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JacobJackon 2D Vehicles

GFA Basic !… So many memories are coming back to me.

JacobJackon Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

> And the comparisons in this post are not going to be running some 2.58-bit-gguf-in-ollama with a couple test prompts.

Genuine question : is there something fundamentally wrong with Ollama ?

I use Ollama because it is easy to set up and manage (and also because VLLM is not super Windows friendly).

I thought the main advantage of VLLM was better concurrency management (better batching).

But if the quality of the interference itself is an issue, then maybe I should reconsider my choice.

JacobJackon Show HN: Reconstruct any image using primitive shapes, runs in-browser via WASM

This page is a little older, but it offers the same kind of service and allows you to save in svg format : https://www.samcodes.co.uk/project/geometrize-haxe-web/

JacobJackon Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025

I'd really like to be able to use this 3B model on my little 4GB GPU card! It looks very capable for a reasonable weight. Maybe one day on HhuggingFace

JacobJackon uBlock Origin Has Been Disabled

Indeed... Today, Chrome simply removed uBlock Origin (and Redirector, which I use regularly in development). That's the last straw... Besides, I don't see how I can surf the web these days without uBlock Origin.

JacobJackon Mistral Le Chat

It's a way of using the English term "chat" while using the typically French article "Le". It reminds me of old American cartoons that abused the article "Le" to emphasize the French aspect of a character or place. The Mistral products "La Plateforme" and "Le Chat" follow this principle.

JacobJackon Make Tracker Tunes in the Browser

Yes... So many memories of the 90's are coming back to me all of a sudden. I spent months on Soundtracker/Protracker, literally.

JacobJackon Museum of Bad Art

After all, art may only be a matter of consensus.

JacobJackon Thank You MDN

No disqus account. So I’ll express myself here... MDN is an invaluable source of information. Very clear, comprehensive articles with intuitive examples. The web needs that.

JacobJackon Reborn 3: Desktop browser with Web 3, faster VPN and ad blocker

Same here... Opera sets itself as default browser without any action/prompt whatever. It also adds the Opera icon in the task bar without asking anything. Red line crossed. Next step is probably to uninstall competitors ?

JacobJackon Ask HN: Are we training Google's self-driving AI by using reCaptcha?

We do, actually... "Hundreds of millions of CAPTCHAs are solved by people every day. reCAPTCHA makes positive use of this human effort by channeling the time spent solving CAPTCHAs into digitizing text, annotating images, building machine learning datasets. This in turn helps preserve books, improve maps, and solve hard AI problems."

https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/

JacobJackon Cloudflare Declares War on a Patent Troll with $50,000 Bounty

Such a vague patent shouldn't have been accepted in the first place. It's essentially an idea with no specific details. How long before we get a patent on "Something that serves a purpose of any kind" ?

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=H...