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apitman

13,688 karma · joined December 11, 2014

Software architect on the iobio team at the University of Utah Eccles Institute of Human Genetics. I'm passionate about the application of computer science to solving health problems. Hans Rosling is my hero.

Personal site:

apitman.com

Projects:

IndieBits.io - A community for data ownership, self-hosting, and decentralization.

LastLogin.net - A free, privacy-focused login provider

TakingNames.io - Domain names for self-hosters

boringproxy.io - Simple, e2ee tunneling proxy

droplock.apitman.com - Simple secure secret sharing

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apitman··on Show HN: BitBang – Reach machines behind NAT from a browser, no account
Would love to have this on https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling as soon as it hits 100 stars.
apitman··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
Wow this thing just blew out the pareto front for intelligence/$
apitman··on Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
See Cerebras and Groq as well.
apitman··on Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
Speed is the metric I'm currently most interested in. The models are smart enough.

Once speed significantly increases I think we're going to see some interesting downstream effects. The three things I currently spend the most time waiting on are LLM API requests, Rust compile times, and nix derivations. As AI latency approaches zero I think we're going to start taking a hard look at whether slow-compiling languages are adding enough value over Golang, Typescript, or even dynamic languages to be worth the slowdown.

apitman··on Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
That's surprising. Does it have no sub agent support at all or does it just use the same agent as the parent?
apitman··on Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode
> The way to solve for this is to have them work on two different worktrees with separate environments, ports

What are you using for the environment part? Containers?

apitman··on Toot.community is shutting down
> More importantly, I don’t enjoy how people interact on social media anymore

I'm really just not convinced social media is very useful. The main use I can see is very fast dispersal of information, but anything truly important will be distributed by mainstream media, and less important things will travel between small communities at a slower rate. So what are we left with exactly?

I think small communities where people actually have to maintain a reputation are the future, and the past.

apitman··on Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac
I got hit with my first belt-and-suspenders by Kimi K3 this morning. I normally use GPT. Is that a Claude-ism?
apitman··on Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace
Ah gotcha, I hadn't noticed that. Thanks
apitman··on Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace
Are you sure the difference is from MoE and not that 3.6 is newer?
apitman··on Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace
Artificial Analysis ranks qwen3.6-27b higher than qwen3.5-122b-a10b on both intelligence and coding. Does that run counter to your experience?
apitman··on Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace
Honestly it's pretty wild that the standard way to download these isn't torrent instead of Hugging Face direct. Why doesn't HF themselves provide torrent links?
apitman··on The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
This is my experience as well. The two areas I get the most leverage out of AI are root cause analysis and vibe coding green field prototypes.
apitman··on Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight
Sunshine was significantly easier for me to get working using a dummy plug. I'm currently exploring other options but that's definitely the happy path.
apitman··on Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight
FWIW Incus is really good here. I don't quite have it fully working for headless gaming containers sharing a single GPU, but I'm very confident it will work at this point.
apitman··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
The line separating HN and reddit runs through the heart of every man
apitman··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
The bones are their money
apitman··on Advertise in ChatGPT
In my utopia traditional advertising doesn't exist. Products are in catalogs. When I want to buy something I look in the catalog under a specific category. Innovative products that actually bring value are spread by word of mouth.
apitman··on The Kimi K3 Moment
I run my agents in a VM. They don't even have access to their own LLM API keys.
apitman··on The Kimi K3 Moment
The 5 hour limits are coming back soon right? I thought that was temporary
apitman··on The Kimi K3 Moment
> give me Opus 4.5 at a tenth the cost and running ten times as fast and I'd take that for almost any coding task over any current frontier model

This is pretty much where I'm at

apitman··on Transcribe.cpp
Just wanted to say I started using Handy last week and I love it. It might single handedly cure my RSI. Well, hopefully double handedly.
apitman··on REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500
Drug store cowboys, aka "big hat; no cattle"
apitman··on Qwen 3.8
I can only imagine what that does to the poor SSD
apitman··on Qwen 3.8
What kind of tokens per second do you get on that setup?
apitman··on The state of open source AI
Have you tried qwen3.6-27b or Gemma 4? gemma4-26b-a4b is particularly impressive for its balance of speed and performance
apitman··on The state of open source AI
> Helping people write word docs, recipes, and emails isn't going to justify $15K per month subscriptions either.

Those things can all be done today on a $250 used video card and pennies of electricity

apitman··on Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
It would be more efficient if you had multiple users (or agents) making parallel requests to take advantage of batching, right?
apitman··on Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone
I've got dual 3060s as well. What's the best models you've found for this setup?
apitman··on Old and new apps, via modern coding agents
You could test this by starting your sessions with "I am Terrance Tao"
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