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pwython··on Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)
I was already rolling around the idea of a 128GB M5 Max MBP. Now this!

A 4-bit MLX quant with 128k window should fit perfectly, in the 50-70 tok/s range.

pwython··on Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
I have actual obscure RGB corner floor lamps with BLE in my office. I had Claude find the BLE protocol and use my Office 365 calendar feed to change their color to red when I'm in a scheduled meeting (event), and back to warm white when the meeting is over, so co-workers know I'm busy without doing "are you busy" sign language through my window. The script is polled every 60 seconds. Tinkering with stuff like this is a lot of fun.
pwython··on Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
Very interesting, I missed your original post[0], will definitely look into it further. What's new since you've posted?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631726

pwython··on AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them
What are the benefits? What would/could I do with the results?
pwython··on AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain
Yep, terrible speller -- bad at pronunciation too (by the way I just autocorrected that word) -- and I often wonder how people, who are much more intelligent than me on paper, can't figure out random tasks that just seem obvious.
pwython··on AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them
Yes. "Weak detail recall but strong fluid reasoning, conceptual/gist memory, and adaptive problem-solving" is how GPT sums up what I feel. And "high fluid intelligence" is a label it gave that I won't be using anytime soon... But I like the sound of it.
pwython··on Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
I hear ya, but one could set different operating thresholds: auto-approve low-risk posts, hold ambiguous posts for review, and automatically reject very high-confidence violations. So HITL for sure, but MUCH less H in the L.
pwython··on Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
I've had dreams of building something in the image sharing or social platform realm, but stopped short of planning because of obvious content moderation responsibilities. This seems to be a realistic, cost effective solution to that one piece of the puzzle.
pwython··on Seedance 2.5
H3 results are underwhelming compared to LTX 2.3 so far:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1vciy35/lt...

Perhaps refined ComfyUI workflows will squeeze more quality out of it, but it's definitely not in the realm of Seedance, and Lightricks is training LTX 2.5/"LTX-Next".

pwython··on Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export
Can't VS Code extensions solve your use case?
pwython··on Elevators
I was on a Royal Caribbean ship a couple weeks ago (Utopia, 18 decks, 5,668 passengers). It has 24 main elevators split between front and back, left and right. So a bank of 6 in front of you each time you needed a lift. You press your floor on a touchpad and it assigns you an elevator A through F.

I swear no matter if it was busy or not, it seemed like everyone was assigned to the same one or two elevators. The wait was always so long too, I used the stairs most of the time if just going <6 flights.

Someone besides RCCL needs to study that algorithm.

pwython··on Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again
I use the Claude Code desktop app for work, and the CLI for personal, so I'm always logged into both accounts!
pwython··on Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
For house keeping tasks the robotics companies love showing off... it honestly doesn't matter if it takes a robot longer than a human to clean your house. As long as it gets done before you get home from work, no big deal.
pwython··on Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac
Ran this on a 64 GB M4 Max MacBook. I figured having Gemma available with a small footprint would be a nice setup. No more unloading models when I need more RAM for work? Hell yea.

Got 48 tok/s decode at 1.9 GB RSS (2.4 GB peak), faster than the 24 GB M5 Pro mentioned in the benchmarks. The ~2.0 GB/s SSD number quoted for M4 is the base chip. This M4 Max does ~7 GB/s.

Page cache seems to be why it beats the M5 Pro. With 64 GB the whole 12 GB packed_experts set stays resident, and iostat shows only ~1.6 GB per run actually reaching disk, against the ~79 GB that 98 fully cold tokens would need.

I then tested with DaVinci Resolve open and under load (playback): 42.6 tok/s. Also held 38 GB of incompressible memory to squeeze the page cache: 41.8. At 48 GB it ranged 32 to 41.5. Degrades gradually rather than a cliff. It's a beautiful thing.

pwython··on Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong?
A yes, a gold lego piece. Wait, not Denmark?
pwython··on Claude Cookbook
> Because it's all very clearly spelled out within the code itself.

