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bestham··on Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard
All I know is that Strata and these models are the most I have ever gotten out of my machine. I get 70 t/s on a standard gaming rig 9070 XT / 5900X / 64 GB DDR4 @3400.
bestham··on The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial
Remember when looking up a restaurant online loaded a full screen flash movie with an outdated menu and loud music you could not stop? The reason why we abolished everything else apart from the DOM was that as soon as we had anything else it just marginalized the open web by not being flexible and adaptable. Active X controls, Silverlight, Flash and Java applets all did more or less what you are requesting while not being fit for mobile.
bestham··on Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain
No, but if the country where you built your house changes. Then your adress is going to change no matter what.
bestham··on Tesla Roadster
Learn from the best: Maskirovka
bestham··on Major ICQ security hole (1998)
Or run NetBus :-D
bestham··on Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died
I remember watching "Triumph of the Nerds" as a appx. 10 year old (it aired some years later in Norway). Two quotes stuck with me from that. The first is Ballmer mocking IBMers for bragging about how many KLOCs they had written every day. He's point being that the code is not the product. The other was Ellison complaining about the software distribution models at the time. "Don't put software on plastic discs, plastic discs in cardboard box, cardboard box in a warehouse and later in a store. Instead put the software on the net." I remember calculating how long it would be to download the full Windows 95 disc on my 28.8 modem, and thinking that it would be long time until that was feasible.
bestham··on Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
The chemistry set the voltage and the voltage and the size set the capacity. Everything else equal, a larger capacity battery is often compatible with an original smaller capacity battery in a given device because the charge current will be lower in relation to the capacity.
bestham··on The EU has begun enforcing the AI Act: first RFIs to model providers
I really oppose the notion that “European legislation … disproportionately impacts American tech companies”. US tech has a profound impact on the lives of everyday Europeans while the US has almost no checks and balances in place for the tech industry. Europeans are ought to be able decide how they want to live their lives and build a society. This must include deciding how much influence American tech companies shall be allowed to have by passing laws for Europe.
bestham··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
From where I’m sitting in Europe, Tesla feels like the disposable car. Gatekeeping repairs and parts and more quality defects needing post shipment corrections than other brands.

To take a concept and refine it to reach mass production is success. It is what made the US what you believe it is today and it is what is creating a healthy supply chain in China. Just look at the challenges of Destin of Smarter Every Day[1] when producing a grill scrubber using only US suppliers and materials.

A “Made in the USA” label is no guarantee of superior design or manufacturing quality to me but if Japan is mentioned I have a greater confidence in the quality of the product.

[1]: https://www.smartereveryday.com/smarterscrubber

bestham··on The End of an Athlon
I had a friend whose Athlon Thunderbird was crushed under the heatsink, but everything seemed worked apart from playing MPEG clips under Windows. I guess that some part of the acceleration for full monitor video or MPEG decoding used a component in that portion of the chip (3D Now! ?).
bestham··on New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro
We do not know that prices are coming back down. Perhaps they will just sit while inflation slowly makes them seem normal.
bestham··on Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things
I also have the same problems with reimbursements, but I think that is because my brain has already given me the dopamine of getting the money back, simply because it is my money to claim. The tiny problem that I won't get the money unless I claim it, seems to be ignored by my brain.
bestham··on California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year
And Walmart has it in stock in Anchorage. So a moot point.
bestham··on YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing
It incentivises clickbait. The creators that we are talking about provide value in long form videos. If all you need to get paid is a five second view (lower bars to payment) the market will adapt and “automated solutions” will take a chunk of what now goes towards creators.
bestham··on Cloudflare's AI Psychosis
Innovation is only linear in hindsight . Pure speculation on my part but once CF made some leaps in a particular area this enabled them to gather more data and shift direction to reach their over all goals by stifling the causes and the innovation that lead them there. New management comes in, requirements change and this is evident to us on the outside as disjointed behaviour. Companies need to make money from the internet for it to exist. Companies also need to behave and refrain from tragedy of the commons for the internet to keep existing as we know it.
bestham··on Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp
Because it cannot be safely virtualised?
bestham··on Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
This is true. But you can also run gigabit ethernet over a single pair (1000BASE-T1) often called SPE. The transceivers are more expansive than normal four pair gigabit and the official cable requirement is Cat6A but even if the headroom is lower it will work on lesser Cat levels.
bestham··on Almost no skill required to cook a steak
Are you saying that the temperature of the water when it hit the ground beans that matter or the fact that the water was brought up to a boil or 100°C?
bestham··on Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone
No, CVEs are on average still actively being exploited for far longer than 5 years. The oldest CVEs on CISA’s KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities) catalog are from early to mid 2000s.
bestham··on Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory
The asymmetry between the drones and the F16 neutralising them quickly makes this financially unsustainable.
bestham··on Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate
In the Nordic’s heap pumps are very common, approximately 48, 52 and 63 % of households in Sweden, Finland and Norway have heat pumps installed. [1]

[1] : https://ehpa.org/news-and-resources/press-releases/heat-pump...

bestham··on Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29
I believe that Notebookcheck is natively written in German and translated.
bestham··on CarPlay Is Additive
The wheel in an Enyaq before the facelift is the same haptic one-button shitshow. They have some buttons that act like shortcuts below the infotainment. But it the screen is still essentialistisk for managing crucial functions.
bestham··on Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off
> DAB was implemented using the old MPEG2 audio codec. No, it was MPEG 1 layer 2 often at 192 kbps. Later they switched to HE-AAC with DAB+.
bestham··on Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC
If they can override sudo, they can override which.
bestham··on Digital Identity Management in Norway Is a Catastrophe
The proper terminology is Level of Assurance (LoA) for an eID as opposed to “secure” or “highly secure”.

eIDAS (EU Regulation No 910/2014) derives the LoA definition from ISO/IEC 29115:2013 LoA 2,3,4 to LoA “Low”, “Substantial” and “High” (LoA 1 is not mapped in eIDAS). eIDAS article 8 refers to the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1502 and it refers to ISO/IEC 29115:2013.

bestham··on Introducing USB4STREAM Protocol for Linux – Opening Up Some Nifty Uses for USB4
It sounds like we are inventing the DSSD D5 again? But why would one use volatile DDR5 if the bandwidth constraints it? Better to rely on cheaper nonvolatile flash.
bestham··on Germany goes from labour shortages to hiring freezes
That is just a side effect of Russia attacking Ukraine.
bestham··on Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes
Good then that there is very little need for emissions control in EV. No barrier for giving the owner of the vehicle more access to its innards.
bestham··on OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
I think you are mistaking hatred toward the Kremlin for hatred toward the Russian people.
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