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kanemcgrath

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    Comment #49151228

    I tried it for a bit, and It was not really worth its size. It got swept up in all the other AI news recently, but laguna s 2.1 I think is the best ~100B moe model right now

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    Comment #49075515

    My favorite one was the blender addon https://github.com/libsm64/libsm64-blender

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    Comment #48796803

    Also the steam DRM on a lot of single player games can be removed very easily. https://github.com/atom0s/Steamless and is a recommended step for engine modding games like skyrim.

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    Comment #48476230

    One of my favorite things about my custom mechanical keyboard, is being able to remap the entire key set in the firmware with VIA. I have fn+arrow keys for media, fn+space for play…

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    Comment #48404921

    Something about qwen models hold up really well even at low quants. for most other models anything under q5 is cooked, but on 35B-A3B I can get a lot of things done even at q3_xl. …

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    Comment #48068618

    I am always worried that popular software like this is getting compromised. But what about all the smaller stuff? I download and run a bunch of small programs, especially for game …

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    Comment #48016655

    Mechjeb does a lot of automation for complex maneuvers like planetary transfers, ascent autopilot, target interception, etc.. You can even do a porkchop plot for interplanetary tra…

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    Comment #48015701

    I relied on Mechjeb too much in my game, so I did a run using KRPC and built my own autopilot features with it. It was a lot of fun, and I would recommend it.

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    Comment #47931102

    So far I have done coding projects only, but I have some ideas for some non-coding agent projects in the future, so I'll give Gemma another shot

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    Comment #47925986

    I did, but in almost everything I tried even qwen3.5 was better, and 3.6 was a huge step up.

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    Comment #47925310

    I do love using local models when I can, but qwen-35B is the best model I can run, and while its an insanely good local model, it does not compare to the big ones.

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    Comment #47925182

    I liked copilot because I didn't have to think about tokens. I get hung up when having to think about the price of things, and its hard to think about the project at the same time …

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    Comment #47810075

    I haven't ran 27b that much because it only runs at like 2 tokens/sec on my computer.

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    Comment #47801167

    I would say byteshape is smaller and faster, I can’t really notice a quality difference. But I haven’t used it as much as I only started using it a few days ago.

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    Comment #47800925

    Now that I have tried out on a few tasks, Qwen3.6 is a huge jump in capability. It can make improvements to a project that qwen3.5 always struggled with.

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    Comment #47798787

    I have been using Qwen3.5-35B-A3B a lot in local testing, and it is by far the most capable model that could fit on my machine. I think quantization technology has really upped its…

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    Comment #47770983

    since they have been doing orchestral performances, getting to hear the orchestral versions of their old songs has been amazing.

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    Comment #47418083

    I don't like the Netflix CGI slop movie style filter look it gives everything. But that is a more general trend in tv and movies that I just can't stand. I do think this will event…

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    Comment #47315764

    without discussing copyright, I don't believe any of this is copied. Which I think should be the argument that actually matters. I downloaded both 6.0 and 7.0 and based on only a l…

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    Comment #47302786

    Small local models are the only thing that still have that magic feeling to me. While large models are still useful and impressive, it makes more sense that they are happening on a…

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    Comment #47244164

    Anonymous account unmasking represents a new threat to anonymity. not just this technique with llms, but the earlier text similarity one. But I think it would be generally easier t…

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    Comment #46509661

    I am curious on how you would algorithmically find the optimal solution for this kind of problem for much bigger grids. I wanted to do some seed finding in Factorio for the same ex…

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    Comment #46361277

    I always wondered if anybody has calculated how much of our global heating could be attributed, if any at all, to every electronic device, server, and engine outputting heat as a b…

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    Comment #46129283

    I made a list of the extension names here https://pastebin.com/eXb9GRjK its mostly Homepage Wallpapers

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    Comment #46055631

    I have been using copyparty since the last hn thread on it months ago. It is a masterpiece of "Just Works" Technology.