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HelloUsername··on Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM
Also Apple M3 support
HelloUsername··on How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
I was wondering about this as well; did they only test with the official iOS app? Or also through a mobile webbrowser?
HelloUsername··on Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS
Funny thing:

"Windows 7 boots slower if you set a solid background color" 28.jan.2025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42856262 117 comments

"Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background?" 28.apr.2025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43827214 296 comments

HelloUsername··on Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life
The title of this article sounds sweet, in contrast to another principle of his: Chekhov's gun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov%27s_gun
HelloUsername··on Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker
"Firefox blocks many types of advertising at the network level. It uses a filter list based on EasyList to block many ads before they load."

I guess still all DNS it seems? For which NextDNS is much more useful.

HelloUsername··on The Dutch Community Where People Live on Strips of Land in a Lake
And on iOS? Which is maybe what they're using
HelloUsername··on Apple TV just added a bunch of classic movies to stream for free
Yup, a lot of wrong hyperlinks there. Also tinyurl.com usage
HelloUsername··on llama.cpp
Why are you posting from multiple accounts?
HelloUsername··on 2026 Eclipse Webcams
Maybe here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSvCuSQhC3w
HelloUsername··on High-Res Photo Shows Sand-Capped Butte Rising from Mars Plain of Polygons
Posted 10 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49146160
HelloUsername··on llama.cpp
> not associated with Meta, it's been around for year

This post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35100086) from march 2023 says in the title "Llama.cpp: Port of Facebook's LLaMA model in C/C++"

HelloUsername··on llama.cpp
The last time this was posted was in May 2026 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325941), and before that March 2023 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35100086). Maybe those were the times you learned about it? Nothing wrong with letting new people know about it too now and then.
HelloUsername··on llama.cpp
"Friends don't let friends use ollama" https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/
HelloUsername··on Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting
Related "Photo Ark – An effort to document every species living in zoos and sanctuaries (nationalgeographic.org)" 23.apr.2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22953622 9 comments
HelloUsername··on London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces
Not really related to the written topic of this page, but I noticed there is a sideways red button with "Leave this site" that redirects you to 'https://www.google.co.uk/'. What could be the incentive behind this? Why not just close the tab?
HelloUsername··on Findphone: Locate a nearby Bluetooth device by signal strength
Post inspired by "Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength" 07.aug.2026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215786 215 comments ?
HelloUsername··on NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
Move comments to source? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189895
HelloUsername··on Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation
"I want to get off of this cart."
HelloUsername··on Position: LLMs Can't Jump
Ah sorry, I meant this specific link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136070, you posted it twice. And I also meant it could've been one post, to avoid nesting.
HelloUsername··on Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast
Related: "Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test" may 2026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155450 87 comments
HelloUsername··on Position: LLMs Can't Jump
You posted this twice now. Why not just edit your original comment?
HelloUsername··on Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone
> Ask models to search on the Internet and answer?

To me, the benefit of running small models is that they fit on your device exactly that you don't need any internet connection. It's all local and offline, so you can still consult for information in any scenario.

HelloUsername··on Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal
Bending Spoons list of taking over companies is huge:

2026: Airtable

2025: Eventbrite, AOL, Vimeo, Brightcove, Komoot

2024: WeTransfer, Issuu, Hopin, Meetup, Mosaic Group

2023: Evernote

2022: Filmic Pro

2021: Remini

2018: Splice

HelloUsername··on Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform
Hmm, how come this is only a Show HN post now, but it seems it's already been live since at least 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33055426 ?
HelloUsername··on The true power of regular expressions (2012)
"Doom Using Regular Expressions" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49094081
HelloUsername··on Less Coffee, Better Sleep
Previous discussion in 2024: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41140565
HelloUsername··on Mozilla's Inaugural 'State of Open Source AI' Report Is Here
Discussed some days ago: "The state of open source AI" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947825 357 comments
HelloUsername··on RamenHaus
I agree. It's just the .jpeg rotating through css. It's inspired by (as mentioned on the website) rotatingsandwiches; those are actually 3D photographed (or filmed) with a fixed light source
HelloUsername··on EU will mandate labels on authentic-looking AI content starting August 2
Move comments to source? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124564
HelloUsername··on Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3
Nice. Will you also release a version without Javascript (and without css)?
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