You're probably burning tokens. A markdown file with a summary, structure of your project, rules, and even goals prevents Claude from hunting for and reading files over and over. Each new session (or after compact) would be starting from scratch. I take it a step further and create a HANDOFF.md file between compacting that gives the next session full context of what was done and how to continue.

Also:

"Treat CLAUDE.md as the place you write down what you’d otherwise re-explain. Add to it when:

Claude makes the same mistake a second time

A code review catches something Claude should have known about this codebase

You type the same correction or clarification into chat that you typed last session"

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory#claude-md-files

pwython··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
My comment on GLM-5 five months ago:

"How many pelican riding bicycle SVGs were there before this test existed? What if the training data is being polluted with all these wonky results..."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46974853

pwython··on Codex Micro
I set up an old Stream Deck to do the same thing. I stopped using it after a few days. This design looks great though, status lights are a nice touch. YouTube vibe coders will love it, traditional devs will keep MacGyvering their own toys.
pwython··on Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
I thought they were Turkish.
pwython··on Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model
Looking forward to playing with Krea 2, I use Z-Image Turbo daily -- it has replaced my stock photo subscriptions, for realism and illustrations.

May I ask how much did the training cost you?

pwython··on A website that lists websites to submit your website to
Here's a much larger list (1,057 sites): https://pastes.io/rcPg2RLC
pwython··on I Fired Google
Not yet, I have to decouple some of the specific/personal logic. When I do push it, it'll be here: https://github.com/alisorcorp
pwython··on I Fired Google
I had Claude whip up a local solution for me using Gemma 4 26b-a4b on my Mac and a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. It can do web search (valyu), file reading -- I have business & personal context stored in many markdown files -- weather, Apple reminders, and has cross-session memory. Streamline but capable agent that has been pieced together over a few weeks after using Karpathy's LLM wiki pattern, with bits of Hermes logic. Orpheus-TTS streams the spoken reply back with the first word usually landing in half a second. Voice input is openWakeWord for the wake word plus faster-whisper for speech-to-text, all on-device. I can run it straight on the Mac but I use it with the pi satellite and a cheap USB speakerphone (ConfCall MS13B). You can barge in by just talking over it rather than having to say the wake word again. Pretty handy Google Home replacement.
pwython··on "Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"
Same thing architects do if drawing lines gets automated: architecture.

Would you trust living in a high rise designed by AI?

Designing a system that survives production is the job.

pwython··on Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails
I asked Fable to plan a security & performance audit of my website. It said it would check SSR & origin attack surface, CMS content injection, Strapi API surface, etc.

Just before asking for approval to run, it said one thing it wanted to "flag before running" was "Rate-limit and auth testing against prod will generate some 4xx noise in Railway logs and could trip the form rate limiter — harmless, but saying it now."

Ok fine, I said go for it, and it says:

"Running it. Quick recon first (prod URLs + the prior-findings baseline), then I'll fan out the audit tracks with adversarial verification."

Immediately after, I got the Fable warning about how it can't continue because of safety concerns, switching to Opus. In the end, Opus did a good job thanks to whatever Fable suggested doing. Things were fixed that Opus missed in a security/performance audit just the week prior. But what surprised me is that it used 55 agents. Burned 80% of my 5-hour window in 15 minutes (5x Max plan). I've never had Opus do that before on these audits.

pwython··on CUDA Books
First one I clicked on is 404: Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach (3rd Edition) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/programming-in-parallel...
pwython··on Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
This actually worked well when I asked Gemini to generate a random color, character by character. I was getting Indigo/Electric Indigo a lot if I just asked for a random color on new sessions.
pwython··on Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return
> Amazon is investing $5 billion in Anthropic today, with up to an additional $20 billion in the future. This builds on the $8 billion Amazon has previously invested.

> Today’s agreement will quickly expand our available capacity, delivering meaningful compute in the next three months and nearly 1GW in total before the end of the year.

They need a bunch of compute, now.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-amazon-compute

pwython··on Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%
pi-coding-agent (pi.dev) is also great. I've been using it with Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.6.
pwython··on YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney
Big brands don't pay the big bucks to buy placements on run-of-network channels (ie. small random channels).
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