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kroaton··on Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone
Which would be very interesting to test, as larger models (such as Deepseek V4 Flash or Qwen 397B) seem to compress better. Their Q2 quants are usable as is, even without the ternary compression.
kroaton··on Sam Neill has died
A shame it has Marc Maron in it.
kroaton··on Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
Please don't use that garbage. Just use the base Qwen models or Nex/Orinth, as those are the only properly post-trained finetunes. The Qwopus models are marketing.
kroaton··on Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
"DeepSeek-V4-Flash will fit" At Q2, 2bit? Lobotomized to death.
kroaton··on Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
NVFP4 will be better if the model provider actually post-trained properly after quantizing.
kroaton··on Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
You're late to the party, mate; we've been doing this for years. Grab a SearXNG instance, stand up an MCP server for it, and expose the tool into your system prompt. Or use Brave Search. Or Exa if you want to pay. Any of them work. The model will pick it up straight away.

Even llama.cpp's bundled web UI handles it fine. Dead simple.

kroaton··on GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks
https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design
kroaton··on Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95
This has been answered many times already. The short version: Brave's adblocker is not an extension, so manifest v3 has no effect on it.
kroaton··on Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails
To be fair, GPT5.5-Xhigh is similarly capable and has not burned the world down.
kroaton··on Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
Anthropic nuked a big chunk of that "developer sentiment" when they rug-pulled us with the rate limits and gaslit us with "it was just a bug, guys!".
kroaton··on Reddit blocks JSON API access, which leaves read-only apps like RDX unusable
How is this not getting any traction? This is a massive problem. Pretty much every Reddit news app out there is now dead.
kroaton··on Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier
Did you even use it? It was nerfed to hell and back. It stopped following instructions, forgot what sub-agents responded and so on. Stop spreading this pro-Anthropic narrative. They did a rug pull due to lack of compute.
kroaton··on Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI
If Tauri ever gets proper webgpu support, that'll be the Electron killer.
kroaton··on DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier
Claude Code poisons non-anthropic models in usage. We found this out when the code was leaked. Use a fork or OpenCode/pi-coding-agent
kroaton··on DeepSeek v4
Ask western models about Israel's genocides and mass rapes in Palestine, Lebanon, etc.
kroaton··on Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
Buy any Strix Halo box and have fun with your 128GB of VRAM.
kroaton··on Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
A3B-35B is better suited for laptops with enough VRAM/RAM. This dense model however will be bandwidth limited on most cards.

The 5090RTX mobile sits at 896GB/s, as opposed to the 1.8TB/s of the 5090 desktop and most mobile chips have way smaller bandwith than that, so speeds won't be incredible across the board like with Desktop computers.

kroaton··on $500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks
For autocomplete, Qwen 3.5 9B should be enough even at Q4_k_m. The upcoming coding/math Omnicoder-2 finetune might be useful (should be released in a few days).

Either that or just load up Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Q4_K_S I'm serving it at about 40-50t/s on a 4070RTX Super 12GB + 64GB of RAM. The weights are 20.7GB + KV Cache (which should be lowered soon with the upcoming addition of TurboQuant).

kroaton··on Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people
I did the same a few months ago when I read that multiple big OSS Linux projects were moving to it and it's been phenomenal so far.
kroaton··on Flash-MoE: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Laptop
It could just as easily be a $3000-4000 Strix Halo laptop.
kroaton··on Big data on the cheapest MacBook
If SPTM is active on the chip, we are not going to be getting Linux at all.
kroaton··on Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video
Loving this; great work! Do you talk about the process anywhere in more depth?
kroaton··on Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
I remember thinking the same thing and this articles goes over most of the arguments here - https://milvus.io/blog/why-im-against-claude-codes-grep-only...

When it came out and I think it was Boris from Anthropic that said they experimented a lot with Vector Search and grep just worked better.

You can try it out using the Claude-Context MCP - https://github.com/zilliztech/claude-context

kroaton··on Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode
I hope the upcoming DeepSeek coding model puts a dent in Anthropic’s armor. Claude 4.5 is by far the best/fastest coding model, but the company is just too slimy and burning enough $$$ to guarantee enshitification in the near future.
kroaton··on Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash
Cerebras currently has GLM4.6 on it, and will be getting GLM4.7 soon.
kroaton··on Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025
Lol.
kroaton··on GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability
That's gone now. They do drops from time to time, but their compute platform is saturated.
kroaton··on Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation
I saw their penultimate-ever concert (with Greg Puciato on vocals) in Prague, and it was a religious experience. By far the best concert I’ve ever seen.
kroaton··on The universal weight subspace hypothesis
I thought that was Houdini.
kroaton··on The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle
I used to work at a film restoration studio about 10 years ago, and back then PF Clean from PixelFarm was more or less the industry standard. That might have been the software you saw.
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