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Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @10:14PM (#50332740)
That example isn't a random wifi network, it's the Xfinity network.

But also, you think tv manufacturers are sane? They have proven that they don't deserve the benefit of the doubt, in my opinion.

Re:Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews' on Sunday November 01, 2026 @07:53PM (#50331676)
Cory Doctorow's book Enshittification introduced me to the term Technofeudalism. Wikipedia describes it as "a modern economic system where big technology companies have power similar to feudal lords in the past. Instead of land, these companies control digital platforms, data, and online markets. People and smaller businesses rely on these platforms, just like peasants once relied on feudal lords for land and protection." Yanis Varoufakis wrote a book on it, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism.
Seitan is a pretty common food among plant-based eaters.
Sarcasm?
What is the word for this type of troll that feigns lack of understanding?
Re:Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:35AM (#50066772)
"Both" requires allocating limited die capacity to products that have over an order of magnitude less margin.
An LLM can be useful to help you figure out stuff like that.
These days, most things that I run that aren't from my distro's repos get their own bubblewrap. On top of this, I use opensnitch. Even if I trust the application (uncommon), I never trust npm, pypi, etc. any longer. It's tedious to set this up and OSes should be helping make this easy.
Never make the mistake of anthropomorphizing David Ellison.
I promise I searched on my phone before posting that, but it looks like I misinterpreted an hf search result that was actually Qwen-Image-2512 but the url was truncated to Qwen-Image-2 due to my screen width (ugh). For some reason I was thinking Qwen Image 2.1 was the one that had been available for a while but not released, but you're right that was 2.0.
It would make more sense to compare with Qwen Image 2, since that was the last open weights Qwen model.

Edit: This is wrong.

Memory allocated for HBM is memory taken away from DDR production.
"Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside" is a really stupid and pretentious article arguing against a straw man.
Re:Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others on Thursday September 17, 2026 @01:56PM (#49744293)
I have a tendency to use documentation as a quality bar. Byre might be great but I can't continue reading this slop.
Re:Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid) on Monday September 14, 2026 @01:36AM (#49692403)
Fun for about 5 minutes but screeches to a halt when ships start to teleport. Only takes a few minutes to be able to get to wave 12 and then there's no progress after that.
Re:No Man's Sky Cosmos on Thursday September 10, 2026 @10:11PM (#49652750)
I didn't think to check for mods. Thanks.
Re:DeepSeek v4.1 Flash on Thursday September 10, 2026 @01:50PM (#49647696)
This perspective that consciousness cannot be programmed can only make sense if you're a dualist. We don't know how consciousness arises. If you're a naturalist it can't be ruled out based on the simplicity of the algorithm.
Re:No Man's Sky Cosmos on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @10:30PM (#49637638)
Unpopular opinion, but for me, no amount of puzzles/story can offset the utter obnoxious frustration of the time loop.
Re:Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @12:55AM (#49621198)
> I've been using AI increasingly more and more

> genuinely

We can tell.

Re:typ.ing on Sunday August 23, 2026 @09:59PM (#49414473)
Thanks for this suggestion. I have used thumb trackballs before and they cause me some strain. But the Skylla looks very promising.
Re:typ.ing on Saturday August 22, 2026 @08:02PM (#49405031)
The Glove80 looks close to what I want, but that thumb cluster looks basically as bad as the Ergodox one. Too many keys overall, especially pinky ones.
Re:Hister – private, self hosted search engine on Saturday August 22, 2026 @04:09PM (#49403350)
AGPLv3 is awesome, great choice!
Aris Mpitziopoulos at cybenetics.com
Re:Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker on Sunday August 16, 2026 @05:34PM (#49323938)
I'm not sure whether this comment is serious or not. Poe's law strikes again.
> Do not give yourself diabetes by eating vast amounts of sugar. If you are doing this, stop. Not having diabetes decreases CVD risk.

Not eating vast quantities of sugar is good advice, but it's not the direct cause of T2 diabetes. The best evidence suggests that T2 diabetes is caused by the accumulation of fat in the liver and pancreas. See the twin cycle hypothesis. To prevent diabetes, one needs to maintain a weight low enough where the body isn't storing fat in the liver and pancreas (everyone has their own individual threshold for this). If you're pre-diabetic, lose enough weight and most people will regain insulin sensitivity.

Yes, llama.cpp does that.
Re:Qwen3.8-27B on Friday August 14, 2026 @12:36PM (#49301120)
KL divergence is nothing close to a replacement for benchmarks. As flawed as benchmarks are, KL divergence is a barely useful signal. The fact that Unsloth only just started publishing KL divergences shows how unserious the quantization space is.
Re:Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @01:37PM (#49276020)
As a replacement for ollama, LM Studio is probably the most appropriate. Though I haven't tried Unsloth Studio yet. You get more control using llama.cpp directly, but there's more of a learning curve.

vLLM has the best performance if you can fit your entire model into VRAM. llama.cpp is the usual go-to if you're partially loading into RAM. LM Studio is a sensible front-end to llama.cpp. ik_llama.cpp has more advanced CPU quantization strategies than llama.cpp. If you're running super large models mostly from RAM, ktransformers can sometimes be the highest performer, if it works for your model.

Re:Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @11:29PM (#49267534)
> ollama's model index typically only distinguishes variants by their size

Don't use ollama. The entire project is just a series of stupid decisions like this.

Re:Gen Z has rediscovered the joy of going to the movies on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @11:19PM (#49267467)
I have hearing loss and movie theaters are deafening.

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