Hacker News: villgax

New comment by villgax in "Someone at BrowserStack Is Leaking Users' Email Address"

villgax — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:21:14 +0000

Email needs a consent revocation system effectively like how Blackberry had PINs for BBM

New comment by villgax in "Two studies in compiler optimisations"

villgax — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:29:07 +0000

Do not check OP's art on a work machine lol

New comment by villgax in "If Dspy is so great, why isn't anyone using it?"

villgax — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:33:32 +0000

Nobody uses it except for maybe the weaviate developer advocates running those jupyter cells.

New comment by villgax in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

villgax — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 04:45:04 +0000

The fact that I wasn’t able to link llama.cpp server locally without fuss kinda beats the whole open point. Open for proprietary APIs only?

New comment by villgax in "E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May"

villgax — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:32:34 +0000

To be online is gonna just become pointless. Only literal need is for news or payments.

NSFW stuff doesn’t need the internet anymore. Critique of regimes aren’t safe either so being online is just a crutch and thats so sad.

New comment by villgax in "Launching the Claude Partner Network"

villgax — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:30:31 +0000

That’s literally to go and do that thing that AWS promises to offer off-the-shelf.

Anthropic is trying to push architects for something which changes behavior every month pretty much so what works today may not work the same way in a quarter even ignoring determinism across hardware for the sake of it.

Not one startup goes about trying to hire people with certifications. It’s usually body shops offering SMEs on specific technologies. Unless anthropc is offering an ever evolving architect then I’d be wrong.

New comment by villgax in "I built an ephemeral P2P chat with WebRTC, without servers"

villgax — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:32:43 +0000

Lol do your DD properly before posting

New comment by villgax in "Launching the Claude Partner Network"

villgax — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:45:49 +0000

lol certifications for a proprietary model stack is not worth the storage or paper

New comment by villgax in "E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May"

villgax — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:11:24 +0000

just waiting on whatsapp to rug pull as well & then bye bye privacy & meta from my life

New comment by villgax in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

villgax — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:11:58 +0000

You should travel, the whole point of being remote is to enjoy life without being tagged to a location, since you have pets depending on how comfortable you are with them being in hostels you should definitely be traveling a lot more and then be able to meet folks and have a more filling life, start local and then go abroad often

New comment by villgax in "LLM Writing Tropes.md"

villgax — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:29:25 +0000

This has sparked a discussion

New comment by villgax in "Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM"

villgax — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:03:07 +0000

What part of a HuggingFace Space do you not understand?

They’ve also not bothered with upstreaming the model arch to transformers and require remote code for their modeling code to run……

New comment by villgax in "Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM"

villgax — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:22:58 +0000

I think they did work with a few state governments and defence entities. So something like micro-Anthropic X Palantir.

New comment by villgax in "Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM"

villgax — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:15:30 +0000

Bigger issue here is why the government is involved with select companies for subsidizing compute. There’s no pre or post criterion to assess success, it should have just been an open market for people with money to purchase compute instead of 10 companies with no prior experience in making models of any kind.

Public funds should beget public datasets and training scripts to see how it is being aligned as well and not just pandering to a particular govt.

New comment by villgax in "Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM"

villgax — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 11:24:50 +0000

That is their profile not a HF Space

New comment by villgax in "Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues"

villgax — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 11:18:00 +0000

Literally admitting to theft & whining about the modus which got them caught lol

New comment by villgax in "Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM"

villgax — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:13:48 +0000

Got nuked on day zero by Qwen models at tenth or so of params.

Does not handle critical inputs even for moderation tasks

These guys did not even bother with an official huggingface space

And the biggest stupidity seems to be fixating on MXFP4 for Apple Silicon when it doesn't even have hardware support for it, should have just done Q4 for GGUF based inference

New comment by villgax in "Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift"

villgax — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:32:39 +0000

it's clearly labeled a research project, feel free to DIY

New comment by villgax in "Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals"

villgax — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:01:34 +0000

Tax payer momey should always go to creation of open source software for everything

New comment by villgax in "TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe"

villgax — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:40:19 +0000

This according to many researchers is the best case study example for corporations gaslighting users into accepting surveillance by companies and governments alike.