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4x CMP-170HX he purchased with his time machine last month
Given that glimmer only caught up-ish to 3.6 how far behind is American (largest model) to American (largest model) ?
Re:Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon on Sunday July 19, 2026 @03:07PM (#48970850)
do you mind sharing your settings? i just picked up an r9700 to start playing with local qwen3.6 27b and your setup sounds promising and efficient on 24gb.
Re:SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine on Friday July 03, 2026 @09:38PM (#48781891)
are you running a quant?

i have a friend with a 4080 that is wanting to experiment with local models and those cards should be similar enough. can you give any more detail about your setup? ty!

Re:OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @04:59PM (#48665556)
the hdlbits course is really good imo
Re:What did you love about VB6? on Saturday May 02, 2026 @09:18AM (#47986165)
lol i def picked up some autocad and other things that way for friends of my family. i was fortunate enough to have a neighbor give me a copy of VB3 he got from work after i got back from a summer camp learning QBASIC. the simplicity of the form designer in VB was total magic. i spent so many nights up late reading/downloading sample projects to see how people made the controls work together.
Re:What did you love about VB6? on Friday May 01, 2026 @09:21PM (#47982353)
ya, i made rage and nightmare, just shared them w/ some friends. the guys that made fate x went to a nearby high school funny enough but never knew them personally.
Re:What did you love about VB6? on Friday May 01, 2026 @08:42PM (#47982151)
i loved making AOL 'hacking' tools as a kid in VB3/5/6. faders, stuff to scroll ascii art to chat rooms, etc.
Re:Raylib v6.0 on Thursday April 23, 2026 @01:50PM (#47878932)
what display are you talking to ? i haven't touched an ESP in a few years, this sounds like a fun reason to dust one off.
Re:Long Instruction Word architectures and the ELI-512 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @10:24AM (#47793421)
this gave me some old Itanic nostalgia just reading the foreword. There were some interesting discussions from 2024 regarding it and other people involved in VLIW designs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39097504

Re:LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua on Sunday April 05, 2026 @06:26PM (#47654578)
extract the exe like a zip file, that's how love packages itself. last i looked at the source myself it had comments in still from the dev
try page's pre-order link at the top goes to a 404
Re:A OSS Library with No Code, Only Specs on Friday January 09, 2026 @04:29PM (#46559636)
i have been joking with friends that it's time to redefine saas to software-as-a-sentence
Re:GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @10:40AM (#46366181)
Out of curiosity is there a reason nobody seems to be trying it with factory.ai's Droid in these comments? Droid BYOK + GLM4.7 seems like a really cost effective backup in the little bit I have experimented with it.
Re:Remote code execution vulnerability in SQLite on Saturday December 15, 2018 @05:14AM (#18687853)

   const secondStatements = [
   "SELECT quote(root) from ft_segdir;",
   "UPDATE ft_segdir SET root = X'0005616261636B03010200FFFFFFFF070266740302020003046E646F6E03030200';",
   "SELECT * FROM ft WHERE ft MATCH 'abandon';"
   ];
Just saw the proof of concept page. Looks like they are building quite the usual string in hex... Starting with a null terminator? Mmmhmmm
Re:Remote code execution vulnerability in SQLite on Saturday December 15, 2018 @04:45AM (#18687790)
I casually thumbed through a few of the commits they posted and came across this

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/c368e30ae55...

   for(i=0; i<nChar; i++){
     if( n>=nByte ) return 0;      /* Input contains fewer than nChar chars */
     if( (unsigned char)p[n++]>=0xc0 ){
   -      while( (p[n] & 0xc0)==0x80 ) n++;
   +      while( (p[n] & 0xc0)==0x80 ){
   +        n++;
   +        if( n>=nByte ) break;
   +      }
     }
   }
   return n;
Looks like there may have been an issue in parsing malformed multibyte unicode characters properly.
Re:MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO on Thursday October 19, 2017 @02:58PM (#15510615)
Did you really find CouchDB that bad to work with? I never in the end settled on either couch or mongo for a project long term but when I setup couch to test it out a few years ago I had it up and running with functional replication quite quickly (i.e., one afternoon) from being a complete novice with the platform. It's built in web panel at the time basically handled everything from basic setup to replication quickly.

Site that crawled Reddit for laptop recommendations

There was a site posted on HN a while back that crawled reddit and ranked laptops in order of how frequently they were discussed/recommended in certain periods of time. I can't for the life of me find it on hackernews again or through google. Does anyone have the link to that? I feel like I'm missing some obvious search term.

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Re:UPX – Ultimate Packer for Executables on Friday October 13, 2017 @04:17AM (#15463968)
Funny to see this here, it's been ages since I've seen UPX mentioned. In the early 2000's I had written some software whose executable was around a megabytes or maybe several megabytes in size coming out of VB6. On one of mid 90's test laptops we used at the time to ensure it would run on even the crummiest of machines it launched NOTICEABLY faster when packed with UPX. The hard disk in that machine was so incredibly slow loading less off the disk and decompressing the executable in RAM was easily an order of magnitude faster.
Re:Never Completed Game on Saturday September 30, 2017 @11:52PM (#15376298)
Level 26... Did a base 64 decode.. The output looked base64 legal. Decoded that, looked legal again, decoded that... Canabarro Sandow?
Re:Linux System Call Table on Monday September 25, 2017 @11:11PM (#15335850)
There are tables in the kernel git repo if you want a good reference for their values; however, the register definitions aren't provided.

x86: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/entry...

x64: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/entry...