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New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "The state of open source AI"

xyzsparetimexyz — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:35:36 +0000

I seriously doubt that we'll be running 1TB ram setups any time soon. I was hearing about people running 64GB back in 2014 or so

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "Kimi K3 is now live"

xyzsparetimexyz — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:56:45 +0000

>committed to enslaving the Uyghur people

What?

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

xyzsparetimexyz — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:37:13 +0000

Any updated Pareto frontier graphs? https://paraplouis.github.io/llm-pareto-frontier/ is quite out of date now.

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway"

xyzsparetimexyz — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:35:15 +0000

This is like meat eaters who wish they were vegan but state that they're not mentally strong enough or whatever. Incredibly annoying. Either shut up or convert.

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search"

xyzsparetimexyz — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:28:47 +0000

No archive of previous games?

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "Grok Build is open source"

xyzsparetimexyz — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:44:48 +0000

I'm sure I could.

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "Global Warming at 3 °C by 2050? What's Behind the New German Climate Warning"

xyzsparetimexyz — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:44:18 +0000

Consumer choices are only going to get you so far

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone"

xyzsparetimexyz — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:05:14 +0000

Why would they do that when they already have a perfectly good PC?

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone"

xyzsparetimexyz — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:50:12 +0000

That's awesome. What's the largest model that could fit onto a single 16gb gpu at 1.125 effects bits per weight?

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

xyzsparetimexyz — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:09:20 +0000

Moving the goalposts much? Linux and Microsoft is still a huge market. Ii don't know about the switch 2 but the switch 1 had vulkan support. Apple as well if you count moltenvk

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

xyzsparetimexyz — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:10:32 +0000

Skill issue. Vulkan is intended to be unopinionated around those things. If you want defaults then use a wrapper.

P.s. devices and queues are generally ordered for simple programs you can just pick the 1st one.

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

xyzsparetimexyz — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:24:53 +0000

The vast majority of vulkan usecases aren't android or embedded. I indeed wouldn't recommend it there.

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

xyzsparetimexyz — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:11:07 +0000

It's quite easy to set up a light abstraction layer with Vulkan where you simply use VMA, buffer device addresses and push constants for everything. No descriptor sets or bindings anything.

Alternatively you can use one of many abstraction layers that do this for you.

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

xyzsparetimexyz — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:08:12 +0000

If you think that Vulkan is extension spaghetti you're clearly using it wrong. Set the API to 1.4 and many existing extensions get merged in.

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "The AI Whale Fall and Open Source"

xyzsparetimexyz — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:08:47 +0000

Im not sure thats true. Price per task is doubtlessly cheaper with glm 5.2 than opus or fable

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "The AI Whale Fall and Open Source"

xyzsparetimexyz — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:29:14 +0000

If that happened would the model weights even be worth anything? Clearly the generated tokens weren't good enough to customers to justify their price

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "Venice's access fee doesn't reduce tourism: it selects who can afford it"

xyzsparetimexyz — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:46:23 +0000

These problems aren't even hard to solve, governments are just reluctant. Just ban a all airbnbs and short term rentals and charge everyone who isn't Italian or a resident €50 to enter

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "The git history command"

xyzsparetimexyz — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:28:23 +0000

Tldr; use jj

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "The git history command"

xyzsparetimexyz — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:25:34 +0000

No it doesn't. Half the git commands are low level, half are high level. It's not 1:1 at all.

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia"

xyzsparetimexyz — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:51:35 +0000

Lmao