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New comment by zargon in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

zargon — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:56:07 +0000

Why do you merge the GGUFs? The 50 GB files are more manageable (IMO) and you can verify checksums as you say.

Intel Arc Pro B70 Open-Source Linux Performance Against AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700

zargon — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:45:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-pro-b70

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796956

Points: 4

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New comment by zargon in "Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD"

zargon — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:05:11 +0000

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47546732

New comment by zargon in "Cursor 3"

zargon — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:41:45 +0000

Click on the timestamp link to go to the comment's own page where it will be rendered black instead of gray.

New comment by zargon in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

zargon — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:20:03 +0000

Comments are marked dead by automatic processes, not through downvotes. They're dead before anyone sees them, and you can't vote on a dead comment. amangsingh's comments have probably triggered some automated moderation. Probably at least partially because they sound LLM-generated.

New comment by zargon in "Swappa.com for GrapheneOS compatible devices – Stay Away"

zargon — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:04:43 +0000

Swappa is great for sellers and bad for buyers. They use a Paypal marketplace product and have no actual authority in a transaction, they just match buyers and sellers. If the phone is not as described, you'll have to pay return shipping yourself.

New comment by zargon in "Show HN: Castra – Strip orchestration rights from your LLMs"

zargon — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:16:16 +0000

Yeah. The response to the issue of the LLM cheating should be removing the LLM's access to the ledger. If the architecture allowed the LLM access to the ledger, I have zero reason to believe any amount of cryptography will prevent it. Talk about bloat. The general idea seems salvageable though.

Sibling comment from OP reads very much as LLM-generated.

New comment by zargon in "Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning"

zargon — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 05:43:19 +0000

*Only gamers know that joke.

New comment by zargon in "Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe"

zargon — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:13:28 +0000

Yes and yes. NVMe storage is very slow, so it can get away with such things.

New comment by zargon in "Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe"

zargon — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:17:48 +0000

> in many MBs that will halve the bandwidth of the PCIe slots

Not on boards that have 12 channels of DDR5.

But yeah, squeezing an LLM from RAM through the PCIe bus is silly. I would expect it would be faster to just run a portion of the model on the CPU in llama.cop fashion.

New comment by zargon in "Can I run AI locally?"

zargon — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:26:45 +0000

They appear to be using Ollama as a data source. Ollama does that sort of thing regularly.

New comment by zargon in "Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep"

zargon — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:22:45 +0000

That's 3 times the heart rate of a hummingbird.

New comment by zargon in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"

zargon — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:23:54 +0000

What key would be a good candidate as a default though? Imagine the memes for exiting vim if you needed a modifier to get into normal mode. Caps lock is truly a useless key and should be escape anyway.

New comment by zargon in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

zargon — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:34:23 +0000

Yes. And if we don't also stop burning fossil fuels then we'll never even break even.

New comment by zargon in "Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10%"

zargon — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:46:20 +0000

You should question this and advocate for yourself. The important number is total lifetime exposure to LDL (actually apoB, but doctors aren't routinely testing that yet). The arterial damage is cumulative. You shouldn't wait until you are at high risk of cardiac events to take action. The time to slow down the progression is now.

I'm just replying based on taking your comment at face value. LDL of 150 is very high and living with that for many years is very damaging. Obviously it's something between you and your doctor, I'm just encouraging you to consider and get reasoning from your doctor about whether this approach is really best for your health.

New comment by zargon in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

zargon — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 05:16:19 +0000

"You could parachute [Sam Altman] into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he'd be the king."

--Paul Graham, 2008

New comment by zargon in "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"

zargon — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:23:03 +0000

Quant choice depends on your vram, use case, need for speed, etc. For coding I would not go below Q4_K_M (though for Q4, unsloth XL or ik_llama IQ quants are usually better at the same size). Preferably Q5 or even Q6.

New comment by zargon in "Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs"

zargon — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:05:37 +0000

Explain what about that statement is false. Your original Q4_K_XL quant was broken. People noticing that it was a total outlier among other quants is what prompted this "research". Your own data proves that your new release fixes the bugs of your original, in order to match AesSedai's PPL. Fixing bugs is great. Searching for the best quant mix is helpful. I use your quants and appreciate your work. But whitewashing this situation dilutes trust and good will.

New comment by zargon in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

zargon — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:06:20 +0000

You may be interested in the ClearURLs extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/

New comment by zargon in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

zargon — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:57:33 +0000

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.