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lreeves commented on Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail the-decoder.com/qwen3-vl-... · Posted by u/thm

re5i5tor · 14 days ago

For anyone using Qwen3-VL: where are you running it? I had tons of reliability problems with Qwen3-VL inference providers on OpenRouter — based on uptime graphs I wasn’t alone. But when it worked, Qwen3-VL was pack-leading good at AI Vision stuff.

lreeves · 14 days ago

I run the larger version of it on a Threadripper with 512GB RAM and a 32GB GPU for the non-expert layers and context, using llama.cpp. Performs great, however god forbid you try to get that much memory these days.

lreeves commented on Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop · Posted by u/threeturn

lreeves · 2 months ago

I sometimes still code with a local LLM but can't imagine doing it on a laptop. I have a server that has GPUs and runs llama.cpp behind llama-swap (letting me switch between models quickly). The best local coding setup I've been able to do so far is using Aider with gpt-oss-120b.

I guess you could get a Ryzen AI Max+ with 128GB RAM to try and do that locally but non-nVidia hardware is incredibly slow for coding usage since the prompts become very large and take exponentially longer but gpt-oss is a sparse model so maybe it won't be that bad.

Also just to point it out, if you use OpenRouter with things like Aider or roocode or whatever you can also flag your account to only use providers with a zero-data retention policy if you are truly concerned about anyone training on your source code. GPT5 and Claude are infinitely better, faster and cheaper than anything I can do locally and I have a monster setup.

lreeves commented on What if tariffs? swatch.com/en-en/what-if-... · Posted by u/Erikun

jenadine · 2 months ago

But the US is the bigger country just next to it, also the most practical to trade with. Trading with country further appart means less efficient in transport. Is it not still self inflicted harm?

lreeves · 2 months ago

It's not practical when Trump sees a TV ad that enrages him and then cancels all negotiations, how are Canadian leaders supposed to proceed? There's no good faith whatsoever from him.

lreeves commented on What if tariffs? swatch.com/en-en/what-if-... · Posted by u/Erikun

lijok · 2 months ago

I see, so like saying "we'll make it less appetizing for our nationals to do business with you, so they'll go shopping elsewhere"?

lreeves · 2 months ago

Exactly right. There are trade deals forming between countries that in unprecedented ways to avoid dealing with the constantly changing tariffs while one country says they'll take their ball and play alone.

lreeves commented on What if tariffs? swatch.com/en-en/what-if-... · Posted by u/Erikun

lijok · 2 months ago

I don't know how this tariff stuff works, so for my own understanding, how come countries retaliate to US tariffs by imposing retaliatory tariffs? Are they punishing their own nationals?

lreeves · 2 months ago

In a sense you can think of it that way, as a Canadian we counter-tariff the US and that can be considered punishing us; however the US is only one country and it encouraged more free trade with every other one of our trading partners so in a game theory sense it's affecting Canadian trade negatively with one country and affecting US trade negatively with you know.. every country.

lreeves commented on Doctorow: American tech cartels use apps to break the law lithub.com/how-american-t... · Posted by u/ohjeez

1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2 months ago

It can be interesting to look at all the servers these apps try to reach after being installed

Unless one is using something like GrapheneOS, Android/iOS "app permissions" do not meaningfully impede data collection

As long as apps can connect to the internet, data can be collected. By design Android/iOS does not enable users to deny internet access to specific apps. That design is not a coincidence

lreeves · 2 months ago

On iOS you can deny an app cellular data access which accomplishes this, as long as you don't launch it on Wifi. But yes I too wish I could deny apps internet access completely.

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lreeves commented on Syncthing 2.0 Released github.com/syncthing/sync... · Posted by u/KindOne

ai-christianson · 4 months ago

What's the latest story on Android? Last I heard they stopped official support there due to the newer restrictions Google has been imposing.

lreeves · 4 months ago

Syncthing-fork is in the Play Store and works fine for me.

lreeves commented on Tools: Code Is All You Need lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/7/3... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

jayd16 · 5 months ago

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills sometimes. You have a file with a set of snippets and you prefer to ask the AI to hopefully run them instead of just running it yourself?

lreeves · 5 months ago

The commands aren't the special sauce, it's the analytical capabilities of the LLM to view the outputs of all those commands and correlate data or whatever. You could accomplish the same by prefilling a gigantic context window with all the logs but when the commands are presented ahead of time the LLM can "decide" which one to run based on what it needs to do.

lreeves commented on Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia npr.org/2025/06/01/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/consumer451

Tokkemon · 7 months ago

What's the purpose of using the fiber? To avoid radio signals?

lreeves · 7 months ago

Electronic warfare is pretty effective against drones that are using radio waves for their communication. Earlier in the war you could see a lot of drone footage that would become washed out with static as they got closer to tanks so it's much more reliable to use spools of fiber.

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