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AntiRushon Virtual and Real World Combine at LAN Party (1998)

What a great read. Thank you for sharing. I didn't go to my first lan party for a couple of years after this was written but it's a nostalgia trip nonetheless.

The linked lanparty.com is also a great exploration. (The first archive is from a few months after the article)

https://web.archive.org/web/19981212015213/www.lanparty.com/

I'm pretty sure my friends and I used this resource when setting up: https://web.archive.org/web/19981202184536/http://www.lanpar...

AntiRushon The Rise and Fall of the Plasma Screen

Your book looks like it will be fascinating! I ordered through bookshop.org since I already have an account, but do you have a preferred retailer for others who might want to buy it?

http://friendlyorangeglow.com/

AntiRushon Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware

A3B refers to 3 billion parameters active during a forward pass, not the size of an individual expert.

The 3 billion includes all active experts, and then other shared weights, attention components, embeddings.

In the qwen 3.5 35b a3b series, each expert is ~3 million parameters. There are 40 layers which each have 1 shared expert and 8 routed experts. Roughly 1.1B of the 3B active are experts.

AntiRushon Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s

Yes, you're correct - bad copy from my notes. 3,111 tok/s is the correct number.

AntiRushon Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s

Agreed that glm-5.3-flash is a strong model. On a single 6000 pro you can (barely) fit a q2 quant in vram. I haven't used it extensively, but my initial feeling is that the q2 is quite a bit worse than q4 for this model. To run it comfortably at q4 with reasonable context length you really need 2 6000s.

When the qwen 4 series is released I am hopeful there'll be a strong model with the same architecutre. as qwen3.8-flash-next.

AntiRushon Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s

I've been working on support for this model in ds4 on the RTX 6000 pro - it's been really great for my use cases. The ds4 q4 quant performs a lot better than other similar sizes that I've seen.

Using the Q4 quant on an RTX 6000 Pro Workstation Edition at 450 watts:

  Code: prefill 1,251 tok/s decode 255.26 tok/s
  Prose: prefill 1,251 tok/s decode 198.78 tok/s

Most important for me, I can run 4 concurrent streams at 400+ tok/s.

https://github.com/fairfieldt/ds4

AntiRushon Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux

Cool, and quite reminiscent of 0x10c: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x10c

AntiRushon Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs

This is likely a convertible debt investment from Amazon being revalued. The numbers are pretty close, there might be some smaller notes in there too.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000101872426...

AntiRushon Brood War Bench

Back in 2010, during the early days of bwapi, there was a Brood War AI tournament held by the Expressive Intelligence Studio at UC Santa Cruz. It's interesting to see how different the approaches were back then, vs this or Deepmind's SC2 work.

https://web.archive.org/web/20091124210529/http://eis.ucsc.e...

There's a great contemporary Ars Technica piece by a competitor:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/01/skynet-meets-the-swar...

As an undergrad I did a project using genetic programming. It was not very successful, but it was a lot of fun.

https://tomisin.space/archive/starcraft-genetic-programming/

AntiRushon Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor

I was reminded of this book today when I read some comments here about the popularity of “sailing log” manuscripts.

This one is written by Paul Lutus, of Apple Writer fame.

https://arachnoid.com/administration/index.html

AntiRushon San Diego photologs from the 1970s

Your color correction is incredible - the frames you selected look much better than the original video.

The matrix of vehicles is my favorite part. If you drive down these same streets today it's a sea of black, white and grey.

You'll be happy to know that Les Girls is still there today, advertising burlesque, go go dancers and "full nude". They finally replaced the sign earlier this year, but it still looks very much the same.

Les Girls is the feature of a fascinating podcast, too: https://www.kpbs.org/podcasts/stripper-energy

AntiRushon MAI-Code-1-Flash

The introductory blog post has a lot more information

https://microsoft.ai/news/introducingmai-code-1-flash/

and the model card

https://microsoft.ai/pdf/MAI-Code-1-Flash-Model-Card.PDF

The broader announcement of 7 MAI models seems to be where the 5B active in the title comes from

https://microsoft.ai/news/building-a-hillclimbing-machine-la...

AntiRushon Tracy Kidder has died

Agreed. Farmer's O for the P (provide a preferential option for the poor in health care) was clearly central to his life. I think about it often.

On top of that he was incredibly competent at navigating the combination of hostile bureaucracy, apathy, and disorganization. It's incredible what he and PIH accomplished.

AntiRushon Tracy Kidder has died

The Soul of a New Machine really grabbed me in college. Tracy Kidder wrote with a unique style that (to me) really drives the narrative forward while making you stop and consider the forces behind the story he's telling. The characters he writes about are real people and they seem like it.

Moutains Beyond Mountains[1], another book by Kidder, is even more compelling to me. It's a fascinating story of Paul Farmer, who dedicated his life to fighting infectious disease, especially in Haiti.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountains_Beyond_Mountains

AntiRushon Claude March 2026 usage promotion

This is an announcement of time-based billing.

AntiRushon GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark

This was a 24 hour task from a single prompt, GPT-5.2

https://tomisin.space/projects/graph-easy-ts/

AntiRushon 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?

The second half of the article is entirely about kibibyte and the other IEC units.

AntiRushon How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)

The Charles Schulz museum in Santa Rosa, CA is a must visit if you’re in the area!

https://schulzmuseum.org/

AntiRushon Red Alert 2 in web browser

StarCraft was actually built by Blizzard Entertainment (formerly Silicon and Synapse), Blizzard North (Condor) were the team behind Diablo and Diablo 2.

AntiRushon Running a 68060 CPU in Quadra 650

There's at least one implementation, a Mac Plus:

https://www.bigmessowires.com/plus-too/

AntiRushon GHC now runs in the browser

I'm guessing it was Hugs:

https://www.haskell.org/hugs/

AntiRushon Tokio and Prctl = Nasty Bug

As mentioned in the article, there is a 10 second value in Tokio - the default thread timeout.

AntiRushon What happened when REM went mainstream

I think you're underestimating the influence of R.E.M. on their peers and those that follow. The first 3 that come to mind:

Nirvana - Cobain famously said "If I could write just a couple of songs as good as what they’ve written".

The National - Toured with, worked with, still bring Michael Stipe onstage every once in a while.

Radiohead - Thom Yorke: "I’ve ripped them off left, right and centre for years and years and years and years."

AntiRushon I Thought I Found a Bug

The article is about compiling and running a program inside the emulator. When the unexpected behavior occurred, the author assumed it was a bug in the emulator.

AntiRushon Show HN: Free mortgage analysis tool to avoid getting screwed by closing costs

The most common scams around home buying are wire fraud - contact the buyer pretending to be the title company and steal their money. The data in a mortgage is exactly what you need to enable these scams and you're getting people to hand it to you and at the same time tell you they are about to wire money.

AntiRushon The Apple Jonathan: A 1980s concept computer that never shipped

There’s someone on Reddit who is building some real Jonathan modules:

https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/1at3bjb/jonat...

AntiRushon Research paper is also an executable x86 program [pdf]

Yep, it has the telltale MZ header at the top. Either a DOS or windows executable. [1]

The pdf appears to be a readable formatted version, to get the actual executable you’ll need the raw text sans newlines (as described in the paper)

1:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_MZ_executable

AntiRushon Fixing Macs door to door

It reminds me of this book:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374602581/laserwriterii

AntiRushon TSA introducing self-service screening technology in Las Vegas

It's been that way since 2005. It's pretty much indistinguishable from TSA other than the badges on the uniforms.