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Kostic commented on Qwen3-Coder-Next   qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-cod... · Posted by u/danielhanchen
Aurornis · 5 days ago
I experimented with the Q2 and Q4 quants. First impression is that it's amazing we can run this locally, but it's definitely not at Sonnet 4.5 level at all.

Even for my usual toy coding problems it would get simple things wrong and require some poking to get to it.

A few times it got stuck in thinking loops and I had to cancel prompts.

This was using the recommended settings from the unsloth repository. It's always possible that there are some bugs in early implementations that need to be fixed later, but so far I don't see any reason to believe this is actually a Sonnet 4.5 level model.

Kostic · 5 days ago
I would not go below q8 if comparing to sonnet.
Kostic commented on A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks   twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/bigwheels
striking · 12 days ago
It's not just brain atrophy, I think. I think part of it is that we're actively making a tradeoff to focus on learning how to use the model rather than learning how to use our own brains and work with each other.

This would be fine if not for one thing: the meta-skill of learning to use the LLM depreciates too. Today's LLM is gonna go away someday, the way you have to use it will change. You will be on a forever treadmill, always learning the vagaries of using the new shiny model (and paying for the privilege!)

I'm not going to make myself dependent, let myself atrophy, run on a treadmill forever, for something I happen to rent and can't keep. If I wanted a cheap high that I didn't mind being dependent on, there's more fun ones out there.

Kostic · 12 days ago
I assume you're living in a city. You're already renting out a lot of things to others (security, electricity, water, food, shelter, transportation), what is different with white collar work?
Kostic commented on GitHub: Git operation failures   githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/wilhelmklopp
xmprt · 3 months ago
One possibility is increased monitoring. In the past, issues that happened weren't reported because they went under the radar. Whereas now, those same issues which only impact a small percentage of users would still result in a status update and postmortem. But take this with a grain of salt because it's just a theory and doesn't reflect any actual data.

A lot of people are pointing to AI vibe coding as the cause, but I think more often than not, incidents happen due to poor maintenance of legacy code. But I guess this may be changing soon as AI written code starts to become "legacy" faster than regular code.

Kostic · 3 months ago
At least with GitHub it's hard to hide when you get "no healthy upstream" on a git push.
Kostic commented on ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is moving forward anyway   disobey.net/@yawnbox/1152... · Posted by u/nickslaughter02
testdelacc1 · 5 months ago
This thread is going to be 400 comments of people talking about how stupid this is, how it won't work and never will, how no sane person could possibly want this. And you know what, I agree with all of that.

But there are a few people asking who is pushing for this legislation so hard. That's mostly police forces who are pointing out that they're unable to track the activities of criminal organisations. For example, in the UK sophisticated gangs steal cars and phones and ship them around the world where they're resold. They locate a buyer anywhere in the world who requests a specific car, find that car, steal it and have it in a shipping container within 24 hours. It's impossible to know who's done it, or track any of the communications involved.

In previous eras it wasn't possible to create international criminal organisations of this level of sophistication because it was harder to communicate securely. Now it's possible and we all pay the price of increased criminal activity. Everyone's insurance premiums go up, making everyone poorer. UK car insurance premiums are up 82% between 2021 and 2024 and insurance providers are still making a loss.

Just to drive this point home - watch/rewatch The Wire (2002-08), except make it impossible to tap the communications of the drug gangs because they're all using encrypted messengers with disappearing messages. Immediately the people running the organisation become untouchable. The police likely can't even figure out who the lieutenants are, let alone the kingpin. At best you can arrest a few street level dealers and that hardly disrupts the criminals at all.

On HN everyone is going to say "everyone has a right to private communication, even criminal empires". And sure, I'm not going to disagree. I'm merely pointing out that private communication allows criminal networks to be much larger, more effective and harder to disrupt. And all of society pays the price when we're victimised by criminals.

Edit: I'm not saying breaking encryption is a good thing or that it will work, I'm only pointing out why police forces want access to communication records. They're unable to do their jobs and are being blamed for the rise in crime. To prove that you've actually read my comment till the end, please mention banana in your comment.

Kostic · 5 months ago
I don't understand how you can ship a car without proper papers out of the country so easily. Maybe focus on that first?
Kostic commented on Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat   mistral.ai/news/le-chat-d... · Posted by u/pember
Nezteb · 7 months ago
Depending on the definition of "nicely", FWIW I currently run Ollama sever [1] + Qwen Coder models [2] with decent success compared to the big hosted models. Granted, I don't utilize most "agentic" features and still mostly use chat-based interactions.

The server is basically just my Windows gaming PC, and the client is my editor on a macOS laptop.

Most of this effort is so that I can prepare for the arrival of that mythical second half of 2026!

[1] https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/faq.md#how-d...

[2] https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen25-coder-66eaa22...

Kostic · 7 months ago
Agentic editing is really nice. If on VSCode, Cline works well with Ollama.
Kostic commented on Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers   nytimes.com/2025/07/01/te... · Posted by u/stephendause
abalashov · 7 months ago
Few people realise that virtually everything we do online has, until this point, been free training to make OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. richer while cutting humans--the ones who produced the value--out of the loop.

It might be too little, too late, at this juncture, and this particular solution doesn't seem too innovative. However, it is directionally 100% correct, and let's hope for massively more innovation in defending against AI parasitism.

Kostic · 7 months ago
This would be true if not for open-weights (and even some open source) LLMs that exist today. Not everything should be done for profit.
Kostic commented on Ask HN: What do you spend your money on?    · Posted by u/blahaj
Kostic · 8 months ago
I'm spending fair amount of money on helping teachers and professors in Serbia who had their pay reduced to to absurdity because they are supporting their students in demands for justice in the case of Novi Sad canopy collapse[0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novi_Sad_railway_station_can...

Kostic commented on Claude 4   anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
lxgr · 9 months ago
With web search being available in all major user-facing LLM products now (and I believe in some APIs as well, sometimes unintentionally), I feel like the exact month of cutoff is becoming less and less relevant, at least in my personal experience.

The models I'm regularly using are usually smart enough to figure out that they should be pulling in new information for a given topic.

Kostic · 9 months ago
It's relevant from an engineering perspective. They have a way to develop a new model in months now.
Kostic commented on Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?    · Posted by u/davidkuennen
Kostic · 10 months ago
I've stopped using search engines actively 18 months ago. My first stop is an LLM. Once I understand what I actually need, I do a web search to go to the product/tool website. I do this not because LLMs are that good but because web search result quality went way down in the same period.

One interesting trend that I like is that I started using local LLMs way more in the last couple of months. They are good enough that I was able to cancel my personal ChatGPT subscription. Still using ChatGPT on the work machines since the company is paying it.

Kostic commented on Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia   twitter.com/nexta_tv/stat... · Posted by u/aquir
pclmulqdq · a year ago
You might enjoy reading Rules for Radicals if you haven't already. If your riot can provoke a worse response from the authority, it can help your cause. The reaction is the action.

It may be that this protest in Serbia got a bit rowdy and riotous (see "diversity of tactics") and now the headline is about the government's use of a disproportionate weapon against protestors, not about a riot.

Kostic · a year ago
This happened during 15 minutes of silence for 15 persons that died in the collapse. Everyone was silent and mourning.

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