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Re:Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux on Friday October 09, 2026 @06:19PM (#50027300)
What does this offer over using rclone? If it’s not significant functionality, why not make pull requests there?
Re:Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @11:46AM (#47865301)
Why use --fit on on an M4? My understanding was that given the unified memory, you should push all layers to the GPU with --n-gpu-layers all. Setting --flash-attn on and --no-mmap may also get you better results.
Re:Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All on Thursday April 16, 2026 @10:42AM (#47793743)
3.6 is the release version for Qwen. This model is a mixture of experts (MoE), so while the total model size is big (35 billion parameters), each forward pass only activates a portion of the network that’s most relevant to your request (3 billion active parameters). This makes the model run faster, especially if you don’t have enough VRAM for the whole thing.

The performance/intelligence is said to be about the same as the geometric mean of the total and active parameter counts. So, this model should be equivalent to a dense model with about 10.25 billion parameters.

Re:Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity) on Thursday March 26, 2026 @11:34AM (#47531792)
What is it lacking in your eyes that makes it not true? I find fish’s vi mode more ergonomically complete for things like editing multi-line commands
Re:How to run Qwen 3.5 locally on Sunday March 08, 2026 @01:56PM (#47299394)
Are you running with all the --fit options and it’s not working correctly? You could try looking at how many layers are being attempted to offload and manually adjust from there. Walk down --n-gpu-layers with a bash script until it loads.
Re:Show HN: Typing Tennis on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @03:05PM (#46697068)
I'm not sure if it's working right for me on Orion Version 1.0.3 (142), WebKit 624.1.2.19.2. I type my word, hit "Enter," and I still get the hint to press "Enter."

It would also probably be more effective to not change the mechanics between the starting hit and subsequent ones. Instead of automatically starting after typing "hit," the user should have to hit "Enter" as well.

Re:Rewilding the Internet on Monday November 10, 2025 @03:12PM (#45880340)
Others have already told you the name of the project, but if you happen to be on Arch, I have a PKGBUILD written for PlantStudio. I haven't published it to the AUR since I don't necessarily want to be the maintainer though. Shoot me an email (in my bio) if you're interested
Re:How I am deeply integrating Emacs on Thursday November 06, 2025 @12:07PM (#45837462)
This isn't rsync, but you can integrate a-Shell[0] with iOS Shortcuts. You would need to make the syncing happen in the script instead of in the background though. I use a Python script to create aliases for my email this way, so I don't have to turn on wildcard addressing to my inbox.

[0] https://github.com/holzschu/a-shell

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025) on Monday November 03, 2025 @03:28PM (#45804002)

    Location: Alabama, USA
    Remote: Yes — hybrid and office roles okay
    Willing to relocate: Yes
    Technologies: Python, Tensorflow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, OpenCV, seaborn, MLflow, R, LaTeX, Linux, Git, Bash
    Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1akzgKAz7gElVsIBpHNA6hdcZQucDqPC2
    Email: See résumé
I'm Ella. I'm currently a neurobiology researcher, but I want to get back to my machine learning and computer vision roots. I have experience with building deep learning models, object avoidance, and data visualization. I tend to be a quick learner, and I have good communication skills.

I would be excited to hear about positions where I can model data for hard problems. ML Engineering and Robotics would be good fits, and I've gotten a better understanding of biological systems in my current position. Reach out by email if anything here catches your eye, and I would be happy to talk. My current role is tentatively wrapping up around the holiday season this year.

Re:Scripts I wrote that I use all the time on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @04:58PM (#45675069)
I follow a similar but more terse pattern. I prepend them all with a comma, and I have yet to find any collisions. If you're using bash (and I assume posix sh as well), the comma character has no special meaning, so this is quite a nice use for it. I agree that it's nice to type ",<tab>" and see all my custom scripts appear.
Re:Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf] on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @06:32PM (#43348382)
What's the benefit of the container over installing as a tool with uv? It seems like extra work to get it up and running with a GPU, and if you're using a Mac, the container slows down your models.
Is this a real bug? I recently got a MacOS device for the first time, and I have been frustrated that I couldn't get my custom service to work. Just like you, the script writes to files when I run it myself, but does nothing as a service.

I've been debugging it on and off for a couple of months because I assumed I messed something up.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024) on Monday July 01, 2024 @04:53PM (#40850543)
Location: Central Alabama

Remote: Open to

Willing to relocate: Yes!

Technologies: Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Linux, Docker, C++ (embedded), ...

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lqFEWmVIF-KmlKJEoq3wYoIa...

Email: edunbar02 $AT gmail.com

I am a 2024 EE graduate from Rice University, specializing in data science and systems. I'm interested in pursuing a career in AI/ML as an engineer and continuing to learn while I'm still newly out of school. I'm quick on my feet and enjoy tinkering. My skills outside of those that allow me to wrangle data and create models in Python are well suited to creating ML pipelines and infrastructure.

Reach out if anything in my resume interests you, and I will be happy to tell you more about it.