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npodbielski··on That time when I failed the Microsoft interview
Yes, the best way to land yourself a good gig is to have a friend in the company already and will put a good word.
npodbielski··on Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
In my case I would say they are comparable but moe models are looping and getting lost a lot more than dense models.

On the other hand having 90t/s with any local model is nice and Pi with loop police extension can prevent looping a lot.

npodbielski··on Elevators
How people do such nice animation? Is there is some nice program you can use? I looked and I could not find anything that seemed really easy to use. Llms can sometimes generate something usefull and sometimes something attrocious. I remember few months back article where someone create animation of how 3.5" 1.4MB disk is build, somebody asked about this in the comment and author said it was done mostly by hand. While this is impressive it would be cool to be able to draw some animation for work prestnation that looks nice but also so I do not have to spend 3 days crafting something like that. Would be nice to draw few of them in my blog too. Any recommendations?
npodbielski··on Superlogical
And it is fun!
npodbielski··on Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly
Anybody have good recommendation of a watch that you can write your own apps for?
npodbielski··on Our position on open-weights models
Yeah makes everyone agree on banning Chinese models and then force them to use mine models. How I could misunderstand *that*.
npodbielski··on Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper
very addictive :) thanks!
npodbielski··on Show HN: CheapSecurity – Lightweight, Self-Hosted CCTV for Linux SBCs
I always wonder why author of such software will not add some screenshot or gif showing UI and how it does work? In features there is mention of web interface.
npodbielski··on Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller
Rig with 6x RTX 5090. I would not say it is RAM only
npodbielski··on Politician reads AI prompt during assembly
Policy influence idea: find out who are the assistants of policians and what ai assistant, subscription they use and give them different answers than to everyone else. You do not have to even corrupt them.
npodbielski··on Hetzner is working on LLM Inference
No Qwen 3.6? Why?
npodbielski··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
ah that makes sense now! I must be tired...
npodbielski··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
So Y Combinator signed it too? But this is HN, Y combinator website. I think I am missing something because I never read any opinion like 'we should ban Chinese models'.
npodbielski··on Show HN: 18 Words
Really hard game for someone that is non native. Or maybe I am just at scrabbles?
npodbielski··on Chatto is now open source
Sure I understand though, I have honestly no idea what tauri is really. Sure there is a link and it looks like some kind of web framework. Looks nice but it is hard to picture how chat application written with that would look like. I am not trying to force you to do want I want. I just think it is in a good taste to put some screenshots or even a gif. But I understand your reluctance.
npodbielski··on Chatto is now Open Source
Interesting but could you put few screenshots there? Of both desktop and mobile? It is really hard to invest time into installing something that you cant see anywhere prior, and it will be really easy to do for someone that is using it daily. Sorry for complaining. Seems like nice project.
npodbielski··on Chatto is now Open Source
Ah mobile app is not ready yet. I am looking for some alternative to matrix because running it with bots is a bit convoluted, i.e. you have to have limit of edits of message for model streaming or you will kill entire room. Or I never seen robots in matrix sending encrypted messages. Why bother than? Anyway if mobile will be a thing this seems like perfect thing to have for your family and friends.
npodbielski··on GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse
Ah past renewal... So probably in next contract there will be a lot of thinking if we still need that.

Curious: Anybody have comparison what is the difference when company is changing to token based billing? How many times it is bigger than 200$ subscription?

npodbielski··on GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse
Strange. This is what they got at my company. I do not remember anyone mentioning paying for tokens. Maybe because it is fairly small, couple of hundred people in IT.
npodbielski··on Show HN: Shellular – run Claude Code, Codex, Pi from your phone
So just a mobile wrapper on agents running on some machines?
npodbielski··on Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally
I added repetition penalty of two. I do not know. Maybe it is not applied correctly somehow by llama swap, that I am using, but I do not consider it that much of a nuisance to so I did not tried to fix it yet.

Do you have this DRY docs?

npodbielski··on Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally
Yeah but 4 bits very often loops needlessly. Which is not that bad because you do not pay for tokens. But you paid for hardware and you want use it for something useful. Q6 is better but then you have like 40t/s prefill. Which is really tiring. But at least it says sorry when you ask it what is wrong! I heard there is some extension for PI preventing that. I need to look into it. Otherwise I am quite happy.
npodbielski··on Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally
I like vibe and pi. Vibe just looks nice and is good enough. But pi extensibility is just another level. There is also Dirac that is quite OK but seems like full of bugs. Zerostack is the simplest harness I saw. OpenCode is OK too. Rest I did not try.
npodbielski··on Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
How? If something like that would happen robots would be disabled in 5 minutes.
npodbielski··on China Resets AI Race
What is wrong too? The plan to create a lot of cheap models? That it is what is happening but it is bad plan? Or the opinion that it is what is happening but it is wrong opinion because they do not plan to do that but i.e. China is just bigger with more people so just more companies are releasing more models?

Maybe both is happening a lot of choices will make more people go with Chinese models, which means less money to the US which means more problem to US companies. But at the same time they are cheaper and less of quality because this is China, this is what they does.

Personally I think this much more complicated as everything in life.

npodbielski··on China Resets AI Race
Interesting take. One question though: is it even possible for US companies? I am not so sure. Investors put a lot of money in those companies and they expect return. Doing nothing for 6-12 months waiting for China would probably make a lot of important people very unhappy.
npodbielski··on The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)
And how does it relate to Medium?
npodbielski··on The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)
What?
npodbielski··on Software Is Becoming Marketing
Sure I am not disputing that. But we can't say that z.ai is profitable because they charge the same as other providers per token. There is also training cost. And reaserch cost. Just inference is not all. Maybe there are profitable with all of it, I am not saying they are not, I do not know but at the same time I highly doubt that.

Unless somebody will find a way to actually do training by just updating weights with new data you have to train from scratch and this is very costly process.

Saying that some lab is profitable because they are profitable doing inference while disregarding training cost is not fair assessment.

npodbielski··on Software Is Becoming Marketing
And how you do know that GLM is not subsidised? Maybe Chinese government is burning money to destroy US economy by making them lose money in AI companies that are just furnace burning dollars. Unless you have some compelling argument it is just a speculation.
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