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Re:Gemini Distillation Service on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @02:31AM (#49094056)
404?
Re:Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27 on Monday July 27, 2026 @04:07AM (#49066492)
is there a realistic way to distill 2 consumer hardware friendly models with max ~200B and ~20B? Qwen did it, but would it be possible for 3rd parties (unsloth etc)?
Re:Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool on Thursday June 18, 2026 @02:34PM (#48589546)
wanna chime in, recently tried vLLM to consume a NVFP4 Gemma4 safetensor model and see how the batching can show up in nice t/s numbers. it's slow to start, it's Linux only, it doesn't like WSL much, ended up with either old or nightly container builds, I more or less have given up. Appreciate how llama.cpp simply works and does things fast and obvious
Re:Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory on Monday May 11, 2026 @08:49AM (#48094294)
my latest experiments with local LLM (mistral coder variations) fitting in older 6 GB GTX1060 were disappointing as long as you try to hook Copilot (CLI or VScode) to it and are used to provide a lot tooling. this seems to bloat initial prompt to 20k and more which seems the bottleneck if I did not completely misconfigured things. output tokens/s are more than fine, but PP is frustrating / unusable.
Re:GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing on Monday April 27, 2026 @04:53PM (#47927166)
both 5.4 were best bang (-mini even more as I found it usually same well performing!!!) for the buck before. Now they face cost reality it seems.
Re:GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing on Monday April 27, 2026 @04:49PM (#47927126)
e.g. if on an annual plan? 0x will be gone, but there are okay 1x and 0.3x models left. I am pretty much curious how the early may test invoicing will look like. current setup of tools etc. is way too chatty eats up 1+M token per PRU easily. not sure how much is cached.
not sure how much resources it took from my WinARM Win11 as store app, but it's buggy in either release or beta since months as it loses network connectivity after some time...
Re: on Friday November 07, 2025 @02:30AM (#45844289)
I think it's more Dave that "sucks"...click baiting titles, no need to and ever and ever repeating that he was at MS. He should do Podcasts as there is no value in videos only speaking (feels like 1.5x btw)
Stackoverflow usage down to 10%
Re:Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer' on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @02:23AM (#42631902)
at least the naming implies factor ~20 less :)
Re:Frontier Models are Capable of In-context Scheming [pdf] on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @06:55AM (#42376016)
this paper is going through mass media meanwhile as it alledgely shows how Skynet started to take over...
Re:55 GiB/s FizzBuzz (2021) on Monday July 03, 2023 @02:59AM (#36569690)
found my glasses and there is a candidate AVX optimized to 1 GB/s
Re:55 GiB/s FizzBuzz (2021) on Monday July 03, 2023 @02:48AM (#36569624)
do I need glasses, or not a single c#/.net implementation?
Re:Ask HN: How to learn sales? on Monday September 28, 2020 @02:43AM (#24613645)
nice one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejA0wKTRHH4

Presentation shown to new Mercedes salsman in the late 1980s and early 90s. Covers lots of sales tips and techniques to help put the customer in the driver's seat of a new Mercedes.

Re:Show HN: Avoidting – Avoid meetings by appearing busy on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @09:50AM (#13318650)
great!