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quantumleaper··on llama.cpp
llama-server also supports saving the kv cache to SSD. I had no issues with cache invalidation using pi.
quantumleaper··on llama.cpp
The gap was MUCH larger in the past, but in my tests, oMLX and llama.cpp are now very similar (within 10%) in both prompt processing and generation speed. GGUF ecosystem provides a better selection of quants, in my experience Unsloth ones are excellent.
quantumleaper··on Karpathy’s Pelican
I'm sad that Andrej Karpathy went from being one of the most reasonable, trusted, and credible voices in AI to peddling marketing slop for Anthropic.

8 months ago, he was (very reasonably) claiming that reliable agents are at least a decade away, but this now goes against the interest of his employer, so the narrative has been changed.

quantumleaper··on Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace
It's better for the billions of free users that Google serves.
quantumleaper··on When A.I. is a member of the family
No paywall: https://archive.ph/fu2u2
quantumleaper··on How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI
Human brains were shaped over thousands of years of adaptation for warfare. Just look at how creative and advanced the tactics of other guerrilla forces (like the Taliban and Viet Cong) got, despite their very limited resources. None of that needs a high school education.
quantumleaper··on How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI
I agree with other commenters that the claims made in the report are strange.

> We used to rely on our traditional methods. We sent 200 fighters because we had a lot of strength, but then 60 got killed. With the help of AI, we learned that it sometimes makes sense to only send 20. We learned more about well-coordinated attacks and deployment of smaller units.

The other quotes and use cases could make sense in terms of using AI jailbreaks to find information more easily, but this one is absolutely ridiculous. Did the clueless researcher just get trolled?

quantumleaper··on Grok 4.5
Composer 2.5 is 1T total/32B active (based on Kimi 2.5), while Elon publicly said Grok 4.5 is 1.5T parameters total. Hardly a different weight class.

The API cost difference is ~2.5x, probably because xAI has much higher costs to recoup.

quantumleaper··on ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2
How are you iterating on a system prompt and tool descriptions without an eval that gives you hard numbers for improvement or regression?
quantumleaper··on ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2
Do you have benchmarks comparing against Pi? The blog post doesn't include any hard numbers.

For example, so far I haven't seen any evidence that LSP integration improves performance for small models vs using grep via a bash tool.

quantumleaper··on Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
[the comment was misinformed, deleted]
quantumleaper··on Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
This doesn't require computer use, just a bash tool (and possibly fetch to get ffmpeg documentation)
quantumleaper··on Claude Code – Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You
If software engineering were truly solved, like Anthropic claims, anyone could just vibecode it back. If only they stopped being allergic to the word "open" and open-sourced Claude Code, which, at this point, there is no practical reason not to.
quantumleaper··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
The kind of farm that would use AI is already 99% machinery and automation.
quantumleaper··on Google changes its search box
It looks like an output of one of those AI video editors that some (often vibecoded) startups use for their product launch videos. Just drop some assets in, and it spams witty taglines with dramatic transition effects.
quantumleaper··on Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised
This is what many AI supply-chain security startups (like the one that posted the article) are already doing with all NPM packages, so save yourself the Claude tokens. All of these compromises were detected within minutes, but it takes some time (<1 hour) for NPM to unpublish all of the affected packages.
quantumleaper··on Agentic Trading with Safe Guardrails
The belief that there is some kind of market-impacting underground "wisdom of the crowd" to be found on all these public social platforms is an artifact of the GameStop craze that never went away.
quantumleaper··on I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
I don't know how it could fail - Bun loses popularity among devs? Is it an objective metric? From what I understand, Node.js remains dominant across the industry as a whole, with Deno and Bun mostly used by startups.

Anthropic can always fire the Opus/Mythos token machine gun on any problem (bugs, features, security) to ensure PR success, and there would be plenty of AI-sphere startups already drinking the kool-aid that would consider the whole vibe-coding thing to Bun's benefit.

quantumleaper··on I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
A bit off topic, but see how Anthropic publicity stunts went from "Claude C Compiler" with 100K LOC to the recent Bun Rust rewrite with 1M LOC (10x!) in just 3 months.

I get that it's "novel" creation vs porting, but given that they reported that the C compiler cost them $20k in API costs, the Bun rewrite must be at least $200k, maybe even closer to a million. Pure madness.

quantumleaper··on HTML Lists
Your link states it's not supported in iOS Safari at all, even though it has been supported in macOS Safari since 2013.
quantumleaper··on Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
Should be quick and easy with WebGPU, too.
quantumleaper··on Googlebook
Google MegaPixel!
quantumleaper··on If AI writes your code, why use Python?
Copilot is a legacy brand from 2021 (anyone remembers it's free beta? good times) when it was just a rudimentary autocomplete powered by GPT-3. I don't think it aligns with Microsoft's views and priorities now.
quantumleaper··on Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected
DRM is an optional Steamworks feature, the developer can opt out by simply not using it.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/drm

quantumleaper··on How far behind is each major Chromium browser?
You are right, I misremembered this announcement [1]. They are switching from a 4-week to a 2-week release schedule this September.

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-two-week-release

quantumleaper··on How far behind is each major Chromium browser?
Cool idea, but without longer-term tracking of how long each browser lags for each Chromium release, it's hard to draw any meaningful conclusions. It's also clear that in the case of major vulnerabilities, vendors would fast-track adoption of the patch.

I would definitely include the fact that "major" versions of Chromium are released every 2 weeks. For instance, Vivaldi is on version 146.0.7680.218 that released this Tuesday [1], only 5 days ago.

[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/f97d14f8a0a...

quantumleaper··on Apocalypse Early Warning System
My bet is it's the day of the Super Bowl or the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
quantumleaper··on Your phone is about to stop being yours
Unfortunately, there is no way to use Google Pay on it. I'm all for trading some convenience for privacy, but not having to carry all my cards is too much of a convenience for me :(
quantumleaper··on Your phone is about to stop being yours
With a free account, it needs to be reinstalled every 7 days because the signature expires. It's hardly convenient for personal use.