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berbecon Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac

> I have some ideas on how that specifically can be solved

Write them in the margin of a book....

"It is impossible for a cube to be a sum of two cubes, a fourth power to be a sum of two fourth powers, or in general for any number that is a power greater than the second to be the sum of two like powers. I have discovered a truly remarkable proof, but this margin is too small to contain it."

berbecon Nvidia RTX Spark

https://onexplayerstore.com/products/onexplayer-super-x?vari...

$3649 with 128GB of ram

berbecon MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble

Isn't Slack just mIRC with a skin? /s

berbecon Operation: Epic Furious

So just like Musk, you're pro-censorship of views you don't like but give free passes to those who's views you approve of?

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-x-twitter-account-... https://www.the-independent.com/tech/elon-musk-twitter-ban-t... https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2011519593492402617 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2022_Twitter_suspensi...

berbecon Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team

and you don't think adamwathan deserves the same respect?

berbecon Show HN: Epstein Files Organized and Searchable

Looks great and terrifying, as expected.

berbecon Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?

A client i work for used a Pick system and it's maintained by one dude. He's in his 60s, so who knows how long they'll be able to get support...

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system

berbecon Texas Attorney General sues Tylenol makers over autism claims

Ah yes, the ubiquitous "foreskin to autism" pipeline....

berbecon Texas Attorney General sues Tylenol makers over autism claims

> are these people stupid or comedians?

Polititions, so correct on both counts!

berbecon Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

Just random internet bigotry - Alyssa Anne Rosenzweig is transgender. [1]

1: https://web.archive.org/web/20250520182445/https://rosenzwei...

berbecon Building the mouse Logitech won't make

I'm a big fan of the Logitech Marathon Mouse (M702). It love the weight, battery life, use of AAs and the hand feel.

berbecon US AI Action Plan

The US has been continuously running a budget deficit for decades (brief blip at the end of Clinton/beginning of W Bush). This is more of an "epoch" than "era". I love the idea of incentives that aren't tax breaks!

berbecon Itch.io: Update on NSFW Content

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2124380/Super_Lesbian_Ani... is still up

berbecon Ask HN: Have you not accepted or left a job because it was immoral?

The enemy portal is down

berbecon Altman fluffs superintelligence to save humanity as OpenAI slashes prices

I don't want AI to code while I'm scrubbing the floors. I want AI to scrub the floors while I code.

berbecon RIP Skype

Microsoft has a product already: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/microsoft-te...

berbecon A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers

Valve tends to take a different view...

berbecon A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers

or used --remove-source-files so they didn't have to ssh back to rm

berbecon SDR Television

Yes. Yes it should. In practice, 100% "./configure" success is a pipe dream.

berbecon Future Chips Will Be Hotter Than Ever

a second heatsink mounted the back of the chip? maybe the socket the chip in suck a way the back touches a copper plate attached to some heatpipes? plenty of options

berbecon Show HN: I made a little puzzle game about a rogue chess knight

maybe a way to skip ahead to the harder levels? it's not that I mind the randomness at all, it's just i'd like to start at something tougher than "1 pawn".

Love the game a lot!

berbecon Testing DVD-R and CD-R 25 years later: optical disks from Japan

i use dropbox

berbecon Show HN: I made a little puzzle game about a rogue chess knight

Wonderfully fun game, but I really wish there was a way to save progress instead of starting over again and again.

berbecon 2025 Tariff Impacts at Puget Systems

Is there even an American domestic GPU manufacturer? I can't imagine it's an easy, or quick thing, to build out a factory capable of churning out 5090s, so the best bet would be someone capable of expanding quickly.

berbecon CDC Clone Site Hosted by Group Previously Led by HHS Secretary

The Internet Archive currently does "host a clone of the CDC site as it existed before Trump took office". Everyone on IA knows, or could find out very easily, that they are viewing of an older version of the site.

The NGO group publishing this website seems to be intentionally misrepresenting the site as the actual CDC. They have altered the information contained on the page to push a specific message that is not backed up by science as understood by the CDC, whose website they are impersonating. The page is designed in such a way to ensure you do NOT know you are not viewing the current CDC.

As this is HN, I'm going to interpret your message in the best possible light. I need to ask a clarifying question:

Does this really seem like a slippery slope to you? Taking down a website designed to impersonate another entity and misrepresent their beliefs will lead to the tyranny taking down the Internet Archive?

berbecon Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong

I still haven't managed to break myself of the habit, from the 80s, of referring the operator of a BBS as if they were someone's female sibling: sis-op.

berbecon Harvard study finds seed oils healthier than butter

Wait, I missed this. They're saying we need to replace peanut oil, which I'm not saying is a multivitamin or anything, with lard? Holy crap... Even McDonald's figured out that's something to skip

berbecon Ask HN: What kind of whiteboard does not use dry erase markers?

I used a piece of plexiglass spray painted white on the back with Sharpie markers. Nail polish remover and towels cleans it. I didn't like being able to accidentally rub off parts

berbecon British Comic Creator R.E. Burke Detained by ICE After Crossing Border

So likely something that would get overlooked in any other climate. I don't see this as bad as the Griner/THC/USSR situation, but the authorities in charge seem to need to be seen "doing something"

berbecon Prepare now for a potential H5N1 pandemic

Well, maybe 9/11 itself?