Hacker News: vardalab

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

vardalab — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:56:40 +0000

better prompt processing like 1.5x+ and more kv but tg most likely lower like 0.8x or so but I am just going by memory for Qwen3.5 without mtp.

New comment by vardalab in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

vardalab — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:20:01 +0000

Because it's a tax I think on second properties.

New comment by vardalab in "The real cost of owning a home"

vardalab — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:44:51 +0000

You forgot to include the actual living costs if you invest. You're not gonna be able to contribute $2,500 a month. You would be able to contribute not that much , around here rents are $2,500 a month.

New comment by vardalab in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"

vardalab — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:53:28 +0000

Exactly. Here I am sitting talking to my freaking computer, arguing with it, whatnot. And people just dismiss it as if it's not a science fiction. We were not there two, three years ago. Now we are. It's amazing and scary, scary mostly because the society that we operate in. I bet it's less scary in Norway or elsewhere where govt is more biased towards people not corps.

New comment by vardalab in "Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar"

vardalab — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:21:20 +0000

Not all workers will fare equally. As an illustration, Reuters cited a union source estimating that someone in the memory chip unit earning an 80-million-won base salary could take home roughly 626 million won in total bonuses this year. By comparison, workers at SK Hynix stand to collect upward of 700 million won should their employer post annual profit of 250 trillion won, Reuters calculated. Unlike at Samsung, SK Hynix employees are not limited to stock payouts and may instead opt for cash, Reuters reported.

Almost 6x the base, not bad.

New comment by vardalab in "Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK"

vardalab — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:22:25 +0000

Exactly, the whole point of having a laptop is that you can close it at some point. Once you move to these newfangled workflows it is all gone. That is why I have been slow on uptake with all these new apps they are releasing like Codex GUI and Claude GUI and all that stuff. I like that work continues when I close my laptop, but also I like that it continues on my hardware, not somewhere in the cloud being a supply chain attacked by who knows what.

New comment by vardalab in "Mocked by a scandal sheet, Kierkegaard endured months of personal attacks"

vardalab — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:02:14 +0000

But I did.

New comment by vardalab in "Mocked by a scandal sheet, Kierkegaard endured months of personal attacks"

vardalab — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:29:27 +0000

Instead of discussing Kierkegaard or universality of human condition we are discussing em-dashes. Peak HN.

New comment by vardalab in "Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling – Alex Plescan"

vardalab — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:34:03 +0000

Yeah, this all sounds good in theory, but there's a lot of edge cases. For example, for me switching between Mac and Linux what often happens is that Linux just for some reason the it turns off the monitor port and it's black until I reboot and there was no easy way to get it back. This is while using fancy Dell monitors built-in KVM. Ultimately, I have settled on remote desktops as a more viable and quicker option.

New comment by vardalab in "Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app"

vardalab — Fri, 15 May 2026 02:27:43 +0000

It flakes out in less than 24 hrs. I tried leaving a session open on remote control mode in a VM but it inevitably stopped with some token auth error.

New comment by vardalab in "Making LLM Training Faster with Unsloth and NVIDIA"

vardalab — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:33:05 +0000

Why would you prefer less coherent article? If article has a utility, I will read it, no matter what the source is.

New comment by vardalab in "PyInfra 3.8.0"

vardalab — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:24:49 +0000

I disagree. The rigidity of YAML and stuff like that is what actually makes LLMs work better. I have strict linting rules and file size limits and it imposes discipline on LLMs. That's why it worked even last year. Even before Opus 4.0 it worked to some extent as long as you imposed discipline on these models Trust me, I do pretty complicated things with Ansible, key thing is to have decent established patterns and these models truly are getting better.

New comment by vardalab in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

vardalab — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:19:58 +0000

I like the forums of the old way better than what we have now, Discord and reddit suck I mean, even back button on reddit does not work 50% of the time, lol. Hacker News is the only thing that we have left that's similar to what we had from forums of the old. And even then, I think I like those forums better. Remember Deja News before Google bought them. Shit like that, that was good.

New comment by vardalab in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

vardalab — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:16:34 +0000

I think it's as simple as Citizens United and wealth inequality exploding.

New comment by vardalab in "PyInfra 3.8.0"

vardalab — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:45:23 +0000

Yeah, but I have Claude Code or Codex do this Ansible stuff and they do just fine with all this and then there's a gazillion of examples that they can lean on and once the patterns are established, it's pretty smooth. Opus 4.5 was when the big inflection was I was heavy into automation all summer. It was Opus 4.0. It was like pulling teeth. And then when 4.5 came out, it was just beautiful.

New comment by vardalab in "Little magazines are back"

vardalab — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:51:55 +0000

Not sure if the writing style is deliberate, but it was confusing to parse. Needs some editing by chat jippity.

New comment by vardalab in "Claude Opus 4.7"

vardalab — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:21:33 +0000

What culture are those? Scandinavian? Those often just say nothing.

New comment by vardalab in "UK intelligence censored report on global warming and homeland security"

vardalab — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:19:18 +0000

Farming might feel rewarding while watching someone else do the hard work. I watched and had to help my grandparents do it and went through my own decade of "farming" and it never gets easier and you only get older.

New comment by vardalab in "Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message"

vardalab — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:47:23 +0000

What makes you think that progress has stopped? Anecdotally I personally seem to think that it's accelerated, I am having conversations with ambitious non tech people and they now seem to be excited and are staying up late learning about cli and github. They seem to have moved beyond lovable and are actually trying to embed some agents in their small businesses, etc.

New comment by vardalab in "April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini"

vardalab — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:52:20 +0000

just use openrouter or google ai playground for the first week till bugs are ironed out. You still learn the nuances of the model and then yuu can switch to local. In addition you might pickup enough nuance to see if quantization is having any effect