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jokethrowaway··on Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint
Qwen3.8-Next, thanks to its new architecture, is quite fast even if part of it is streaming from disk
jokethrowaway··on Stockfish 19
this feels around 1000 elo

crazy to see 110mb.com links in 2026 (on the github repo project), it's been a while

jokethrowaway··on Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
The US empire is ending.

Probably when the Chinese burst the AI bubble the whole fake web economy will come crashing down and close this 30 years of inflated money.

jokethrowaway··on Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
If you want an expensive model to reason on your files, you need to give them your files.

If you think a cheap model is smart enough to filter information to give to your expensive model, you can save some money. If you think your cheap model is smart enough to format your expensive output, you can save some money.

In practice, this didn't work well until Qwen 3.8.

Qwen 3.6 and (abliterated) Gemma 4 were almost there but still making mistakes.

jokethrowaway··on Cloudflare's AI Psychosis
They have cool tech but they can't do product, like most of big tech.

Have you tried wrangler? holy

Hire enough product owners and that's what happens.

That's why they need to buy startups every once and then, to bring some good bacteria in their messed up corporate gut.

jokethrowaway··on Qwen3.8-2.4T
The obvious goal is to destabilize the western economy and prove that US tech is a worthless bubble - but I agree, OSS AI is great for everybody and what OpenAI was supposed to be
jokethrowaway··on Qwen3.8-2.4T
I've used their gemma 4 quants since when they were not still working in llama.cpp and ik-llama.cpp and I don't remember any problems

They are the most reliable in my experience, but if you have alternatives you trust I'd love to know

jokethrowaway··on Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3
Very cool and I wish you the best of luck (I genuinely hate this generation browsers) - but my experience with bun and other complex zig tools is that a segfault always awaits behind the corner
jokethrowaway··on Mistral OCR 4
likely just opus being dumbed down to prepare for fable
jokethrowaway··on Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site
Great work! Always love more competition driving better products.

I'd make a non competitive mode without mistakes system: I love the puzzles, idgaf about leaderboards

jokethrowaway··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
It is not.

Eventually a new startup will replace your large inefficient employer with people working 10% of their time.

jokethrowaway··on How to earn a billion dollars
You didn't prove him wrong.

You and Paul are both claiming it's extremely hard.

A restaurant won't scale - most ideas won't scale - because they're not useful enough.

These companies are not criminal enterprise and they don't steal money or threaten them with violence: they just offer them products and ecosystem and most people are dumb enough to ruin their life with it. Don't get me wrong: I hate them and I ban social media for my kids, but it doesn't make them evil.

The bad actors are thugs with guns stealing your purse and the government stealing your tax money or threatening you with jail.

To give another, less controversial example, I don't think companies selling products with sugar and seed oils are bad, even though they likely have the highest combined reduction of life expectancy across all people - but I hate them too.

jokethrowaway··on Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing
I never understood the appeal for cosmopolitan.

I'd rather have platform specific minimal binaries than a single binary with hacks.

Installing packages is a solved problem

jokethrowaway··on Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing
Amazing stuff!

I would recommend an add-on or new feature to detect and remove cookie banners / annoying popups that open on load (eg. sign up to my mailing list).

listing a few examples form fastText could help you.

You might also have the opposite problem though: some websites have content in the base html (so it's searchable by Google and they get views) and remove it on load (so you have to pay).

Capturing the initial html and comparing it to the final version could give you some hints and allow you to repair the removed content.

Best of luck with the project!

jokethrowaway··on The state of building user interfaces in Rust
my 2 cents:

egui is the clear winner for making desktop applications. I've built a complex application recently (think of it like an AI powered image editor, doing plenty of editor logic and communicating with several python backends for the AI part) and it's been smooth sailing. It would be nice to have a family of components that look native on every platform but nowadays the desktop experience is anyway wildly inconsistent (and web-centric).

Using qt bindings is a good option too, but depending on non rust code means you are more likely to catch some weird crash. My experience with Qt in Rust is years old, so I can't comment on stability.

