Hacker News: xtnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xtnHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:34:01 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by xtn in "The dead economy theory"]]>I don't post often, but want to write a bit here to change the world slightly. The outcome depends on how people think and believe. If everyone believe others are evil and will (e.g.) nuke the other country first, then indeed we are fucked. But this does not happen, right? I'm Chinese and lived in Europe for 10 years. I don't feel people are that different. Feel free to visit and talk to people here :)

]]>Sat, 30 May 2026 07:23:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48333598xtnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48333598https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48333598<![CDATA[New comment by xtn in "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"]]>I think knowledge of frontier research certainly scale with number of parameters. Also, US labs can pay more money to have researchers provide training data on these frontier research areas.

On the other hand, if indeed open source models and Macbooks can be as powerful as those SOTA models from Google, etc, then stock prices of many companies would already collapsed.

]]>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 03:57:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47203546xtnhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47203546https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47203546<![CDATA[New comment by xtn in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"]]>There are bad things in China, but there is no "social credit" system being used.

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