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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:05AM (#50350069)
what would be the viability of a model changing its weights and using genetic algorithms to try to achieve something novel, even without understanding exactly which weights need changing?
Re:The Folders Programming Language on Friday October 16, 2026 @03:45AM (#50115383)
This is so nuts and pointless... I love it!

The kind of thing no AI would ever come up with :)

Re:Thinking will become a hobby on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:18AM (#50068388)
that's why local AI is so important, and open-weight models
Re:Thinking will become a hobby on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:10AM (#50068340)
maybe the significant difference is that this time robotics will not be limited by humans. AI can iterate faster and develop better, adaptable, robotics
My blog/website, my tiny code experiments, my ai agent.
Re:Decisions API is in public beta on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:13AM (#49990196)
isn't 27b too big (slow) for a decision model? I think they should be as fast as possible
I don't touch AWS. We rent from an european provider. Demand can be tricky for serverless/spot-pricing. We have an always-on server so, no issues.
we use that same model at our company, it powers not only our devs but also many business needs. We rent 1 gpu (B300), it costs around 10x less than the api costs
Re:My Productivity System in 2026 on Saturday September 19, 2026 @08:11AM (#49765900)
Last time I wrote about my productivity system was back in 2022. Today I felt like writing an update on how I’m managing it, because a lot of things have changed. Funny enough, that last article was published on the 18th of September 2022. Some sort of strange 4-year cycle going on!
Loved netscape navigator! That entire suite with mail, website builder (composer?)
Mosaic :P
Re:Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md on Friday September 18, 2026 @05:35PM (#49760587)
yay! /s

Why are people still putting up with this kind of attitude, especially when there are so many good alternatives available?

Re:Tiny League – compare small LLMs easily on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @04:24AM (#49709416)
ahh I missed that first table. thanks, fixed it :)
Re:Tiny League – compare small LLMs easily on Monday September 14, 2026 @05:52PM (#49704670)
hey thanks a lot for the feedback!

1. works fine for me, are you sure you don't have any other filters active that might result in 0 models?

2. good idea, a few people have requested that. It becomes a little bit more difficult when models have engrams, but I will consider!

3. There are some tools to do that, I personally don't like them. I understand the convenience but I am staying away from that. There are many factors at play, not all models work the same way, even if they use the same VRAM. Not to speak of using quants and how each quant may affect a model differently

Re:Tiny League – compare small LLMs easily on Monday September 14, 2026 @04:48PM (#49703789)
Hi folks! I love running local small models, but it's quite annoying to attempt to compare them using benchmarks. Not only are they scattered around, they often don't even share the same ones.

So I built Tiny League for those of use who care about small models. By small, I'm aiming at 3-200B, which is a range that I consider both capable and able to run at home (for those who have unified memory like mac, strix or spark)

I'm limiting the model list to models released after April and excluding models that are trained for specific use-cases.

Appreciate all sorts of feedback :)

Re:Eating Fruit Skins on Saturday September 12, 2026 @04:39PM (#49676951)
that's genetic modification for you. nature doesn't make seedless fruits
Re:DeepSeek v4.1 Flash on Thursday September 10, 2026 @06:18AM (#49641241)
yes, please. Especially now that xcancel is gone
Re:Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck on Thursday August 27, 2026 @11:14AM (#49466202)
climbing stairs was my first question. But looking at its size, I dont think it will be able to
Re:The Harness Is the Thing on Thursday August 27, 2026 @03:22AM (#49461115)
Kimi K3 is amazing
wow, what kind of stuff does that script do? I've seen non-vision models analyze images, but mostly histograms, color averages etc. This one seems to actually understand the image itself and reproduce the layout, very impressive
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026) on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @04:16AM (#49165700)
this is really cool!
nice of you to think that by evening you get cooler air :D we have had days where the only time of the day where the outside temp was lower than indoor's was between 01-07. So either you stay up to open the windows, or wait till early morning... but then you just get 1-2 hrs before having to close everything again
Re:An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk on Sunday July 26, 2026 @06:14AM (#49056530)
yeah, I've been dying to do something with ESP32, but still waiting for that idea. Something with eInk displays :D
I love her gigglyness :D
Re:Laguna S 2.1 on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @04:16AM (#49003382)
unsloth is always here to save the day https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Laguna-S-2.1-GGUF
are these bad actors here in the room with us?

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