For frontend development, leptos is really nice and it feels familiar coming from react - but the whole chain is too heavy, your target directory quickly balloons to GBs and that's unacceptable, especially if you have several frontend projects.

I vibe coded a proof of concept leptos (including islands) with a minimal runtime and no dependencies and the size was much more contained. There is margin for improvements but today I would stick with solid.js for frontend development.

The other big hurdle for Rust on the web is the need to compile to wasm. That means that any Rust application will be heavier than a similar app in another JS framework. If we could target js instead of wasm, maybe we could have apps with small bundles.

jokethrowaway··on The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew
Generating media attention or protecting from Japanese regulations?

I wonder if it's related to their strict rules on realistic pictures for advertising products

jokethrowaway··on Saying goodbye to Agile
Saying the Agile manifesto was void of meaning is ridiculous.

- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools - Working software over comprehensive documentation - Customer collaboration over contract negotiation - Responding to change over following a plan

The problem is that the Agile industry mostly didn't follow the Agile manifesto and ended up with monstruosity like SCRUM, which is all about processes over people.

Daily Standups, Retrospective, Backlog Grooming = PROCESS

This crap should all be replaced with async written communication (for quality of life and recording), but each team should ultimately be free to decide.

The Agile manifesto was all about freedom and it was turned into a jail.

jokethrowaway··on Ask HN: How to be alone?
I have a friend on anti depressants and she mentions the same hollowness and lack of wanting to do anything - despite having a good social life.

When I went through depression I refused meds, self medicated with weed (don't take it as medical advice) and got through the end of it.

I'd blame the meds and recommend gently weaning off them. Once you feel better rebuilding a social life is absolutely possible.

Best of luck with everything

jokethrowaway··on OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
The only useful use cases I've heard about are all about automating using horrible websites with horrible interfaces.

Eg. tell it to book a flight ticket for X without dealing with "modern UX" and 1GB websites

jokethrowaway··on GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
I really don't want to give Google money so the Pixel is off for me until GrapheneOS supports something else.

For now I consider smartphones as disposable toys that can't be trusted with anything sensitive and use a computer for privacy.

I also don't like the idea of running Android, I still hope for a real linux phone at some point.

jokethrowaway··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
My CPM is not great (not Google) and that's 25-30k impressions
jokethrowaway··on Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
It's been happening for about a month for me. I had to start monitoring spam because legit emails end up there. Funnily enough I started having the opposite problem too - plenty of obvious spam and phishing attempt ending up in my mailbox.

I had to make a bunch of filters on my side.

One more reason to migrate to Proton

jokethrowaway··on Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?
Or Google

Large companies struggle to launch anything due to their staff size.

They're as inefficient as a government

jokethrowaway··on Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
Parakeet feels much more accurate in practice than whisper, it was a real "a-ha" moment for me.

Of course, English only

jokethrowaway··on Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
I invested a couple of days to setup a K3S cluster a few years ago and I still use that for any deployment (and I deployed a few more).

I don't have to worry about cloud providers ruining my life with updates, free cloudflare in front so I get caching.

It's not too bad but there is an initial investment

jokethrowaway··on Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
Why don't you just use Claude?

I don't get all these vibe coding tools when Claude is better than any of them

jokethrowaway··on European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
So, as open source developers building a public good, where is our share of EU taxes?
jokethrowaway··on What happened to WebAssembly
As someone who's going to write frontend in Leptos in the next 2 weeks, what stops me from recommending wasm for every frontend application is the bundle size. I don't want to ship compiled megabytes to the user to render UI.

If there was a rust frontend framework that compiles to JS, I'd use it for all my frontend code.

jokethrowaway··on Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU
I'm sure it has its uses, but for anything with a higher requirement for quality, I think Vibe Voice is the only real OSS cloning option.

F2/E5 are also very good but have plenty of bad runs, you need to keep re-rolling until you get good outputs.

jokethrowaway··on Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU
Sorry but the quality is too bad.

I'm sure it has its uses, but for anything practical I think Vibe Voice is the only real OSS cloning option. F2/E5 are also very good but has plenty of bad runs, you need to keep re-rolling.

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