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hypercube33··on New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
Doesn't this depend on the model and quant as well vs. the hardware and its capability? Plus memory bandwidth, amount, and layout.

My Strix Halo now can run some models through the NPU and its roughly as fast as its GPU+CPU (on some of the models - some its slower)

hypercube33··on Genie 4
Honestly MiniMax H3 looks better than this at most of the things I've been able to generate locally. These look super AAA game like - movement is uncanny and feels like it was trained on GTA3 or something like that - is this just me?
hypercube33··on Genie 4
Dont be silly, it will be on the companies hardware. We're pushed to a rent to "use" model in so many things now.
hypercube33··on Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11
Somewhere in Windows 11 23H2 (maybe newer - I haven't looked) is the Windows 3 program manager application.
hypercube33··on 16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows
They already had 32bit Win32 Windows on Windows (WoW) subsystems on all machines, even ARM64 to a point - the only thing I've seen that it didnt run out of the box was OpenGL which they have a (??!) Store app for Maya3d or something that does OpenGL to DirectX translation - and that seemed to work OK. The biggest issues I had with Windows on ARM64 was the lack of cooling.

Back on track - the 16 bit DOS and Windows stack is a lot different than Win32 - totally different windowing, drawing to the screen, and memory management is involved - it was probably pulled for security reasons and the most common one at Microsoft - "the guy who maintained this left or retired"

hypercube33··on OLED iPad Mini
Ok, how is this a disappointment - what does it not have that the pro does that you're seeking? To me, this just looks like a large phone without cellular. Not sure I'd want this, as I already have a large phone - good enough.
hypercube33··on We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970
Oh the Hitchhikers guide is also a good movie. 42
hypercube33··on Advanced Shader Delivery Is Available Now Across Hardware
Only available on the XBOX App for Windows. Nah. I even have gamepass ultimate and I'm not interested - more so now that they pulled CoD from it even. I just do not like the interface, updates to games, and its file management.
hypercube33··on Why Windows 11 still ships with Windows 95's memory manager hidden inside it
Windows NT (NT - Windows 11) keeps applications in their own private memory space by design. Windows 1,2,3,95,98,Me didn't do this which is why it was more prone to blue screens.
hypercube33··on Why Windows 11 still ships with Windows 95's memory manager hidden inside it
Someone was watching NT to Now on Youtube I see, and playing with the Application SHIM system. There are a lot of quirky things from NT still in Windows 11. I think that Clock.exe was finally removed a year or two ago from 1994.
hypercube33··on Show HN: Indigene – Native plants for where you stand
It didn't where I live so this site doesn't do much for me. I'd love it though, I'm a huge fan of the idea.
hypercube33··on I Love Software Rendering
Didnt someone have software rendering for Crysis on a third-generation Threadripper?
hypercube33··on I love software rendering
In the first waves of multimedia PCs - the CPU was tasked with doing sound, networking, hard drive control, etc. - pretty much all of the cost savings came from having minimal hardware for the auxiliary components and doing it all in drivers.

A common "Trick" was to buy cards that had essentially their own processors to handle this stuff - SoundBlasters, 3Com nics, IDE drive controllers that had their own processor (hell, even up to their own OS) since that freed the CPU up for doing actual work - gaming. Even an external or other

CPUs were a bottle neck but most people didnt tax the single core machines doing most daily work (office work, browsing the web) so it was fine, but once you load up a game that needs sound, 3d, networking, disk access all at once it would start stealing clock cycles trying to do all of that in one place.

hypercube33··on Ask HN: Why does Windows Update overrite the Linux boot record?
Probably due to their panic for the 2023 secure boot cert stuff and or security issues being patched in uefi/recovery. It probably just bulldozes over anything there to lay down a clean boot partition.
hypercube33··on Firefox Enterprise
On the surface this seems like good news. Other browsers have central management planes tied to users that an enterprise can control plugins and policy with. While Firefox hasn't had this ever.

