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Re:Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:58PM (#50346569)
Intel isn't important though.
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:04PM (#50329198)
Doesn't work, all the spyware modules connect to open Wifi of neighbors, and soon, LTE.
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:04PM (#50329194)
A large format monitor that does not connect to the Internet nor has any smarts at all.

Also, do not plug any Internet-facing devices into it, have a captive SBC that connects to a LAN server hosting (legally owned) videos.

Re:Ask HN: Are tab completion models dead? on Sunday October 25, 2026 @09:06AM (#50231137)
Much like other uses of LLM, it never worked right, and everyone went back to the original, working, way of doing it.

You do not, and never did, need AI for tab complete.

Thats a weird way for Disney+ to go under.
Re:Pillowfort Is Closing on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @01:17AM (#50176353)
I wonder if why people rejected the site is because there seems to be no way tos scroll the page?
Re:Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @12:38AM (#50176140)
Problem with that font is they haven't pushed a new build of it in over a year. You can take their build file and build it with a newer Iosevka, but you'd have to learn how that tool works (I've done it, its not user friendly).

Might you rather be interested in https://github.com/ahatem/IoskeleyMono ?

Re:Danish Supreme Court Finds That AI CSAM Is CSAM on Friday October 16, 2026 @06:22PM (#50125559)
It depends on the culture. Many crimes like this are considered adult crimes, and to be charged with them as a minor the prosecution has to go through the process to get them charged as an adult.

Generally the process isn't worth it unless they think they have a near certain chance of winning against the child.

I do agree, however, that in bird culture, sharing nudes that were sent to you is considered a dick move.

Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @05:31AM (#50116183)
Given how Tesla's profitability nearly vanished due to Elon outing himself with the "roman salute", I don't see why he thinks his company will be around long enough to actually get this out the door.

I have no reason to believe this isn't another Deplorean.

Re:Danish Supreme Court Finds That AI CSAM Is CSAM on Friday October 16, 2026 @05:25AM (#50116129)
That is part of the problem though: in any acceptable interpretation of the law, the one in the photo would be the victim, so how could they be charged with also being the abuser? You can't be your own abuser. I, too, am only aware of cases where this has happened because the receiver then shared it with others; however, the person that received it is also a minor of the same age thus also inappropriate to charge them, but would be the more correct choice.

https://www.aclu.org/news/juvenile-justice/minnesota-prosecu...

This is one such case, but hardly unique.

Re:Danish Supreme Court Finds That AI CSAM Is CSAM on Friday October 16, 2026 @01:46AM (#50114532)
Unfortunately that gets into a weird spot. I, too, believe that it should be disallowed for that reason, but the opposite end of that is prosecuting teenagers for distributing photos of themselves to other teenagers (their same-age peers)... which has unfortunately occurred due to improper application of the law.

The law must recognize the right to self-determinism and bodily autonomy, and you can't inherently be both the victim and the abuser. There is no one size fits all law, and many governments are trying to act like they have one.

Re:Danish Supreme Court Finds That AI CSAM Is CSAM on Thursday October 15, 2026 @07:08PM (#50111614)
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Also your account is 10 hours old, hows the Russian datacenters this time of year?

Re:Danish Supreme Court Finds That AI CSAM Is CSAM on Thursday October 15, 2026 @06:59PM (#50111563)
I, too, have an issue with this ruling.

CSAM laws exist to punish abusers, and seek justice for the abused. Not one or the other, but both. The law cannot function without the victims, else you're just attacking people for what amounts to thought crimes.

I find CSAM and pedophiles disgusting, and I imagine 100% of HN users agree with me on this, but this just opens the door for world governments to a) claim LLM output is real and factual (!), but b) minimizes the danger to victims and equates victimhood to being a fictional character.

I'm not Danish and I'm hoping this is just some Dane-specific weird quirk of their law, but from what I can see, this is a politically-biased ruling to "think of the children".

Weird, because Microsoft invented the ttc. Its usually Mac users that have the problems with it.

Are you sure it isn't an issue where a specific app just doesn't know how to use ttc?

Re:Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @04:31PM (#50094706)
It has been litigated to death before the invention of LLMs. Also, the current opinion of the USCO, which is unlikely to change, is that humans must be the author of the Copyrighted work. The problem with the entire argument is both sides are trying to think like a programmer, not a laywer, but only lawyers should be trying to argue novel interpretations of the law.

I would love to see the opinion of a copyright lawyer that would be willing to bring an LLM output copyright case to the Supreme Court, their opinion must be absolutely wild.

This whole thing was most recently affirmed in the 9th Circuit case Naruto v. Slater, where a monkey used a photographer's camera to take a selfie, and the photographer claimed he owned the Copyright because it was his camera, and then attempted to extort the Wikimedia Foundation. Monkeys are clearly intelligent and actually alive (unlike LLMs) yet that still did not alter the opinion of the Judges based on the current interpretation of the Copyright Act (which clearly states only humans can hold Copyright) and all the decades of case law proceeding this case.

As for specifically GenAI, the case involving Théâtre D'opéra Spatial also moved in this exact direction: it is a Midjourney manufactured image that the prompt-giver attempted to Copyright, and the USCO rejected the application and the USCO Review Board also rejected it, however the prompt-giver has not elected to sue the USCO over this.

As a reminder, my manifesto: https://github.com/Diablo-D3/dotfiles/blob/master/fontsizes....

The part you'd all be interested is the table at the bottom: ideal font size to get the most out of your favorite code font, but also ordered by font size (for maximum code density on screen while still being readable).

