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I interpret @syntaxing as meaning they are looking forward to running Qwen3.8-27B, but are frustrated by prefill times with other models, such as Qwen3.6-27B.


FWIW Darling runs in userspace too.

What do you mean by "proprietary components"?


Thanks! What I meant is that Kakehashi doesn't require a custom Linux kernel module (LKM). Kakehashi operates completely without root privileges or kernel-level modifications.

By "proprietary components," I meant that in my prompts, I explicitly forbade the copying or direct implementation of private Apple code. Of course, since LLMs are a bit of a black box, it's hard to be 100% certain about everything it synthesized under the hood, but the clear intent was to stick to public ABI definitions and standard open specs.


Darling stopped using the kernel module a year ago.


Interesting project! A long term vision for MacOS applications is feasible given the success of WINE/Proton with Windows applications.

Are you familiar with the Darling project? https://github.com/darlinghq/darling There's an open PR for ARM64 support https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/pull/1753 Could you combine efforts or do your goals differ too much?


In their "License" section on Github, they write "This project is not derived from Darling." - so they clearly are familiar with it.


Wine got a lot of support from games, even today productivity apps are often much less supported.


Which makes sense, games have a much smaller area of contact with the host platform.

This sounds strange given how much modern GPUs can do, but consider that a typical Windows machine ca. 2005 will have Access/JET Red, Active Directory/JET Blue, possibly MSSQL, definitely MSMQ/MTS, ODBC, OLE DB, DAO, ADO, that one SQL interpreter inside Windows Installer, and I’ve only just listed Microsoft’s database-adjacent things. I’m not surprised that press reports about the “MinWin” initiative mentioned as the main difficulty the fact that nobody could figure out if any given component was actually necessary for a Windows install to function, let alone to be compatible with third-party software. (Is anybody other than WordPad using the Word 6.0 parser included among the text converters?..) Now consider that this was, by our standards, a lightweight system on a massively underpowered computer.


Yes partly complexity; but also why spend your time trying to get Excel running knowing each update will be a pain when you can just put that time into getting LibreOffice Calc working better.


Yeah.. just give me a thing I double click that starts After Effects and Excel.


I wonder if this project will have any more momentum than Darling or if the set mac=only programs that people want to run on Linux is just too small.


> Generated in 0.008s • 14,293 tok/s

Chat Jimmy runs ~300X faster than the ~50 tok/s you are used to. What could you do differently when you are able to generate code 3,000 - 30,000X as fast as you could code it yourself? What if it was all good quality code? What would you do differently if it were 100,000X faster? mtok/s? gtok/s?


refine that to: what if your harness grew to encompass a larger, slower model and adapted to both the model and the project. thats where i expect the harness to go.

use the big models to code an adaptive small model. train it to use and build tools. give it a standard temple language for any project and bake it into a chip.

right now, LLMs are great because they dont need much data pruning, but once they break through to the functional components, the first thing to do is train a well scoped harness builder.


Your suspicions are correct, any extra machine works: 4GB Pi, virtual machine, or old laptop.


Warning: Claude may support the theory, because Claude is a sycophant.


I have a well-calibrated ego.


You're absolutely right.


Firefox for Android also supports extensions, including uBlock Origin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...


Additionally, Firefox has the recommended extensions program where they take the most popular/functional subset of extensios in a given category and manually vet the code for security and privacy issues.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-...


I built my own extension to subscibe to Hacker News comments and get automatic updates when they are updated.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/please-at-me/

It works perfectly on Firefox for Android and desktop Android.

Firefox is so awesome, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.



I really wish it would support them for iOS as well.

It’s very hard given the constraints, but apparently not impossible, since Orion manages to run at least some web extensions.


Kagi browser on iOS somehow supports both Firefox and Chrome extensions


Orion is Kagi's browser :)

Yes, I'm very impressed by their extension support!


I recently found out that on Firefox Android you can install an extension from file by activating developer options. This allows you to install Bypass Paywalls Clean even though Mozilla sadly pulled it from the extension store.


Seems less sketchy to use uBlock Origin with bypass-paywalls-clean-filters... at least then you're not directly adding executable code, though I'm not sure if uBO filter lists can be exploited.


> uBlock Origin with bypass-paywalls-clean-filters

Cool! I didn't know that was an option.


That's nice, but everybody already knew that and no one cares about Firefox, terrible browser


You may not recognize the difference, but our brains haven't evolved (nature) much in the last couple decades or probably centuries. There's little to no chance we have truly adapted (nurture) to this 24/7 noise, even plants have problems with it: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/plants-are-... -> https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S143917912...

> Plants in the traffic noise treatment group were exposed to 16 h of road traffic noise each day for a total of 15 days, while the control group was kept under complete silence. Traffic noise exposure led to significant decrease in growth indices of both plant species.


Human change does not require Darwinian selection. Look across cultures. That people might tolerate or be most comfortable in noisier environments could vary for non-heritable reasons. Some people like less stimulation, some more. Autism rates have changed faster than our genetics also.


Paid accounts can use the Perplexity LLM, GPT-4, or Claude 2.


I suspect the only long term way to avoid touchscreens and cellular is a DIY EV. EVWest, for example, now has complete kits for 14 cars: https://www.evwest.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=40


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