Hacker News: zelcon

New comment by zelcon in "Free software hasn't won"

zelcon — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 02:10:21 +0000

Why would anyone want free software to win? Dont most of us here draw an income from software that’s explicitly not free?

New comment by zelcon in "Mistral OCR"

zelcon — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 04:51:13 +0000

Release the weights or buy an ad

New comment by zelcon in "Bcvi – run vi over a 'back-channel' (2010)"

zelcon — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 04:48:28 +0000

Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power (TRAMP)

New comment by zelcon in "How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server"

zelcon — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 18:41:38 +0000

That's a shame. I suppose you'll need 4 of them with RDMA to run a 671B, but somehow that seems better to me than trying to run it on DDR4 RAM like the OP is saying. I have a system with 230G of DDR4 RAM, and running even small models on it is atrociously slow.

New comment by zelcon in "How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server"

zelcon — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 18:33:54 +0000

Or just wait for the NVIDIA Digits PC later this year which will cost the ~same amount and can fit on your desk

New comment by zelcon in "Wild – A fast linker for Linux"

zelcon — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 05:55:10 +0000

It’s too hard to determine what pieces of your stack interact with public-facing services, particularly in a monorepo with thousands of developers. The effort involved and the legal risk if you get it wrong makes it an easy nope. Just ban AGPL.

New comment by zelcon in "Wild – A fast linker for Linux"

zelcon — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 05:49:27 +0000

Free software basically only exists because it’s subsidized by nonfree software. It also has no original ideas. Every piece of good free software is just a copy of something proprietary or some internal tool.

New comment by zelcon in "Show HN: Lightpanda, an open-source headless browser in Zig"

zelcon — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 04:35:43 +0000

Redoing what others have already done is not what I think of when I hear "frontier effort"

New comment by zelcon in "Show HN: Lightpanda, an open-source headless browser in Zig"

zelcon — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 03:40:01 +0000

That's Zig for you. A ``modern'' systems programming language with no borrow checker or even RAII.

New comment by zelcon in "Show HN: Lightpanda, an open-source headless browser in Zig"

zelcon — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 03:38:02 +0000

Why didn't you just fork Chromium and strip out the renderer? This is guaranteed to bitrot when the web standards change unless you keep up with it forever and have perpetual funding. Yes, modifying Chromium is hard, but this seems harder.

New comment by zelcon in "Wild – A fast linker for Linux"

zelcon — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 03:32:50 +0000

Corps don't want to have to release the source code for their internal forks. They could also potentially be sued for everything they link using it because the linked binaries could be "derivative works" according to a judge who doesn't know anything.

New comment by zelcon in "Parinfer: Simpler Lisp Editing"

zelcon — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 23:18:35 +0000

I try to use paredit-mode, but it never seems to integrate well with evil/vim keybindings. I always end up disabling paredit-mode after a few hours. I'll give this a spin.

New comment by zelcon in "Show HN: GUI for editing Mermaid class diagrams"

zelcon — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:49:08 +0000

Props for somehow convincing all the foundation models to generate charts using your markup. It is guaranteed to survive a very long time now.

New comment by zelcon in "ZFS 2.3 released with ZFS raidz expansion"

zelcon — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 03:17:19 +0000

Tbh the idea of keeping backups defeats the purpose of using RAIDZ (especially RAIDZ3). I don’t want to buy an LTO drive, so if I backup, it’s either buying more HDDs or S3 Glacier ($$$). I like RAIDZ so I don’t have to buy so many drives. I guess it protects you if your house burns down, but how many people do offsite backups for their personal files? And dormant, unpowered HDDs die a lot faster than live, powered HDDs.

New comment by zelcon in "Voyage-code-3"

zelcon — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 08:38:03 +0000

Release the weights or buy an ad. This doesn’t deserve front page.

New comment by zelcon in "ZFS 2.3.0 released with ZFS raidz expansion"

zelcon — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 08:32:14 +0000

Been running it since rc2. It’s insane how long this took to finally ship.

New comment by zelcon in "ZFS 2.3 released with ZFS raidz expansion"

zelcon — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 08:30:57 +0000

You need to buy the same exact drive with the same capacity and speed. Your raidz vdev be as small and as slow as your smallest and slowest drive.

btrfs and the new bcachefs can do RAID with mixed drives, but I can’t trust either of them with my data yet.

New comment by zelcon in "How big data created the modern dairy cow"

zelcon — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 02:19:34 +0000

Future headline: How big data helped the shoggoths get a 6x yield increase in training data tokens from pasture humans

New comment by zelcon in "The Static Site Paradox"

zelcon — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 04:12:20 +0000

GH/CF Pages are only "free" if you have no/minimal traffic. Also, even that free tier will go away if you start popularizing it as a Wordpress alternative or make the barriers to entry lower. Let's keep it free, please

New comment by zelcon in "Tengine: Open-source web server, originated by Taobao, based on Nginx"

zelcon — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 00:01:25 +0000

Envoy. The answer and final word in this space is Envoy.