It may be a little too late as I'm seeing the shift away from Edge or Chrome even in some enterprises to secure browsers.

hypercube33··on Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers
I noticed that. I'm kinda surprised they cant get it working these days on Apple Silicon. I was excited to try it on my Neo but they noted OpenGL and a dependency is the hangup. Somewhat surprised this isnt on Vulkan or something (I think there is a Vulkan - Metal translation layer available)

After digging I found this - https://github.com/benbreen/RecoilEngine-AppleSilicon Looks like someone has ported and successfully gotten some or all of it working.

hypercube33··on IRCv3
Maybe if I get bored at the end of the month and have some Claude credits left I'll clean room it to .net 10 or something.
hypercube33··on 500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter
Isn't MW2 rooted in id tech engines? Last I checked there was raw assembly inside the code base. I would have started with quake 2/3 whatever source code and tried to match that up with Claude first - some of it has to have survived (though I doubt much)
hypercube33··on Theranos.world
I cant believe they've done this. They didnt even use iframes.
hypercube33··on Show HN: Procinsh – A 3D Linux process inspector
Looks like the gibson in the movie Hackers.
hypercube33··on $2599 Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra
I have a cheaper Surface Laptop 4 that I wanted to love, even for Windows, but it just has such poor support for Windows even though its a first party device that I had to kind of move on to something else. Shame, since it could have been a good laptop at the time having a custom AMD chipset it could even pull decent frames in gaming and whatever, but it just has awful driver support for the GPU / display dimming.

The battery life is also unremarkable, and having other surfaces people have dumped on me that are older and newer (but I did not buy) I don't think I like the designs of them all around.

hypercube33··on Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and pressure
No screenshots to see what it looks like that I was able to find?
hypercube33··on Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and pressure
For me, I dont like photoshop and only have it to get lightroom so I can do basic editing on photos. I am in photoshop maybe 6 hours a year and only to do some minor edits or things I should probably do in another app like InDesign or whatever it is for layouts (I truly have no idea, but I'm not giving adobe more money).

For me, I just want to easily organize some folders, cull stuff, throw the culls into a marked directory, and process them to JPEG with some lighting adjustments since I shoot raw. Lightroom honestly is painful to use. I don't think gimp fills my needs since its more like photoshop. I'm happy to look at something else though!

hypercube33··on Mistral Large 4
I have similar hardware - what specific version of the 3.8 Next model are you running and how many tokens/s are you seeing? 3.6 35B A3B gets about 68t/s for me so I've been sticking with that model for the mean time.
hypercube33··on Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963)
Did IBM consider the PC a successful product? Especially over time it's eaten their bread and butter mainframe market and they pulled out of the end user computing to Lenovo. On the flip side if they didn't do it, others were already trying.
hypercube33··on Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents
Update -

Install is easy. I like the ability to find models for my system with estimated performance.

Cons: I cant re-use models for other systems like LM Studio I have saved to a folder on my system; it wants to re-download 40GB models.

hypercube33··on Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents
Interesting, I'll give it a spin. Thanks for the info - the post header here illuded that you dont support it, but the page does indeed say AMD and Vulkan.
hypercube33··on Pi 1.0
60-70 tokens/sec Windows 11 LLM Studio 250 or whatever the models max is below that as context Qwen3.6 35B A3B 35B-A3B, gguf
hypercube33··on Deskflower: Ambient, procedural plants on a 1.47" ESP32-C6 display
If this had pictures of what it looks like I'd probably buy a module - sounds super interesting.

FYI the website URL returns a 404.

hypercube33··on We Investigated Starlink. The Corruption We Found Will Shock You
Over the last 30 years there have been plenty of attempts if you will to build out fiber. Some did lay fiber, others seem to have not.

The Biden bill did get my parents fiber in rural Wisconsin because the local ISP actually wanted to deliver Internet.

I think the government was hoping that raising and holding providers accountable with the bandwidth tests would have solved that but enforcement is one place this is falling down.

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