Hacker News: woctordho

New comment by woctordho in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

woctordho — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:17:03 +0000

See the recent development of DiLoCo at Nous Research and Prime Intellect.

New comment by woctordho in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

woctordho — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:15:32 +0000

There's a lot of individual effort of improving the models. See how many finetuned models and LoRAs are there on Hugging Face.

New comment by woctordho in "Qwen 3.8"

woctordho — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:55:24 +0000

There is a forum named Zhihu. AI translation works mostly well to translate contents there into English.

New comment by woctordho in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

woctordho — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 04:10:33 +0000

Yes in a mid-sized company. I'm exactly doing this, and what I'm competing against is the OpenAI API priced 0.2 CNY = 1 USD in China.

New comment by woctordho in "Alternative(s) to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware"

woctordho — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:41:43 +0000

There's nothing wrong to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware. CUDA has an interface that is reasonably well-designed, well-documented/reverse-engineered, and battle-tested for decades. What we need is not to invent another interface just under the name of 'open standard', but to implement the same interface. ROCm is exactly doing this, and so are other hardware SDKs such as MooreThread and Alibaba T-Head.

New comment by woctordho in "DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]"

woctordho — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:06:19 +0000

And humans don't run on markets.

New comment by woctordho in "The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs"

woctordho — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 06:54:07 +0000

Fun fact: Hacker News is canonically banned in China, but I'm still talking here. There are plenty of techs to work around region block. The incentive to report somebody is comically called '50w' (500k CNY) and no one gives a shit about it in real life.

New comment by woctordho in "The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs"

woctordho — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 06:51:35 +0000

See the recent advance of DiLoCo at Nous Research and Prime Intellect.

New comment by woctordho in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"

woctordho — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 06:14:55 +0000

Don't trust US or China. Trust the open source community.

New comment by woctordho in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

woctordho — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:27:23 +0000

There are lots of botnets providing home IPs.

New comment by woctordho in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

woctordho — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:22:39 +0000

Lots of people have succeeded. Neither Anthropic nor OpenAI has any technical advantage in the field of subscription engineering.

New comment by woctordho in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

woctordho — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:20:10 +0000

Actually nowadays LLMs are only trained with TBs rather than PBs of data, and it's not too hard to find GBs of agent traces online.

New comment by woctordho in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

woctordho — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:53:26 +0000

Simple trick: Use an agentic tool like Pi or OpenCode that allows you to switch models. First do some chats with DeepSeek or GLM who shows full thinking traces, then switch to Claude or GPT and it's more likely to show full thinking traces.

New comment by woctordho in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

woctordho — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:47:18 +0000

There is already a lot of effort to collect agent traces including reasonings, e.g. see the recent discussion: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1u795pb/donate_...

We've been developing DataClaw for this: https://github.com/peteromallet/dataclaw

New comment by woctordho in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

woctordho — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:12:34 +0000

There's `--filter=blob:none` and it allows to automatically fetch blobs when needed.

New comment by woctordho in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

woctordho — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:04:22 +0000

It's 2026. Historically the way for large binaries in git was git LFS. Now the way for large binaries in git is just git.

New comment by woctordho in "GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands"

woctordho — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:06:48 +0000

Users don't need to build wheels. Wheel builders need to first learn to build some mediocre wheels, then they can build better ones.

New comment by woctordho in "Wolfram Language and Mathematica version 15"

woctordho — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:39:52 +0000

Download the installer itself in the official way. Run the keygen in a virtual machine.

New comment by woctordho in "ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware"

woctordho — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:55:36 +0000

Sure, but it doesn't imply it's easier.

New comment by woctordho in "ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware"

woctordho — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:11:48 +0000

It's far easier to port ReactOS than Windows to ARM and other new CPU ISAs.