dead or anything - factory workers still exist, developer jobs will still exist. They'll just be far fewer than they used to be.

New comment by toyg in "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"

toyg — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:16:16 +0000

Should we call this the DARPA Internet then?

New comment by toyg in "Ask HN: Want to build something open source on nights and weekends together?"

toyg — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:02:35 +0000

You can probably concoct your own accountability engine with a bit of AI these days.

New comment by toyg in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

toyg — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:52:48 +0000

I built a scraper for an illegal comic book site, to search their database and package the comics as CBZ so I can read them faster and without ads.

Now I want to add some sort of recommendation engine on top, to let me discover stuff I might like (I'm not into superheroes anymore).

New comment by toyg in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

toyg — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:13:46 +0000

qwen 3.5 with 9b is being a pretty decent workhorse for me, even with context around 4k.

New comment by toyg in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

toyg — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:54:49 +0000

I've been playing with local models for some time, and I've been pleasantly surprised of late. A meager rtx 5080 with 16gb can give pretty good results now. The ecosystem is also improving pretty quickly.

I have a feeling at some point we will have a "Windows 95" moment (when computing really became personal for the masses) in AI, and things will significantly change shape again.

New comment by toyg in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

toyg — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:26:08 +0000

Of course it implies volume - shipped volume. Which is what you worry about when you think about posting every day: viewers going elsewhere is a commercial worry about your product, it has nothing to do with the quality of your art. When you think in terms of content, art quality becomes an optional byproduct of commercial worries about having product.

New comment by toyg in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

toyg — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:38:55 +0000

The terminology is art vs content. Anybody talking about "content", by definition, do not actually care about what that content is, just that it is contained into something they charge for.

New comment by toyg in "The History of "Prisencolinensinainciusol""

toyg — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:24:14 +0000

Celentano and Moro are many things, but humble is not one of them... He's a preachy Catholic bore, completely detached from reality; and she's deluded that they're still big stars. They used to be something, but they've long since said anything worth listening to.

New comment by toyg in "The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time"

toyg — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:57:06 +0000

You're suspending the reporting of your dealings, which implies you've done no business in the previous period. When you do business, you unsuspend and report.

I think you might want to step away from the keyboard for a bit.

New comment by toyg in "The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time"

toyg — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:45:33 +0000

Obviously you could unsuspend it at any time and report as necessary. That's what "suspended" means, as opposed to "closed" or "terminated". Come on.

New comment by toyg in "The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time"

toyg — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:59:47 +0000

They should just have a "suspend account" option. You file a nil return once, suspend, never come back unless you have to. Seems easy enough.

New comment by toyg in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"

toyg — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:16:36 +0000

Or, someone decided they wanted to redirect the flow of black money through someone else, but couldn't do it internally for some reason; so they called in their FBI friends to make a ruckus. While the guy is busy defending himself, they have an excuse to pick someone else to receive the new stream of gold.

New comment by toyg in "Declassified CIA Cartography Maps from the 1980s"

toyg — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:56:10 +0000

the Cold War started before MAD became a thing. Had the USSR and NATO started a conflict in 1949, nukes would still have to be delivered by (slow, fragile, at heavy risk of interception) plane. ICBMs arrived in the late '50s, and submarine launches in the '60s, at which point MAD became a thing; but even later, all sides largely continued to operate like a conflict would follow traditional engagement patterns, when it came to the basics of planning. Nobody stopped, say, spying activities just because "eh, we'll nuke them all anyway" - if anything, because this allowed for targeted activities that ensured MAD would not get triggered.

New comment by toyg in "We are Poles, so, of course, we print in Latin"

toyg — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:37:21 +0000

> that is a reason the catholic Church still uses it for things like papal encyclicals.

Nah, it's just because that particular institution tries very hard to be internally consistent, for historical reasons. They immediately publish translations of such documents into "common" languages as well, and that's what non-clerics will actually read.

New comment by toyg in "We are Poles, so, of course, we print in Latin"

toyg — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:28:50 +0000

The macaronic approach was pretty common everywhere, it's a natural stage of evolution - the old language 'holding on' with specialized terminology that would be pointless to replace with more inefficient expressions. Which is why Latin words and expressions are still deployed every day in legal and scientific conversations around all Western countries.

New comment by toyg in "Italy region: +200% tax on datacenters built in green/agricultural areas"

toyg — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:10:32 +0000

Heavy-industry sites are also extremely discouraged across Europe, outside of very specific zones. If anything, the current shift is about bringing datacentres in that same category.

New comment by toyg in "Italy region: +200% tax on datacenters built in green/agricultural areas"

toyg — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:07:32 +0000

> the main purpose of the thing

It is not. But France was very good at ring-fencing their interests very early on, resulting in a somewhat-outsized weight of agricultural policy over the Union budget (since it was, back then, almost non-existent in other areas). After the Eastern expansion, it has become very difficult to change the approach (which is, overall, fundamentally successful - yes, there are issues, but nothing is perfect). Pre-brexit, the UK government would be the only one willing to grandstand on reforming the policy, mostly for reasons of internal propaganda; now it's basically in no-one's interest to touch it.

New comment by toyg in "Ferrari Luce"

toyg — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:41:40 +0000

But it's not electric.