Even though vector fonts are, well, vectors and not bitmaps, they often are fuzzy or misshapen at some sizes. The only way to objectively judge a font is to view it at it's best. Some fonts are objectively bad.

Iosevka is my daily driver, but not the most dense font on the list.

To quote myself and what I just said: "Even the largest proponents of it have quit due to the exceptionally bad code quality."

I am very much paying attention to the current state of LLM acceptance.

Re:Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @01:34PM (#50091587)
Yes.

He is now the leader of a cabal of maintainers, and the only coding he does now is minor fixups for branch merging.

I suspect he still codes his own pet projects in his off time though, that's how we got git after all.

Re:Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @01:33PM (#50091555)
Linus's policy on patch acceptance covers the LLM problem: it must still be audited by a maintainer before acceptance (and thus, actually be decent code), but also, because of LLMs, be significantly produced by a human, as machine written code cannot be Copyrighted, thus, cannot be Open Source, and thus, cannot be in the kernel because it isn't open source.

Nobody is really against LLMs producing, for example, exploits for novel security bugs to assist security researchers in patching those bugs. The exploit itself does not need to be Copyrightable nor Open Source. Nor is anybody against LLMs accelerating debugging, and helping find the location and root cause of the bug; again, that is not producing the end product code, thus does not need to be Copyrightable nor Open Source.

I don't think LLMs are ever going to take off in the coding space. Even the largest proponents of it have quit due to the exceptionally bad code quality.

The only place it works is dumb boilerplate generation (ie, a smarter replacement for templates), but the real fix for that is just jettisoning languages that beat you to death with boilerplate; its 2026, stop using C++ and Java.

I've extensively tried every LLM model, commercial or not, and for real languages like Rust or Zig, they perform poorly, and for footgun-laden languages like C++ or Java or Python, it just hands you the footgun and helps you aim the thing.

Ahh, shit, you're right. I misread it as Flash.
It lists a bunch of models it supports, including Qwen3.8-Flash
Re:Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X on Monday October 12, 2026 @09:00PM (#50065217)
For now. A limited run of Celestials until 2028 when Serpent Lake switches to Nvidia tiles, and a bit longer for the LTS combo (AMD style) IO+GPU die in lower end/embedded products.

Druid is still dead, consumer DGPUs are still, and workstation DGPUs also seems to be dead, and most of the Xe driver team for Windows was laid off, as well as most of the Xe chip design team.

Normally I'd say this is a weird way for a company to announce bankruptcy, but no, this is pretty on-brand for Epic.
I suspect they did. 100% of cases where people complain WSL2 was slow and I helped debug was this specific incorrect usage.
9P is very slow for certain operations (such as, for example, git from either direction).

virtio is not enabled by default because its buggy in certain corner cases, and will be enabled by default when it stops doing that. That said, I do have that enabled, it is certainly faster.

Re:How many GPUs is 1M/B/T tokens? on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:43AM (#50005160)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_proces...

If you know what any given model uses for BW per token and flops per token, you can roughly infer for many models until you get better benchmarks.

There is also:

CUDA: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/15013

HIP: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/15021

Vulkan: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/10879

Metal: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/4167

These three are measured against the old model of Llama 2 7B, but it also means the numbers are without any per-model quirks that reduce compute and memory BW usage, thus more or less generically applicable.

Re:How many GPUs is 1M/B/T tokens? on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @03:33PM (#49997713)
I took a tiny glance. At least you're taking into account compute and memory bandwidth.

You need to get more desktop GPUs on here, for the inference at home people.

Re:How many GPUs is 1M/B/T tokens? on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:59AM (#49994662)
This calculator is kinda useless. Different models work differently, you cannot generically define them by parameter count, and the models it does list seem to just be it prefilling the param counts for you.

It also misses most cards being used for inference, only limiting it to relatively recent Nvidia cards. Even if this was meant purely for datacenters, it would be useless for AMD customers.

And as for different models being different, it also doesn't understand kv cache size, how many concurrent sessions you need to manage, the compute cost overhead of kv cache quantization, nor the compute cost overhead of model quantization. It also doesn't know what MTP nor DFlash is, and cannot increase your effective tps to match.

As an example: compare Unsloth's quant of Qwen 3.8 Q4_K_M (4.5 BPW), a decent smaller model, without MTP, you'd get a baseline of, say, around 3-6 TPS per 100W. With the built in MTP model, you're closer to 6-12 TPS per 100W; then, switch quants to Byteshape's IQ4-XS (3.84 BPW) and use their suggested Dflash drafter, you're now in the realm of 15-30 TPS

... yet if I scribble into the calculator "27B, 27B active, 4-bit, 1B per one day", it seems to be the low end of my non-MTP figure: 1B per day = 11574 per second, it recommends 3x B200s, each B200 is 1200W, so 11574 / (1200*3) = 3.215, yet real world results would be 2x to 10x higher.

Also, quoting from the website, "A100 and V100 results for the large models are theoretical.". The small scale inference people absolutely know how these perform and it is well-enough documented.

The whole thing seems like AI slop.

The title of the paper is correct. The paper does not seem to actually get to the point in a generic way, but hyperfocuses on, effectively, one type of error compensation.

Highly quantized models, especially with highly quantized KV caches, will, effectively, attend to the wrong tokens and be unable to easily discern highly similar tokens. The bastardized way of explaining this is gradient descent techniques get stuck in localized minimum and global maximums, so what happens when you turn the slopes into hard stair steps?

We need to move to smaller models and smaller caches and better samplers, not new quant methods (although I'm willing to also take those too).

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