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0xc133on Restoring 5 GHz Wi-Fi on an LG C5 by changing its webOS region

Why the hell would you ever let a TV on any network?

0xc133on New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

The cheapest Steam Deck available now is $789.

0xc133on Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis

How were you accessing the model? I was using ollama.com’s cloud hosting the first few times I ran into it, and then it happened again the first time I tried Fireworks.ai before I made it even 10% of the way through the context window.

0xc133on Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis

deepseek-v4-flash-0731 has been awfully prone to infinite looping output in reasoning for me, and once it hallucinated in the middle of going in circles that I had instructed it to start using Yoda-speak, which… I don’t have any idea where that came from.

0xc133on Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

*Forgejo

0xc133on Hax – a minimalist, terminal-native coding agent written in C

asciinema is so good! Love seeing the player on the site.

0xc133on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows

I was able to use rope/yarn scaling with llama.cpp to extend the context window to 256K and it seems to be pretty usable on the debugging-and-bugfixing session I have that’s 216K tokens deep. No infinite output loops, reasoning is still coherent, tool calls appear to be passing and failing at roughly the same rate as a fresh context window. Haven’t tried going to 512K or higher yet but 256K definitely seems usable to me on a single Radeon R9700.

I added these arguments to my llama-server call, using the official GGUF release from Meta’s account on HF.

`--rope-scaling yarn --rope-scale 2 --yarn-orig-ctx 131072 --override-kv muse-glimmer.context_length=int:262144,dflash.context_length=int:262144`

0xc133on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

because once they run out of tokens they can’t do their jobs anymore

0xc133on Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Max

I had my clanker implement this idea in a standalone Rust server that speaks IMAP and SMTP and proxies your emails to an OpenAI endpoint you configure: https://tangled.org/clee.sh/posthorn

Works in mutt; other MUAs may vary.

0xc133on The death and rebirth of my home server

I discovered that barely-used enterprise Intel SSDs (DC S3610, S3700, S3710) were cheap on ebay a year or so ago and I may have bought a few dozen. These things have remaining endurance measured in petabytes. Sure, it’s overkill to have a 200GB enterprise SATA disk as the boot volume for a Raspberry Pi, but this is exactly my kind of overkill.

0xc133on Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer

So I’ve been thinking about this problem a lot, specifically as it relates to running LLMs at home, and I’ve been using GLM-5.2 to make an SMTP/IMAP-to-LLM gateway.

https://tangled.org/clee.sh/posthorn

0xc133on The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK

I also have become a maki convert and I really like it. I ran into an issue with the dynamic model provider that I should probably make a patch for; list_models doesn’t use the `<provider> models` output at all but instead tries to look up `<provider> resolve`’s base URL + /v1/models, which breaks on a provider like Z.ai which doesn’t have /v1/ anywhere in the path…

0xc133on Running local models is good now

With yarn and rope scaling arguments for llama.cpp you could run qwen3.6-27B with 1M context… if you have enough memory to store it.

0xc133on Handling the great code forge fragmentation

> It'll be a very slow decay

Two ways. Gradually and then suddenly.

0xc133on New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing

I’m still salty that their last app platform rewrite dropped Watch Together as a supported feature. Server still supports it, browser clients still support it, as well as the older Plex apps if you were prescient enough to turn off automatic app updates and manually keep refusing to update the Plex app.

This is a feature I use multiple times per week with friends who live states away. I can’t believe they just dropped it.

0xc133on No more JetBrains products for me

> so hyper-sensitive that a couple seconds of loading screen seen a few times a day is enough to trigger them

Reportedly the xz supply chain compromise was first noticed by someone who reported his SSH connections took an extra 500 milliseconds.

https://thegeekinsights.com/how-a-hacker-saved-the-internet/

0xc133on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

Thanks! I kind of stole the concept from the Takedown.com site that was set up to document how Kevin Mitnick was caught. Looks like the telnet servers are up again: telnet://kevin-on-demand.takedown.com:4001/ is an example of the original that made me think “it sure would be cool to be able to make custom recordings like that and play them back, but over SSH instead of telnet because who even has telnet installed anymore?”

0xc133on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

I pushed my first crate this weekend. You can `cargo install tailpipe` on macOS and Linux (and maybe Windows, haven’t tested there yet) and get a locally-hostable SSH server that plays back asciinema recordings to clients.

`ssh -p4242 tailpipe.clee.sh` for a quick demo without installing anything. Requires any valid RSA or ED25519 key.

0xc133on Framework Laptop 13 Pro

I didn’t realize they were selling it on another site, thanks for the link! (Framework has the RISC-V board on their shop, so I was expecting to see the MetaComputing one there too.)

And yeah… what I really want is some Oryon cores in a Framework 13 motherboard.

0xc133on Framework Laptop 13 Pro

Any word on availability for that 12-core ARM mainboard? Also for the record I’d really love a Snapdragon X2 (or later) option someday…

0xc133on Framework Laptop 13 Pro

They do offer blank keycaps, no labels, as an option…

0xc133on Framework Laptop 13 Pro

I’m not @nrp but I think I can safely answer this one:

> 1/ will there be a 15 inches version ? ( I’m not getting any younger I like bigger screens )

They make a Framework 16, so a Framework 16 Pro now suddenly seems like a possibility, but I don’t think they’re going to make a 15-inch when they have the 16.

0xc133on Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs

Hey Gajesh! I sent you an email with some of the teething problems I ran into trying to get started as a provider. Hope it didn't end up in your spam folder!

0xc133on WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

> Subtitle settings turn off between episodes

There is actually a way to fix this! Log in and navigate to: https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/settings/account

On this page, scroll down past the Security section to Audio & Subtitle Settings under Settings, and edit the account-wide language settings there.

One caveat; any movies or shows you’ve already watched with subtitles not enabled will still have subtitles not enabled.

0xc133on I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

So when will you port MacOS X to the Wii U? Two more CPU cores and 2GB of RAM instead of 88MB!

0xc133on I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

I’ve never seen someone go to so much effort just to prove a random Redditor wrong, but I am impressed.

0xc133on Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?

Strong disagree. They didn’t even invent buildpacks until 2011, the year after the acquisition.

0xc133on Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview

https://docs.ollama.com/integrations/claude-code

You can use models like qwen3.5 running on local hardware in ollama and redirect Claude to use the local ollama API endpoint instead of Anthropic’s servers.