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bythreads··on Why the Bronze Age Collapsed
half of them died of diseases brought by the spanish...
bythreads··on Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents
i think this is a wash at best, but might be ok if you have a very specific model that is completely unoptimized - but these days you could just point your astra level llm at it and say "make this faster"
bythreads··on Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents
Ok so i took the time to benchmark this on the following on my m5 max 128gb:

Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-4bit Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-4bit Qwen3.5-9B-MLX-4bit Qwen3-Reranker-0.6B-4bit Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-4bit qwen2.5:0.5b

and the results are what i kinda expected to begin with, this adds next to nothing? - also the repo was pivoted from a playwright sub assembly to this not long ago - so my conclusion - THIS MIGHT be worth some watching if you have a model where no-one!, has optimized it at all - and where it does not use anything native to your platform.

results (averages)

VIA rapid-mlx :8902 (MLX) Decode: 175 tok/s TTFT: 64 ms prefill (~760 tok cold): 594 ms

Magnitude 0.2.1 (GGUF/llama.cpp+Rust) Decode: 161 tok/s TTFT: 111 ms prefill (~760 tok cold): 669 ms

bythreads··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Nah llm optimizes for the middle of the bell curve - most designers and designs are meh so they’ll output meh across the board . Takes rare skill to do it right
bythreads··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
As a guy who used to do art direction and was a creative director i can with some confidence say that: “most “designs sucks balls” and 95% of the worlds population DO NOT CARE.

I wish it was different but estetics, color sensitivity and for a lack of better word “taste” is a skill that needs training - the kerning alone on those make me sad - but the dirty secret is that meticulous design and craft is a dying breed - why spend days on designing whitespace when you can get something the client likes in 10 minutes from a prompt?

For the type interested - get this: https://amzn.eu/d/09z7Mut8

bythreads··on Apple detectives solved mystery of ancient tree and rewrote the history of fruit
Thinking gucci is gucci
bythreads··on Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client
Sorry, isnt this just compression? Lookups burn tokens just on the other end?
bythreads··on Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes
Any drinks list without a pan galactic gargle blaster is sus
bythreads··on Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
I’d do the same for a11y an internationalization purposes - however this is juts a bad implementation of it from an americans perspective.

You’d change seperators and position if you truly wanted to do this right

Its basic date wrangling and tbh i see nothing malfeasant here

Its basically yyyy/mm/dd yy/M/d mm-dd-yyyy stuff but suuuuper lazily done

bythreads··on I spent 6 days building my VDOM library as I hated how React handles memo
maaan i got had there
bythreads··on The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs
stone age gets a vote from me!
bythreads··on The underrated benefits of always having oatmeal at lunch
Why are you all heating it?, eat it raw with milk unheated
bythreads··on Show hn: Speedy-Claude
I've repackaged my personal setup for speeding up local claude execution on code-bases.

using modern terminal tooling and better integrated pipeline / parallel tools average discovery and file based operations can be significantly improved and speeded up.

let me know what you think and suggestions welcome... totally vibecoded from local setup so ymmv

bythreads··on JavaScript Is Enough
Would love to se tagged template Literals and w eb components as first citizen in this - lit.dev etc.
bythreads··on Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers
Worked for years in japan, beg to disagree.

Love japanese and japan but their work culture is horrific - Japanese are inefficient and the veneer of looking to work "hard" is more important than the hard work itself. People often stay until ridiculously late just to show they "put in the effort" which is more important than outcome.

Then again that happens in many other countries as well ...

bythreads··on People who know the formula for WD-40
Afaikr, wd-40 was never supposed to be a lubricant - it was created to remove moisture in rocket assembly - plain oil is probably a better lube
bythreads··on Real Biological Clock Is You're Going to Die (2018)
I liked it, made me reflect and consider - not always easy these days.

Happy new years and thanks

bythreads··on Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors
Edited for politeness:

Cancer metabolism isn’t a 2-bit meme. Tumors adapt. If they couldn’t, they wouldn’t metastasize.

bythreads··on Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons
Check out volvox and auro products

Works well for me

bythreads··on React is winning by default and slowing innovation
Neither can react
bythreads··on React is winning by default and slowing innovation
Nope

Lit.dev

bythreads··on React is winning by default and slowing innovation
Did duetds.com
bythreads··on Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"
In any city the shortest distance in total time spent is by bike.

Even if it is widely dangerous to do so (most american cities i've ever visited)

You can hem and haw - but its pretty bang on

When you then add finding parking at the ends of your trip to it it is crazyly more efficient timewise.

Now even copenhagen denmark has rain causing many more to take a car or public transport (that works).

But it is very clear that the time argument is simply not true.

Now you can argue convenience at the start of the trip vs agony in the end (finding that parking space)

Or for "need to lug an ikea sofa across time"

Or even for "my kids and familiy needs to go as well"

That's super fine, and all true - but 70-80% of ALL trips in cars are by 1 person sitting in 1 car. So moving just 10% of car users to alternate means free up a tremendous amount of space in the city.

I love my car, my bikes and my public transports and each does something nice for me - but seriously do you think cities like l.a. are even livable on a human scale - people don't even walk if the distance is over 1000meters.

I certainly agree with the idea of "uhm lets try to plan for otherthings than cars going forward"

bythreads··on The National Design Studio is a scam
I've done the same for a multinational with 1000 franchises-like subcompanies - trying to get them to conform to horizontal guidance. It is an impossible task, noone takes it that serious and are focused on imminent kpi and okr's.

My only success has been internal reviews of wcag compliance and the threat of fines if found lacking.

But for non digital design its embarrassingly hard

bythreads··on The GitHub website is slow on Safari
React and the most commonly used pattern inherently promotes an way to complex html Node structure and shitty css, especially if stuff like tailwind is used.

Now you CAN so it so that is not the case, but tbh i have never seen that in the wild -

bythreads··on Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean
Wtf? Links , substantiation!
bythreads··on ZjsComponent: A Pragmatic Approach to Reusable UI Fragments for Web Development
Just use lit, and build to vanilla
bythreads··on ZjsComponent: A Pragmatic Approach to Reusable UI Fragments for Web Development
Disagree, done several custom frameworks for highly regulated areas and high load userbases - and as long as you keep to seperation of concerns it is a lot more nimble and long term viable - easy to wield that 200000 dependencies just to set a history state
bythreads··on Omnimax
Thanks for this, well written
bythreads··on Show HN: SuperUtilsPlus – A Modern Alternative to Lodash
Just import what you use for lodash?, the theres not need for a treeshake situation?
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