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The ban hasn't even passed yet: https://www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Ban-Artifi...

No output to this prompt, not even an error: AI, opps nope SI is huuge. The best evar.We're gonna be rich right?

Needs a huggingface gguf

for posterity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

helpful in unpacking https://youtu.be/KaaqEikZSd0?si=_Naid96hJxKdeoAZ

Got Qwen3.8 to run on my Framework 12 Intel Core 13 Gen Raptor Lake i5-1334U small laptop with 48G RAM stick:

llama serve -hf unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL

but it failed my basic prompt to compose a vim regex to match CamelCaseWords

downgraded a bit with Q4_K_M from ollama run qwen3.8:27b

and /set nothink and at least 1 regex matched FooBar

prompt eval at 2.8 t/s eval at 0.94t/s

I particularly enjoyed this usage of the regex: /%\1\%/ ... onward for 700+ characters of \%\/ :-)

crafting one: https://youtu.be/tB8qTbdw-OQ?si=BQtwuOh83-nG8CrT

Loose leaf, works great [1]

[1] Lion Kimbro. How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think. 2003 https://users.speakeasy.net/~lion/nb/book.pdf

The boom loom boss was a winner of the 2025 Core77 Design Award for Toys and Play.

It's like an analog computer of weaving.

If you have any experience with weaving you will understand the importance of shed formation. The key innovation is the heddle mechanism which affords great efficiency with weft pattern making through rotation of a pattern bar allowing the weaver to focus on other variables like yarn selection or design sequence. There is even a web app pattern picker to plan out designs developed with the help of a mathematician [1]

Perhaps other similar ideas might be something like tablet weaving [2] or Der Weberknecht [3]

The primary difference is the quick prep and setup time with the boom loom and it's near instant to develop modular samplers [4]

If anyone knows of any other hacking mechanical weaving machines like the boom loom; please share!

[1] https://www.theboomloom.com/krokbragd-picker

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_weaving

[3] https://weberknecht.notion.site/Projekt-Weberknecht-Project-...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/@janethughes8151

from The White House

I like my shiny local gewgaw as much as the next person https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLM/

but I find it curious that the many will always pay for the few https://youtu.be/y12yZ7bQizk?si=Mbgg-F7IP8HJXJPz

and at what cost ? https://youtu.be/-sNKfRq1oKg?si=6m8pVM9tvawohUbm

Why not just mechanical turk the codebase? Lotsa jobs even with LLM augmentation at current state.

Where is the long term thinking of utility vs cost?

Until AI can solve its own energy generation issues, the hype is gross.

Thankfully I'll be long dead (hopefully) before a local AQI > 500 is considered the new normal common good trade for high fidelity personalized deep fake pr0n

or the cure for cancer at US healthcare billable rates.

>"All of our future books will involve AI." >It is antithetical to the premise of the book (classic programming projects!) that they agreed to publish.

I hope this trend is not industry wide. A publisher chasing fads and trends over enduring quality, so sad. I wish I knew who the publisher was to avoid but I can foresee their pivot to AI authors with titles like "From Zero to Hero, ChatGPT 5.2 Top Prompting Secrets for Dummies"

Glad this story got on HN, it moved the heart and I hope it spreads in the little openings of our lives. Nothings perfect, but day by day, more kindness and care, we can share https://youtu.be/wlpcFnOPH2k?si=C1Wa1cviJMa1zlYm